i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources." our weekly look at the story behind the story, and how the media really works. n how the news gets made. there is breaking news on trump's legal team, and this news from a shocking resignation letter. it was written by colonel ralph peters, calling fox a propaganda machine. do others agree with him? >>> and this time really is different. the march for our life social security over. what is next? the co-editor of the marjory stoneman douglas student newspaper is here to talk about that. >>> new leaps about president trump's behavior. we'll talk with eric bolling who thinks he can help plug the problem, the leaks. >>> first, what will president trump do to distract from this? yes, the president's problem with women getting the "60 minutes" treatment tonight. the country's highest rated news program is meeting with stormy daniels who was paid hush money by trump's lawyer before the election. that ten seconds is all we have seen. cbs has not released any clips of daniels speaking. we know

david swerdlick, cnn commentator, and brian stelter, host of reliable sources. and michael zeldin, former special assistant to robert mueller at the justice department. good to see you all. let's begin with this latest news from dowd, his statement. and whether this was a template for the potential end of the mueller investigation. so michael, trump's attorney calls the mccabe firing brilliant and courageous, and says he hopes rod rosenstein follows this example of jeff sessions and ends the mueller probe. the attorney says, of course, he's speaking out on his own behalf. there were two things there to tackle. is he indeed speaking on his own behalf or is this an extension of the sentiment of the president? and does this now serve as a template in the removal or end of the mueller investigation? >> so it's hard to know whether or not dowd is speaking on his own behalf or on behalf of the president. it's just impossible to figure that out. i expect that if dowd is speaking on his own behalf, he is reflecting the sentiment of the president, so either way, i think

before we do, i want to bring in laurie, also host of cnn's reliable sources, brian stelter as well as matthew rosenberg, who broke the story on cambridge analytica. laurie, what's your sense of how serious mark zuckerberg is taking this, how concerned he is about the fallout for facebook, not just for its users but also its reputation in washington and on wall street? >> reporter: i think this is a really big deal. i'll tell you something, anderson, he doesn't like tow do press. he doesn't like to even go on camera. he even said as we were sitting there, this is serious. i don't even like to do this. he knows he has to. this is a huge moment for facebook. i've been covering this company for nearly a decade, and when you look at what's happened and you look at all the issues they've faced that you talked about in your show over the last years, you know, i think this is a moment of crisis, and people really want to know if they can trust the company. and i think the general consensus not just in america but all around the world is can facebook be trusted with your data? what's happening

. >> joining us now to explain all this is cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter. an, i think we first need you to kind of explain what the relationships are here, because a lot of nuances. >> yes. this is a story on the front page of the morning paper. it says something to the effect of a firm that helped the trump campaign exploited facebook data. what does that mean? it starts well before president trump entered the race in 2015. there was a researcher, a professor who went ahead and harvested facebook profiles. a couple hundred thousand people's data was taken by this personality quiz you could fill out. re remember seeing these on facebook a few years ago? you would have to fill on you a few questions and tell you more about yourself. one of the quizzes was a way to get data from users. not just your own data but your friend's data as well. ls all of a sudden this professor had 50 million facebook profiles and he shared was information with cambridge. it details voters to know what kind of ads and messages are going to appeal to those voters and cause them to t

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brian stelter has the details. >> reporter: hey there, yes. misuse of facebook data is at the center of this scandal involving both facebook and cambridge analytica. cambridge analytica is a consulting firm that has been in the news largely for its 2016 work in the presidential election here in the united states there have been various claims about how important cambridge an it will that was to donald trump's election victory, with some giving the company a lot of credit for its detailed voter profiles, enabling the trump campaign to target individual voters. of course lots of other political campaigns here in the u.s. and all around the world are trying to do the same thing. it's an increasingly common campaign tactic. but the allegation now, according to "the new york times" and the observer newspapers is that facebook data was misused, mishandled by cambridge analytica, perhaps involving the trump campaign. the trump campaign denies that the data was used during the campaign. however, this whistle-blower says otherwise. says he saw gigabyte

