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Find apps. youre going to click on apps, here at the top you see logged with feign, airbnb, 31 others. those are other apps im sharing my account with. >> youre given permission to do that. >> reporter: right. so airbnb they see my name, friend li, likes, they see that i like the beat with re medical burr. im not sure why. >> nbc live with halle jackson. whatever. >> reporter: that type of information can be used by those third-party apps and that is where that targeted advertisements come in an...

Addressed that pi flagging suspicious news stories. this is something about harvesting data from facebook and facebook cant treat this as separate issues. this is something they need to address if they are to gain the trust of their consumers. >> robert johnston thank you. im going to ask ned, sara and delieu to hang out for a second. a big head loan this morning coming from pennsylvania avenue. the phone call from vladimir putin and trump. the president calling vladimir putin after the electi...

>> and what has happened? >> what has happened in each instance? >> nothing. >> ned, we shouldnt gloss over the fact the president didnt just go after jim comey and andrew mccabe, he talked about corruption in the state department, the justice department and the fbi. are we about to take this turn into the deep state is out to get us? >> well, this has been the turn that the republicans and president trump have wanted to take for a long time. weve heard devin knewenunes no using the state depart...

>> which he should. >> i agree with that. but again, i think he could fire sessions also. i think that would happen. >> you think mcconnell and ryan would say you got it, buddy, time for infrastructure? >> i dont think they would do anything about it. >> ned, last point. >> right, look at what we saw over the weekend. about 280 in this city say in some mealy mouthed form that the special counsel needs to be able to do his job. there is legislation to protect the special counsel that has not move...

Or decided in a locked room outside the purview of the public so they wont learn about the facts of what really happened here. they are trying to hide the facts and the truth from the public. it is clear as day. >> new legal action from president trump against porn star stormy daniels, attempting to move the lawsuit to federal court that claims $20 million for daniels alleged violations of a hush agreement. conservative commentator kierstin haglin. stormy daniels attorney, is he right? does this...

Department. robert ashton who leads the office of professional responsibility makes these calls about lawyer discipline in the department. that process is a lot more secret and subject to privacy concern concerns that said i have no reason to believe she rejected the fbi opr recommendation that mccabe, indeed, deserved discipline. the question is why it got all the way to the attorney general and whether the president was exerting some pressure on the attorney general to move quickly to deprive ...

Was not honest with their investigation, that would have a discredited affect in the context of a different investigation. whether its justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesnt have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. its a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it -- actually, im going to start reading it. ned price, as you start -- give us your reaction again to the possibility that this is actually...

Has concluded or the inspector general has concluded that he was not honest with their investigation, that would have a discredited affect in the context of a different investigation. whether its justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesnt have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. its a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it -- actually, im going to start reading it. ned price, as you start -- give us...

Time in agency history were a part of. so if youre going to issue a blanket edict that anyone who was part of the detention interrogation program or touched it in some way, you are essentially going to prohibit a generation of agency officers from ascending to the leadership of this cia. i think what we hear and will be hearing from langley is a welcome sigh of relief that gina haspel is now their director. they know, these agency officials know, that she understands them, she appreciates them. ...

But knows the clear parameters. and just how far intelligence officers, intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives should go when it comes to informing policy. >> but, ned, haspel has been linked to the cia destruction of interrogation tapes that documented harsh interrogations of at least two al qaeda suspects in cia detention, the destruction ordered by the head of the clandestine service. haspel, his chief of staff at the time. is this something that could perhaps pose a problem for he...