♪ and hello, everyone. i'm richard lui in new york c y city. welcome to the pulse of america where your voice can be heard in real-time. here are the stories. first off, president trump preparing to blame president ryan and the freedom caucus for the failure of the republican health care plan. this as meshes call for the parties to work together and fix obamacare. also, the house chairman facing more criticism over his handling

of russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election. >> we can't have an investigation if one of the members takes information to the white house and doesn't share it with his committee. >> does gorsuch deserve an up or down vote? >> and the senate votes to roll back sweeping rules about how isps handle your private information. we are going to take a closer look at how exposed this might leave you if it were to happen. your phone, your laptop, whatever you are got and go to pulse.msnbc.com/america. and of course we'll be sharing your thoughts throughout this hour real-time. first off though this sunday the blame game is where he start. a deeply divided republican

party diagnosed what went wrong and why did their repeal and replace obamacare effort fail? >> i think what happened is that washington won. >> i think the president is disappointed in the number of people that he thought were loyal to him that weren't. >> a lot of the concessions the white house is making at the end of this process were to try to appease and placate the hard right. >> you cannot have major changes in major programs affecting things like health care without including democrats from the very beginning and asking them to be constructive. >> when you lose the chairman of the house appropriations committee, one of the most powerful positions, the problem is with the bill. >> friday, president trump blamed democrats for the health care defeat. but now he's going after the republican freedom caucus who led the effort to block the bill. his tweet reading, quote, democrats are smiling in d.c. that the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage have saved planned

parenthood and obamacare. here is how the chair rponded to that. >> no one has been more self-critiquing than me. i can tell you as i've looked at all of this, i said could i have spent more time, should i have spent more time with the tuesday group, more time with democrats to find some consensus. >> this legislative defeat now forces speaker ryan to try to chart a new path to consensus. which brings us to our first pulse question of the day for you. agree or disagree: preponderances should work with democrats to improve, not replace, obamacare. let's get to kelly o'donnell at the white house today. because we're bringing it up, are efforts afoot to bring in modern democrats this sunday in the coming week. >> there has been some talk of doing that from the president himself and others on his team of wanting to look for constructive ways to fix some of

the things that both parties agree aren't working as they should. republicans wanting to do much more. it is still very early after what was a stunning defeat, so we haven't seen concrete steps yet. but perhaps that will happen. we're also hearing from really the top of the administration that they're ready to move on to tax reform, at least as the big front public push to the next agenda item. so will they have to deal with democrats? there are signs of that. but talk of bipartisan ship happens a lot in washington. we'll have to see if it actually happens. the strong sense i'm getting is the white house and top officials want to put health care over to the side, try to accomplish some things and maybe revisit it later. it's not like we're going to see a revised bill in two weeks. it is probably a much more long-term proposition, at least that's the latest we're getting. and then it puts some pressure on democrats.

would they be willing to work with a trump white house to achieve something where the credit would also go to president trump. >> kelly, you also have new reporting on the relationship between president trump and eaker ryan. we have been talking abouthat over the last 48 hours in focus. >> reporter: it is interesting because it is not unreasonable to say when something goes off the rails like the health care repeal did for republicans to figure out who is responsible, where did it go wrong. but the blame game is something different. and speaker ryan said he did not want to cast blame on a faction of the republican conference. although, many are talking of that. and we have looked to president trump for his reaction. he said that he likes speaker ryan, thought he did a good job. but yesterday he encouraged his followers on his donald trump account to watch a particular show on fox news and later that night when the host of that show came on television, she really attacked paul ryan, said he should resign. he was at fault, not the

president. so people have put the two together saying was the president tweeting to tee up criticism of paul ryan. i am told the president and the speaker have spoken today and they are on the same page of moving forward with theagenda. so that's the new reporting. the white house has told me that this was simply the president trying to sort of help out a friend who does that show on fox news. he likes the show, wanted to be supportive of it, not about paul ryan. certainly people are reading into this dramatically saying of course it must have been t esidentryio cast blame on ryan. it seems me complicated than that based on the pple who a talking to us now. it does raise some questions about how they will go forward, whether it was intentional or not. speaker ryan has told me and other reporters he typically speaks to the president every day or multiple times a day. to give you another sense of this, ryan priebus, the chief of staff was asked about the

