instead, facebook sent richard allen reaches their chief -- richard allen, who is their chief lobbyisteurope and is head of policy for them in this region. he tried to answer their questions but a lot of lawmakers were not happy. at times, the exchanges got heated. brad: i thought you started a tweet with the word woah. i think you were referring to revelations that facebook knew about interference back in 2014 from russia. why did the committee think that and why is that important? >> that served as documents that were famously seized over the weekend and we will find out more about the documents in the next few weeks. i made the comment about the timeline in which facebook possibly found out about cambridge analytica. senior managers at facebook, and there is a list of who the employees were, were aware of cambridge analytica. she said, in 2014 or 2015, and this is the first time we have heard evidence facebook possibly knew about cambridge analytica. before we read about it in 2015 in the press. and that is important. brad: clearly, we will be hearing more about the documents. they

we published it. >> so richard allen defending the company's frt oop's effortst comes to the past year released in the coming days. it will remain to be seen what facebook knew when >> it's a sergeant of arms, a man dressed like an 18th century gentleman, turned up at the hotel room of a man in possession of those documents. an indication that the man was willing to hand over the documents. i'm intrigued. facebook has been fighting multiple battles, multiple fronts from a pr perspective it doesn't seem to have impacted users much is this an indication of a change in attitude from regulators across the uk, in europe, in the united states, elsewhere that will cause concern amongst other major tech companies? >> we're certainly hearingcreasf facebook and that's turning into investigations of other companies, too there were several gdpr co complaints it's likely that other countries will follow suit when it comes to trying to hold these tech companies accountable. it's turned into a more of a political issue. >> you have regulators, government officials, lawmakers talking about this more,

facebook, instead, sent richard allen, its vice president of policy solutions.t wasn't good enough for members of the panel. >> there were so many questions today that were asked that weren't, frankly, answered by him. he tried. give him a lot of credit for shoing up today. but we really need to hear from the top and mr. zuckerberg. he just didn't show. that's unfortunate. >> richard allen who sits in the uk's house of lords admitted that his bosses failure to show up didn't look great. >>> okay. gift cards are really big business. how safe are they? >> good question. in time for the holidays, me michael finney is here. >> let me tell you how big. $27 billion. we love gift cards in this country. but thieves are figured out ways to steal the money you put on gift cards that you want to give to someone else. important tips to protect you and the gift cards you buy. >> what's on your holiday wish list? if you said gift cards, you're not alone. about 6 in 10 people prefer to shop for themselves with a gift card. >> i love getting gift cards. i prefer them actually.

instead of mark zuckerberg, facebook sent a senior executive called richard allen.here, while we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions, our pharmaceutical conversations, seem to get upended by frat boy billionaires from california. so, mr zuckerberg's decision not to appear here at westminster to me speaks volumes. particularly since this has been a subject of an investigation of whether facebook apps upended one of the most important votes in british history. so when mr zuckerberg says that the plan was to move fast and break things, and that breaking may have involved our democratic institutions — does mr zuckerberg nonbelief or not not think that proletarians around the world are willing to push back? i'm not going to disagree with you that we have damaged public trust with some of the actions we've taken. lots of people have been asking why didn't mark zuckerberg show up. here is the zoe kleinman. he is trying the patience, isn't he, of politicians from nine different countries who want to speak to him today. he's just refused to come.

in his place richard allen.is the vice president of public policy a representative from 9 countries in europe and asia when it comes to what users are right now disclosing and really they are having no holds barge he's been pretty contrite. we're going to continue to monitor this hearing. >> thank you. >>> touchdown confirmed. >> another milestone for the nasa. and this morning we're getting our first look at what the insight probe is dealing with the lander will be digging deep into the red planet's core. >> a live look at >>> that is after a long holiday travel weekend a lot of people going in and out of the aurpt. now airlines are enticing you to fly again. and now it is travel tuesday. $125 discounts and $250 off of international traffic. cafe pacific offering round trip flights for under $600 i think that's how you say it. there we go. offering $650 round trip between new york and mulan. >>> there's a high demand for a certain type of christmas tree this season. during the recession growers actually stopped

