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Issue. they threatened to sue the "new york times" if they released this story. >> thats facebook whistle blower, saying that facebook was not trying to -- lets look at one part of zuckerbergs big p.r. tour. he now claims to be open to the exact claim that his company has been lobbying against. and ive got to say to mark, this one takes a lot of chutzpah >> im actually not sure we shouldnt be regulated. there are things like ads transparency regulation that i would love to see. but if you look a...

Pressing the u.s. congress to press mark zuckerberg. its also driving new leaks from inside facebook. tonight theres this leaked memo saying the company must pursue profitable connectivity even if it costs a life or enables terrorism organized on facebook. meanwhile, the feds are probing the site. state prosecutors around the country as well. so where do we go from here? facebook isnt going away, its the backbone of a large part of the internet. its the identity platform that thousands of other ...

Cant imagine hes been in many scenarios where hes been challenged and members of congress love nothing more than a good old-fashioned wearing and to beat him up, and in a lot of ways so much of his legacy is riding on this besides the business of facebook. makes me think of the baseball players who had to testify on steroids. it will be interesting if he comes before congress. >> he was also asked about regulation, in conversations with our show team it was an interesting response to him when as...

Some regulation. amy klobuchar tweeted she was surprised to hear him say he supported the senate bill on election ads and this is a new position for facebook. >> facebook had a post years ago inserted a bunch of other tech companies and that would be a reversal for facebook. we saw from mark zuckerberg in that interview a bit of a political two-step. >> is this damage control? >> clearly damage control, if the beginning they bellowed this, first statement after the election, this wasnt our, we h...

You believe facebook impacted the results of the 2016 election? >> that is hard. you know, i think that it is, its really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. you know, its -- the reality is -- >> why? >> well, there are so many different forces at play. >> do you think that bad actors are using facebook at this moment to meddle with the u.s. midterm elections? >> im sure someones trying and im sure that theres, you know, v2, version two of whatever the russian effort was in 2016. im s...

You are the right person. you should come before the committee. theres no question about it. >> nbcs joli ling kent is outse facebook headquarters. youve been talking with sources at facebook who said his statement was not complete. what is the feeling inside the company this morning? >> reporter: some employees inside the company are telling me now that they feel like there needs to be more done leading up to the day, yesterday when mark zuckerberg finally made his statement. he was saying noth...

Investigation into every app that had access to a large amount of data. >> do you have any scale or any scope of what you expect to find? >> were going to review thousands of apps, so this is going to be an intensive process, but this is important. this is something that in retrospect we clearly should have done up front with cambridge analytica. we should not have trusted the certification that they gave us and were not going to make that mistake again. >> reporter: so zuckerberg talking a lot ...

Improperly used. >> of course were concerned but at the end of the day congress will make the request and im sure facebook will xloocomply w congress and if not im sure congress will issue subpoenas. >> will the white house support subpoenas? >> we look to make sure congress has, they manage their own processes and rules. im sure if it comes to a point theres not cooperation im sure youll see the white house weigh in. >> the president likes social media, likes twitter. has he spoken with his sta...

Lets do it. >> mark short seemed at the top of the show that he wasnt pushing rand paul too, too hard. >> theyre golf buddies. see what happens. >> thank you for joining us on the program. pleasure to have you on set on another busy thursday of news. we want to end, as we always do, with todays big picture. for it, we continue on with womens history month. all months, bringing you photos by, for and about women. in this case, girls. this is a nigerian schoolgirl carried by a military commander. ...

Facebook, but what could he do, what can facebook do to go back and make sure that that data wasnt improperly used, thats already been accessed, they cleared out or deleted that data for companies like for example cambridge analytica? >> reporter: they have to conduct forensic audits and those are expensive things to do. they have to go back and reevaluate thousands of companies and see if they can claw that back. when he was asked by "wired" magazine if he is sure that data did not end up in th...