. >> let's bring in host of "reliable sources" brian stelter.ng to be composed but i couldn't hold it in on that one. >> you're making me hungry with the waffle house talk. >> do you have waffle houses up in new york? i wonder how they knew about that. >> not many in new york but i've had my share of waffle house trips when i'm on the road. i was curious about this episode because of that alec baldwin and donald trump back and forth the other way. first, the president misspelled alec agency name as alex and campaigned about his performance on "snl." i was curious if baldwin would be there since he is recovering from hip surgery. there he was. he didn't really address the tweets but a bunch of jokes about the week's news. here is a clip of baldwin playing trump and talking about the tariff story and referring to the new movie "black panther." they are all beating up, chinese, japan, waconda. all right? waconda is laughing at us. they have flying cars and people in waconda. i announce the steel and aluminum tariffs and people are going nuts about

brian stelter joining me now. it's just so odd. everyone expected that this might be a chance for them to make an appearance because they have been so mia. any expectation we're going to hear from them today? >> there is actually. axios is reporting that zuckerberg will break the silence today. there's a lot of questions about trust here. when users logon to facebook, we know there's a tradeoff when we log on and know our data might be ugsed to target ads but this case involving cambridge a analyt analytica suggests gross misuse of data for political campaigning. when a product is free that means you are the product. that's very true on facebook. users are the product and advertisers pay billions to target iiz izusers of advertise it's creating more awareness of that basic fact. in this case zuckerberg needs to address cambridge analytica and how it misuse the personal data. >> this is coming as the ceo of cambridge analytica has been suspended. we're learning more about how close he says he was to the trump campaign. tell us about

brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> and though daniels did not refer to michael cohen when describing the alleged threat in the parking lot, cohen's attorney says his client had nothing to do with the incident and doesn't believe it even occurred. >> in a letter to daniels' attorney sent after the interview aired, brent blakley, the attorney for michael cohen wrote this. "i hereby demand that you and your client cease and desist from making any further false and defamatory statements about my client, that you immediately retract and apologize to mr. cohen through the national media for your defamatory statement, end quote. analyst and attorney and legal affairs commentator areva martin joins me via skype from chicago. michael avenatti has implied he has pictoral evidence of the alleged affair with this tweet posted just days before the "60 minutes" interview went to air. and he says in this, you see the picture of a cd next to a vault. and he says this, a picture is worth a thousand words. how many words is this worth? #60minutes, #please deny it. not all of our evidence mentioned will be

brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> brian, thank you. though daniels did not refer to michael cohen when describing the alleged threat in the parking lot, cohen's attorney says his client had nothing to do with the incident and doesn't believe it even occurred. >> in a letter to daniels' attorney sent after the interview aired, brent blakley, the attorney for michael cohen wrote this. "i hereby demand that you and your client cease and desist from making any further false and defamatory statements about my client, that you immediately retract and apologize to mr. cohen through the national media for your defamatory statement, end quote. cnn legal analyst and attorney and legal affairs commentator areva martin joins me now via skype from chicago. great to have you with us as always. >> thanks, rosemary. >> so now that we've heard from both karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, we see that their stories share a number of similarities in relation to references allegedly made by donald trump to his wife melania and his daughter ivanka and simil

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. >> brian stelter's out front.about bombing and south korea invading north korea, we're supposed to forget that? >> he's very hawkish. so many people have been concerned about this news, and i don't think it's possible to say okay everything i said today doesn't count. a big part of why he was hired was because he was on fox talking this way. as you said, the latest example of this pipeline. heather nowart, mercedes schlapp. larry kudlow, now you have fox regular joe digenova joining the legal team. he wasn't paid by fox. he was on the network all the time. it is remarkable, the number of hires we're seeing from tv. >> it's a pattern. people who are veterans, used to being on tv. the president watches cable and particularly fox news. if he watches you and likes you it looks like the white house edition of "the apprentice", and i don't say that lightly. >> he's treating people's tv appearances as audition tapes. i saw a comic last week say he wanted to have trump tv, he's creating it in the white house. he wants the