the thing is, richard allen is not a big name.is not a photograph you can plaster on the photograph of newspapers around the world. zuckerberg turns up, than it brings the issue home and it does seep into the public consciousness. . i was told more tech regulation is inevitable. the strategy that facebook is carrying out at the moment, does that delay the regulation coming or accelerate it? presumably, there is a short-term game, but is there a long-term loss here? alex: they accept regulation, but they are trying to force it on political ads. they say that has been the problem here. what they don't want is a broad antitrust debate about th break -- the breakup of facebook as a whole. be: i expect newspapers to running pictures of that empty chair. alex, thank you very much. theie: turning now to latest bloomberg business flash. shares of apple are lower today after president trump suggested in an interview that iphones assembled in china may be hit with terrorists of 10% -- tariffs of 10%. bain capital is exploring a takeover of

as much as richard allen who is their european lobbying chief said a lot over the course of a few hoursstill, this empty seat and frankly, that was the intent of the whole exercise. david: one of the things that was released -- that was asserted by a lawmaker is that facebook new russia was getting access to data about users they could use as part of an information campaign. is that right and what is the response of facebook to that? alex: there was a slightly curious episode whereby a company that is suing facebook for various data access , its ceo is in the u.k. and the head of the select committee was therefore -- was therefore able to force the police to get him to give data. long story short, he gets the data from the company that is suing facebook. facebook says, you're only getting a partial view of the information that was being handed around and talked about at that time can we do not have the complete picture. when of the other accusations made of richard allen in the course of this hearing was verbatim, the headline of the new york times story from earlier in the more -- in t

a recent facebook executive to go —— richard allen. it is a very arresting image.there. it is interesting. don andl not there. it is interesting. don and i come from different, whatever the word is, i don't mean political parties but probably more views of business and stuff. independently, not even the same way we have of joe's the same thing, have we not? i come from a little bit different from her on that. the reason i do. i think that these tech giants are out of control. i think they are letting

so richard allen he is the vice president for policy of facebook. and we're going to continue to monitor it for you. >>> facing off against the lawmakers ann mackovich live at the news desk. >>> thisaken on the evening of november 10th. spoke to the church's music director before disappearing. a family spokes person said the former radio host had been forgiven lately and his wife and son hope he will return. >> hopefully he's on a bus to san francisco or on a fine stranger's house. >> we spoke to the county sheriff's department and they have no new leads. >>> today mississippi voters will declare a runoff. >> three weeks after the midterms mississippi is holding a re-election today. a closer than expected battle with democrat mike espy. >> or anyone that was offended by my comments, i certainly apologize. >> hide smith has been under fire foremks recently caught on camera. alongside a support joking if he ever attended a public hanging she'd sit in the front row. >> her comments don't reflect the value of our state. >> espy would be the first black

lawmakers from nine different countries grilled richard allen demanding answers from facebook on data privacy, security and safety. facebook executives acknowledged that the company is partly to brain -- blame on how it handled past scandals. they cannot be trusted to police itself is what they are facing. >>> huber has been find $1 million. they did not report the breach within 72 hours as required by regulation. >>> let's check wall street. we have about 45 minutes to go before the closing bell and the dallas in green territory. up the rain is here and mary is here with the forecast. >> yes. we are tracking it for you. that light to moderate rain will push across the bay area. this movement so you can see the locations. across the north bay you're getting moderate rain. down through santa rosa and pat aloma, light rain. as we head across the east bay down through brentwood you can see light rain. around san francisco, right along the coast you can see the rain down through pacific up. we're tracking all of that. this is a live look you can see the cloudy and foggy conditions ahead o

