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Warning. he says facebook is not just bad for our brains and kids' brains, he says it's a danger for our democracy. roger mcnamee was part of facebook's most crucial decisions including encouraging zuckerberg not to sell the company in 2007 and encouraging sheryl sandberg to join the company. he no longer advises facebook but still owns shares. mcnamee says facebook's rapid success led to overconfidence and unwillingness to face up to the risks the company presents. so he says it's time to break up the company and limit its influence. he writes, "they have taken add vanta advantage of our trus...

>> there is we were talking just recently about that. the majority of democrats identify themselves as liberals. all of these potential candidates are all packing left. you're not thinking what it means for the general election. i believe there is this overconfidence among democrats that president trump is unpopular to such a degree that basically any democrat will be able to beat him in 2020. i don't think that is the case. when i see this field emerge, so far it lackluster. they're not very accomplished people people who have professional campaigns at this point. 1988, there were seven who r...

It was very poorly designed in terms of the decision-making. >> when they were actually deciding on the bin laden raid, they had a number of different kind of past decisions that had gone awry. there was the iran hostage situation. there was the weapons of mass destruction during the iraq war. all the way back to bay of pigs. and they looked at the kinds of processes that went wrong in those situations, the confirmation bias and overconfidence, and they really tried to challenge their assumptions at every step of the process, and that's the kind of thing that i think we can apply in our own li...

The iran hostage rescue which went badly. it was poorly designed in terms of the decision making? >> you know when they were actually deciding on the bin laden raid they had a number of past decisions that had gone awry. there was the iran hostage decision. there was the weapons of mass destruction during the iraq war all the way back to bay of pigs. and they looked at the kinds of processes you know that went wrong in those situations, the confirmation bias, and overconfidence. and they really tried to challenge their assumptions at every step of the process. that's the kind of thing that i t...

So that might have given him an incentive or at least he felt somewhat protected in doing so, right? >> i think you're saying that when he gave those answers to congress, did he believe he was insulated because if it ever came back to haunt him, that he would be pardoned? >> right. >> i think you may be onto something. i've looked at the language of the statements that he made. there was almost some irrational overconfidence in the words he used. instead of we ultimately decided not to travel the russia, he used words like i never considered traveling to russia. he didn't need to be that extre...