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i don't want to offend anyone who loves that. but you can have my share. >> mine, too. there you go. great being with us. have a wonderful cocktail with your dad. >> thank you. >> that does it for us. >> ed henry is in next for shep. is michael flynn about to flip? his lawyers have reportedly stopped sharing info with president trump's attorneys. legal experts say it's a sign flynn could be cutting a deal with the special counsel in the russia probe. president trump heading to capitol hill next week as senate republicans try to pass his tax plan. and democratic senator al franken apologizing after four women accused him of groping them. but he's apparently not planning to resign. and word uber's new ceo also covered up that hack of more than 50 million people's personal info. that's all ahead this hour. i'm ed henry in for shepard smith.
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lawyers for president trump's former national security adviser retired general michael flynn might be making a move to cooperate with feds on the russia investigation. sources say flynn's attorneys are no longer sharing info with legal teams, including president trump's. flynn may be cutting a deal with special counsel robert mueller who's looking into russia's meddling in the 2016 campaign and possible collusion with members of the trump camp. the white house and russian president vladimir putin have repeatedly said there was no collusion. attorneys for the former national security adviser would not comment. but a member of the president's legal team says flynn getting a possible plea deal is not unsuspected and thus maybe not a big deal. james, we knew flynn was seeking some sort of a deal in exchange for testimony. is it possible this turns out to be not very much? >> unlikely. and as we have seen in past high-profile cases with special
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prosecutors and potential star witnesses such as john dean in watergate, that quest for immunity took general flynn to capitol hill and the special counsel's office. sources close to this information tell fox news that general flynn's attorney did indeed speak with the president's legal team this week to convey formally that the flynn team can no longer participate in information sharing with other attorneys engaged with the special counsel. but the source emphasized the call to the president's team was one of several kelner made. >> under those circumstances, there's a thousand different reasons why you want to cut off communication because you don't want some question as to whether or not information that flynn obtained came from after he started talking with prosecutors. >> one important factor in flynn's calculations right about now is that his son is also widely believed to be under federal scrutiny. >> james, the big question, how might this cooperation impact the president? >> the president's lawyers project confidence, at least
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right now, that any charges flynn might face would be related to his work as a lobbyist for turkey and not related to russia. general flynn's lawyers possibly entering into a potential plea is not expected, adding no one should draw the conclusion this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. however, some published reports indicate the special counsel's office is looking at certain actions taken by president trump such as an alleged conversation with jim comey expressing the flynn case could be dropped and an alleged phone call to flynn in which the president reportedly urged him to, quote, stay strong. >> he hoped that general flynn was a good guy and that things would work out for him. that's called human compassion. and the fbi director did not bother if he thought it was such an intimidation. >> analysts say they will also
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hold him accountable for perjury. >> we have john lauro here with us. >> it's obvious he's facing some very serious charges, possibly dealing with his relationships with tur ri. there have been other speculations that he may have been involved in a kidnapping plot. we just don't know. but he's made a decision with his counsel to have some communication with the prosecutor and cutting a deal. the only way he gets a reduced sentence is by cooperating. >> when you lay that out, when general flynn is in legal jeopardy and potentially his son is in legal jeopardy, might someone say almost anything to stay out of jail? >> that's true. you don't get any points for exonerating someone. you only get points if you implicate someone and get them prosecuted. he has incentive to spill the
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beans to implicate somebody else. >> how does it work if he cuts a deal with the special counsel, robert mueller, walk us through what happens from a legal standpoint but then how does mueller sort out whether or not it's true or bunk? >> first of all, what we know now is none of this has to do with the campaign. that's very important. it has to do with other relationships the general has had unrelated to the campaign. >> his lobbying on turkey and other matters? >> exactly. the way it works is the prosecutor comes to you saying, i have the goods on your client, he will be prosecuted. you better make a decision. flip to our side, or we're going to go after you, after relatives, it will get nasty. flynn knows he has to cooperate. but we don't know who's going to cooperate -- >> there's a proffer. >> there's a proffer. >> and that proffer play lays out what he might say. how do they sort it out? >> the prosecutor wants to know he's going to get some help. if the proffer is, i don't know anything about anything about anything. you're told, have a good day, i'll see you later.
