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Kristen: thank you for joining us today on this interactive show -- world tonight, several breaking he headleans as we come on the air. the major outage for hours affecting millions of facebook, instagram and whatsapp. what the kcompany is saying tonight. what we're learning at this hour. and it comes after the facebook whistleblower revealed herself on "60 minutes," revealing thousands of pages of internal documents. what she says facebook knowingly does involving its users. facebook responding tonight. terry moran with late reporting. also tonight, the massive oil leak worsening ag long ...

>> reporter: and david, tonight, a promising sign. for the first time since mid-august, the report report ing under 200,000 covid cases in children. 173,000 last week. still considered high, but the numbers seem to be trending in the right direction. david? >> erielle reshef, thank you. now to the deadly shootout onboard and amtrak drain in arizona. a d.e.a. officer killed, two others wounded. here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, a d.e.a. officer is dead and two other members of law enforcement injured after a shooting at an arizona train statio. at 7:40 a.m., this amtrak trai...

If it was, however, an effort to stall and push back and minimize what the fbi was telling the white house, well, that's -- i'm not using the word criminal in the criminal-legal sense, but that's criminal in terms of the type of behavior that would be protected. >> we know from plenty of reporting that's been done that rob porter was relaying his version of events to both chief of staff kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn. first and foremost to white house counsel mcgahn, so i do suspect it was the white house saying go back and press the fbi to ask more questions. i suspect that there is...

Reporting on this as well and was talk to go rob at the time as to expanding his possibilities, maybe becoming deputy chief of staff, maybe taking on some other role. this is why he was brought in. i guess my question is, is his personal involvement clouding his judgment or ability to hit the brakes, take a breath, call everybody in, find out if a timeline can withstand scrutiny, know that they can turn a page when this has dominated headlines for a week. >> presidents do that as a last resort a lot of the time. >> should it be a first resort? >> i've gone through this on other issues where, f...

Holder said, i am not surprised, i am disappointed. and i am concerned with how this sets a standard for what is or isn't acceptable as society navigates how to handle domestic abuse moving forward. they could have handled all of this differently. i think this will be the latest example that falls under that bucket. >> it's a difficult one in the sense that rob porter worked for the white house. the president has publicly defended him. but should someone at the white house reach out to these women and saying, if you tae'ake offe to that, we apologize? how should they handle this? >> the presid...