craig silverman joins me from denver.e cut off, you believe, because he was criticizing the president? >> it's a little more complicated than that. i wrote a column expressing frustration about the things you were just speaking about. >> impeachment? >> about my colleagues to not address this impeachment hearing. they would not address the facts and i wanted to do that. three hours every saturday, i was covering the case. i had other media opportunities. i'm an independent contrator with salem. and i took those. they were frustrated about that. i was frustrated that we couldn't talk about the facts of the impeachment case and it all came to a head as i was excoriating donald trump on my show yesterday. >> who was saying you couldn't talk about the facts of the case, about the impeachment? >> well, look, every host makes a decision about the content of their show. when you try to have a discussion, you come into words like sham, hoax, or let's talk about horowitz, huber or durham. i said that's interesting. you can get tha

craig silverman reported in the past two weeks that not only is facebook delaying releasing the data, but the social science one and the project that have been approved, those are threatening to pull out by the end of september if facebook does not release the data that they promise to release. i think that facebook has responded to that. what they have said is that they are having difficulty releasing it in a timely manner because of concerns about security and privacy of the individual data that they intend to release. this brings up what i have described as a transparent paradox. what that means is these types of platforms are facing tremendous pressure to be more open and transparent about what is happening and how they are affecting our democracy and other things in our society. they are also facing simultaneously a significant amount of pressure to be more secure and more private with individuals data. the scandal is a revelation millions of peoples of data for greater privacy and security. these two things are in conflict they want to be more transparent, but they they are bein

craig silverman at busby reported in the past two weeks that not only is facebook delay in releasinghe data but the funders of social science one and the projects that have been approved at social science 1 -- the funders are threatening to pull out at the end of september is fit -- if facebook does not release the data they promised to release. facebook has responded to that and what they have said is that they are having difficulty releasing it in a timely manner because of concerns about security and privacy about the individual data we intend to release. and this essentially brings up what i have described as a dance parents a paradox. what that means is that these types of platforms are facing tremendous pressure to be more open and transparent about what is happening and how they are affecting our democracy and other things in our society. they are also facing simultaneously a significant amount of pressure to be more secure and more private with individuals' data. the cambridge analytical scandal scandal --a these things are in conflict. they want to be more transparent to the

craig silverman at buzz feed reported in the past two weeks that not only is facebook delaying releasing the data, but the funders of social science one and the projects approved, those funders are threatening to pull out by the end of september if facebook does not release the data that they promised to release. so i think that facebook has responded to that, in what they have said is that they are having difficulties releasing it in a timely manner because of concerns about security and privacy of the individual's data that they intend to release. this essentially brings up what i described as a transparency paradox. what that means is these types of platforms are facing tremendous pressure to be more open and transparent about what is happening and how they are affecting our democracy, and other things in our society. but they are also facing simultaneously a significant amount of pressure to be more secure and more private with individuals' data. the cambridge analytical scandal is a -- cambridge analytica scandal created a call for greater privacy and security. these two things are

craig silverman, thank you so much.t is interesting, that there are people that tune in, mike, they don't want to hear -- on both sides, they don't want to hear compete interesting. as he was saying, we should have a debate in the free market place of ideas, but that's now how people select their talk radio shows anymore. >> joe, it's not only talk radio, nick, jonathan, they're both here. we're living through an age where truth and facts are being diminished daily. i never thought in my lifetime, which has been considerable, that we would have the president of the united states leading the charge to diminish both. >>> attorney general william barr defended president trump's use of executive authority on friday and attacked democratic lawmakers for trying to limit his presidential power. during a speech at a conference hosted by the conservative federalist society, barr said democrats, quote, essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple by any means necessary a duly elected government. >> immediately after