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On that point, reported in this article senator john thune does have oversight and ftc does regulate these companies. some have been calling for more regulation. do you have any view of that account from this reporter and this article that this effort basically provided a kind of pressure on facebook where they were more worried about republican or conservative agenda items than alleged bias? >> i think facebook and google and twitter should all be worried that their platforms could be weaponweaponized. i think we should take the politics out of this. ari, what we know about the interference c...

White house de facto strategy is to blame everyone but themselves and that's exactly what sarah sanders is doing today. >> it's a lot of blame. and this information that does leak out and sometimes it can be against rules or even laws, but the person breaking those laws is typically the person with access to the classified information inside the government, not the website that posts it or the newspaper that prints it or tweets it or whatever the technology of the day may be. i thought that was an interesting bit of deflection there that was worth showing. bobby, alexi, thank you both. >> than...

Of '17 when they suddenly realized, wait, russia was running a major propaganda operation on it and they just learned that from a little detail that leaks out about some government investigation that we don't know about yet. so two moments of shock and we'll see if there's a third. >> bob mueller is known for being careful. he doesn't leave a lot of fingerprin fingerprints. >> no, he does not. >> you spoke to someone who saw something that made them wonder whether bob mueller was looking at it. explain. >> i talked to one investigator -- so facebook announces in july, august, they said, hey, w...

Fake news was sent to try and suppress the hillary clinton vote, and compare that to the lists of people and places that the trump campaign is using. >> but here's the hard part for investigators, nick. if facebook and their own engineers were late to understand some of this, how do these folks in washington -- in this washington mueller office who aren't tech experts, how do they get ahead of it? >> they get ahead of it because they know after the fact. that's why it was a scheme to defraud. facebook was hoodwinked into this. they opened these accounts when they shouldn't have opened these ac...

Investigators now probing how russians use social media in their election meddling. they're taking big questions to silicon valley. the mueller team has grilled at least one facebook employee about all of this and now some employees started to talk or at least leak news tonight as anonymous facebook staff paint a new portrait of turmoil inside a company that wanted to be above politics. one has said zuckerberg has begun to learn his platform could be used for ill, a shift from denials when he downplayed fake news. another former staffer leaking about an effort inside the company to try to flip...