. >> bill: immediate reaction now senator john thune the republican live from the hill. good morning to you, senator. quick notice here the news is breaking. what do you have to add on paul ryan's future? >> well, i think that, you know, it's something that has been talked about for a long time and obviously he has a young family. i think probably wants to spend more time with them. i'm sure the speaker of the house, which i have think is the hardest job probably in the world, is eventually sort of wears on you. but he is a great talent.

john thune, republican from south dakota, thank you. keep it right here on this tax day.ill have an interview with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on your world 4:00 p.m. eastern time today. >> melissa: wildfires reaching near historic levels already killing two people and why the flames are likely to spread. california's governor visiting washington on the heels of a decision that puts him again at odds with the president. >> the other three republican governors have a political affiliation that i don't share. but i do -- i am concerned about our borders. right at home caregiver. and if i'd been caring for tom's dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. that's because i'm trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. we'll be right there. we have to go. hey, tom. you should try right at home. they're great for us. the right care. right at home. >> coming up on "outnumbered" "the new york times" asking if james comey is hurting his image as a nonpartisan man of the law and why all

this is an important first step. >> bill: john thune from the hill. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: presidentling tonight on news that his long-time lawyer is now being targeted by the fbi. what are the implications moving forward on this? chris stirewalt on the political fallout coming up next. ♪ ♪ i'm just worried about the house and taking care of the boys. zach! talk to me. it's for the house. i got a job. it's okay. dad took care of us. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, claire could only imagine enjoying chocolate cake. now she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? for all-day, all-night protection. so let's promote our spring travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. earn one free night when you stay just twice this spring. allergies. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com bell bill that was a short time ago, president trump taking a shot at attorney general jeff sessions yet again. the recusal early on in the russian matter.

he's going to answer questions by senators including john thune.ur with a preview of what to expect stay tube ned. you're watching "squawk" right here on cnbc >>> new this morning, chinese president xi jingping says the economy is open for business speaking for the first time since the trade tit for tat with the u.s. >> we will ease as soon as possible restrictions in automobiles in particular. >> the futures pointing to a triple digit gain at the open. >> but will the rally hold investors watching in washington >> this is a pure and simple witch hunt >> after the fbi raids the office of the president's longtime lawyer, the president speaking out on twitter this morning. the latest coming up >>> plus mark zuckerberg takes center stage the facebook ceo will field questions from senators. we have one of those senators in the next half hour the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now ♪ >>> from the most powerful city in the world, new york, this is "squawk box. >> good morning and welcome to "squawk box. i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorki

take a listen to john thune discussing your relationship with president trump. >> that is a little bit of a difficult marriage from the beginning. they are very different in terms of temperament and character. >> very different in terms of temperament and character and you are talking about your kids today. what do you tell your children when they ask you about the president's temperament and character? >> they don't ask me about the president's character. we try not to talk about these things. i try to spend my time talking about what is doing on in their lives. but to get to the point you're asking, we're very different people. i'm from the upper midwest. i'm not from new york, we're from a different generation. so we have different styles. but what we learned after we got to know each other because we didn't know each other at all in the campaign and yeah, we had a lot of friction in our relationship. but we learned is we have a common agenda to agree on and we want to get it done and it will make a difference in people's lives and that is what we were elected to do. he got elected

joining me now is republican congressman john thune, and chairman of the senate g.o.p. conference. of all, is this theater? >> harris, if i could elaborate just a bit, i was a former air force pilot. as members of the military, you have enormous power but with that power comes enormous transparency. you don't want members of the military doing something in secret. they have enormous power. they have the ability to look into very private things. we want transparency on that. i don't know how anyone can justify "no, it's okay for them to do these kind of things. do not share that with the american people or with congress. >> harris: chris stewart, can we break it down? james comey has the memos. i'm assuming since he was with the fbi, he would be able to see top secret and classified information. i'm also thinking he would know what it looks like. is it possible that some of this information left his hands in terms of these memos? this is what is being talked about. >> are some of these memos classified? >> harris: yeah, and would he have known that? >> we know if he leaked to his fr

. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," south dakota senator john thune who met with mark zuckerberg yesterday will ask him what to expect at today's hearing. >>> responding to a complaint filed with the federal trade commission concerning children's privacy, youtube said youtube is not for children. child advocates and consumer groups want the ftc to investigate and potentially fine youtube for allegedly violating children's privacy in allowing ads that target them. youtube tracks i.p. addresses, search history, location, and other personal data about users in order to tailor advertising to them. in youtube's fine print, it tells children 13 and under not to use this service. >>> president trump threatened a military strike in response to the apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians in syria. the president met late yesterday with his advisers and said there are a lot of military options. >> we're making a decision as to what we do in response to the horrible attack that was made near damascus, and it will be met, and it will be met forcefully. >> the apparent poison gas attack on saturda

visit in almost two decades john thune talking north korea with the japanese prime minister shinzo his florida state the u.s. president confirmed washington and pyongyang on gauged in high level talks. direct talks at very high levels really have a us with north korea. and i really believe there's a lot of good will lot of good things are happening see what happens as they always see one of us because ultimately it's the years result that counts not the fact that we're thinking about having a baby having. urges there is diplomatic editor james bays has more from the north korean capital pyongyang north korean officials are not commenting on all confirming the visit of. to this city all of the information at this stage is coming from the u.s. side but this is the highest level visit for a serving u.s. official since secretary of state madeline albright came to pyongyang in the year two thousand the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic relations with north korea there is no embassy here members of the diplomatic community have told me though they are aware that there is a channel of communicatio

let's bring in senator john thune the senate gop conference chairman to talk about this.us. are you surprised at the length of the pompeo confirmation process? >> they drug it out as long as they could and you heard sarah sanders say it. she is absolutely right. this is totally about politics. there is absolutely no reason that you wouldn't with all the threats that we face, the array of threats we face around the globe get our top diplomat in particularly as well -- he was first place in harvard, captain in the army. head of the c.i.a., member of the intelligence committee. his resume is perfect for his position. the fact there are only a handful of democrats willing to support him when he comes up for a vote today suggests really that this is totally and purely about politics. again, john kerry got 94 votes in the senate. hillary clinton got 94 votes in the senate. this has been a battle to try and get him into a position where we really need him at this moment. >> rick: the president on our air this morning called democrats obstructionists. >> no question about that, r

senator john thune, the leader of the commerce committee will be sitting here when the hearing takes. he said he is really interested in pressing zuckerburg for answers on how he will make sure that this does not happen again. >> i know that there are people who say we have to regulate social media plat forms. i'm not convinced that is the case. what most people are looking for from mark zuckerburg is transparency and accountability. >> reporter: we can expect him to focus on the idea that they are more interested in protecting users than profits. it will be interesting to see how he responds to the big room of senators nearly half senators will be here grilling him today and interesting to see how he responds when he is in the hot seat. >> this data bounty program is interesting. they say while there is no maximum payment, high impact bug reports have garnered as much as 40 grand for people who bring them to our attention. is there any indication that they are going to expand their process of audits to include third parties rather than doing it themselves? >> i think that they are l

john thune (r) south dakota> "after more than a decade of promises to do better, how is today's apology different?" "we've seen the apology tours before i don't see how you can change your business model unless there are different rules of the road."in the past 18 months, facebook has acknowleged that russian operatives used the app to divide voters and boost donald trump.and that a political consultancy hired by trump and other republicans, improperly gained access to data on 87 million facebook users, including 71 million americans. "if facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix these privacy invasions, then we will." the most uncomfortable moment for the facebook founder came when one of his questioners turned the tables. "mr. zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" :"(laughs) um, no." "if you messaged anyone this week, would you share with

here to weigh in, south dakota senator john thune. good to see you. >> always good to see you, neil. neil: what about making them permanent, i don't understand and if this is the real case, mitch mcconnell is leery of doing that, that it might help some democratic senators who voted against the first tax cut to vote for this and actually help that are prospects in the senate. i think that was the gist of it. how do you feel about that. >> it is not a question of if, neil, it is a question of when. we have some time. individual tax cuts don't expire for eight years. we'll have opportunities to do that what the leader is suggesting, we want to make sure there are 60 votes in the united states senate. democrats will deliver enough votes in order for it to pass, to not give us enough votes to be short of passing but give more vulnerable members an opportunity to try to get well when think voted against the tax cuts last fall. so, you know, it is going to get done haven'tly. the question is when, not if. that will be an issue ultimately th

