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These are the kinds of people that we are putting on the circuit courts. >> i want to wrap up, senator mcconnell, by talking about big tech. i've talked to the speaker and the leader about it. they got banged up by tom cotton. they did not send their ceos to speak to the senate. are you disappointed that mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey did not come to speak, how powerful, manipulated they were, that twitter was offering russian television 15% of their ad space and they would not come to answer the senator's questions? >> yeah, i think that's not good. they ought to be more interested in cooper...

Might be skeptical of regulations, but there are places calling closer look at this problem. anyone who has read this book, franklin ford's war without mind is trouble. deeply trouble over the size, power of big tech. it is the gop that is the natural opponent of governmental regulation. mitch mcconnell is the fiercest defender of free speech, in fact. here's the irony. big tech's biggest friends on the hill are all republicans. that's right, the liberals and lefties running twitter and facebook turn out to serve their shareholders best if they work to keep a republican majority in place in 20...

Seriously retaliate against the russians. the -- these tech firms could be helpful in having us -- giving us a way to do that. >> i am -- i am not in a hurry to regulate big tech because i don't think we know what we're doing, but i would like some serious minds to look at it. people like leon panetta, condoleezza rice, would you support a 9/11 sort of commission that looks at the national security implications, not the russia attack, that's mr. mueller's job, he's doing a good job, but the broader issue of encryption and whether or not they are working with our national security. >> i don't k...

Talk to your doctor about xarelto®. there's more to know. welcome back. time now for hugh's views. senate leader mcconnell's views shouldn't shock anyone. one would think even mcconnell's fiercest critics, even steve bannon, would want there to be a republican majority for confirming judges and supreme court judges come 2019 and 2020. but you know who else might want that gop majority to endure? big tech. that's who. if you haven't noticed, big tech, amazon, google, facebook, twitter in particular but apple, microsoft, snap chat, instagram as well, they are all under increasing scrutiny and...

Can be disrupted and replaced tomorrow. look at taxi cabs and uber. look at how technology turns. if you spend your time trying to stop big firms from being big, you'll end up slowing down economic growth and development. so these firms will probably be replaced in some future day by some other disruptive technology and that's the kind of economic vitality we want in our free enterprise systems. >> to underscore what i just showed you, the regulatory skepticism, neither was leader mcconnell to call for regulatory hammers to fall on big tech. >> yeah, i think that's not good. they ought to be m...