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Now a distinguished fellow at the foreign policy research institute, plus former congresswoman donna edwards is here. thank you so much. kara, i'll start with you. we had testimony today. ms. haugen came forward and said, look, this company is doing bad things. we need to do something about it. what were your impressions from just today's testimony? is this going to be the moment where the dam breaks and congress actually does something or is it going to be a bunch of chest-beating and performance? >> it is in congress's hands now. they have documents. they have testimony. i thought she was in...

Sit in the right seat. scantron you got two great pitchers, fenway park to move on. it's going to be fun. congratulations, willie. good luck the yankees against the rays. >> i don't want to know what you will be wearing tonight. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hi, i am stephanie ruhle, live on msnbc headquarters in new york city. it's tuesday october 5th, let's get smarter. we are focusing on facebook. the company reeling from a pair of major crisis. a senate hearing gets underway featuring a single witness, former facebook manager. she's th...

Feelings and behaviors, needs real oversight. but facebook's closed design means it has no real oversight. only facebook knows how it personalizes your feed for you. as long as facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. until the incentives change, facebook will not change. left alone, facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good. our common good. >> hi, everyone, it's 5:00 in the east. i'm jason johnson in for nicole wallace. it's been a busy 72 hours for facebook. a whistle-blower who exposed the company's kn...

When the sausage is rotten, and that, to me, was really appalling by them. but typical of facebook, which is to shoot the messenger. >> donna, one of the things that's always concerned me, whether it's facebook or snapchat or instagram or anything else like that, is that there is a gap between the expertise in senators and members of congress and what technology is. and i'm not suggesting that they're all completely out of date, but you know, do you think that there are enough members of congress who are knowledgeable enough about social media, about facebook and instagram, that they could act...

It's a hostile power. it's not a terrorist -- it's not hydra or cobra. how do we frame this so we can start addressing it from a national security and a domestic security standpoint? >> jason, i think you're right. the outage essentially plunged america into productivity yesterday instead of distraction, which was kind of interesting. but look, in certain countries, facebook is almost a utility. i think india is a great example of this. many of the countries around the world, i'll never forget the first time i was in africa talking to somebody, let's look something up on the internet and you s...