a recent facebook executive to go —— richard allen. it is a very arresting image. from from countries that actually asking questions and he is not there. it is interesting. don andl not there. it is interesting. don and i come from different, whatever the word is, i don't mean political parties but probably more views of business and stuff. independently, not even the same way we have of joe's the same thing, have we not? i come from a little bit different from her on that. the reason i do. i think that these tech giants are out of control. i think they are letting down society. you can get a simple asa down society. you can get a simple as a factor that don't blame them, blame governments, but nevertheless they are nowhere near paying their fairshare of they are nowhere near paying their fair share of tax in this world. and they're getting away with it. and they're getting away with it. and the real worry for me, and i think zuckerberg is showing an appalling lack of leadership by not standing up lack of leadership by not standing up and being accountable. if you'

physical book at a special session here in london social networks vice president of policy solutions richard allen gave evidence instead facebook is accused of undermining democratic institutions and allowing the spread of misinformation and hate speech the company insists it complies with data protection rules but admits it has made mistakes two prominent opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo variety in the capital kinshasa after sun in cooperation deal in nairobi on friday the telecom has agreed to campaign on a joint ticket backing feed its just a k d in the presidential election on december twenty third they both withdrew from a unity deal after refusing to support coalition opposition have it not if you do presenters of kabila misstepped down off to clinging to office for two years longer than the constitution allows all to nigeria now where the present how do bihari is approved an increase of salary and allowance for police offices i jerry and police are rated as some of the most corrupt in africa many say that low wages and working conditions are to blame dress has worn out

richard allen, the president's first national security adviser. this relationship between reagan and the pope was one of the great alliances of all time. ii'sd quotation, john paul biographer. the claim that the men entered into a conspiracy is journalistic fantasy. how do you characterize what took place between the white house and the vatican and those two men? fmr. ag meese: it is interesting that even last night there was a little bit of a dispute about what it was. two. somewhere between the you had here -- first of all, back to ronald reagan and his religious they, it was that faith which made him admire the pope, particularly this pope because you had a very strong person on behalf of his ,aith, on behalf of his church in the whole thing, what he had done up to that time, ronald reagan admired. admired him as a leader of his church. it was natural, i think, for him to admire that kind of leadership. beyond that, what you had was to people, both leaders, one him across secular world, one in the religious world, with parallel interests. once

chair physical the special session in london social networks vice presidents of policy solutions richard allen gave evidence instead facebook is accused of undermining democratic institutions and allowing the spread of misinformation and hate speech the company insists it complies with data protection rules but admits it has made mistakes well out of france the president is refusing to give in to the demands of protest is angry about rising fuel prices emanuel was presenting his government's energy plans in paris thousands of so-called yellow vests demonstrators took part in violent protests in the capital over the weekend. has more from paris. well i think if anyone is looking for any big announcements or measures from a man or mack or to the yellow vest protesters they would have been disappointed him at all mark or really use this speech to focus very much on environmental policy he talks about climate change how to move france away from relying on fossil fuels and nuclear and on renewables he said he could hear the frustration of many people who've been demonstrating for nearly two weeks i

richard allen is getting it in the neck because of that. we are talking about fashion now. investigating the impact of fast fashion on the environment, which many people are saying is quite frankly devastating. let's talk to hannah carter. what do you make of primark saying a £2 t—shirt is part of our business model? it is hard to comment on primark 's setup. what we are trying to do is talk more to consumers than to brands and we feel that if we can change the behaviour of the people buying those t—shirts then maybe brands will feel more pressure to actually do something about supply chain and the problem of fa st about supply chain and the problem of fast fashion and the environment. you are saying you need to hit the consumer and make sure they understand the impact of what they are buying. we are talking to young people and giving them solutions. we are saying, firstly, from our point of view, clothes are being wasted and thrown into household bins when they could be worn again or reuse. what we are trying to say is don't ever throw clothes in the bin. and also think ab

