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>> oh, thats -- that is hard. you know, i think that it is -- its really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. you know, the reality is -- >> why? >> well, there were so many different forces at play. the organic posting that people did, the get out the vote campaigns that we ran, the pages that both candidates ran, the advertising that they did, im sure that all of that activity had some impact. its hard for me to assess how much that stacked up compared to all the campaign events and ...

As uncomfortable as it is for me to do, you know, a tv interview, i feel this is an important thing that as a discipline for what were doing, i should be out there and being asked hard questions by journalists. >> knowing what you know now, do you believe facebook impacted the results of the 2016 election? >> oh, thats -- that is hard. you know, i think that it is -- its really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. you know, the reality is -- >> why? >> well, there were so many differen...

You know, i think in general, technology is an increasingly important trend in the world, and i actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes 0 or no, should it be regulated? >> what is the right regulation? >> theres basic things and intellectual debates. on the basic side, there are things like ad transparency regulation that i would love to see. if you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on tv, in print, you know, its just not clear why t...

What kind of safeguards do you think the government would think about putting in place on something like facebook? >> reporter: first and foremost, theyve been talking about a standard for online advertising. when you look at the way that the russians, bad actors were able to wep niez the platform and do targeted advertising online. what somebody said to me behind the scenes at facebook, if we put these transparency labels on our ads and other tech companies dont, people might come to facebook t...

Well see what topic he would go out there for. the big question now is regulation. everybody is wondering are these tech companies going to be regulated? are they too powerful? i put the question to mark. i said are you too powerful that you should see regulation. listen to what he said. >> given the stakes here, why shouldnt facebook be regulated? >> i actually am not sure we shouldnt be regulated. >> reporter: interesting. very interesting to hear him say hes not sure they shouldnt be regulate...

Organic activity, which were actually quite proud of. >> also the bad actors too. >> and the bad stuff. thats what im saying, yeah. so i think its hard to fully assess -- >> given the stakes here, why shouldnt facebook be regulated? >> i actually am not sure we shouldnt be regulated. you know, i think in general, technology is an increasingly important trend in the world, and i actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes 0 or no, should it be regulated? >> wh...

Really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. the reality is, well, theres so many different forces in play. the organic posting that people did, the get out the vote campaigns that we ran, the pages that both candidates ran, the advertising that they did, im sure that all of that activity had some impact. >> also the bad actors. >> and the bad stuff. thats what im saying. i think its hard to fully assessment. >> reporter: hard to say, although i think a lot of folks who wonder when they...

191 countries, and we do believe, our mission is to allow anyone to belong anywhere, and so last year on the super bowl, we ran an ad about we accept, which really embraced the idea of inclusion and diversity, it was a response to the travel ban. over the course of the year, we continue to step out and inconsistent with our core mission of allowing anyone to belong anywhere. this ad that we ran -- >> tucker: thats not your core mission. your core mission is to make money. [laughs] are you a chur...

Extent if this gets messed up could people think not only is obamacare worse than it was there is no alternative, and no tax reduction, it is hard for republicans to run after a bad year. maria: do voters hold vem them accountable. >> this is a unified republican government, if they prove they cant govern, they will pay at the poll, democrats cannot be flamed that dollar 5 different faction in congressional republican conference, they cant pull themselves together. >> we ran, 4 years as an oppos...

Which was hard-fought, and i was proud of the primary we ran, because it was about issues. senator sanders and i got together, came up with a plan to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for any families making less than $125,000 a year thats the vast majority of families. if youre over that, well make it debt-free. pay what you can afford, but i dont want to see young people and their families going into debt. i view this as an investment. and thats why were going to make it easie...