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Knew well in advance. facebook first started seeing signs of this back in june, 2016. so a while back. and then obama himself warned mark zukser zucker to look into it. the question is were they trying to wrap their heads around a new kind of attack or is there some incentive that they have to really get to the bottom of what what's going on? i think it's both. look at these plat fors. they're massive autonomied systems. the fact of the matter is they can be easily exploited. this what we're seeing with russia is really a logical extension of massive exploitation in online advertising to begin...

Exploitation in online advertising to begin with. and so this is the most nefarious version of it. the truth is they were really to get to the bottom of it, even though they have the impulse to do so, they probably see that -- they'd have to show the world how exploitable the platforms are and that doesn't really serve them or their ad businesses. >> if they did want to figure it out, i guess the reason i've now started to care more and more that they do more of an investigation, now that journalists have been able to piece it together and show some of the content, show some of what, you know,...

Election? why are we only getting it from journalists who were having to piece it together themselves? facebook page by facebook page, twitter account by twitter account. these were american companies that were used as the scene of a fairly significant crime. what explains their lack of urgency to even figure this stuff out, let alone make any kind of public disclosure that would help us see what russia did? and now that google is admitting this much of it, too, is that likely to change any of those? joining us is elizabeth. she's a silicon valley correspondent for "the washington post." she b...

Vehicles. hospital staff using their own cars to evacuate patients in some cases because this thing just came down on them so fast. there were no other options. so again, the top line news here is that there are a bunch of fires in california. there's also a very serious one burning in southern california, in anaheim, but this northern c fire just north of san francisco really is destroying whole neighborhoods in very populated areas and it happened very fast today. so we're watching that story tonight with some considerable urgency as they try to get at least portions of those fires under con...

Destroying whole neighborhoods in very populated areas, and it's happened very fast today. so we're watching that story tonight with some considerable urgency as they try to get at least portions of those fires under control. hour, we will also have update for you on the ongoing crisis in puerto rico where we are closing in on three weeks of a federal response to the hurricane there that itself is turning out to be a disaster. we had a report here on this show on friday night about our producers being able to freely drive right into at least one town in puerto rico that fema insisted it couldn...