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United states. okay, we will continue watching and listening to nancy pelosi there. in less than three hours from now, instagrams head is set testify about protecting children online. it comes after new features that are aimed at keeping users safe. joining me now is a wall street journal reporter, first, lets get to the hearing this afternoon. you lawned the big facebook series. you reported that facebook knows

Opportunity right now. so prescription drugs, remember the proposal he put out there? prescription drug prices and the stock went up. and today he claimed people were benefitting from his policies when we still have doubling, tripling of our prescription drug prices. no specific infrastructure proposal, no working together when it comes to immigration reform. and you can just march through these issues that were dealing with, privacy issues. he goes after every regulatory issue you can find and ...

Against that in the courts. i wonder if you expected more than you got on that front, or if this is what you wanted and expected to hear from the president. >> no, it was not what i wanted, because i kept thinking, and i know clair remembers these days of barack obamas speeches, of substantive policy proposals that are put out there. we should be governing from opportunity right now. prescription drugs, remember the proposal he put out there? prescription drug prices, and the stocks went up, and...

Then also if youre going to send people to war and break them then were going fix them when they come home. thats what ive always been about and thats what being a democrat is truly about. thats the way im going stay. >> the line that jumped out the me the first time we heard you speak is where you said i saw kids in backyards of west virginia that were worst off than kids i saw in average. what did you mean by that? >> in iraq and afghanistan a village will raise the child. thats a fact. in ame...

Spans the globe, reshaped politic, the advertising business and daily life. but works in ways were still coming to grips with and which they are still coming to grips with. this is a company that knew there were goings on with misinformation as early as 2016 but didnt even tell their own board or public what they knew until the fall of 2017 when the damage was already done. back then facebook hadnt even had any policy internally on what to do if they found this kind of thing. it shows how they t...

Research. look, what theyve said they accused us of having things wrong in the story. they did not identify anything in the story thats wrong so far. they are under a lot of flack. theres a lot of outrage for people who work for george sore jobs for example, who are outraged george soros was used to try to discredit this story. >> how sleazy is it that facebook, one of the top corporations in america, is doing what the sleaziest republicans did regarding the caravan trying to pin a conspiracy th...

Extension our democracy. who survives that? >> joe, it is a really -- i mean the allegations of nick and the team found here are damning. but this is a complicated question because mark zuckerberg controls 60% of the voting shares of facebook. one of the best examples of how founders are controlling their companies these days, everyone seems to think hes going to stay. nick, my question to you is that still the case? today do you think thats still the case? its very hard for that not to be the c...

Forward with that information it reportedly sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem. while zuckerberg apologized in public, facebooks chief operating officer allegedly was on a different mission, combat the companys private foes in private. the social networking site hired republican opposition research firm to depict george soros as the force behind a broad anti-facebook movement and published stories praysing facebook while criticizing google and apple on a conservative news...

It thats when the company was in trouble. they didnt have any allies. as you look at this new congress and you look just at the political landscape in general going forward is facebook about to get in that place where they are facing equal criticism or similar criticism from both sides of the partisan aisle. >> yes. conservatives think they are being censored on facebook. liberals think facebook handed the election to donald trump. we saw a press release yesterday from the incoming chair of the ...

Anything to clean house, what about the board? does anybody have power to bring accountability to this corporation? >> well, he and sandberg picked most of the board. i dont think well see much accountability there. peter teal a board member said he agrees with zuckerbergs past statement that the russian information on facebook was not a big deal in the election. i will point out two things, joe. the research conducted on soros does not appear to be made up or a conspiracy theory. they are basic...