i'm brian stelter.berg and i know you know exactly what i'm talking about. he seemed to be taking a page out of the trump playbook earlier this week yelling about the mueller probe, suggesting it was a witch hunt, but then of course, at the end of the week he cooperated and we should get into that. first back in time earlier in the week when nunberg went on the notorious tv tour. he gave more than a dozen interviews, many of them on television, starting with k.d. turr on msnbc, gloria borger and jake tapper. he got legal advice on ari melber's show, erin burnett said she smelled alcohol on his breath. the next day he changed his tune. nunberg said he would cooperate and that's what he did on friday. he testified to the grand jury just the latest former trump aide to talk with robert mueller's investigators. what's notable now is that he says this is not a witch hunt. here's what he told abc's tara palmieri. >> i melted tv down that day. i wanted to show what this independent council, this independent in

brian. appreciate it! >> thank you so much. >> stelter, thank you very much! >> stelter! 's got more, stelter, on "reliable sources" at 11:00 a.m. eastern right hear on cnn. >>> thank you so much for starting your morning with us, as always, we appreciate it. and we hope you make some good memories today. >> there is a lot to talk about in the next hour. all of the events of the weekend with the firing of the deputy fbi director and the president's response there. and then looking ahead to next week, "inside politics" with john king starts after this short break. the more you know the the commute is worth it.me, for all the work you pour into this place, you sure get a lot more out of it. you and that john deere tractor... so versatile, you can keep dreaming up projects all the way home. it's a longer drive. but just like a john deere, it's worth it. nothing runs like a deere. now you can own a 1e sub-compact tractor for just $99 a month. learn more at your john deere dealer. oh, look... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrin

i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources."media really works. n how the news gets made. there is breaking news on trump's legal team, and this news from a shocking resignation letter. it was written by colonel ralph peters, calling fox a propaganda machine. do others agree with him? >>> and this time really is different. the march for our life social security over. what is next? the

cnn has learned that he actually spoke to roseanne barr on the phone yesterday, and our brian stelter with more on this. we know, of course, the president loves those big ratings. what do we know about this call? >> he called roseanne to thank her for the ratings and also for the support. they've been friends going back decades and she supported him during the campaign. that makes her aun usun unusuale in the entertainment industry. we all know the a-list stars have a liberal bent. so in living and dining rooms, their expressing the trump point of view. just to put this in context, if i launched a sitcom, and you launched a drama and you had 5 million viewers. that would be considered a hit. in programs these days, there's so much competition, so to see a show launch with 18 million viewers, yeah, people love reboots. they love a show coming back to life after 20 years. but there's also something going on about the show reflecting political diversity. >> yeah, because there is political diversity. i think it probably reflects, you know, when some folks go home for thanksgiving dinner

we want to bring in brian stelter, amy kremer and cnn analyst lara coats also with us, and u.s. district attorney kim waily and mark geragos. finally i want to get your take, what is your immediate reaction to your reading? >> stormy daniels is saying this is about the cover-up, the payment before election day, how that payment was arranged, what it meant for her to be silent in this way, and what she has to do to defend herself. it's one thing to read it, it's another thing to see it. and as we see the clips tonight, as we see this woman testifying to this for the first time on camera, i think this will make a difference. in the same way that karen mcdougal a few days ago made a difference. not just read a headline, see the passion, see the emotion on the person's face, i think that makes a big difference. the one other quote i will put out, at the end of this interview, if the president's watching, i want him to know, he knows i'm telling the truth. >> and credibility is key, right, laura? >> regardless of whether she's credible, if she had the affair or not, it may be a foreg

brian stelter is with us. our senior media correspondent. brian, so he's gone to cnbc this time. a long-time friend of the president, larry kudlow. a long-time anchor and analyst on cnbc to come in and run economics over at the national economic council. >> yeah, we know that when president trump wants advice or affirmation, he frequently turns on the tv. but this is one of the best examples yet of that trump tv feedback loop. it's not only that the president live tweets cable news shows, gets ideas from cable news hosts, and sometimes calls them up after they're on the air. now we actually see him poaching a host from cable television, in this case larry kudlow, as you've been talking about. kudlow has been a host on cnbc for many years. he's one of the best known faces on cnbc. a conservative commentator, someone who's been promoting free market capitalism all of his life and on television for many years. he was also an informal adviser to trump during the campaign. so they've been in touch. this is nothing new necessarily. what is new is to see this cnbc host -- he's now a con

