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The week investors dont want to be left holding the bag in case Something Else drops or happens in another part of the world. Thats why youre seeing this exaggerated return. When i get to 2. 5 is when i start to tell people lets pay attention. Sure. You just mentioned the fates book thing. I noticed over the course of the lat few days its not just facebook. Twitter shares are down, google shares, a lot of the technology shares, shares on social Media Companies that are all looking at the possibi...

Desires, what attracts you, what outrages you. whats interesting here for me at least is facebook, we talked about the manufacture of consent. what facebook did was the manufacture of dissent, by separating us out, generating outrage over clinton e-mails, silence with regards to black lives matter. all the things that place us in our silos, then look what happened. >> i have to say i did not think today i would get the opportunity to speak to my friend john battell and have chomski at the same t...

Putin, despite the partys hawkishness. contributing editor of the weekly standard and host of its podcast, daily standard, and costa still with us. another friend, university professor eddy. charlie sie charlie sykes, i go to you as the one republican on this show at this moment. its just -- its kind of a stark thing how much donald trump has departed from republican orthodoxy just in the last 24 to 48 hours. how is your party coping with that spectacle? >> yeah, im not sure i recognize the pa...

Potentially business breaking crises if facebook doesnt handle things in the right way in the wake of the cambridge analytica whistleblower. they will in fact summon mark zuckerberg to capitol hill in the coming weeks. joining the panel now is my old friend john ba tell, long-time author covering technology. founder of wire. john, you have been watching facebook, been talking to facebook including mark zuckerberg since the company was born. and i know youve been also watching their reaction to t...