relationship. here's how he reacted. >> i did not talk to the president about the tweet. i'm just telling you the truth. there was no pre-planning here. >> does he want paul ryan to step down or no? >> no, he doesn't. he talked to paul ryan yesterday. he believes what he said in the oval office on friday. he doesn't blame paul ryan. >> reporter: and we know the president has often been quite critical of other leaders and is not shy about letting people know what he thinks. i guess we'll see in the days to come how they work together on whatever comes next to try to measure what damage, if any, has been done to their relationship based on the repeal effort and its failure. >> kelly, thank you so much. kelly o'donnell at the white house for us with the very latest. thank you. now to senate republicans. some now wondering why the process itself was so rushed. take a listen. >> devoting 17 legislative days to a bill and then walking away from it because it hasn't passed within 17 legislative days makes

no sense. >> you can't expect to solve a problem that touches every american in a very personal and intimate way in 18 days. >> all right. let's bring in a republican political consultant and the executive editor. i'll start with you michael on this. and the question that was really asked here, did they move too fast. you know, the 17 legislative days right before it came to a vote versus wha for the afrdable care act some 180-od days, 187 i believe. did they move too fast? >> absolutely not. this is something that republicans in the house and senate had been working on literally since before obamacare passed in the first place. they have campaigned on it every election since then. the specifics of this proposal were ironed out over the past year. anyone frankly who didn't know something very much like this

was coming simply wasn't paying attenti attention. >> would you agree with that? >> no, of course you went too fast. f you vote right now, obviously things are not proceeding a pace at the time line that everybody is comfortable with. president obama expended a huge amount of political capital passing obamacare over a long period of time because it is a difficult thing to reform the nation's health care system. there is nobody in the republican any faction of the republican party right now, including the president, who is willing to expend that kind of political capital because they simply don't have the same goal in mind. they don't have an idea of health care reform that is a strong principaled republican conservative one. they just want to repeal obamacare and deny president obama a piece of his legacy. >> you wouldn't help but wonder the ghost of john boehner was

watching what was happening over the last weekend going, i told you so. >> i think the former speaker would say that he recognizes that this same group of republicans had been the pem for several yes. i think the president's tweet was exactly right. this group is blocking conservative policy victories in the name of a greater purity than is possible. >> but it wasn't only the freedom caucus, michael. >> the concessions to the so-called freedom caucus are what started costing modern members. the freedom caucus was the problem. >> as you look at this, we do have to look, it is true. it was sort of a thorn in the side of john boehner and speakers before, too. this is not new, necessarily so this administration or to this congress. >> what is new, though, is having a president who is so willing to play the blame game so publically and across the board. nobody would believe he just happens to coincidentally

suggest his twitter follows tune into a fox host saying that speaker ryan should resign. even if that were to have happened coincidentally, he tweets her show, she would have changed what she was about to say if it was really going to blow up the presidency like that and say ryan out to step down. you have the president willing to tell people it's ryan's fault and the very next morning tweeting it is the freedom cauc caucus's fault. everybody knows he wasn't as involved in this and he failed to close the deal. so just the fact that there is this kind of blame. i mean john boehner never would have allowed that to happen as publically as it is now and that is a really fascinate ining fun thing to watch. >> this speaker has had to try, along with his leadership, to whip up a vote and we won't know if it works that well only because they did not vote on it. but the question that pushes forward for the republican caucus is what is the overhang

here? what will be the effect here as they look towards a tax plan and other major legislative objectives? >> this is the first time we have tried to louvre v move legislation with a republican president in quite some time. i think the less son we learned there was a hope that president trump because of his appeal to the base of the republican party would be able to easily win over these usually recalcitrant members. that was not possible on this case. so there are two options. one, work with democrats, which will be difficult, or figure out some way to move these recalcitrant members from no to yes. >> as we watched from the outside here, jess, the question you saw the lead-in to our segment. so should the speaker step down? who is really at fault here? does it matter? >> no. i think we have no principaled

