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On that point, reported in this article senator john thune does have oversight and ftc does regulate these companies. some have been calling for more regulation. do you have any view of that account from this reporter and this article that this effort basically provided a kind of pressure on facebook where they were more worried about republican or conservative agenda items than alleged bias? >> i think facebook and google and twitter should all be worried that their platforms could be weaponwea...

White house de facto strategy is to blame everyone but themselves and thats exactly what sarah sanders is doing today. >> its a lot of blame. and this information that does leak out and sometimes it can be against rules or even laws, but the person breaking those laws is typically the person with access to the classified information inside the government, not the website that posts it or the newspaper that prints it or tweets it or whatever the technology of the day may be. i thought that was an...

Of 17 when they suddenly realized, wait, russia was running a major propaganda operation on it and they just learned that from a little detail that leaks out about some government investigation that we dont know about yet. so two moments of shock and well see if theres a third. >> bob mueller is known for being careful. he doesnt leave a lot of fingerprin fingerprints. >> no, he does not. >> you spoke to someone who saw something that made them wonder whether bob mueller was looking at it. expla...

Fake news was sent to try and suppress the hillary clinton vote, and compare that to the lists of people and places that the trump campaign is using. >> but heres the hard part for investigators, nick. if facebook and their own engineers were late to understand some of this, how do these folks in washington -- in this washington mueller office who arent tech experts, how do they get ahead of it? >> they get ahead of it because they know after the fact. thats why it was a scheme to defraud. faceb...

Investigators now probing how russians use social media in their election meddling. theyre taking big questions to silicon valley. the mueller team has grilled at least one facebook employee about all of this and now some employees started to talk or at least leak news tonight as anonymous facebook staff paint a new portrait of turmoil inside a company that wanted to be above politics. one has said zuckerberg has begun to learn his platform could be used for ill, a shift from denials when he dow...

Bob mueller cares about this story because the russians used facebook, and hes probing before any americans helped with that crime. a lot of americans care about this story because facebook has gone from a great success story, a company that could, quote, save your life to look at the same magazine today. facebook under duress personified by zuckerberg. im joined now by the editor in chief of that magazine, nicholas thompson. he wrote that story i just quoted from along with watergate prosecutor...

Reports and talks about it. facebook says we cant have republicans mad at us because they want to appeal to the whole country and republicans control most of the government, including the parts that regulate facebook. so they invite a whole bunch of republicans to menlo park and then after that they become very cautious about doing anything that could be seen as making people think theyre biased against republicans again and that, according again to these dozen people, is one of the reaches why ...

We dont know why that is but its possible some investigation led to facebook freezing it. >> they were frozen. what does that tell you and why is bob mueller so interested in whats going on dumbarton bridge tal -- dumbarton bridigitally with >> based on what we know, certain russians were clearly guilty of wire fraud, a federal felony. they set up fake accounts under fake names using fake information that was clearly a fraud on facebook. the only question that mueller has to decide is whether or...

Fbi for the security clearance fiascos. we have a fact check from a former fbi agent. and new reporting coming in on how bob mueller is tapping facebook and mark zuckerberg for key questions. later, well look at what trumps past reveals about his new concerns about due process. also, the obamas, look at those beautiful photos. well explain the portraits coming in. im ari melber. youre watching "the beat" on msnbc. ♪ slap on some cologne ♪ im 85 and i wanna go home ♪ ♪ just got a jo...