joining me now, senior media correspondent, brian stelter. z?akers and regulators are talking about it. so far zuckerberg has not said a word. according to the company he and sheryl sand berg are working around the clock trying to figure out what went wrong and working on a response. maybe there will be more from facebook. today the stock is down another 2% billions of dollars of value falling offer the company. we've seen more than 50 billion wiped away this week. that's a sign how serious it is being taken by wall street. >> you have both republicans and democrats really ticked off and wanting to see him on capitol hill. so far he's been nonresponsive to that. senior media reporter. there's a big media story from fox news, a dramatic exit. >> a remarkable exit letter by fox news contributor ralph peters, a long time analyst on the channel, big critic of president obama, fan of president trump. it's remarkable to hear this person of all people saying fox is a propaganda machine, we can put on screen, part of what he said in this dramatic exit l

brian stelter at cnn, oh, my gosh this is a serious question of his mental fitness.put the doctor out there and they started asking questions, does he watch too much tv and have more salad. >> the gorilla channel. melissa: he keeps showing them to be the partisans that they are. i don't know if he should be more careful because they fall into the trap. >> i mean it is funny to see, many ways donald trump is the paid piper of the media. every day he calls a new tune. they fall for the bait every time. they have been doing it for years. i think moving forward the thing i would love to see, voters decided they trust republicans, economy, jobs, national security by double digits. i would think moving forward i would like trump to be boring, stick to the script, stick to the message. i want him to have republican majorities. i don't want the opposition party to have clean shots. be more boring and stick it to him in 2019. melissa: i don't think he is capable of being more boring. everyone has to get a funny bone out. if you don't have one, grow one. we have several more y

the biggest moments of the night, host of reliable sources, brian stelter. good morning.ore or less or different than expected? >> in terms of the performances, in terms of the show, i would say it was mostly aspe expected. this was not, at the end of the day, what we remembered as a show about the shape of water winning best picture. this was hollywood in transition. six months after harvey weinstein, you see hollywood trying to put on a new face and moving into a more progressive future. and common talking about nra. he said i'm for peace, love, and women's rights. jimmy kimmel saying i wish i was a woman. you had six female winners, 33 male winners. hollywood has persistent in equity iin inities that still exist. >> and asking every single woman to stand. >> i'm hyperventilating. if i fall of, pick me up, because i've got some things to say. if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room don't. the filmmakers, producers, the writers. look around. we all have stories to tell and projects that need financed. ladies and

we have host of "reliable sources" brian stelter and media and business reporter hadas gold.ost happened and why? >> it was really fascinating in court. the entire morning was taken up with the two counsels conferring with the judge and the judge turns on this white noise machine so no one can hear what's going on. we heard the president of sling tv, he was sent the transcript of the testimony of the witness before him by his own sling counsel which is not allowed in court. the witnesses are supposed to be in this vacuum, not supposed to know what the questions were to the other witnesses. the doj's lawyers let the judge know this was the case. then the judge had to decide whether he was going to strike this witness from even testifying. that would have been a huge blow to the doj. warren schlichting made some compelling points. he said, listen, if time warner and at&t become one, they're always going to be in a win-win situation when we negotiate to try to carry places like cnn on our platform. if they raise the prices, then we make less money, they make morme money. if we c

. >> samantha vinograd and brian stelter and julian zeleny, thank you for being here.n "state of the union" today with jake tapper senators ron johnson and elizabeth warren on show with the jake. "state of the union" today at 9:00 a.m. eastern, right here on cnn. >>> still to come, "the new york times" says the president is looking to add an impeachment lawyer to his white house team. what does that mean for the special counsel's russia investigation and the investigations happening in congress? >> steve bannon's message to a far right nationalist party. let them call you racist. be proud of that. >>> one of the victims of the california veterans home shooting was pregnant when she was killed and we have got new details on the gunman. today, smart planning is helping the new new york rise higher than ever. as the world leader in unmanned aerial systems, we're attracting the world's best talent to central new york. and turning the airport into a first-class transportation hub. all while growing urban areas into vibrant places to live and work. across new york state, we'