standard bearer of the republican party, and i think that is why it is going to be so difficult for them to move forward on to other issues they might go think go better with the base. it is od for a party that has leadership in so many branches of government to have no real, cohesive leader, but they don't right now. so i don't think it matters who is standing at the microphone. you will see reince priebus and substantial trump and speaker ryan all saying different things about where the country ought to be going. >> that was surprising. >> thank you so much. both o you for your time today on this sunday. for r first pulse question is there. agree or disagree: republicans should work with democrats to improve obamacare. you are telling us 95% of you agree that it is true. now when we break it down by political party, republicans, independents and democrats all agree. you can see the cascading agree versus disagree and of course

we'll be looking at this graph as well under gender. and what gender shows is that men and women agree. women slightly more so, though pretty much equally. 95% agree republicans should work with democrats to improve, not replace obamacare. thank you all for participating in that. we have another question for you. this issue, though, next. some of the biggest protests russia has seen in years is what we're watching. demonstrators denounce public corruption there. how the handling of russia's interference in last year's election, agree or disagree, it is time for an independent investigation. go to pulse.msnbc.com/america. i. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica.

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thanks for staying with us. thousands have joined anti-corruption rallies across russia calling for him to step down. demonstrators chanting down with putin. largest protest crowd since 2012. house intelligence chair deven nunez added another wrinkle in the russia connection question. he suggested the president and the aids were monitored by russian spies. new nez says he cannot be sure about that. the ranking democrat told chuck todd on "meet the press," he has no idea what nunez is talking

about. >> i am totally mystified. i have talked to my chairman. he doesn't know. i talked to democrats, republicans on the committee. i think it is outrageous to make these claims. then goes down and briefs the white house. and i know adam chef, the lead democrat wants to keep the investigation bipartisan. i don't know he knows today what those documents are. >> so adam schiff demands congress hand over the russian probe. agree or disagree: is it time for an ind depen den investigation of russia's alleged interference in the 2016 electi election? let's bring in political reporter, also the co-author of hrc, state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. you heard senator warner who says he's now open to an independent commission and

really casting a lot of shade on what is nunez talking about here. what is going to happen next? >> it's really unclear whether an independent commission will get started. democrats have been calling for one for some time. it could be done through legislation or the speaker calling for it. i talk to some republicans who think it will get to that point, especially if chairman nunez continuing down this path where he's confusing his committee and doing things that other e members of congress think are not really the best path are someone chairing such a sensitive investigation. i don't expect an independent commission coming any time soon, but as this continuing to hang over washington, i could see it coming eventually. >> how many i guess questions might come of nunez here of his questions itself? john how many more body blows can he take before he might be replaced himself? >> i think he's in a precarious spot. the structure here is that the

congressional intelligence committee exists to do oversight of the administrations intelligence gathering and its work in that intelligence field. rather, you now have a congressman running that committee who looks like he is trying to shield the president from investigation and certainly looks like he's passing information to the president even leaking to the media -- leaking is probably the wrong word. he held a press conference talking to the media about classified information in terms of surveillance picking up members of the trump transition team. so he's basically taken a protection for the american public that you have a congressional oversight of the intelligence committee and turned that into a protection of the administration that he's supposed to be overseeing. i think unless he back peddles quickly and moves into a phase that makes it clear that he is in fact investigating this rather than using his committee as a protection for the president, then he will either be replaced or some sort of independent commission will be put up. >> that is the question that you're bringing up.

white house loyalty, maybe too much of it here. and here with nunez canceling an open hearing set for tuesday i believe on russia, it would have had in it according to my notes here three key witnesses from the obama white house. and he could be walking away from that since he's canceled this. is there a point where as house republicans major failure on friday, a big loss, that people are going to be watching this even more and more carefully. they need a win here. >> well, i mean, for republicans obviously, the health care bill that was a huge blow to them. and this russia thing continues to just hang over their heads. every minute spent on russia, on these investigations are minutes that we're not spending at least the administration is not spending focussing on their supreme court nominee, focusing on potential tax reform. but them it is a hardball lance because if they support the idea

