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Opposition research firm to discredit activist protesters in part by linking them to the liberal financier george soros. after this times report was published, facebook announced it was cutting ties with that opposition research firm. nick is one of the reporters on that extraordinary piece. i want to hear all about it, but, first, tell me what's happened since the piece was published. >> they've done a conference call today with mark zuckerberg and other executives who say mark didn't know about it or didn't know about the soros allegations being made. but, look, this is a company, the big pi...

As you know, the links to linking funding, particularly what we call astroturf groups in washington, what people refer to as sort of fake influence groups in washington is sort of a long trope, sort of a long-worn strategy to link this to george soros. you see this many times with far-right groups doing that. the implication is sort of what's not said but the undercurrent is that george soros, who is part of a global leftist, jewish elite, is funding these things. that's a trope that's stirred up quite a bit among the far right and that's frustrating for people who are watching this. because a...

With my partner, ali velshi, and all day on twitter. >> give baby o a break, lady. let him get to two weeks old. >> hallie, it is never too soon to start with a good habit. >> thank you, stephanie. and congratulations. we are looking forward to seeing more pictures of baby owen. i'm hallie jackson in washington. we're seeing this season's first snow and an avalanche of anger from the president of the united states, going after robert mueller, calling the russia investigation a total mess but insisting his white house is not. new reporting on why he might be so mad today. an exclusive intervi...

Public apology tour in the last year, ms. sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat facebook's critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. facebook employed a republican opposition research firm to des credit activist protest rs in part by linking them to george soros. joining me now, to discuss what is a significant story for you, can you tell me what you found most noteworthy as you were conducting this reporting? >> as you mentioned this was a very long investigation and there were a lot of things we discovered. this is a compan...

Saying so far they don't believe there say connection to mohammed bin salman. and the deputy head of intelligence is not among the 17 names of those sanctioned, even though the saudis, in their statement earlier, said that he was operational, he was an operational mastermind of this killing here. and then the third one that's important, it's clear that the saudis and americans are now sort of working in conjunction -- they're effectively coordinating in terms of charges, punishments, sanctions, to show that they are trying to bring justice in this case. the takeaway, the most important headlin...