. >> we're seeing republican support for scott pruitt, like john thune, who said these are serious questions, they will be hard to answer. it's like a drip-drip out there and that will make it hard for him to do his job. there is no greater danger to president trump and his party than the appearance of corruption and swampiness. the beauty of his candidacy was that he would not be corrupted. it's easier for democrats to run on this culture of corruption. >> while it is true that senior officials would prefer for him to be gone because of the drip, drip, drip and they've communicated that to the president, the president so far has been unmoved. >> when i first came to the white house, they had a term for squishy terms. they called it clintononian. two of the white house aides got raises after the white house said don't give them raises. they got raises because scott pruitt found a way around them in the finance administration. he's the epa leader. did he know about it? >> congressman, those were delegated to mr. jackson, and they did recognize that in his management alert -- >> you did recogn

. >> reporter: senator john thune saying unsolicited robo calls are the nation's top consumer plan andorida man owns a company that's accused of making millions of them some 96 million robo calls during a three-month period in 2016 to american consumers. >> my activities have been significantly overstated. i'm not the kingpin of robo calling. >> reporter: he offered exclusive vacation deals from hospitality and other companies. >> allegedly made 100 million calls to american consumers purporting to be a well-known travel or hospitality company such as expedia, marriott or hilton. >> reporter: consumers who answered the calls for transfer to foreign call centers that tried to sell vacation packages often involving time shares but he said he did nothing wrong saying that open source software lets operators make thousands of phone calls with the click of a button. >> one of the main issues is that in addressing this is that the technology is easy to figure out and can be used by anyone. >> reporter: u.s. consumers get 2 billion a month. new rules were put in place allowing phone companies

. >> it's south dakota senator john thune voicing his support for mike pompeo.e's expected to be confirmed as secretary of state in just the next couple hours. joining us now, colorado senator corey gardner. he's a member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, good morning to you. thanks for spending time with us. >> thank you. >> jon: sounds like mike pompeo is on a bit of a roll. a number of democrats that had previously been on the fence and even a republican that was on the fence have come outs in favor of his nomination. >> that's right. we have a handful of people that said they would -- democrats that we needed his votes to get him across the finish line that said they would vote for mike pompeo. we're going to find out today whether people care more about the politics of sabotage than their article 2 responsibilities. >> jon: i'm remembering when hillary clinton was a somewhat controversial nominee to be secretary of state. she passed through the senate with -- what was the vote? 94-0? something like that? >> yeah. substantial. very people v

later today, he's expected to meet with john thune, the senate commerce committee chair.k zuckerberg will be answer ago lot of questions sitting on the hot seat the next two days. we'll go to senator bill nelson when he's done. >> we have a very good relationship with china and maintain that relationship. i'm very good friends with president xi that. >> that was was trump talking about china. the dow is up triple digits after a friday sell off after concerns of a trade war. president trump asking his administration to consider $1 billion in new fair representatives on chinese products following threat of retaliation by beijing. larry kudlow plays down the fears. >> i know there's some jitters out there. i don't think there's any trade war in sight. just technically, we have taken no actions. you understand that? it's a long process. several months here. we put out papers, we take public comments. we review the public comments. and then decisions will be made. so far no tariffs and no action has been enacted. >> democratic congressman joe crowley of new york is concerned.

. >>> our colleagues state side will speak with the chairman of the state commerce committee john thune0 cet. >>> the consumer financial protection bureau is reportedly seeking a record fine against wells fargo for insurance and lending abuses according to reuters, the penalty could be as high as $1 billion. it would be the first big fine under mick mulvaney who president trump chose to lead the your row in november the lender was fined in 2016 for creating scores aftof fake accounts >>> deutsche bank's chairman said its leadership reshuffle and that the new ceo knows the bank better than anyone and called him a decisive team player according to reports, sewing is working to complete an initial review of deutsche bank in weeks. annette has been following this story the last couple of days. lots of questions about the future of investment banking business it looks as though the initial indication from both sides is that they do want to presooef the preserve their investment banking business and it will continue to be a focus for deutsche bank in the future. >> it has to be a focus for de

