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That was the same issue with charles whitman, the clock tower shooter in 1966, was there a disconnect up top. we live in a country where we treasure our civil lip erts, we have to find a sweet spot in the middle. we dont want a police state, but we dont want these mass shootings, how do we do that? police do study, whether its a terrorist attack police forces around the country look at these things. the tactics by terrorists or killers are always evolving. >> thats right, they call them formally...

This is america jumping the -- >> i think theres a good, positive culture to be told that used to be the pioneer culture, that we welcome people in, as long as they work and love each other, were going to be a universal nation. thatsed thats the idea. we solve this problem. >> paul, step up, mitch step up. >> this vicious feedback loop of applying to the most bombastic element of the party. what you had is essentially is outsourced the thought leadership to the loudest, the guy at the end of the...

Be for them? >> because i think what theyre doing for them is just being there. you know, im struck by the extent to which for a lot of the base of the republican party, the partys already accomplished what they want. theyve spoken to their rage. they speak to their rage every day. all they want is for donald trump to be president, to be there making democrats angry, to be -- >> libertarians -- >> there just making liberals upset. just be there. i dont think they care about policy. >> this is th...

To stick to what i said im going to do and were going to get this right. thats what the american people want and thats what he ought to do. hes the president of the united states. hes not a blogger, not somebody who has an opinion that is inconsequence shl to policy making. hes the president. he should act like the president. >> congressman dan kildee, good to see you, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. facebook is handing over specific information on russian ads to special counselor r...

Platforms like facebook isnt just about producing propaganda that could essentially impact an election. ed williams, who created both twitter and medium tells me at the heart of the issue its about money and how publishers and tech companies are benefiting from low quality information. take a listen. >> i think the fact that tech companies have to accept is that there are judgments being made all the way down the line. theres judgments about how the algorithm works, what the system values, what ...

Election. cnn spoke to twitter about the struggle social medias face against fake news. >> in my opinion, the most fe n -- nefarious feedback loop is that its all driven by advertising and all free, and attention is valued. and if you can generate attention, then you can get paid. the thing that we should acknowledge is that anyone selling ads, these ad driven platforms are benefiting from a lot of the fake information and misinformation and these campaigns. and theyre also benefiting from peopl...

This is a personal project of mine. we came together to start this panel. the mission here is to completely re-examine the problems. we have been at this for decades, but the needle barely moved. washington is stuck in this endless feedback loop where we measure on effort, input. how much money are we spending, how many programs, how many people are on the programs. we ought to be focusing on outcomes. are these programs working? in this case, are we getting people out of poverty? this report, t...

We want to re-examine the way government solves problems. you look at summing that the war on poverty, youll get something that weve been at for decades, but the needle has barely moved. washington is stuck in this endless feedback loop where he measured success based on effort, based on input. how much money are we spending, how many programs have been created, how may people are on the programs? we cling to that when we ought to focus on outcomes. are these programs working? are we getting peo...

Bring you down in the polls, and if you are incapable of responding to the bad news or dealing with what is considered the bad news in your white house, thats only going to make you sink more in the polls and this is where we find the current president. >> yeah. lawrence, thats exactly right. president obama talked about this as living in the fish bowl. and that everybody could see you, everybody sees what is happening in the white house, pretty clearly. but being able to get feedback about how ...

Or greeting workers on the assembly line or somewhere else. it was his mechanism for getting feedback. and if that feedback loop is severed, you are at grave risk of having president of the united states that is totally out of touch. and lawrence, this is also why it is important. and you touched on one of the more troubling elements of this report. you had members of the senior staff competing to deliver this good news to the president, trying to ingratiate themselves to the president by delive...