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planning to talk to ahead of the fall. also scheduled to get an update on the presidents covid diagnosis from the white house. the doctors saying the symptoms are almost totally gone. i want to bring in nbc white house correspondent mike memoli and correspondent shaq brewster with where america is at with abortion access with indiana being really the focus at this moment. talk about vice president harris trip there and what it means. >> reporter: we have seen the vice president do ...

The censorship of the truth is outrageous in their words, offensive and a step down a dangerous path for our country. any issue ad must be approved before policies before airing on nbcu proper including peacock. i want to bring in now "the washington post" reporter behind disney and hulu. michael scherer. hulu doesnt talk about its guidelines. they dont allow ads to take a position on a controversial issue. talk about the response to that and the issue of the democrats. >> hulu doesnt say what i...

Hold them liable. theres a large party of critics that said facebook and google enable terrorism, sex trafficking, the theft of television content, movie content, music content and enabled all kinds of social activity. i suspect news corps is worried about the posting for-free. this is one of the big problems. privacy is a problem, anti-social conduct like sex trafficking, like terrorism, another problem. lots of critics saying they have anti-competitive abuses. this is not just a privacy proble...

Issue. they have a big problem on their hands. i think that the other reason that they keep using the word sorry and responsibility and she said there could be more to come is that they dont exactly know what is out there. but they anticipate that they there probably could be more that they are going to have to reveal. they dont want consumers to be surprised by that. >> trace: yeah. i want to play a few parts of the interview. lets begin with part of todays announcement that cheryl sandberg sai...

2016 and what were announcing today is that if you are running not just an election ad, but you are running an issue ad and were going to publish a list of issues, were going to verify who you are. you have to tell us your location, your identity. if you wont tell us that, were not gonna let you run. were gonna label all of those ads as political ads and there will be an archive anyone can look at which shows who paid for the ad, how much was spent and the demographics. >> dana: does that come n...

And it is a bipartisan bill with senator warner and senator mccain. what this is about, its a national security issue first of all. weve now learned that at least $100,000 in rubles for spent to buy ads to influence the american election. last time i checked were supposed to be self governing and our democracy shouldnt be influenced by foreign powers. s also an issue of fairness. we have $1.4 billion spent onion line ads in the last election. money is migrating over there and yet nbc or cnn or a...

National security issue first of all. weve now learned that at least $100,000 in rubles for spent to buy ads to influence the american election. last time i checked were supposed to be self governing and our democracy shouldnt be influenced by foreign powers. s also an issue of fairness. we have $1.4 billion spent onion line ads in the last election. money is migrating over there and yet nbc or cnn or any of the networks, when you buy an ad on there as a politician or even an issue ad, youve got...

Authority as clerk of the court. its look issuing something under the name president obama or under the president of the united states of america. you know the same person. >> is her name on the marriage certificate. >> her name today, or most recently, on these issue ad by deputy clerks wasnt on the certificate. theyre suppose to be on the certificate. typical way it is supposed to be filled out. they did not purr her name on there. however her authority as the clerk of the court still remains ...

For the chamber, from policy to politics, susan estridge is a law and science professor at the university of southern california. why is it important that we know who has paid for the political ads we see on tv? >> well, you know, the argument is, and i happen to agree, if somebody is going to tell you who to vote and put out all kinds of fancy graphics to grab your attention, its fair to ask, hey, who is telling me that? we trust opinions in part based on whose they are. so the idea, and i thin...

Obama says spend more and promises jobs. obama donors and insiders line up for handouts. >> true economic growth will always be companies like solena. mr. president, we need jobs, not more washington insider deals. >> well, crossroads gps would call that an issue ad, but who exactly believes that? senior correspondent of the huffington post, and editor in chief. of national mmo.com. i want to start with dan who got us into this issue. i just looked at the law, and it clearly says if you spend th...