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The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Happy monday. Happy monday and thank you, i appreciate it. I welcome everyone to The Beat and we begin the program covering the developments in the terrible, Near Miss Type Incident at Donald Trumps Golf Course on sunday. The secret Service Opening Fire after seeing a gun that was pointed inside the course, inside the area where the former president was. More details on exactly that exchange of gunfire and what happened and i can tell you with the most ...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Asking you questions about this criminal matter, you dont have to be sworn under oath. The second that you talk to them and that you lie to them and they can prove that you lied to them, in other words, that you knew what you were telling them was in fact a lie, then they can charge you with that. So thats something thats also been included here in this case. Overall, a 30page indictment, this is a pretty significant step f...

>> but social media companies may not be motivated to e rate all information. thats the way the business model runs is they profit from engagement and if negative content promotes engagement that will not change. they are not be part of the solutions. >> so what can you do to reduce junk information? get your news from diverse sources. dont reshare misinformation. >> chris, one more tip, this is where the conversations can get tough, aside from just not engaging online in a public way, reach out...

Think that maybe they could lie low a little bit while we kind of all work ourselves up into a tizzy over it. as director coats also said e at any point they have the systems network strategies out there and they can spin them up for opportunistsic purposes. >> clint watts, what should americans be looking for in their own facebook and twitter feeds? how is it youre supposed to be able to tell whats fake, whats real, whats false, whats true? >> yeah, the big thing i tell people is to go to trust...

Id do the same thing i saw here. i would inundate them with information, sometimes junk information, about america. if youre chinese and you want to influence asian information, asian attitudes about america, what would you do? the same thing that was done in terms of these posts on black america. if youre a venezuelan who opposes america and you want to influence latin american attitudes, you want to invade the social media space. my point is very simple. our conversation in this country with t...

Parts of his investigation. we are seeing the role of facebook and perhaps other social network insiders. it is really facebook is the focus of the mission. >> we have plenty more to get to. brian, we are out of time. well continue our conversation tomorrow on "reliable sources." we are taking a look at live pictures right now from washington, d.c. i am being told that some black lives matter protesters are tro trying to interrupt the mother of all rallies where we saw ryan nobles a short time a...

Say you got enough evidence that a crime is being committed by specific individuals and information in this case, facebook is going to help you get to the bt ottom of the crim. we know congress was recently briefed on some of the russian linked ads that were sold on facebook last year. congress is not getting nearly as much information as mueller obtained. it indicates to me that mueller is really focusing on the role of social network in spreading russian propaganda before the election day. doe...

We learned that facebook have turned over copies of russian linked ads. muellers team have obtained a search warrant for that information. at one point facebook discovered these ads will be linked to a russian troll form. facebook turned over detailed information not only about the accounts that bought the ads but the way the ads were targeted at american facebook users. our media correspondent brian stelter is joining us now. does this change anything? >> it reveas revealing of what muellers te...

Looted to information where junk information, and you dont know the real situation of where it is coming from. some are calling these ads on facebook to be regulated like tv ads. what do you make of that? it will be hard to do becau because -- it will be hundreds of people at a time. well hear more of these calls for greater transparency. every time any campaigns running on television, the government have a record on it. on facebook and twitter and the web, there is no such data. it would be a h...