this is from richard allen who was sent in zuckerberg's face -- place.g cannot travel to europe and did not want to defend the company and the u.k. lawmaker in charge of this particular committee is saying you knew about russian meddling as far back as 2014. romaine: you have to wonder if this strategy they have taken so far at facebook, to send surrogates to speak on behalf of the company, will pay off. joe: those blockers will become iconic whether zuckerberg or the google ones of the other hearings. i think that will be some defining images of the moment. coming up, new york's highest-paid official is not the mayor buddy debt collector for purgatory lenders. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: "what'd you miss?" let's get the latest installment in our special series on predatory lenders. they have a quieter way of collecting debt. city official who empties bank accounts nationwide keep the cut for himself. earned one point $7 million last year giving him the most lucrative job in new york city government. he was more the story, is zach. i did not know you could

richard allen was grilled this morning by lawmakers from nine different countries but the documents wereaken by british investigators from the american app developer was on a business trip to london. facebook is fighting the release of the documents. mark zuckerberg was invited to the hearing but he declined to attend. >> we need to do more in terms of cooperation between countries and with private actors but the devastating effects of what is happening are there. >>> facebook has lost more than $100 billion in value since the cambridge analytica scandal back in march millions of users had their data compromised. >>> a police department in alabama publicly expressing condolences to the makilled in an officer involved shooting. that shooting led to protests in hoover, alabama, south of birmingham. in bradford junior in the chaos after an early shooting at a crowded mall thanksgiving night. at first police said bradford was responsible for the earlier shooting but the police later said he was probably not the gunman and the actual shooter got away. >>> the ohio man accused of driving his c

from ceo mark zuckerberg but instead, facebook send their vice president of policy solutions, richard allenions about when facebook new of efforts by russians to use fake news to influence the election. >> the one that we were aware of earlier was attempts to hack accounts. so we became aware of this group. we understood something about their operations. we subsequently release information to suggest that the same group had created some of these pages and we are using the pages and apps to focus on discord. >> a british lawmaker headed up the uk's inquiry into disinformation and says he's obtain confidential facebook documents that could further convict the company. is looking to make those documents public next week. >>> general motors is lashing out against its ceo one day after the company announced it would close five facilities and layoff 14,000 workers. on twitter, the president said he was very disappointed in gm and was considering cutting government subsidies to the auto manufacturer. it wasn't immediately clear what subsidies the president was talking about. the only subsidy that

the man taking mark zuckerberg's place was facebook‘s european policy director, richard allen.billionaires from california. so mr zuckerberg's decision not to appear here at westminster to me speaks volumes. don't you see that by using the same tactics of misinformation, rather than being accountable, that you have lost public trust and cannot be trusted to police yourselves? i'm not going to disagree with you that we have damaged public trust through some of the actions we have ta ken. againjust for the record on the issue of the hiring of this outside firm, mark zuckerberg himself said that was not what he expected of us. he was not personally responsible for the hiring. an engineer at facebook notified the company in october 2014 that entities with russian ip addresses had been using a pinterest api key to pull over 3 billion data points a day through the ordered friends api. if russian ip addresses were pulling down a huge amount of data from the platform, was that reported or was that just kept as so often seems to be the case, just kept within the family and not talked ab

instead sent its vice president of policy solutions, richard allen.oyees signed a letter opposing plans for a project in china. initiative would further enable chinese state surveillance. the letter was signed initially by at least 10 employees, mainly software engineers and researchers. google says project dragonfly is only exploratory. global news, 24 hours a day, on-air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg. trade and interest rates remain front and center for markets as investors await jerome powell's speech on monday and that dinner date for presidents trump and xi over the weekend. we are joined by kathleen hays and our china correspondent, tom mackenzie. tom, saying the u.s. is coming into it from a position of strength. are we expecting the u.s. to adopt a hard-nosed approach? what are the chances of progress? tom: we've been parsing the comments of larry kudlow, advisor to trump, and commentary out of china as well. wasow saying that trump rel

