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But there is no wizard behind the curtain pushing the buttons doing it. it is algorithm based. they have billions of tweets and videos going up constantly throughout the day. it is hard for them to police this stuff. >> bill: if its true there are two questions, right? who informed twitter to flag it? and why did they listen? >> exactly. thats where this algorithm based filtering and censoring of consent doesnt necessarily work. i know twitter said it was done by mistake. for all we know someone...

Of behavior. i dont think youll get from mueller the editorial. i think youll just get the facts, i looked at this and this is what i found, which makes it easier for barr to take that in whole cloth and say the findings of the attorney general -- rather, the findings of mueller, i as attorney general, finding of mueller is this, nobody found excessive sloppiness or anything like that. i think were going to get a clean recommendation from mueller passed through barr. >> david, congress, the amer...

Presidential candidate we endorsed i think in history, this is our editorial judgment, were allowed to make these decisions. we can decide we dont like hillary clinton and were going to write about her in this way and write about donald trump in that way. thats what they were saying consistently. and now this gives light to that in a major way. >> pecker, long-time buddy with donald trump, all the trips to mar-a-lago, the fact that years ago he was nudging trump to run for president or created t...

The american people are looking for him to be a leader. >> i mean, come on. come on, paris. perpetuated by the media? we just have news that michael flynn is going to plead the fifth. thats not perpetuated by the media. thats reporting the news. >> and we could also report on other things in the news, like the positive things that are going on in saudi arabia that the president has done. >> there was extensive coverage of this, paris. lets not get into like editorial judgment on the rundown of m...

United states if you now the he was asking you to do something unlawful. hes demanding under oath-for-you to say yes you would stand up, and you then told then senator sessions of alabama thats what you would do, and it appears to me that you kept your word. apparently thats okay to keep your word depending upon who the administration is, but im proud of you for keeping your word when the president tried to set a religious test for entrance in this country, something most first year law students...

He was asking you to do something unlawful? hes demanding under oath for you to say, yes, you would stand up. and you told th-senator jeff sessions of alabama thas what you would do. and appears to me that you kept your word. apparently its okay to keep your word depending upon who the administration is. but im proud of you for keeping your word when the president tried to set a religious test for entrance into this country. something most first-year law students would say was unconstitutional, ...

National security, do people really need to know? is there some line out there? >> so, i think there is an ethical line. and ive criticized wikileaks for publishing, for example, information from john podestas e-mail inbox that had no public interest or from the dnc. but thats not what theyre talking about. thats not illegal to publish -- to make a bad editorial judgment. what theyre talking about is publishing top secret information from the cia, from the pentagon, and thats when you get into t...

Judgment, but "the washington post" itself said it was a mistake to publish the cartoon. its pulled it off the website and out of the paper. and just an aside for you, ted cruz is now raising money off the snafu. his goal, and he put this on the internet out to his supporters, is to raise $1 million for his campaign. all right. lets talk about donald trump now. donald trump says as president, he would cut everyones taxes, but without increasing the deficit. if that sounds too good to be true, ...

It can be a fine line between that kind of editorial judgment and a self-censorship. this goes too far. too incendiary. it could be too dangerous. >> you think that critique will be there. that evaluation of work will be there that maybe hasnt been there in the past. >> i dont know if people will be up front about it. it works in insidious ways. we cant exclude that. every editor who is going to look at a cartoon that is inflammatory. >> there used to be a mind-set print it lets go you know. it ...

My producer is telling us we have to go. were in a serious time right now as were talking about these threats of violence. were in a serious time about a lot of leaked information thats the product of crime. and so the press has to think deeply about the responsibility it wants to play. we have a wide legal berth and then we have to make decisions about weighing that, editorial judgment, what is valuable and constructive here. theres information thats come out thats useful. some of it, social se...