of an independent commissioner and investigation, does that in some way imply that they are -- that something is going on? does it make it seem as though they are open to being completely investigated if they have nothing to hide. it is really not clear which way they are going to go on that. like i said, it is going to continue hanging over washington and continue distracting from what the president has said. he wants to have a very ambition agenda. >> also a part of this, john, too on this some chatter this weekend in washington, which nbc news has not confirmed. that is about ousted director of the nsa, mike flynn possibly cooperating with the fbi. what are you hearing on that? >> i think what you are referring to is an analyst who said basically that the c conclusion one could draw is it's possible he's cooperating with the fbi and it's piece of circumstantial evidence that fit

into an opinion. what we can see without having to look behind closed doors is that the white house is throwing michael flynn to the wolves right now and we have not heard a lot from michael flynn himself as of late. so there obviously is a tension that remains between him and the white house. if he is somebody who is cooperating with the fbi and there is something to know about president trump that's probably bad news for president trump, we are a long way from -- i don't have any reporting that suggests that. nor have i seen anybody that has any hard reporting that suggests that. >> we do have some hard numbers coming out on friday and that shows that a majority of americans do want an independence commission to investigate what we have been talking about so far. 66% saying they want an independent commission to investigate the links between trump campaign advisors and the russian government. so now that we have moved passed

health care question, do you see a redirection again, maybe from the washington press core or for that matter americans now, redirecting, which was a very hot topic for a majority of weeks? >> right. i mean, i think there was a tension on the health care bill, but i still think there has been and will continue to be a tension from the press core on russia. newspapers and news organizations have entire teams devoted to looking at these possible connections. i have seen a lot of these crazy coected maps that reporters ve sitting on their desks at all times and people are starting to get to know these connections. this is going to continue happening and now that we don't have health care, tax reform might be coming very soon. but in the meantime it's going to be russia and the supreme court nominee. >> thank you both. we have been asking you for our pulse question number two. agree or disagree: is it time for an independent investigation of russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election? this is what you have been

telling us so far. numbers are 4% disagree with that question. is it time for an independent investigation. most of you saying, yeah, one is needed. looking at gender, slightly more women are saying yes. one is needed. and then looking at the graph of political parties, one we break that down, it shows that at least in this case independents democrats and republicans mostly agree on that particular graph. all said 97% agree with that. 3% disagree. thank you all for participating in that pulse question. a man hunt is underway in cincinnati after a shooting in a nightclub. one person is dead. at least 15 people injured. more details next.

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right now two of the injured are in critical condition. officials say the incident started with an altercation that's kalated into shots fired. >> several local men got into some type of a dispute inside the bar and it ecs srk's kalat shots being fired. >> there is no evidence this was a terrorist attack like miami. however, tthe victims, what difference does it make? they have been terror rised by gun violence, innocent victims. >> police say the nightclub has a history of gun violence. so far no arrests have been made in that. new developments after a scary scene on the las vegas strip yesterday. a 65-year-old man who opened fire on a double decker does

surrendered more than four hours after a stand off police. the shooting left one dead and one wounded. neck for you democrats say they will filibuster to block president trump's supreme court nominee. we're asking you, agree or disagree: the senate should confirm supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. go to pulse.msnbc.com/america to let us know what you think. >> furnished by microsoft pulse.

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the senate judiciary committee is expected to schedule a vote on supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. they want him confirmed before the recess. but senate majority leader is signaling his party is prepared to deny the votes necessary for a filibuster. he should meet the same standard

past justices have had to do. >> the nominee can't get 60 votes, you don't change the rules. you change the candidate. >> he does not get 60 votes, the republicans owe the american people the obligation of bringing somebody forward who is more moderate. >> if democrats filibuster gorsuch, they would invoke the nuclear option. agree or disagree: the senate should confirm supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. joining us now, supreme court reporter for "usa today" and law professi professor at yal. has gor duls such become a stronger or weaker nominee? >> stronger because i have heard no republican oppose him and there is even softness on the democratic side that there are lots of prominent, not just

holars and judges and legal experts, but even i think leading politicians who have not signalled a die hard strategy. one of the people who actually introduced him, although not committing himself on the merits, was home state senate who happens to be a colorado snat senator who happens to be a democrat, michael ben nit who did go out of his way as sort of courtesy and propriority and convention indicate actually introduced gorsuch to to committee. and there are also democrats in red states who are up for re-electi re-election. >> exactly. and there are many that are being watched in these very situations here and that's part of the calculus here, isn't it? because if democrats want to try

