Recode Decode: Senator Mark Warner

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Mark Warner, the senior US Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about several interconnected policy issues affecting the 2020 elections, including the security of voter registries, the expectation of social media manipulation by Russia and other hostile foreign powers, and the newly announced impeachment inquiry into President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Sen. Warner also talks about the potential of regulators breaking up tech giants and how the US government's relationship with those companies has improved since 2016, yet still calls for more oversight of their unprecedented power. Plus: Why he's "cautiously optimistic" about Republicans in the Senate embracing election reform and new privacy laws, his proposal for incentivizing companies to invest in their workers, and how Warner thinks Congress might be able to fix Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act without repealing it wholesale. Editor's note: This interview was recorded the morning of Wednesday, September 25, before the release of the White House memo with a "transcript" of Trump's call with Zelensky. Featuring: Mark Warner (@MarkWarner), US Senator from Virginia Hosts: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: Subscribe for free to Pivot, Kara’s podcast with NYU Professor Scott Galloway that offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. If you haven't already, check out Kara's past interviews with Rep. Adam Schiff and Whistleblower Aid CEO John Napier Tye. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom ... But enough about us We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-Large of Recode. You may know me as someone waiting for Facebook to just say,
1:09.0	Screw it, we're inventing Skynet, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:16.0	Today in the red chair is Mark Warner, the senior US Senator from Virginia and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
1:23.0	He's also the founder and former managing director of the venture capital firm Columbia Capital.
1:28.0	He appeared at my code conference several years ago, but a lot has happened since Senator Warner. Welcome to Recode Decode.
1:35.0	Cara, thanks for having me on this morning.
1:37.0	So let's start off. We have to start off with the news of the day. I mean this impeachment hearings, a lot of it's pretty.
1:42.0	Fairly big news today.
1:44.0	Fairly big news today. And the whistleblower and you know, you've been investigating a lot of this stuff, foreign powers, especially related to Russia and using digital, which is my interest obviously.
1:54.0	So give us sort of a lay of the land as much as you can, because you all announced with Senator Burr, let's do it related to you that you are going to investigate.
2:03.0	Well, we're trying to take this step by step. I think it's we're in uncharted territory now.
2:09.0	Clearly our country is very divided.
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