. >> brian stelter, what stood out to you in zuckerberg's comments. >> he is looking to the future thinking to avoid some of the embarrassments of the past. in scandal that's consumed almost a week is about data from 2014 that might have been misused in the 2016 presidential election. but we're now close to mid-terms. people are thinking about 2020. as zuckerberg it's not just about the u.s. but countries around the world. facebook is now a global player. it influences elections whether it wants to be a part of them or not. so zuckerberg is saying root he things, talking the talk. we have to see if this company will walk the walk in the future. but i thought this was a positive step that he is talking about security, saying they're hiring more people, trying to manage what is all over facebook. because let's make no mistake, the russian trolls that tried to attack the 2016 in they're getting more creative in future elections. and it's not just russia. >> you mentioned the 2016 election. he talked about election meddling, joult, let's listen and we'll talk. >> know wlag you know now do you b

let's bring in host of "reliable sources" brian stelter and cnn politics media and business reporterdas, what happened? >> it's really interesting. it almost felt like we were in the upside down yesterday in court. what we were hearing is at&t and time warner's lawyer arguing that time warner content is not that popular or important. that's because the government's lawsuit against at&t and time warner rests on the idea that time warner content is so important, live sports, live news, what we're doing right now, that if at&t got hold of it, they would have too much leverage over other companies, over other distributors, and, therefore, it should not be in their hands. what at&t's lawyer was saying was, hey, in the top 500 most watched shows, are any turner content? the answer is no. their competitors like a dish tv executive on the stand said we're looking at most hours watched and turner does very well in most hours watched. it's an unusual argument that at&t is trying to make that, hey, they're not that popular, but it's all part of this legal strategy for at&t to prove the case tha

. >>> joining us to talk about this is brian stelter and aaron loss and will ripley. room full of journalists that the president doesn't get along with, how did he do? >> certainly both at the fund-raiser in the morning, at the gridiron club in the evening, the president was playing up to the crowd. he was performing in a way we rarely actually see on camera. you know? the gridiron club used to be off the record meaning we wouldn't see the quotes. nowadays, it's off camera meaning we can't hear the president give his jokes but there was funny lines at the gridiron club' talking about needing to go to bed to get up to watch the morning shows. he talked about jared having getting through security, referring to jared kushner. there were finney lines and well-received lines. i think it relates to the fund-raiser earlier in the day. the president seemed to be trying to play to the crowd at this closed fund-raiser. kudos to cnn for getting a tape and we could see and hear what the president was saying that that comment about china should drive morning headlines. an interest

joining me now, brian stelter.mber is huge. 18 million viewers. >> it really is remarkable both as a business story and also as a cultural story. a new sitcom in a world where there are thousands of options and you are lucky to get 5 million, 10 billion viewers. roseanne bringing in 18 million viewers is a testament both to the idea of reboots, everything old is new again, people loved it before, they love it again, and also a testament to where the country is. here is a screen that shows both the ratings for roseanne which drew a higher audience than the season finale almost 20 years ago. that never happens. we put the "60 minutes" ratings on here as well to put it in perspective. all things trump seem to be ratings gold right now. especially that stormy daniels interview which set a record for 6 on minutes, a decade record, it is another example of anything related to trump, to the culture wars, seems to have an appeal. and roseanne show is interesting. she is a trump supporter and some of that drama players out

let's bring in cnn politics media and business reporter hadask gold and brian stelter. what are we looking for? >> today we'll hear from more witnesses including our boss john martin and he's actually one of the government witnesses which means he'll probably be what's called a hostile direct which means it is not going to be the typical witness from a certain side where there are a little bit more friendlier and on the same terms. that's going to be an interesting witness today. we're also expecting in the near future other witnesses such as representatives from youtube as well as from sling tv, the new over-the-top services that people are using. they'll try to make the case that this merger will hurt them whereas at&t will try to make the case that this is necessary to bring more efficient services to people and also that they need this to compete with places like youtube, like a facebook, like a netflix. >> hadas, let me -- so if martin is there as a hostile direct, what will be the main argument of this -- of the doj here, what will they try to establish with him?

brian stelter, i know you have your eye close on that. thank you very much. >>> back to the breaking story today involving this woman. stormy daniels. and daylights of a lie detector test she took over her alleged affair with president trump. a close friend of stormy's who says she can corroborate some of her story joins me live to discuss coming up. at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient crowne plaza. originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. looking for a hotel that fits... whoooo. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. he's a nascar champion who's she's a world-class swimmer wh

