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Cheeri -- clearly not. -- clearly not. howard: it was only an attempted bank robbery it turns out the bank wasn't robbed and so nothing to see here because in the end it didn't happen. it is true in the end it didn't happen but these are serious people plotting to change the searches which google sells to us as being fair and unbiassed. >> i understand we have the leaked e-mails this week, but i'm going to argue possibly unpopular perspective which is that, you know, if nothing happened, isn't this sort of the idea -- you know, exchange of ideas and free speech that so many people, you know, a...

"angle" ." immediately following the election, google executives gathered to share their feelings of dejection and despair. a video recently leaked to breitbart revealed the mind-set of google's leadership from within their corporate safe space. this is cofounder sergey brin. >> it safe to say that most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election. on a more serious note, myself, as an immigrant and refugee, i certainly find this election deeply offensive. i know many of you do, too. and i think it's a very stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values. >> lau...

Certainly find this election deeply offensive. >> is there anything positive you see from this election? [laughter] >> that's a really tough one right now. >> tucker: wow. it's like 1984. elsewhere in the video, which is long and worth watching, google executives vowed to take action against fake news and combat the trump administrations in a immigration agenda. those bows and the companies increasingly obvious and over political orientation are just as interesting now with the ftc holding hearings tomorrow to investigate what really is a rhetorical question, is google a monopoly? executive di...

>> they tweeted 1.4 million times and got retweeted over and over again, eventually generating 288 million views. >> the president himself responded to a complimentary tweet sent by a known kremlin-linked troll account. >> members of congress had a lot to say, by the way, to the social media companies. here's a taste of it. >> your actions need to catch up to your responsibilities. >> you've created these platforms, and now they are being misused. and you have to be the ones to do something. >> in the past election you failed. >> the political ad was paid for by rubles. isn't that a red flag? ...

A democracy maybe here at home going through an election. here with us to talk about this is clint watts. when you hear these facebook executives and google executives, twitter executives trying to make sense of their response do you have trust they are doing everything they can? ach all, it took them so long to get to this point. i'm remembering mark zuckerberg saying there's no way this influenced the election. >> we don't know how many saw the stuff. facebook has the best understanding of it of all of them at this point because the russians actually made a mistake when they were doing this....