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Not optimal. >> okay. >> washington speak for not good. >> another question. >> yes. >> i think the reaction of many watching the events superficially this week is to think that they just lost a boat load of privacy protections. is it more accurate to say the status quo will continue? >> yes, it is more accurate to say the status quo will continue. you know, washington as we all know is hyperpartisan these days and privacy issues which should be nonpartisan and were nonpartisan at the ftc have b...

Hurricane in several years, a cat 4 or 5 in three or four years. mercedes, im not trying to be the global denier, but the temperature does in fact change. ill get in and well get back to you. >> i think weve got to find that balance. we need to talk about the issues of climate change. i believe that there is this balance between ensuring that we can have a prosperous economy, that jobs arent lost, but at the same time be an environmental steward. i think its very important to find that line, but...

And privacy issues which should be nonpartisan and were nonpartisan at the ftc have become even more partisan. theres a lot of sky is falling hyperbole. theres a little bit of privacy mccarthyism going on. and it would be great if people could sort of cut through the fact -- cut through this fact-free environment and talk about the real issues. >> you ran the ftc under president obama. tom wheeler ran the fcc under obama. he wrote a very strong essay this week for the "new york times." put it up...

People on the internet want to be told what they want to hear and they freak out when they encounter that which they dont want to hear. yet the new york times and they have this increase in time and hyperbole is that the fuel of the internet is emotion, rage mostly. thats why you do so well in that space. >> ive been but the for a long time just annoying people into clicking. >> coming up. the run a podcast is available now.

Whether he deserves it or not right? in some cases you would be defending the indefensible. i think some people end up looking silly when they do that, to be honest with you. >> john, what is president trump going to do, defend flynn or distance himself from him? >> well, this isnt about admitting anything because theres no proof anywhere in any situation that there was any collusion with the russians. this thing has been going on, this investigation has been going on since july. and all we have...

>> well, this isnt about admitting anything because theres no proof anywhere in any situation that there was any collusion with the russians. this thing has been going on, this investigation has been going on since july. and all we have is hyperbole. theres nothing there. so as far as donald trump admitting something, admit what? that he won the election? i mean, this is the most ridiculous thing ive ever seen in my life. it goes on and on and on. >> john, perhaps you didnt hear the question. >>...

Occurred. theres an obstruction of attempts to find that out. theres a coverup going on as is known to every one of these intelligence agencies. >> absolutely not. richard burr was on air today, very bipartisan way. let me be the first to say that the senate approach is completely even-handed and bipartisan and all that good stuff. the senate committee alone could resolve this. senator mccain said today that the white house -- he saw no evidence that the white house was trying to block this inve...

He gave the senate committee high marks. at the same time, he criticized the house committee. criticism of the house committee is fine. to use this hyperbole that theres a coverup and irregularities, i think theres messiness. they need to calm down. all of them need to get off the air, go back in closed door session. >> then why didnt -- >> let me answer you for one minute. im using the term coverup because thats the word that people in the intelligence agencies both in the trump and the obama a...

Not allude to this. its happening as we speak. the mayor of seattle is going to give a press conference. it is lawsuits. they try to talk a -- tie all of president trumps policies in the court. nothing gets solved for anybody for many years. >> greg: thats how they win. its not fair. thing i keep digging about, its difficult to force assimilation. you kind of have to start with the border. >> lisa: thats important but i like faucet faced better than upchuck. if you are senator chuck schumer and ...

Youre right or wrong. he says this more as a negotiation. you push him, hell fall back and change the topic or direct things to a different place. say i was only saying wiretapping in quotes. say i didnt say that, it was a newspaper article i was reading. and i was saying what the newspaper said even if it was the national inquirer and a bonus story. and i think this says a lot about how he has always seen this issue. he came up in real estate. he came up talking about truthful trut truthful hyp...