to get a political win at the moment, the question is how far can they go, how far will they go and what will they do? >> yeah. i think under normal circumstances, judge gorsuch would be confirmed and i still think he will. but the question is are they going to filibuster it? will they get the 60 votes and will republicans have to go to the nuclear option. i don't think democrats really want to filibuster because they would rather have the filibuster available for the next time. and i don't think republicans really want to use the nuclear option because of the precedent and the history involved and because, you know, that situation can be reversed once the democrats, which they inevitably will at some poin contl th snenate. this is a game o chicken in terms of will the democrats get the 60 votes for the filibuster and will the republicans use the nuclear option. i think most people in washington feel that neil gorsuch is deserving of being on the supreme court by convention,

but this is obviously a different situation because of merrick garland, donald trump and all the rest. >> have you whipped this vote at all? have you done the numbers? what does it show on the white board in your office? >> well, i haven't done that. but i can say that i was, as an academic, strongly involved in the campaign to actually modify the rules of the filibuster for all of the other nominations, the lower court and executive. the so-called nuclear option that harry reid and the democrats pushed in november of 2013. that is something that i supported. and certain basic rules of the game shouldn't be partisan. if it was okay for the democrats to go nuclear in 2013, it should be okay for the republicans to go so now. i really don't think a rule of 60 is very functional. it is actually very dysfunctional. no supreme court nominee has

actually been filibusters in modern memory. so it would actually be a good thing, i think, for us to move back to a rule of 50, which is what the constitution provides. >> very interesting. one desevrves the other. how much of this when you look at what's being discussed on the hill is senates at the moment is democrats making republicans pay for her remerrick garland, you t hear from him. you did not hear his testimony. you didn't vote on him. >> yeah. and besides all of that is the fact that he was super qualified. if there was a judge in the country, very few judges in the couny that are more qualified than neil gorsuch, people agree merrick garland could have been that. a moderate senate and might have

in the past been counted to give a republican nominee vote said he won't vote for judge gorsuch until the situation with judge gor land is taken care of. in other words, let's deal with garland first, which they're not going to. so i think a lot of it has to do with judge garland and the situation regarding president trump perhaps using litmus tests to pick a judge, using the federal society and the heritage foundation to come up with his lists, the comments that he made about some judges that ruled against him, all of this weighs against judge gorsuch, none of which is judge gorsuch's felt. in the end the democrats are being pressured by their interest groups to filibuster this. the question will become, i think we're down to 7 of the 10 democrats that are elected from trump majority states. three have already said they won't go for gorsuch. so there are 7 of those left. there is a few members of

judiciary committee. he didn't try to win over democrats because he basically wouldn't say anything and he knew that that would displease them. he wouldn't tak stand on a t of past precedents, which was going further than justices alito and roberts did theiring nomination hearings, but there are a couple republicans whose votes are in question, especially the ranking democrat, dianne feinstein could be a vote to not filibuster. so there is probably 10 or 11, klein uding michael ben nit who might be on gorsuch's side. it is not clear they will get the 60, but that's the calculation right now. as you said, a lot of it has to do with merrick garland. thank you. what is it that you're watching in the process that might up end what we expect to happen, and that is that gorsuch will make it through. what are you watching

specifically? >> three thicngs. hear's the reality. the democrats didn't control the senate. so even if he had gotten a hearing, even if you had gotten a committee vote, there was no guarantee because the republicans controlled the senate back then and still control it now. judge gorsuch didn't lose any ground. he didn't fumble but he wasn't very forthcoming. he didn't really answer questions. so he did lose an opportunity to gain some support on the democrat side. the final wrinkle that i am looking at is you could imagine some democrat sayingll vote. we're willing to let the man have a vote, but we'll be part of the initial 60 saying let's have a up/down vote. but at the final stage 51 suffices. >> something we'll be watching together in the coming days and weeks. thank you so much. which is our question of this particular moment.

agree or disagree: the senate could confirm supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. 95% of you saying no, the senate could not confirm neil gorsuch. looking at the age break down here, 18 to 24, the ones that have the largest proportion, agree, say, yes, he should be confirmed. then looking at the gender break down, men and women agree. men a bit less so. and then the final scoreboard for you is 92% disagreeing with that, that the senate could confirm supreme court candidate neil gorsuch. thank you for participating. up next for you, the senate votes to undo tough privacy rules that would have prevented internet providers from selling your data without your consent without you knowing about it. we're asking you agree or disagree: internet privacy should be a protected right. pulse.msnbc.com/america.