. >> john thune, number 3 senate republican, saying i hope the president is listening.f issue is pushing all the good economic news off the table. >> this has come up constantly with republican officials. earlier this week, senate republicans told vice president mike pence, look, this is hurting us. you're hurting your own voters. it's drowning out all the good tax cut news. these farm states, kansas, iowa are getting hurt right now. >>> thank you for joining us on "inside politics" today. we'll see you again monday morning. wolf blitzer is next after a very quick break. stay with us. manait's a series of is nsmart choices. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress. parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthca

and then presumably will tend to the senate commerce committee, and care from john thune and ranking member bill nelson, all of them had the opportunity to meet with mark zuckerberg yesterday. fromcame out, and we heard senator nelson, talking about mark zuckerberg and also sounding skeptical. i want to turn it over to this hearing. your listening to the senator of the chairman commerce committee. time,you are over your chairman soon and i will make sure to let you know. there will not be a second round as well. there will be the usual follow-up of written questions for the record. betweening will go majority and minority and between committees. will proceed in order based on respecting committee seniority. will anticipate a couple of short breaks later in the afternoon. it is my pleasure to recognize the chairman of the commerce thune for chairman his opening statement. >> today's hearing is extraordinary. extraordinary to all the joint committee, and even more extraordinary to have a single ceo testified before nearly half of the united states senate. facebook is pretty extraordina

senator john thune saying why should we believe after 14 years of various apologies. why should we believe you that you have changed your ways? mark zuckerberg's answer says we made a page turn at the company and made a philosophical shift that is different than knot iter point along the way. charles: mark zuckerberg will face the house commerce and energy committee tomorrow. i'm sure you have been riveted by the testimony so far. senator blumenthal from connecticut taking on mark zuckerberg with respect to the fcc consent decree, saying the company has had a willful blindness towards violations of that decree. is this one of the topics you will be focused on tomorrow? >> this is something we'll discuss and different committee members will ask different questions. following that 2011 agreement, 2013, fred upton asked me to chair a privacy working group, peter welch was the democrat co-chair of that privacy working group. this was something we worked on. we tried to get legislation that would put privacy standard and data security standards on the books. we were not ab

his issues with the president, but plenty of senators who are more rank and file, john cornyn, john thunele who dodged that question. i can't figure out why. >> john, i don't really see what is so bizarre about saying it is way too early to predict what is going to happen in 2020. donald trump won in 2016 with very few congressional endorsements and to be honest he probably could care less if he gets any more. he wants to go out and get the will of the people and he campaigned on and will campaign on draining the swamp. i'm sure getting the swamp on board is not something that is part of their campaign action item. look, a lot of these people willing to step up to the microphone have not been supportive of trump in the past, and the ones i'm talking to, i talk with a lot of republicans, and that's not reflective of the majority of them. and telefocused right now on the midterm elections, doing what's best for their constituents and their districts and not looking ahead to 2020 because right now they have got more pressing things on -- in the near future. >> whether or not the president, h

john thune says it's not net. >> i don't believe he's going to take that step.been advised by a lot of members of congress and a lot of people on his staff. so i -- that's a hypothetical at this point but i'm hoping and advising that that doesn't happen. >> so you think -- you don't think you need to do anything? >> that could be correct. yeah. >> meanwhile, cnn is reporting that president trump and his legal team are reevaluating a potential in-person team with mueller in light of the raid of michael cohen. we've been hearing this story for months about the president potentially maybe firing robert mueller. here we are again. >> we heard mr. thune. it's not just people inside the beltway. some people out shied the beltway including people that president trump listens to carefully like rush limbaugh. we have this sound bite. >> the worst thing trump could do is start firing people. that's what he's being goded into doing. this is more than just and proper right now. it's about survival. >> so what rush limbaugh is saying and michael goodwin just said, it would b

john thune answered a lot of questions. a show stopper yesterday. dick durbin republican sir, will you tell us where you stayed last night and name the hotel? there was a long pause and he said no. i thought it was a revealing moment. >> sandra: a lot of things changing this morning. we're awaiting for paul ryan to speak potentially at the top of the next hour and the facebook house hearing happening in a few moments as well. another major story breaking this morning. president trump is up and firing off tweets about the situation in syria with a stern warning for russia. he says missiles will be coming for syria in response to the alleged gas attack that killed 40 people. white house correspondent kevin corke is live from the north lawn this morning. what's the latest? >> it is interesting. the white house would love to have international consensus over what to do the problems in syria. as an official told me this morning there comes a point where you have to say it's insufficient to wait when you are dealing with a monster. the president dealing w