. >> joining us is sirage hashme and brian stelter and julian zeleny.n, you have a piece in the atlantic this weekend that compares this march and movement to the march on washington in the early '60s. you say there are specific elements that these student activists do not have that they will need if they want the similar legislative changes that the civil rights marchers had. at the top of the list, savvy advocate in washington and members of congress who are willing to spend some political capital. >> they had found some voices with capitol hill and president kennedy ekennedy who were willing to spend their political capital on the issue the marchers wanted. the marchers need to find those voices. they don't really yet have them. they also need to organize beyond the march and that will be essential to turn this energy into legislation and that includes a line with other well-organized groups on other issues that are willing to support this important push for gun control legislation. >> a lot of politicians were reacting to all of this yesterday on tw

it sounds like, brian stelter, he is acknowledging when he goes back to the cambridge analytica piece, and he thought he had the certifications from cambridge analytica, that the data retrieved by these personality quizes had been zapped, deleted. >> right. >> it wasn't. >> he's putting a lot of the blame on this shadowy consulting firm and their wrongdoing. however, this entire scandal has brought up the issue of facebook not knowing what happens with our data that it has when it's spread out to these other companies. what we see zuckerberg doing here is saying we'll tighten up those controls, make sure when you're across other websites using your facebook identity we're not going to give as much away. this is the first step he's taking, a long statement you're reading from zuckerberg after four or five days of silence, trying to come out and reassure users you can trust facebook. i would call this a first, not a second or third step. there is more to come here. our colleague laurie segall is about to sit down with zuckerberg in enlo park, a big interview on "ac 360." we've not heard

joining us laurie segall and brian stelter.here's a meeting the day with facebook staffers about this controversy. facebook under fire? >> they'll have a company-wide meeting. i'm told don't overblow this, it's not all hands. it's an important topic. mark zuckerberg, let me say, is not leading the meeting. >> where is mark zuckerberg? >> he normally doesn't lead these weekly meetings. a lot of employees behind the scenes have a lot of questions as we have a lot of questions. it goes back to the point you just asked of where is mark zuckerberg involved in all this. a lot of folks are wondering where he is publicly, where is his voice, his face, as this company is reaching a moment of crisis. >> he lost $5 billion yesterday, the company lost $37 billion at least on paper. wall street is concerned there will need to be regulation of facebook -- >> finally some movement from congress. >> they're fed up with lawyers and lobbyists coming to capitol hill and not the ceos. >> let's talk about the channel 4 video. what did they dig up a

. >>> joining us now, cnn correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter, and now showingictures of the people he has fired in color and the others he has been interested in hiring, i should say the though ones who he has hired and not fired and hard to keep it all straight here, brian, but should it come as a surprise that this president would be interested in hiring these people knowing how much he watches cable tv? >> well, it is certainly what he knows. he views some of the people's television appearances as audition tapes. pete hegset is in contention for the va secretary job, and he is a war veteran and now a fox and friends host on the weekend and that is the credential that he values. somebody who is on television, and knows how to perform and looks the part. we have seen it repeatedly in the president is si that the president wants somebody who is looking the part. a tlapd is what we have seen time and time again. and larry kudlow, we know he is joining the administration for sure, but there is some other names talked about as well, and potential television commen

cnn's senior media correspondent brian stelter joins us now.f layers to this story. help us make sense of it all. >> it all involves cambridge analytica. it's this mysterious firm that promises to help political campaigns and other organizations target voters, to microtarget them, to figure out exactly what you as a voter wants to hear any given time and deliver that ad to you. cambridge analytica has been out there selling those services for years. the trump campaign along with the ted cruz campaign were two of the campaigns that bought their services in 2016. go back further. cambridge analytica in its infancy partnered with a professor who happens to work at cambridge university, no relation to the company, who created this personal quiz on facebook. i have done some of these, you have probably done some of these. most of these are fine, no evil purpose behind it, but in this case, this personality quiz that about 250,000 people took, the data was used by the professor and then handed off to cambridge analytica and used to create profiles of