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internet privacy blew up the internet chat this week. that's because on thursday, the senate said it was okay for internet cable and mobile providers to sell your data without your consent. the measure still needs to pass the house, though. also needs to get approval from the president to go into effect. senate jeff flake, who introduced the resolution said it will change or lessen existing privacy protections. but the american civil liberty union disagrees saying it will undoe privacy rules that ensure consumer control how their most sensitive information is used. brings us to our fourth and final question. let us know what you think. agree or disagree: internet privacy should be a protected right? here to discuss that, clint and

aaron, president and ceo of freed press. clint, i guess common sense says of course no, we don't want other people to get other information for free. so why is the senate doing this? >> that's a good question. there are few people arguing in favor of repealing the rules, other than advertising companies and the internet service providers themselves. >> right. >> the main justification that people have brought about is that the rules are inconsistent with the ftc's rules that govern weites. but that doesn't really add up to me because it would make more sense if you want to make them consistent to impose the stricter rules on to websites, rather than throw the rules out for internet service providers. >> so on that thought line that you have just provided for us, clint, craig, to you on this, is this really all about pro-business? they want the data?

they want the ability to advertise and tell you stuff based on how you use the internet? >> this is about doing favors for some of the biggest cable and telecom companies, companies like verizon, at&t comcast that are interested in profiting your private information, what you do on your phone, what you do on the internet tells advertisers everything they could possibly know about your, your medical information, financial information, what you like to do for entertainment, who you talk to and interact with. it is incredibly valuable and of course your cable company and your phone company have that information because they need it to be able to connect you to the internet. so they want a world with no limits on what they could do and that's what the republicans and senate did this week, stripped some basic common sense protections that said you should give your customers permission before selling their most private information. >> what kind of data are we

talking about here, clint, specifically? >> well, like craig says. they have access to just about anything that you do on line or conceivably gain access to anything you do on line. >> you do online. >> so the time of day, the site i go to, the product i purchased, "the e-mail i sent? what are we talking about here? >> it will depend on the level of encryption the different sites have in place. they can tell how much time you spend on different websites. they may not know exactly what products you bought but they can tell what e-commerce sites you visited. they probably couldn't tell what search terms you used unless they installed software on your phone or computer to watch what you're doing. some of the big carriers have been caught doing that in the past. so there's a wide breadth of information that could be slurped up and sold.

>> mitch mcconnell, i'll read what he said, he argues the internet is an uneven playing field. does that make sense? it's an uneven playing field, therefore it's okay. >> doesn't make sense, specious excuse, not like they have a plan for privacy protections that will apply to everybody. no movement to do that. no plan in place. a lot of talk about how exact same rules don't apply to internet an services, that might be a good idea. we need greater pvacy protections online. what the congresss doing here is stripping the very few privacy protections we did have and completely getting rid of them with no indication they plan to make rules for everybody else. it's just -- all it is is getting rid of these fundamental protections and not really stepping up with anything else while claiming they are doing it to make an even playing feed. the even playing field is just

zero protection for your privacy. >> clint, what might be that happy middle ground craig is talking about? any specific ideas floated by those critical to this. >> the procedure would prevent fcc from reintroducing similar rules in the future that could include, depending how the courts interpret the law, that could include even less strict rule being thrown out in the future as well. even if you agree it should be thrown out, the way congress is going about trying to throw them out could create real complications down the line in terms of reaching a compromise on the rules. >> thank you so much, clint and craig. appreciate your time on this topic. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. >> do want to note as was mentioned in the segment msnbc is a division of nbc universal

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to our final pulse of america, agree or disagree, internet privacy should be a protected right. first off when we look at overall numbers it shows for us right now a majority of you, 96%, agree internet privacy should be a protected right. then levels of education. when we hit bachelors degree, 10%. graph breakdown pretty consistent. some variation at the top all strongly agreeing with this statement here. final score board in terms of

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