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Tracking after a controversial comment about the holocaust deniers. the facebook ceo defended leaving content on the site after an interview saying some are not intentionally getting it wrong. >> a set of people who deny the holocaust happened. i find that deeply offensive. at the end of the day, i don't believe that our platform should take that down because i think there are things that different people get wrong either -- i don't think they are intentionally getting it wrong. it is hard to impugn intent and understand intent. >> within hours, mark zuckerberg e-mailed to say he got it wrong....

>> i misspoke. if i said that she was fired. of course she has not been fired. and what i meant to ask was, do you support her right to speak her mind, given that you believe you were canned unjustly for speaking yours? >> yes. absolutely. >> i would think on some ground you would be one of her greatest advocates. >> absolutely. she shouldn't be fired. i would have fired her. i would have never hired her. she has no place in any platform that represents sports. i think she's openly racist. i think she has been openly racist. i don't need to tell you guys that. you guys with have been at the fo...

White supremacy, period. he is unqualified and unfit to be president. he's not a leader. and if he were not white, he never would have been elected. when press secretary sarah sanders was asked about it, here's what she said. >> that's one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make. and certainly something that i think is fireable offense by espn. >> hill later released a statement regretting her personal beliefs and that tainted espn. and espn issued a follow-up statement saying she has quote a right to her personal opinions, but not to share them on a public platform that in any ...

>> for a long time, it was okay. people in congress could buy and sell stocks if they were introducing legislation. let's ask a little bit about the boycott and the 41 people who will not go. look, sometimes people don't go. john says it's cold. >> you have to go through security. some members who have been there a long time, they skip. >> kellyanne conway talked a bit about the boycott. she had this take. listen to this. >> we hope that these democratic members of congress reconsider. they are welcome to the inauguration. if they want to contact any of us, they are welcome. i would note it is...

Public workers. >> he campaigned on a very clear program. nothing he's doing is new. everything he's doing was in his platfo platform. >> again, not true. the fact checking site looked into this and were unable to produce any record of walker wowing to end collective bargaining. walker hasn't produced any record of that either. now next up, the idea that public workers in wisconsin are fat cats. >> state government employees make over $51,000 a year on average. compare all that to the private sector employees who make about $38,600 a year. what a difference. it used to be if you went to work f...