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he has to give some goods -- >> but if he says, ki implicate the president and i was the national security adviser and in private, the president told me "x." the special counsel has spent weeks, months, looking through e-mails and other documents. so you run the traps and figure out, can we verify this? >> that's the critical question. somebody going in who does a deal and there's no corroboration for what they're saying, they don't have much credibility. the critical issue is whether or not his statements can be corroborated by hard facts because one day he's going to face a criminal defense lawyer in trial and he better be telling the truth. >> contrast this with paul manifort who's already been indicted. he insists he's innocent. but some of the alleged crimes date back to the mid 2000s. so the trump people and people inside the white house say, this was a long time ago and he was fired in the middle of the 2016 campaign. in contrast, general flynn was not just involved in the campaign, he got hired, quickly fired but he was inside that white house in the early days.
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>> not only that, but he was there during the transition. and it looks like mueller is looking at facts relating to that transition period. so clearly mueller has determined that he's an important figure. that's why it's significant that he's doing a deal. >> let's go back to one of your first points which is that this is about general flynn maybe not federally disclosing, that he was lobbying on behalf of the government of turkey, for example. what does that have to do with russian collusion? >> it has nothing to do. but that's why mueller's investigation is going so far afield. he's picking people with their own problems and telling them, you better cooperate with me on the russian investigation. >> doesn't that give more fodder to president trump and his allies that even if general flynn says, i've got something, he's got something that maybe has nothing to do with russia in 2016? >> absolutely. but the speculation now is that he has something on the campaign or something in the transition because it's obvious that mueller has determined that he's a very important figure in the investigation. >> last question, even if what
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is proffered in the early days, from a legal standpoint, is about turkey and not about russia, something could still lead back to russia if in fact they start digging around with general flynn, they go through other e-mails, they talk to other people? >> yeah. and let me clear, we don't know who's cooperating against. it may relate to his turkey problems. but when that happen, you're going to do in and do a proffer and cooperate with the government, you tell other defense lawyers, i folded my cards, i'm out. i can't talk to you anymore. >> one last question. it wasn't the last one. a lot of people are speculating in the media, this will lead to the oval office. he could implicate the president. he may implicate someone else inside the white house and try to implicate someone from the campaign and it may end up having nothing to do with the -- >> absolutely. we don't know yet that the prosecutor has accepted his proffer. we don't know if the prosecutor has determined he's a credible guy. >> there is a lot we do not know. we appreciate you bringing the facts of what we do know. >> thank you. >> so far president trump has not tweeted about michael flynn
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but the president did tweet that he'll, quote, get it all done on what he calls a mess in the middle east. he also said he inherited that mess. he didn't give any dales about his plans to clean it up. but our reporter in west palm beach florida where the president is, the president is making international phone calls on foreign policy especially after that terror attack in egypt today. >> yeah. about 3:00, we were told so just now under way, the latest phone call by the president across the ocean. this call going to the president of egypt to talk about this morning's deadly and massive terrorist attack. based on one of president trump's earlier tweets today on the topic, we can expect him to convey the same reactionary sentiments. quote, horrible and cowardly attack on worshippers in egypt. the world cannot tolerate terrorism. we must defeat them militarily
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and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence. we're hoping the white house later this afternoon will give us more details about how long that call lasts and perhaps better details about what exactly was said in between the two presidents. this morning, the president also made an international phone call with the president of turkey. according to the turks, the question erdogan and president trump talked about three main topics. number one, the developments in syria, bilateral relations and the potential summit between the two nations in russia in the city of sochi, the most recent home of the winter olympics. >> the commander in chief has a lot of commitments on the world stage but a lot of big meetings next week to focus on his agenda right here at home. >> yeah. today we just learned that on tuesday, right around noontime, the president will actually have lunch in person with a gop
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policy team, a bunch of senators, and undoubtedly they will be discussing the senate's big tax cut and tax reform bill. the versions already passed the house. the president made a huge campaign promise of huge tax cuts for the american people. he hopes to get that senate bill passed next week if not shortly thereafter and then sign that into law at least by december. and there's actual vacation time for the president. yes. he got a little golf time on the links today with some of the best players in the world. tiger woods, dustin johnson currently the number one ranked golfer in the world, and pga bro brad thaxton, all of them meeting up with the president at his trump national golf club about 30 minutes north of here up in jupiter. media was not allowed to take any video pictures of this. so we really don't know exactly how the four fared. i think it's safe to say the three other than the president
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shot really well. we just don't know who had the lowest score in the end. >> we'll keep digging on that. phil, appreciate the reporting. senator al franken offering an apology after new acquisitions of inappropriate behavior. could the one-time rising star in the democratic party be facing the end of his career? what he says about his political future as he gets ready to face the media for the first time about all of this. coming up from the fox news deck. if you have medicare