panel will put richard allen in the hot seat tomorrow i head of the hearing they have obtained internal facebook documents which sued alleged that facebook's policies restricting data access were anti competitive it created an app to find bikini photos collins writing to facebook our interest here is how facebook restricts developer access under these new rules, whether they are enforced and what consent users have about this. facebook's allen responding to collins saying that they consider the app developer's claims to be without merit we'll have to see what comes out of this tomorrow very early new york time back over to you >> yeah. stocks up 3.8% today next we'll have the close. and we have jay cla i tyton joig i to talk about regulation. keept right here we are talking cnbc, first in business worldwide ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan. [ding] >>> welcome back looki

lawmakers from nine countries are grilling vice president richard allen for public policy for misleadingout the day on your fe platforms it's kpix.com. >>> welcome back. have some mass transit delays to tell you. 72, 72r and 74 will be detoured. capital corridor 522, 523, and 526 delayed. and southbound train 216 departing late. >>> we're tracking that rain with the first storm system of the week. you can see the rain for the north bay this morning. sdoomg in from yucaiya point arena getting that ran this morning. we'll see light to moderate rain as we head through the day. the impact of ot wind on the low side but the wet roadways especially as we head through the afternoon and evening will be the greatest impact of this storm more powerful storm wednesday into thursday. ♪ >>> good morning to our viewers in the west. welcome back to cbs this morning. >> ahead, gm announces plans to lay off thousands of workers and stop building some cars. we'll talk to fortune magazine's lee gallagher about how the changes mark a potential turning point for the u.s. auto industry and its workers. >>> he

instead they sent the facebook vp of policy, richard allen, who faced a lot of, shall we say criticismuckerberg didn't show up to answer questions from this tribunal of canadian, brazilian, irish, latvian, nine countries and their lawmakers wanted answer from facebook's chief. this comes off "the new york times" explosive report on hiring opposition research party. also, by the way, facebook admitting they did hire die finers. they did do work on soros and zuckerberg saw emails from the opposition research group. the stock is down 40% from july. stuart: i think mr. zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg are hunkering down. maybe bunker mentality. >> i think their excuse, we already done our testimony in front of congress, both houses of congress, senate and house. stuart: didn't do them much good either. thank you, susan. trump making a lot of headlines. many of them, going after general motors. ripping plan to shut production at several plants in north america. i have a question here. what will the judge say about that? he is a libertarian kind of guy. does he approve the president jawboning

facebook's vice president of policy solutionsls richard allen sat at the hearing next to an empty chairzuckerberg who did not show. consumer advocates in europe are filing complaints against google. they allege the way the search giant tracks users' locations, it violates the european union's data privacy law. joining us right now is judge andrew napolitano. it is good to see you this morning. >> good morning. maria: your thoughts on all this? >> great britain, the parliament doesn't like it when you don't accept an invitation. this empty chair for mark zuckerberg reminds me of political debates. you've probably ben throug beenh this, where the adversary doesn't show and you have an t empty share. maria: they're under pressure, go explain yourself. >> agreed. i guess his people have decided this wasn't the time and place to do it. he wasn't legally compelled to be there. as for the essence of what's going on, the european union actually has stronger privacy laws than we do here in the united states. and some of the data mining gathering and sharing that facebook and google, for example,

facebo facebook's richard allen, vice president of policy solutions, will go to those hearings instead meeting with president xi jinping of china at the g20 summit next week. listen to what the president said yesterday about reaching a trade deal with china. roll tape. >> china is right now paying us, right now, paying us billions of dollars a month. that's never happened before. and soon, they are going to be paying us many, many billions of dollars a month. but china wants to make a deal and we can make a deal, we will. charles: joining us, john lonski, managing director of moody's. so how do you handicap this meeting next week? between the two presidents? >> well, i wouldn't buy today in anticipation of good news next week. however, there's always that possibility we get an upside surprise. china's economy is not doing that well. the chinese stock market is down 22% for the year to date. perhaps china will probably try to make some type of offer, some move that will be pleasing to the united states. charles: we heard from michael pillsbury who has great insight on this and advises t