think that -- i would put you and susan collins in one category, but then you have john cornyn, john thune, leaders in the republican senate, saying that they're not prepared, it is too early for them to even say. what does it say that those -- that those senators cannot -- cannot, won't, say if they will support the president? >> well, it is clear to me, many of my republican colleagues in congress have reservations about the president's conduct in office. i think even though there may be agreement on some policies on the deregulatory moves or tax reform, there is concern on some policies like trade, a bit more broadly, there is a general concern about the dysfunctioning chaos that we have grown accustomed to in the white house. i think that has become very unsetting and challenging for members of my party. take, for example, too, the recently enacted budget agreement and spending bill which was negotiated with the white house and the administration, only had the president come out and say he didn't support it. and he ended up signing it, but those are the types of things i do believe get

it's not just corker who has his issues with the president but john thune and cornyn. >> it's extraordinary to hear a senator, particularly a major like ron johnson who's not a maverick in the party. he's a pretty good soldier for the republican party, to call it a gotch you question, that if you would have asked a democrat in 2010, are you supporting barack obama for re-election, they'd say yes. or you ask a republican that question about george w. bush, they'd just say yes. it's not a gotch you question. it's a really easy question, in fact, so easy that you probably wouldn't even bother to ask you. manu's reporting is really revealing and it's not the first time the prospect that bob corker raised about who knows if he's going to be on the ballot. that's not the first time i've heard that from a republican in congress. it's not the first time we've heard it from actually people who are closer and more aligned with the president. chris christie has said publicly we'll see. he's new to the political process. we'll see if after four years of this he wants to to it again. >> it would be surp

the point was being made, the right, personal space, some privacy sand then senator john thune as well sticks out in my mind, saying why would we believe you after 14 years of apology why is it different this time? mark zuckerberg answer was we're turning a page philosophically, we're shifting a little bit of our focus for what that is worth. melissa: that story they're pedaling, we asked came binning analyst can, they said yes and took them at their word. 64 billion-dollar man, i'm sure they took him at his word that really smelled rotten. >> mark zuckerberg was part of that 87 million data set which is particularly interesting. cambridge analytica ceo out as of today. melissa: lots more questions, deirdre. thank you. >> the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the information and content that you put on facebook. >> you have told us today and you have told the world that facebook was deceived by alexander kogen when he sold user information when he sold it to cambridge analystca. cambridge was on notice he could sell that user information. have you seen the

hope that we would have them each in individual interviews just like i have requested my co-leader john thunein cambridge analytica. we intend to do that. >> dana: sir, you have won state wide in florida several times. you served florida for many years. now you have a new opponent. we just spoke to rick scott. he's going to get into the race to challenge you. what do you think you will run on as your signature accomplishment from your years in the senate? >> well, first of all, i will treat any opponent with great seriousness. i run like there's no tomorrow. now, in the case of rick scott, he'll say and do anything to try to get elected. and that's gonna contrast with me and my record because i have always thought if you try to do the right thing, the politics will take care of itself. so you say what have i done? well, go to the beach. look out there. you won't find any oil rigs. you won't find any oil rigs particularly on the gulf coast that protects the largest testing and training area of the united states military in the world as well as our $60 billion a year tourism industry. go to the

the 33-year-old holding separate talks with senators bill nelson and john thune who invited him to testify. >> if we don't watch out with social media and platforms like facebook and the mistakes that they made in the past, then no american is going to have any privacy anymore. >> reporter: the social media network facing criticism after british firm cambridge analytica gained access to the personal information of 87 million facebook users. this comes after concerns the site was used for russian interference in the 2016 election. >> mark is happy to go to congress because mark wants to answer every question people have about the service we offer. you know, we really believe in social experiences. >> reporter: the senate commerce and judiciary committee is holding a joint hearing with zuckerberg on tuesday and he will appear before the house energy and commerce committee on wednesday. that panel releasing a prepared statement from zuckerberg today in which he says, quote, i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy, adding, we were too slow to spot and respond to russian int

. >> john thune was asked a short time ago if the president remain a nominee and thune told reportersexactly a real high vote of confidence so we wait to see if dr. jackson wants to go forward or if he, perhaps, has had enough. shep? >> shepard: lack of vet something recurring theme. new court documents that show the fbi interviewed president trump's former campaign manager chairman or i should say chairman paul manafort not once but twice before he joined the 2016 campaign. those court filings came out late yesterday in a sort of document dump. the new information raises questions about the trump campaign's vetting of lots of staff members. and whether paul manafort, specifically, ever told anybody about talking with the fbi dments show special mueller raids on condo and storage locker. manafort's team argues the searches were illegal. paul manafort faces charges, including conspiracy against the united states, money laundering and failing to register as an agent of a foreign country. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in d.c. catherine? >> shep, fox news ind

