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Cheeri -- clearly not. -- clearly not. howard: it was only an attempted bank robbery it turns out the bank wasnt robbed and so nothing to see here because in the end it didnt happen. it is true in the end it didnt happen but these are serious people plotting to change the searches which google sells to us as being fair and unbiassed. >> i understand we have the leaked e-mails this week, but im going to argue possibly unpopular perspective which is that, you know, if nothing happened, isnt this s...

"angle" ." immediately following the election, google executives gathered to share their feelings of dejection and despair. a video recently leaked to breitbart revealed the mind-set of googles leadership from within their corporate safe space. this is cofounder sergey brin. >> it safe to say that most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election. on a more serious note, myself, as an immigrant and refugee, i certainly find this election deeply offensive. i know many of yo...

Certainly find this election deeply offensive. >> is there anything positive you see from this election? [laughter] >> thats a really tough one right now. >> tucker: wow. its like 1984. elsewhere in the video, which is long and worth watching, google executives vowed to take action against fake news and combat the trump administrations in a immigration agenda. those bows and the companies increasingly obvious and over political orientation are just as interesting now with the ftc holding hearing...

>> they tweeted 1.4 million times and got retweeted over and over again, eventually generating 288 million views. >> the president himself responded to a complimentary tweet sent by a known kremlin-linked troll account. >> members of congress had a lot to say, by the way, to the social media companies. heres a taste of it. >> your actions need to catch up to your responsibilities. >> youve created these platforms, and now they are being misused. and you have to be the ones to do something. >> in...

A democracy maybe here at home going through an election. here with us to talk about this is clint watts. when you hear these facebook executives and google executives, twitter executives trying to make sense of their response do you have trust they are doing everything they can? ach all, it took them so long to get to this point. im remembering mark zuckerberg saying theres no way this influenced the election. >> we dont know how many saw the stuff. facebook has the best understanding of it of ...

Big political news around the corner. >> theres been a lot of great reporting on these really mysterious health attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba. and on friday, we saw the trump administration announcing a travel warning to americans and a drawdown of u.s. embassy staff. but its notable that the trump administration actually hasnt blamed the cuban government or anyone, really, for being behind these attacks. and when you talk to those supportive of the obama administrations detente with cuba, t...

The voting preferences of those voters who are undecided and its a big shut. the biggest shift we found by the way in any group anywhere was among moderate republicans. they are actually the most vulnerable to this kind of manipulation. >> so this idea that the election could be swayed by just simply one negative story, it seems kind of preposterous. but, when you think about it, most people dont even go past the first page of google results at all, right? >> well, thats the problem. and the hig...

Corporate america. >> it seems a lot easier to do to lower skilled workers who are less specialized than sort of folks who have a much better, much stronger skill set that theyre bringing to work. >> no, thats right. what i found fascinating about this case, actually, is that facebook was approached to kind of join here, allegedly, and they said no. they said, nope, were not going to play that game. whether thats a credit specifically to cheryl sandberg, but i know that she took several -- this ...

it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed -- confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. lets bring in lisa sylvester. shes working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. whats going on? >> reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or ref...

Good, firsthand look at. back to you, jon. jon: greg palkot, thanks. jenna: google is under fire. the search giant requiring users to have new proeufs see rule privacy rules before they can sign onto their accounts. catherine herridge is taking a closer look. she joins us from washington. >> reporter: well, thank you, jenna and this morning. this issue is getting traction on capitol hill with a closed door meeting with a meeting between congress and google executives. cost referencing data gener...