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>> a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by ...

, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. >> donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table weve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard a...

We see also in the documents, there would be these objections about the speech, and how increasingly, in both years as mark zuckerberg has become more isolated, hes also taken on more hard-line positions about free speech. you might remember a couple years ago, he was defending the rights of holocaust deniers, ins conspiracy theories. you can see that time and time again, in the kind of countless micro decisions, that bubbled up to him, that we dont know about. where he raised his objections fir...

You could text a chat bot to fact check some stories in spanish or get information about how to vote. but what we know is that this move was kind of classic zuckerberg where people at the company would present ideas. sometimes they would go out to the ceo and increasingly, and this is what we see, also, in the haugen documents, is there would be those objections around free speech. now, increasingly in recent years as mark zuckerberg has become more isolated, hes also taken on more hard line pos...

>> is it your opinion that the president needs to come to congress before he would take any action if it were to come to that? >> i dont think so. i think the congresses responsibility is to make these kind of micro decisions even if its something according to the war powers act, basically he has 60 days to act. so i dont think every military action needs to come to congress because nothing would ever get done. >> dana: can i ask you about one other thing? it was international relations story th...

Pregnant teens a television s w show, i think that might go a long way and actually change the culture. im not ready to give up on that yet. i still think theres good work to do there. >> i think the government makes cultural micro decisions all the time. one of the things you see is seat belts. you used to not see. now, everybody gets in the car, and they throw on the seat belt in the television, movie business. >> yeah, with the nudging, the government will always have some government impact. ...