brian stelter joins us. the stock is down because investors are saying there is no way facebook is out of this unscathed. >> second day of losses. amid all this, we haven't heard from mark zuckerberg or sharyl sandberg, a mystery why they left this to other executives who released statements saying we're going to make sure things are better in the future. facebook suffered a series of these kind of self-inflicted wounds in recent years with regard to how the site was misused during the u.s. presidential election, and now more broadly about how much privacy we all give up when we use facebook. i think we all use facebook, we know we're making a trade-off when you use a free product. you know ads will be targeted to you. that's not necessarily a scandal. a scandal is the idea this professor in the uk was taking data, transferring it over to political consulting firm, which violated facebook's policies, and this data sat on the servers for years even though they said they deleted it, maybe at the didn't, that's

cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter is here. how many?on't be in until this afternoon. normally "60 minutes" gets 10, 12 million viewers, this was well over 20 million viewers. according to the overnight numbers that came in, this was the highest rated episode of "60 minutes" in a decade. that puts into perspective what a significant moment this was for stormy daniels, for anderson cooper and "60 minutes" and maybe for president trump. the ratings work this way, the show benefits from the ncaa basketball lead-in. was always going to be a big program, big episode of "60 minutes ." game went into overtime, so the ratings were higher. you have to go back to 2008, to find an episode as highly rated as last night. that's when barack and michelle obama gave the first post election interview . think about that, presidential interview, with the obamas, and now stormy daniels ranks right up there. >> you can see how this cuts through more than some of the other stories, this is the highest rated "60 minutes" since 2008, fascinating. there are peop

i'm brian stelter. tweets about robert mueller, the potential for mueller's firing, it is a story that's dominating news coverage including here on cnn once again this weekend. i have heard a lot of cries, a lot of calls on social media and on tv that this is not normal. none of this is normal and yet some conservative media critics say that all of those -- all that commentary, and people pointing that out are actually undermining the media's own credibility. let's talk about media credibility in this unique moment in time request ben shapiro. he is the editor in chief of "the daily wire". >> you have said the media shouldn't say how unnormal these circumstances are. why is that? >> this was not particularly normal, so it's hard for me to argue the media should say the president is acting in nonnormal fashion, but with that said, because the media has said not normal for so long, for over a year, two years at this point, it becomes the boy who cried wolf. even if it is not normal, you say the media is s

. >> thank you very much to brian stelter, and thank you for joining us. our breaking news coverage continues with the interview with karen mcdougal. >>> breaking news involving the adviser who will be at the president's elbow if it ever comes down to pushing the button. a three-star general is leaving, his replacement, a former ambassador, a tv pundit who's been called by some a loose cannon. and my interview with karen mcdougal, a relationship that began a few months after melania trump gave birth. if launmelania is watching this what would you want her to know? >> ooh, it's a tough one. >> or say to her. >> yeah, what requecan you say t i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i wouldn't want it done to me. i'm sorry. >> more kara mcdougal tonight. thatt that's ahead. and the naming of john bolton as mcmaster's replacement. something the white house said last week was not happening. >> sarah, you took to twitter last night to ensure the public that mcmaster's job was safe. but has the president spoken directly to mcmaster, carson, scholtens to tell them that their jobs we

i'm joined by cnn media correspondent, host of "reliable sources" brian stelter. did mark zuckerberg do what he needed to do here? >> a valuable first step. that's definitely true. facebook still sometimes acts and seems tliek company launched at harvard more than a decade ago, when it's got the power to shape elections and wars. mark zuckerberg, you hear him owning up to that. >> some. >> some, yes. he should have said, yes, el' testify. >> that was the number one question he should have been prepared to answer going on, and the answer that gets you out of trouble is yes. >> even some of his colleagues want him to say yes. zuckerberg, he's an engineer by heart. he doesn't want to talk to the press. he wants to talk to his colleagues and make cool pro zblukts he's a major ceo. i don't think he gets a jail out of free card before he studied coding. he's the ceo of a major company and he couldn't give a simple answer of e yes, i'll testify before congress if they call me next week. >> this scandal is about use of data. the issues for facebook have piled up around fa

