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Senator from the state of california, something that has never happened before, i thank you, sir, for being with me this morning. appreciate it. [ speaking spanish ] it's been a rough few days for facebook. the company now containing the fallout from a major outage while the whistle-blower who says that the company put profits ahead of safety testifies on capitol hill. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my sympt...

Congress but the american public can understand. i come out of technology, and so, it was always complicated to be in a congress where so many members don't have a technological background and tough to kind of grapple with some of these issues but look, it's congress. they have the ability to get the kind of expertise that they need to be able to regulate these platforms in a way that will create more good and less harm. and i think that was the important value of the testimony today, and i agree with kara. it really is now in congress's hands. there is no absence of information or data that c...

Using all those facts and figures about how america has fallen behind shows that he's really convinced he has to keep on messaging on this to bring the party back together then go out and spend all the months between now and the midterm elections selling what the united behind. >> and of course we'll see if this actually gets done the way the president wants it to. thank you very much. please stick around. we're just getting started. when we come back, hours of testimony on a supremely important topic. facebook's profits over people. the question now in front of lawmakers, are we at the doorst...

You picked your friends. you picked the topics they engage with. don't just blame us. it's on you. so they've taken brand-new accounts. so no friends. and all they've done is follow donald trump, melania, fox news, a local news source and all they did was click on the first ten things. facebook suggested a group, they joined that group. not doing any conscious action here and within a week, you see q anon, in two weeks, things about white genocide. and you can say how did that happen? why are these the things that facebook is choosing to show you and it's because those things get the highest e...

Facebook into five different entities and it's very possible they would do the same thing. what kind of policy could congress actually pass to reel this in, other than essentially turning facebook into a newspaper where they would have to start editing their content, which would almost defeat the purpose of the site. >> well, i think you hit on it. if you break it up into pieces and the pieces still are enabled to act in the same way, that does not change the environment. and i think one of the things that we know is that facebook, as has been described, is able to manipulate its algorithms wh...