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Tracking after a controversial comment about the holocaust deniers. the facebook ceo defended leaving content on the site after an interview saying some are not intentionally getting it wrong. >> a set of people who deny the holocaust happened. i find that deeply offensive. at the end of the day, i dont believe that our platform should take that down because i think there are things that different people get wrong either -- i dont think they are intentionally getting it wrong. it is hard to impu...

>> i misspoke. if i said that she was fired. of course she has not been fired. and what i meant to ask was, do you support her right to speak her mind, given that you believe you were canned unjustly for speaking yours? >> yes. absolutely. >> i would think on some ground you would be one of her greatest advocates. >> absolutely. she shouldnt be fired. i would have fired her. i would have never hired her. she has no place in any platform that represents sports. i think shes openly racist. i think...

White supremacy, period. he is unqualified and unfit to be president. hes not a leader. and if he were not white, he never would have been elected. when press secretary sarah sanders was asked about it, heres what she said. >> thats one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make. and certainly something that i think is fireable offense by espn. >> hill later released a statement regretting her personal beliefs and that tainted espn. and espn issued a follow-up statement saying she ha...

>> for a long time, it was okay. people in congress could buy and sell stocks if they were introducing legislation. lets ask a little bit about the boycott and the 41 people who will not go. look, sometimes people dont go. john says its cold. >> you have to go through security. some members who have been there a long time, they skip. >> kellyanne conway talked a bit about the boycott. she had this take. listen to this. >> we hope that these democratic members of congress reconsider. they are wel...

Public workers. >> he campaigned on a very clear program. nothing hes doing is new. everything hes doing was in his platfo platform. >> again, not true. the fact checking site looked into this and were unable to produce any record of walker wowing to end collective bargaining. walker hasnt produced any record of that either. now next up, the idea that public workers in wisconsin are fat cats. >> state government employees make over $51,000 a year on average. compare all that to the private secto...

>> well you know i have to say no. and i say that, because all along it was a mission to get a platform, the planks of the platform first hammered out in iowa under the caucus process. and through new hampshire, south carolina and beyond. and that platform is now in the oval office. presidents have a right to change their mind. i dont know that the president has, i think he wants all the ep forcement he can get. if i had anything to do over again, i dont know if i would do it differently. i thin...

Tweets in particular, where you said at real donald trump. if the a.p. is correct, the trump base is blown up, destroyed, and disillusioned beyond repair. when i saw that art,i thought is congressman king talking about himself. that you will be disillusioned beyond repair? >> i can understand why that might read that way. i said if this is true and if its upholds itself for proves out to be true over the long term. heres my job -- none of us should be attached to a person or personality, as a p...