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Worked as an area commander with the duluth police department. he says president trump who could really help his campaign here in northern minnesota. >> he promised that he is going to bring mining and manufacturing back pretty he supports our military pretty he supports law enforcement. this is who we are. you come to the greatest state in this country that i call minnesota, you are going to see family farms, you're going to see manufacturing, small businesses, you're going to see higher end. >> this is one of only 12 districts that president trump won while a democrat also won their congress...

Also author of the book "chaos monkeys, obscene fortune and random failure in silicon valley." you guys saw this developing. what did it look from the inside? what were the concerns as you watched this new kind of genre of viral totally fabricated stories go wild through the facebook platform? >> well, you know, in 2012, the fake news thing wasn't as big a factor. but the reality that facebook could actually throw an election has been well known for years. we used to joke internally, and of course it was only a joke, but if facebook, for example, only showed those little reminders to vote that...

Fake news thing wasn't as big a factor. but the reality that facebook could actually throw an election has been well known for years. we used to joke internally, and of course it was only a joke, but if facebook, for example, only showed those little reminders to vote that you see inside facebook, if it only showed it to a certain subset of counties and certain swing states, it could totally throw the election, right? this is a well known thing that facebook has been aware of for years. weird that zuckerberg is acting surprised in 2016 that it could possibly have influenced the election. >> 44...

Congress. >> how big a factor was that? the democrats have come out and said that the republicans view the republicans in this race underperformed, because your message repeals obama care is out of touch, and then the republicans came out and said, one of nancy pelosi's most prized candidates was brought down because of her unwavering support for obama care. your thoughts on the democrats take on this? >> i would challenge that a little bit. this was a local race, i know the national pundits will draw from it what they want. we saw some testing especially by the democrats that their message ev...

Economic news the most. thanks, good to see you. >> good to see you, alex. >> the labor participation rate was just 63% in january and we heard economic analysts mark zandi attribute these numbers to january's horrible weather. weigh in on that, is he right? >> well, mark's a smart guy, but i'm not sure about the weather. for example, construction actually posted 48,000 jobs last month. that's a pretty good number for construction and that's the most weather-sensitive industry in the job market, so the fact that they did okay suggests weather might not have been as big a factor. what mark is r...