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democratic senator al franken apologizing after four women accused him of inappropriately touching them. franken says he's sorry for, quote, making the women feel badly. but he did not admit to groping them and is promising to regain the trust of voters in his home state of minnesota. last week, lee yan tweeden said franken touched and kissed her against her will. another said he grabbed her rear end at a fair in 2010. and two other women said he did the same thing to them at campaign events in 2007 and 2008. kristin fischer is live in washington. senator franken's put out three different statements. any idea when we can expect to hear from him in person? >> we're hearing it could happen this weekend. senator franken's expected to speak to reporters about these allegations on sunday. and it should be very interesting to see what he has to say because so far he's been
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walking this very fine line of apologizing without admitting to the things these women are accusing him of he said in part, quote, i'm a warm person, i hug people, i've learned from recent stories in some of those encounters, i crossed the line for some women and i know any number is too many. i feel terribly i've made some women feel badly and for that i am so sorry. senator franken is now facing an ethics investigation, something he says he supports but his approval ratings are dropping fast. according to a poll by politico, 50% of voters now think that senator franken should resign. >> kristin, he's not the only lawmaker facing these kinds of charges, at a time when congress has a very tight window before the end of the year to try to enact some of the trump agenda. >> yeah. and that window is closing really fast. at the very least, these allegations are a big distraction right when congress is up against this hard deadline. congress is exactly two weeks from today to pass a bill to
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avoid a government shutdown. the deadline was set in the deal that president trump struck with the president back a few months ago. but they may insist that fix be included in that spending bill as well. and that could really hold things up for president trump and what he really wants to accomplish by the end of the year, which is tax reform. as phil reported from florida, president trump will speak at a republican policy lunch. they're voting next week on their version on a tax bill. and then you've got the big four meeting, ryan, mcconnell, pelosi and schumer. they'll be heading over to the white house also on tuesday for an oval office meeting. and the last time they had a meeting like that, the president stunned republicans by striking a deal with chuck and nancy. so who knows what will happen this time, right? >> a lot on the plate, kristin fisher, appreciate it.
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a lot on the line when president trump heads to the hill next week. he wants to sign a tax bill by the end of the year. can republican leaders actually deliver? we'll take you to our political panel straight ahead.
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senate republicans say they hope to vote on their tax plan as soon as this coming week. but some of their own members say they still have big problems with the plan. president trump said he wanted to sign a tax bill by the end of the year. it would be the republican party's first major legislative when since he took office. let's bring in our political panel. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> chris, i want to start with you. as a republican, this seems to
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be make-or-break time for the gop. you've got the house, you've got the senate, you've got the white house and you've got no major win. >> that's right. and most certainly it is a make-or-break time. congress with a 17% approval rating, this has to be a week -- first of all, a year, of getting things actually done. repeal was done this year. but legislation and tax reform was touted on the campaign trail. there's been a lot of talk in regards to not being important for the middle class. this is a bill designed for the middle class on the senate side as the budget director said, if it's a good situation solution, it will be something that is permanent. you have to look at, for example, 86% of collected penalties from the irs are from households with under $100,000 a year. 58% are from households that make less than $50,000 a year. it's time to cut that out and
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have a tax break for the middle class that's beneficial for everybody. >> what about that? as chris lays out some of the actual details of the plan, i pointed out the republicans, they're facing a lot of heat and rightly so because they haven't delivered so far. but this could easily be flipped around heading into an election year that so far not a single democrat is supporting tax cuts. how is that? >> well, it comes down to this. we're interested in having a conversation about tax cuts and a tax plan if it takes really into account pretty much the middle class and lower income americans and not the corporation tax cuts that even some senate republicans are worried about that go from 25% to 30% or factoring in sort of the 1%. so a lot of these conversations have been led by mcconnell and ryan on the hill that are very closed-door meetings. they're not taking into account a lot of democratic considerations. so going into this tuesday with
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president trump's meeting on the hill, he really has to kind of come out of that showing that he can be that deal maker that he always tries to talk about being. and really sitting down and being like, all right, we've got a budget showdown, we've got deadlines looming, how are we going to get this done? even he knows the people who put him in office are the folks interested in those tax cuts, lower and middle income americans. >> seems like if there's not a civil war, a split in the republican party. you have bob corker and jeff flake at odds with the president. he's been going after them on twitter and the like. and you have the possibility as kristin fisher was reporting a moment ago about the whole chuck-and-nancy deal where a few weeks back, the president reached across the aisle and said, look, the republicans aren't getting it done so i'll have to cut a deal. might we see on tuesday the president putting the heat not on the democrats but on the republicans and saying, i'm going to reach across the aisle and cut a deal here?
