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At&t and didn't allow them to go into the computer industry, took all their patents and made them licensable for free. they had the transistor. that created silicon valley. that level of regulation could work because it would leave the companies in fact and create the opportunity for new competitors to come along. to tina's point, a super important point there is more than one problem going on here. right? the election problem, the media problem, that's one class of thing. the data privacy is another class. they have overlapped in the cambridge analytic case but there is more than one problem....

Some of the things that i brought up about illegal drugs being advertised on the enter net, about wildlife, and the sale of ivory over the internet that's almost putting our elephants into extinction. also approximate the privacy of movies. those are all kinds of things they can control and they should be kproeld. >> if the white house briefing doesn't eliminate the possibility i'm going to be talking about the back page story, which is a remarkable development. but to the issue of russian interference via facebook in the 2016 elections we are almost at the 2018 elections, that's got to concer...

The 2018 election. i don't me if anything. >> zuckerberg said facebook learned in 2015 that the researcher who created the personality quiz for facebook gave the data to cambridge analytica and of course we only learned about that a few weeks ago. it is true that likely most people if you walk out on the street or poll don't know about this privacy issue, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't care about it of course. and everyone stick around. would it be obstruction of justice if president trump fired robert mueller? that is ahead. >> "the lead" with jake tapper, brought to you by vision works. be...

>> sandra: herman cain, you're a businessman. this is a big deal for a guy who has maintained a lot of privacy for his entire existence as a publicly traded ceo. he is on the hot seat today. if you expect this to be big moment for for the company? >> herman: two issues here. one is how will the stockholders respond to what's happening to facebook and i think we're going to have to wait and see. the other thing is, the only other big issue is the privacy issue. they started out, facebook, as a social media platform. we have now wandered into trying to become a political influence platform and t...

Some lawmakers about what they will have to say this week about facebook. here is one example. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> i don't want to hurt facebook. i don't want to regulate them half to death. but we have a problem. our promised digital utopia has mind fields in it. mr. zuckerberg has not exhausted himself being forthcoming. we had one hearing. mr. zuckerberg sent his lawyer, very bright, very articulate. could talk a dog off a meat wagon. but he didn't say anything. my biggest worry with all this is the privacy issue and what i call the propagandist issue are both too big ...