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We've allowed these social media giants to regulate themselves. but, you know, one proposal has been to create even a modest regulation which would be a safe harbor for researchers like the nyu project to gather information. so i think we need to involve our thinking of social media companies more as utilities than some hobby we have on the internet in the same way we regulate water companies and electric companies. they've become such essential services that i think we all need to agree on the ground rules. >> barb, i want to pay for you a conversation that i had with yesterday with the presi...

Msnbc or nbc news, jeffrey clark, the acting head of the justice department civil division at the time wrote emails that would have laid out a road map and given permission for georgia republicans to subvert the election results. the message intended to tell georgia election officials that the justice department was investigating, quote, irregularities in the presidential election and wanted state legislators to go into a special session, quote, pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors. that letter would have essentially allowed georgia republicans to go against the will of the v...

That donald trump should have been convicted of an attempted coup on our democracy, on our government, that his sole purpose of january 6th, even before that, right -- we talked about the things he did before the election to try and retain power, to try and remain and create a throne of american democracy. this is fascinating. >> i was speaking with congressman the other day and one of the things that congressman murthy talked about. the guard rails to stoop everything, the president reacting to the attorney general, the department of justice possibly sending letters to various states. there i...

To subpoena him along with sessions and other officials to compel their testimony before the senate judiciary committee. now the two top republicans in congress kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell have not weighed in on this but one other senior republican has, chuck grassly, the lead republican on the senate judiciary committee saying in part investigations into members of congress and staff are nothing new, especially for classified leaks, and that position is important because they need bipartisan support in the senate judiciary committee to issue a subpoena. on the house side though, jake, ...