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Now a distinguished fellow at the foreign policy research institute, plus former congresswoman donna edwards is here. thank you so much. kara, ill start with you. we had testimony today. ms. haugen came forward and said, look, this company is doing bad things. we need to do something about it. what were your impressions from just todays testimony? is this going to be the moment where the dam breaks and congress actually does something or is it going to be a bunch of chest-beating and performance...

Sit in the right seat. scantron you got two great pitchers, fenway park to move on. its going to be fun. congratulations, willie. good luck the yankees against the rays. >> i dont want to know what you will be wearing tonight. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hi, i am stephanie ruhle, live on msnbc headquarters in new york city. its tuesday october 5th, lets get smarter. we are focusing on facebook. the company reeling from a pair of major cris...

Feelings and behaviors, needs real oversight. but facebooks closed design means it has no real oversight. only facebook knows how it personalizes your feed for you. as long as facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. until the incentives change, facebook will not change. left alone, facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good. our common good. >> hi, everyone, its 5:00 in the east. im jason johnson in for nico...

When the sausage is rotten, and that, to me, was really appalling by them. but typical of facebook, which is to shoot the messenger. >> donna, one of the things thats always concerned me, whether its facebook or snapchat or instagram or anything else like that, is that there is a gap between the expertise in senators and members of congress and what technology is. and im not suggesting that theyre all completely out of date, but you know, do you think that there are enough members of congress wh...

Its a hostile power. its not a terrorist -- its not hydra or cobra. how do we frame this so we can start addressing it from a national security and a domestic security standpoint? >> jason, i think youre right. the outage essentially plunged america into productivity yesterday instead of distraction, which was kind of interesting. but look, in certain countries, facebook is almost a utility. i think india is a great example of this. many of the countries around the world, ill never forget the fi...

Senator from the state of california, something that has never happened before, i thank you, sir, for being with me this morning. appreciate it. [ speaking spanish ] its been a rough few days for facebook. the company now containing the fallout from a major outage while the whistle-blower who says that the company put profits ahead of safety testifies on capitol hill. youre watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. youre watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. like many people with m...

Congress but the american public can understand. i come out of technology, and so, it was always complicated to be in a congress where so many members dont have a technological background and tough to kind of grapple with some of these issues but look, its congress. they have the ability to get the kind of expertise that they need to be able to regulate these platforms in a way that will create more good and less harm. and i think that was the important value of the testimony today, and i agree ...

Using all those facts and figures about how america has fallen behind shows that hes really convinced he has to keep on messaging on this to bring the party back together then go out and spend all the months between now and the midterm elections selling what the united behind. >> and of course well see if this actually gets done the way the president wants it to. thank you very much. please stick around. were just getting started. when we come back, hours of testimony on a supremely important to...

You picked your friends. you picked the topics they engage with. dont just blame us. its on you. so theyve taken brand-new accounts. so no friends. and all theyve done is follow donald trump, melania, fox news, a local news source and all they did was click on the first ten things. facebook suggested a group, they joined that group. not doing any conscious action here and within a week, you see q anon, in two weeks, things about white genocide. and you can say how did that happen? why are these ...

Facebook into five different entities and its very possible they would do the same thing. what kind of policy could congress actually pass to reel this in, other than essentially turning facebook into a newspaper where they would have to start editing their content, which would almost defeat the purpose of the site. >> well, i think you hit on it. if you break it up into pieces and the pieces still are enabled to act in the same way, that does not change the environment. and i think one of the t...