richard crowe, senior vice president at booze allen hamilton. thanks again for being here, folks. if you could please stand. i'd like to begin by swearing you guys in. we are asking that you take an oath to solemnly swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to provide is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. if you would reply, i do. thank you. please be seated. let the reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. dr. lawrence, thank you for being here. you're now recognized for five minutes. mr. lawrence: good afternoon, chairman arrington, ranking member o'rourke, and members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting us here today to discuss the implementation of the forever g.i. bill. the forever g.i. bill requires we develop new software which changes the way the monthly housing allowance is paid. the development and the deployment of the new software has not gone as planned. we did not meet the august 1 deadline and we are continuing to work on getting this right. but let me explain this delay briefly. historically we've used

richard nixon. you didn't have people out there the way allen dershowitz every other night apparently on fox news claiming that what we're seeing is not what we're seeing. >> it was a very different allen dershowitz back then, i would say. this is not the same person at all. it's -- it's -- of course i don't agree with anything he is saying. i do agree with everything ken dilanian just said. that was all correct. and i think what's interesting about whitaker is how long is he going to last? he didn't stop this indictment and this plea, and that's what he was clearly hired to do, was to get in the way of any further activity especially anything that would point a finger at the president. and so failing to do that is exactly what got sessions in trouble, and i am sure that he is not going to last long as the acting attorney general. >> we're expanding our live cover edge here with more guests on this important subject. time o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg opinion, the author "of trump nation." david corn, and both nbc contributors. david corn, i want to go to you on apparently what allen dershowitz i

allen wdulles. hail boggs, john sherman cooper, republican senator from kentucky. richard b russell; democratic senator from georgia. and gerald r ford, republican representative from michigan. the warn commission had the mandates it needed to do the job. it could subpoena witnesses, could invoke the cooperation of any agency of the united states government. could and did use the fbi and the secret service as its investigative arm. this is the result. on september 24th, 1964, the commission presented its findings in the form of this 888 page report to the president. two months later, it published these 26 additional volumes. the exhibits and hearings on which the report was based. dan rather at the scene of the assassination. >> the basic story pieced together by that warren commission report is this: a man named lee harvey oswald crouched in this window as the president passed below. oswald fired three shots. one missed. one struck both the president and john conyersely riding with him. the third shot and killed the president. then ran down the stairs. left the building o

richard aanson is deploying from horizontal launch vehicle. they are using a 747 to launch payloads from over there specific and straddle launch from the late paul allens also focused on horizontal launch capabilities. in addition to be billionaire class, we also have firefly and rocket lab. rocket lab just did another successful flight earlier this week. so we are seeing a lot of players, a lot of entrepreneurial players coming to this space and serving this growing launch market. taylor: we are waiting to see the first landing soon. sean: there it is. can we call this a success now because it has landed? it's half a success, because we got the first stage back. haslieve we also see it ejected the -- which we are not planning on recovering during this flight. one, we are not -- it looks like it's going to make it to its transfer orbit. in about 30 minutes after launch, it eventually makes its way to deploying the satellite. this is pretty incredible, if we just take a step back. of course this is the 18th mission this year, tying the record for 2017. sean, how many more are we expecting to get this year, and does that continue to increase next year a

four seats, and one who lost was richard nixon running for governor of california, planning for the last two wee to make the big push. he felt that the fact that allen the attentionto the democratic president, essentially meant that he would lose. >> woodruff: reminding us once again that the best laid plans don't always turn out that way or, you know, the political fortunes can flip.li >>they do. >> woodruff: in an instant. michael beschloss, tcnk you very mh. great to have your insights right now. we'll be tal throughout the night. let's go to william brangham in the news room to talk about election curity tonight. are there problems? >> thanks, judy. there have been some problems. we reported on some of these earlier. emts of varied proin varied states today with the mechanics of voting, long pol lines, problems with voting machines, people waiting for hours and hours. we've also been lo at very closely for any hint that there's been any kind yber attack on our voting system. to help us pars through what we do and do not know i'm joined by any thatgenic -- nina jenkowitz. welcome. >> thanks for having me. so today i understand d.h.s. and the f.b.