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>> but it has to have a majority vote. under president obama's administration, he was very supportive of lowering the tax rate to 25%. again, this whole talk of not being fair and not only for the rich and wealthy -- it's not true. we are lowering the tax bracket itself essentially at zero. this is something that is a big push -- the president, the white house, is really big on having a beneficial tax reform for the middle class. that is the main push of this entire agenda. >> so atima, what are the two or three things that are not in the gop plans -- because you've got one in the house, one in the senate, that democrats want to see? give us two or three specifics as was just laid out by chris, the corporate tax cut is something that president obama wanted to cut as well -- >> yeah. i think there's a conversation about cutting the corporate tax rate and fine-tuning some standards there. going from 35% to abruptly 20%,
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that's pretty low, or factoring in when you look at the tax cuts and most folks that are going to benefit are in the top 1%. looking at revising the tax code so that those who are in the middle class and lower income have larger tax cuts. that's the base of the economy that we have here. and then also looking into programs that we've had pretty much -- right now they've added in the individual mandate. that would raise premiums and finances for young americans because that's in there right now. that's a nonnegotiable for democrats. and the s-chip funding has expired. >> for children's health insurance. >> for children. so on tuesday, they're going to get this letter, if you're a kid getting treated on cancer and you're lower income, you're kind of crap out of luck until the end of the year. >> i'll let chris get in here. but isn't it also you're out of luck if you're a supporter of obamacare and you live in, say, arizona and your premiums have
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gone up 116%. i would expect a mom and dad to have problems feeding their kids. >> and that is something the democrats have contended from the start. we want to have a conversation about dealing with those who are -- these insurers pulling out of the marketplace. higher premiums for anyone is certainly not a benefit. and it didn't help with the executive order that was signed by trump in taking away some of those subsidies for those -- who needed those premiums to be reduced. >> chris? >> but also no one talks about things such as taking away write-offs. right now, employers can take their employees to lunch and write off essentially half the cost and we're taking that away. that's going to bring numerous money back into the budget. it's things like that that we need. it's a give-and-take relationship. and right now, when you look at the whole situation, there's mostly individuals who can't even afford to pay -- over half
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can't afford to pay the deductibles because they're so high. >> chris, what about the fact that the republicans were already struggling to pass a tax cut. and then in the last couple of weeks, they threw in, let's repeal the individual mandate on health care. now, if you can pass a tax cut and basically cripple obamacare by taking out that individual mandate -- in basketball, it's a double bank shot. >> right. >> but you haven't proved you can score a layup at this point. you haven't done either health care or taxes. putting the two of them together, was that really a smart idea? >> you know, i think at this point with being a couple of weeks left, it's about getting something done this year. and i can tell you from my conversation with senior white house officials, they're all about making something happen, to your point, a double bank shot. they said, if we can figure out health care and do taxes at the same time, repeal the individual mandate and make it beneficial for everyone, of course and then lowering the tax bracket, i think that was a way that they
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said, hey, they spoke with ryan and mcconnell and said, what do we do that can get something done on both sides. >> that's why you have the bill changing on the senate side. >> atima, where are we going to be at the end of the year? >> we've got a special election looming on december 12th. we've got a budget showdown coming up a few days before that. got a tax plan, got health care. there's a lot on the table for both sides of the aisle to have some discussions about and they really, really need to be trying their best to work together within reason. it's going to be harder, i think, on the republican side. because there is some unity right now on the democratic side, at least when it comes to legislative priorities. and with sort of the hawk deficits with corker and flake and mccain and some of them and then others who are in the freedom caucus, it's just going to be a bit of a balance. they have to pass the senate bill and then agree on a bill
