we have this very nebulous definition of fraud and attorneys general all around the country eric schneiderman new york and california who are using very weird vague definitions of fraud to go after these nonprofit organizations and go to the heart of what they're doing it's part of why folks are going after what they call dark money from these organizations trying to get it who's funding them because they can't attack the veracity of what folks are saying so what they're going to do is they're trying to going to try to say what they're saying is fraudulent and then try to shut them down i mean that's operation choke point was something the government did that was the pretext was to go after fraud you had as i said eric schneiderman in new york going after organizations gauging and advocacy saying they were engaging in fraudulent behavior and so that's the next sort of tactic in all of this you know but it's interesting charles i mean i think it's really interesting what andrew just said there but is anybody going to really seriously take a look at the pedestrian brothers i mean he want to loo

case where, you know, trump and his team lashed out at the attorney general in new york here, eric schneiderman, my boss during that case, led the investigation. and they lashed out at us a ton, at eric, at the office. they lashed out at the staff. they didn't actually name anybody but they made a lot of noise about how things could be ton wrong, so on and so on. we faced this, too. it looks very, very familiar. they couldn't fire us. they had no control over us. they couldn't try to exert any pressure on us. they tried to do so through the media but trump is actually using the leaders of power in washington, or trying to, to see what he could do to shut this down. >> what's your takeaway from all your experience, everything you just outlined, looking ahead to ultimately the negotiating, how this is going to go down, this conversation, this interview between mueller, his team and the president. what does that look like? take us behind closed doors, based upon your experience. >> i mean, for the attorneys representing him, he's basically the client from hell. he's not going to listen to anything

this is new york state attorney general eric schneiderman, one of 16 attorneys general who have sued to block the termination of daca. >> it is a massive, successful program that they are attempting to shut down. the issue of discriminatory animus can map this came up. the judge was very focused on issues, very well-informed, and we look ford to getting a decision. amy: this comes after a san francisco judge also issued an injunction blocking daca's cancellation earlier this month. in financial news, the pharmaceutical giant pfizer says it's reaping a staggering $11 billion gain as a result of president trump's tax overhaul, which massively benefited corporations and the richest americans. president trump and republicans claimed the tax plan would help the middle class, but a recent reuters poll shows only 2% of surveyed workers say they've received any benefit from trump's tax overhaul. democratic lawmakers expressed outrage after the trump administration announced it would not impose new sanctions against russia, despite the fact these sanctions were enshrined in a law passed by co

this is prompting the new york attorney general eric schneiderman so launch an investigation into devumien mark cuban with nearly eight million followers on twitter weighing in on twitter saying it's time for twitter to confirm a real name and real person behind every be account and for facebook to try to get far more stringent on the same i don't care whether the user name is but there needs to be a single human behind every individual account now despite this report, twitter shares have moved higher this morning. they're now up about 2.5%. this follows on gains friday on reports of a new video sharing feature, lessened concerned about the coo departing. analysts tell us that some chatter last week about m & a could also be driving the shares higher back to you. >> all right shares are closer to 25 once again this morning julia, thank you kara swisher, any chance that cuban's recommendation gets put into practice? >> you mean mark with just eight followers rather than eight million? i think this issue has been something that we talked about a lot. the abuse of these platforms, twitter m

new york attorney general eric schneiderman launching an vention into devumi, even mark cuban with nearlytter followers weighing in saying it's time for twitter to confirm a real name and a real person behind every account, for facebook to get far more stringent on the same. despite this report, twitter shares are 2% higher, following gains on friday. back over to you >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, a bigger store ay than people with fake followers. it's expected to go to $50 billion in advertising in a couple years at some point, advertisers are going to realize, hey, you know, julia boorstin or brian sullivan, you have 60,000 followers of which 200 may be real this is a major billion dollar economy that is at risk. >> this is a major, major problem. i do think it's worth separating how facebook and twitter are different. facebook has been growing very quickly over 2 billion monthly active users over a billion daily active users. learning more from facebook when they report earnings tomorrow after the bell, but facebook was built on the idea of people's real identities. twitter, on t