i'm brian stelter and this is requests ree liable sources" our weekly look at the story behind the story and how the news gets made. today comparing "the apprentice" to trump's new show, the cabinet room. later a reporter who keeps breaking news about stormy daniels and that scan del hovering over the white house. >>> first looking back at this

let's discuss with brian stelter and hadas gold. you're in the courtroom every day.nt this to happen? >> well, it is all about the time line. so let's take a look at how this has all worked out. the deal was first announced a few years ago in october of 2016. then the justice department decided to sue november of 2017. the trial starts in march 2018. but there is a merger deadline of june 21, 2018. and the judge yesterday in court warned if this trial goes in to may, he doesn't think that he will be able to issue an opinion before the merger deadline he said because this is such an important case, it will be more than 200 pages. he said the level of accuracy and detail that he needs, the lawyers need to speed this up. we are going incredibly slowly. we're seeing maybe two witnesses a day. there a lot of cross-examination and redirect. and it is not going to get done this time. if he is warning about getting into may, that only leaves us about four weeks left and we've barely gotten through i think three witnesses from the justice department and we still need at&t's s

joining us, brian stelter and hadas gold. hadas, catch us up to speed.fter yesterday? >> yesterday and today are for what's called evidentiary arguments, when both sides go back and forth over what evidence should be included in this trial. at&t is trying to argue the thousands of e-mails between at&t and time warner executives, that not all of them should be submitted because not every single e-mail is necessarily an official business record. it could be some chatter. unless you have a witness on stand, you can't talk about what the e-mail meant it's not worth having. the government is arguing some of these are had docs that might reveal that at&t knew that buying time warner would stifle competition. that's part of the reason they were doing it. there's a few other issues at hand in terms of evidence including prior statements related to other media mergers. all of this will help determine whose side will have the strongest case possible because if a certain key piece of evidence is thrown out by the judge, that can completely change either side's argu

. >> that firm denies violating facebook's terms but earlier cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter spoke with our colleague anna cabrera to explain how this happened. >> cambridge analytica in its infancy who created this personality quiz, it created this app on facebook. listen, i've done some of these, you've probably done some of these. most of these are just fine, there's no evil purpose behind them. but in this case, this personality quiz which about 250,000 people took, the data from it was then used by this professor and then handed off to cambridge analytic ka and then used to create profiles of voters. now what's remarkable about this, you start with those 270,000 people, then you connect all their friends and before you know it you have 50 million facebook users's information. that's what was remarkable about using this personality guys and grab so many people's data. now, cambridge analytica says we didn't use the facebook data to help the trump campaign but a whistleblower begs to differ. he's given interview to the guardian in the uk and "the new york times" in the u.s

joining me now cnn host of reliable sources brian stelter and you made just made a great point to me, were seeing on this night versus 2017 and so many years prior. >> koreayeah. weinstein was on the red carpet. he would help actors and actresses win these fantastic prizes. six months later we learned about this disgusting behavior in his past. he was kicked out of the academy and what a difference a year makes to see his accusers on stage instead. ashley judd who was the lead of that original "the new york times" story on stage saying, a mighty chorus is saying times up right now and i thought it was important that these actresses are just at the beginning. change is going to take time. the most strike statistic for me from last night was that 39 people were on stage accepting awards. 39 winners of the oscars. only six of those winners were women. hollywood has a long way to go in terms of gender equality and it was very visible and obvious. >> not just gender equality but for all of the uproar that we saw over oscars so white, they are trying, right and there was talk about this. he

the audio leaked first by brian stelter, the hall monitor at cnn.agenda they want to push, and it's this guy is a dictator. the president could also be making a point that china has done a great job reviving. they've got a vision, goal, pride, they put china first. he looke looks at this, this isa leader, like him or not, not a free country. i don't like that, you don't like that. but he's in power for life and they have goals and we better be serious about that as whelp it's a joke and they go nuts. >> they've been pushing this trump is a dictator narrative actually before he was inaugurated. to me i find it really ironic. here is a president who his entire agenda is about decentralizing the government, giving power back to the people. making sure the citizens have their own guns. >> and money. >> and remember, it was just last week that xi jinping said you should be more like us, our citizens have no guns and we have no incidents of school shootings. the press said nothing about that. they agree with xi jinping in talking away the guns. if you're