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going into conference. right now, the senate doesn't even agree with all components of the house bill. they have some challenges ahead. >> and democrats cannot be combative as well. the bottom line, when it comes to people's lives, we cannot have politics play. we have to stop -- >> absolutely, i would agree. >> we have to get things done. that's what this is about. and it's about making things happen for overall all americans. corporate, middle class americans. that's what this bill is about. >> and ryan and mcconnell would not have secret door discussions about the gop tax planned and calling it only that -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> you can't shut it down when the doors are closed. >> sounded like unity until the last five, ten seconds. appreciate the time. ahead, the worst terror attack one nation has ever seen. bombers targeting a place of worship. while gunmen waited at the exits to murder -- actually murder those trying to escape. also, new details on a scare
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islamic mills who attacked a mosque in egypt set a deadly trap for people trying to escape. they waited outside the doors and opened fire as worshippers tried to run away, according to government officials and police officers. they say gunmen stayed at the scene spraying first responders with bullets. the attack happened in a coastal town about 125 miles northeast of cairo in the country's sinai peninsula. officials say the militants killed at least 200 people, wounded more than 100 others. it's egypt's deadliest terror attack in modern history. isis has attacked coptic christian churches in egypt. but analysts say an attack on a mosque was highly unlikely. no group has changed responsibility. president trump tweeting he'll call the egyptian president soon.
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that call could happen this hour. we'll update you if you get details. what's the latest on this brutal attack? >> no group has claimed responsibility as you said. but the assumption that that it's an affiliate of isis that's wreaked havoc in the sinai peninsula over the last three, four years launching attacks on coptic christians and on security checkpoints across the area. just in the last few hours, the egyptian military has launched a series of attacks in the sinai not saying what they were targeting but the assumption was they had some intelligence to point on who may have carried out this rather sophisticated attack. the attack took place during the middle of the day as people were going to the mosque to pray. it was a fairly sophisticated attack in the sense that there was first a bomb outside the mosque and then as people were trying to flee, some 40 or so militants in vehicles began opening fire, shooting as the
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worshippers were trying to escape the chaos. they also targeted security and rescue personnel trying to get into the area. analysts look at this and say that not only did the attackers have a sense that there was very little security in the area but also that there was very little security that would get to the area in time to stop a deadly attack. ed? >> conor, we mentioned that president trump may in fact be speaking to the egyptian president as we speak. it's scheduled to be happening right now, as you know. in the meantime, what is the egyptian government saying about all this? >> well, egypt's strongman president al sisi vowed revenge, vowed to get tough and to take a really hard stance on terrorism and extremism. this is something he's done many times before but listen to what he had to say tonight. >> the military forces and the
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civilian police will bring back security with force in the near future. this is our response. we will respond to this attack with extreme power when confronting these terrorists and [ unintelligible ] -- >> for the last three years, isis and other militant groups have launched deadly campaigns across the country. sisi's efforts have done very little to counter those attacks. >> conor, thank you. in london, terror fears sparking panic in the heart of the city's shopping district. heavily armed police flooded a busy subway station after reports of gunfire. this hopped at oxford's circus was crowds frantically ran for cover. but police said they found no evidence of shots fired. one woman was reportedly hurt in the stampede. this comes, of course, as london is on edge after a string of
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terror attacks in the last year. closer to home, panic as well at a mall near miami this black friday. after somebody reported shots fired. witnesses report people screaming and yelling at people to run away. but according to local media, it was, yes, yet another false alarm. mall security reports that something fell and made a very loud noise leading somebody to pull a fire alarm that set off a near stampede. no reports, thankfully, of anybody getting hurt. meanwhile, north korea is upping security. here's video of the soldier defecting from north korea. they responded by placing its entire team of guards at that border. that after they fired some 40 shots. but the soldier somehow managed to survive. the north also reportedly dug trenches and temporarily closed a bridge the soldier had used.
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the source says it could mean the north plans to install a security gate so no more of its soldiers can run away. facebook plans to help you figure out if you liked or followed pages created by a russian company with ties to the kremlin, according to a statement from facebook. u.s. intel officials say the russians use social media to try to influence the u.s. election last year. but "the wall street journal" reports facebook's notifications will not reach more than 100 million people who came across the page's ads and posts. a facebook spokesman told "the journal" it cannot identify everyone who may have seen the russian propaganda. jonathan easley has covered the russia probe. good to see you. >> hi, ed. >> what's the point of facebook doing this? is it more of cover your backside than getting to the people to find out whether they liked these folks? >> i think you hit the nail on the head. this is a very small first step they can take to address this very big problem.
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lawmakers on capitol hill are eager to get to the bottom of how extensive russian firms were using these tech giants and their social media platforms to peddle misinformation and what impact that might have had on the election. this isn't going to touch all of the more than tens of millions of people that might have come in contact with some of this information. and also it's a reactive strategy. it's not going to keep people from coming in contact with that information going forward. basically it's there to educate people to let them know, you might have come into contact with this. if you're a democrat and you see that you came into contact with that, you're probably already certain that the russians meddled and helped trump defeat hillary clinton. if you're a republican, you're likely to say, look, this information didn't -- it was just one piece of information out of a lot of news that i consumed over the course of the election and it didn't impact my vote or anything like that. so a very small first step. but i think we're going to see more moves like this by the tech giants to address this issue of
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how the russians might have used their platforms. >> what's it take away for our viewers? if you're a facebook user, what is the tool they've created so you can figure out whether or not this russian propaganda touched you? >> it's not available yet. but what's going to happen is you'll get a notification and you'll go to a web page and facebook will say, we tracked your activity. you came into contact with this story or this information or this advertisement and we've since found out that this was put out there by a russian firm that was interested in inciting chaos in the political system. so it's just a signal, a way to sort of educate users to be careful about what kind of information they come across on, on their own platforms which have become essentially massive news organizations. facebook and google have a lot of say on what stories people see and they have become major news platforms themselves. it's a big issue. >> jonathan, i've got 30 seconds
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but seems to me the bigger issue as well is -- you cover the hill as well as anyone -- that the real issue is big picture that the tech companies have had relatively little regulation and it seems like congress, both democrats and republicans, want that to end. >> that's right. that was just sort of oozing off of capitol hill when the lawyers for these tech giants went up there to testify before congress. there's a big push right now to hold these tech giants accountable and make sure that they know who's publishing what on their platforms. >> jonathan easley, thanks for coming in. >> thanks. coming up, new details on the uber cyber attack that affected more than 50 million people. uber ceo reportedly keeping quiet about the hack for months after he found out all about it. that's next. prudential asked these couples: how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep --
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some 57 million people months before the company finally told customers about it this very week. that's according to our corporate cousin, "the wall street journal." rick lef leventhal is here. >> if you use uber, there's a good chance at least some of your personal information was hacked including your e-mail address and your phone number and some 600,000 uber drivers also had their driver's licenses hacked -- the numbers hacked. this all happened in october 2016. so the company is now bending backwards to try and explain the time line. in a statement, uber's chief executive said, you may be asking why we are just talking about this now a year later. i had the same question. but the ceo found about the breach soon after he took the job this last september. uber reveals two former executived tried to fix the
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problem by paying the hackers $100,000 in exchange for their word that they would destroy the stolen data. but they didn't tell authorities about it. those executives have now been fired. uber said that it now is notifying the drivers whose driver's licenses were downloaded, giving drivers free credit monitoring and identify theft protection and notifying regulatory authorities. uber says none of this should have happened and they have learned from their mistakes. >> i bet they have. you have to love a corporate statement that said, i had the same question, in fact. >> yeah. >> we're also learning that the disclosure belatedly about the hack may have something to do with the fact that there were some shares in the company about to be sold. >> yeah, billions of dollars at stake here. and this whole issue could affect the stock price. but the company now has to worry about possible legal ramifications. at least six states have opened investigations into this uber hack, including connecticut, illinois, massachusetts, missouri, new hampshire and new york. and this could be just the beginning. some 48 states actually have
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laws that require companies to tell consumers in the event of some kind of hack like this. and we still have to take the hackers' word that they actually destroyed that information, that they claim they destroyed it when they got paid the $100,000. >> like under the table, wink-wink, keep this money and nobody will know the difference. >> right. those executives that did that got fired and now the company has launched its own internal investigation. >> rick, good to see you. families holding out hope but now getting heartbreaking news. live at the pentagon with an update on the u.s. navy plane that crashed at sea. that's next. do you need the most trusted battery this holiday? maybe not. maybe, you could trust the world would be just as happy without them. (screaming) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪ it's beginning to look a lot like christmas ♪
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u.s. navy officials today calling off the search for three missing sailors. they were on a navy cargo plane that crashed into the sea south of japan earlier this week.
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rescuers on board a navy helicopter were able to pull eight survivors to safety soon after the plane went down. our lucas tomlinson is live at the pentagon. when was the last time that we lost this many troops in a plane crash? just heartbreaking. >> ed, the most deadly crash for the u.s. military before this incident occurred in august when a u.s. army blackhawk helicopter went down off the coast of hawaii, killing five soldiers in august. as you mentioned, the u.s. navy calling off the search for those three missing navy sailors. following wednesday's crash hundreds of miles at sea while flaying from japan to the "uss ronald reagan." the cargo plane is used to bring passengers and supplies to aircraft carriers at sea. it first entered the service in the late '60s and is scheduled to be replaced by the osprey in the next few years. right now, the investigation is focusing on the possibility of an extremely require dual engine failure. fuels and oil supplies are also
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being examined. the navy's expected to release the names of those three missing american sailors later tonight. >> thank you, lucas. an appeals court in south africa more than doubling the sentence for the one-time olympic hero-turned-killer oscar pistorius. the blaed runner will serve about 13 1/2 years in prison. he shot his girlfriend four times through a bathroom door back in 2013. he said he mistook her for an intruder. a court eventually convicted him of murder, handing down a six-year prison term. but the judge today said that punishment was too lenient and that pistorius showed a, quote, lack of remorse. coming up, some unwanted guests invading one neighborhood where these wild turkeys are out for payback on this day after thanksgiving. that's next. plus, breaking just moments ago, the major upset in college
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in the only medicare supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. don't wait. call now. some turkeys that avoided becoming a thanksgiving feast are apparently out for sweet revenge. wild turkeys are taking over a neighborhood in lafayette, california. part of the bay area. they're a common sight around the golf course there. but a recent drought has the big birds wandering through the suburbs looking for food. they can damage cars and even cause a scare. >> we've had some like on the roof fly right over your head, have a turkey flying at you, a 30-pound bird, it's kind of scary. >> yikes. so far, no reports, though, of any injuries. and a major shake-up in college football that could change the national playoff outlook. the now 5-7 pitt panthers just
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defeated number 2 ranked miami, the miami hurricanes go down. before this game, the canes were undefeated. the final score, 24-14. the panthers' freshman quarterback ran 22 yards for the team's final touchdown. last year, pitt was the only team to beat the eventual national champs, the clemson tigers. two upsets, two years in a row. stock markets closed early on this black friday because of the thanksgiving. tech stocks led the s&p 500 and nasdaq to record high closes in large part because of black friday. amazon and retail stocks got a big boost from signs of strong starts to the holiday shopping period. many shoppers flocked to stores to buy items in person but not really buying much. like a trial run. with many waiting to do their retail shopping, yes, online. u.s. shoppers on thanksgiving spent more than, listen to this, $2.87 billion online, that's
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according to adobe analytics. i'm ed henry in for shepard smith. "your world" is next. trish regin is in for neil. nice to see you. protesters lashing out in front of stores as shoppers are rushing in. welcome to "your world" and the busiest shopping day of the year. i'm trish regin in for neil cavuto. we are everywhere right now. we've got matt in chicago on protesters trying keep the shoppers way. lauren on customers trying to score the best deals and hillary in los angeles on malls trying anything they can to get shoppers into the stores. let's begin with the protests and matt. >> trish, these protesters have said they want to make app dent in chicago's pocketbook. so for the third year in a row, th