. >> when he gets pushback from john thune and chuck grassley and the republicans representing thosetern states that will get hit, that is a constraint that the chinese don't have. >> and there is another interesting aspect to the specific tariffs that china announced. a lot of them hit the state of iowa. the ambassador -- united states ambassador to china is a man named terry bran stead, the longest serving governor in history and the state of iowa. that doesn't seem to be an accident. >> and he was chosen for that position in part because he knows something about china. he knows -- >> he and xi are close -- >> they've been friends -- they've known each other. >> for 20 years. >> more than that. >> and they do a lot of business together. >> iowa loves china. the economy is unbelievable because of china. >> and soybeans is the main market and mexico -- the main market is mexico and china. and branstad said in his confirmation hearing, and said in interviews, that one of the things he was going to try to do was normalize the trade relationship, sort of get it on a -- on better footing

senate commerce chairman republican john thune says the revelations have generated significant concernut facebook's role in our democrac democracy. congressional sources say these hearings will be the first step toward increased scrutiny over the tax industry, with a particular focus on my data and online advertising business model. bret? >> bret: mike, thanks. up next, the g.o.p. tries to flip a democratic senate seat in ohio. as the incumbent tries to appeal to republicans. keep it here. ♪ wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. do ndo not misjudgenity quiet tranquility. with the power of 335 turbo-charged horses lincoln mkx, more horsepower than the lexus rx350 and a quiet interior from which to admire them. the lincoln spring sales event is here. for a limited time get zero percent apr on the lincoln mkx. hurry in today to your lincoln dealer. ♪ >> bret: we told you at the top of the program president trump is praising mexico's government for what he says largely breaking up a caravan of a cent

of the leaders of north and south korea have been meeting at their country's mutual border came john thune and moon j n have been discussing the key issue of removing all nuclear weapons from the korean peninsula. and german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in the united states for talks with u.s. president donald trump it will be her second visit to the white house and the iran nuclear deal is expected to top the agenda. outrage is also expected to be a major focus of merkel's and trump. talks but can the combined efforts of european leaders convince the u.s. president to back down on steel and aluminum tariffs political correspondent thomas ferro spoke about their approach with pay to the german government's new coordinator of transatlantic cooperation you spoke of a tandem when it comes to the work that i'm going to learn president have regarding the united states and we already saw what president mccrone did but what is going to merkel taking with her what is her strategy of the for the upcoming trip i think the role that she will take in this between my call and to germany towards

commerce committee chairman john thune: >> how is today different? >> so we have made a l of mistakes running the company. >> reporter: other senators, arke minnesota's amy klobu pushed for specific fixes. >> would you support a rule to notify users within 72 hours of data breach? >> that makes sense to me. >> reporter: this as klobuchar and others push something called the honest ads act-- one of a long line of bills now focused on digital platforms like facebook. it requires the company make sure no foreign interests can post campaign ads, and that the public be able to see who is bend every election ad. facebook says it is now doing that, and more-- launching easier wayfor users to block access to their informatg n, and promis restrict how much data any outside company can access. but as facebook tried to look forward, senators pointed backward. connecticut's richard blumenthal asked about facebook's deal with alexander kogan, whose app gave cambridge analytica its access. >> i want to show you terms of service that kogin provided to facebook. i w

we just showed a little clip of senator john thune. another thing he said today, republican senators, their patience is wearing thin dealing with nominees trying to get them through this process because it takes up a lot of time. does it also feel like the evidence against dr. ronny jackson is a little thin as well? >> yeah, dana. look, the committee will do its work. john tester, a great ranking member. they'll figure out what is and isn't and when they do, then we'll deal with it. most of us are not focused on it. >> dana: do you think the hearing could be rescheduled by next week? >> again, i just don't know. we're on recess next week, so it will likely be the week after. most of us have a lot of faith in the chairman to deal with this. when it comes to us, we'll dig in on these issues. >> dana: on an issue that's in your jurisdiction, i wanted to ask you about the iran deal. there was the meeting the president had with emmanuel macron yesterday, then the speech today. do you have a sense of whether our position is changing heading

senator john thune is saying it would be nice to know about some of the things before the fact as opposed to after the fact. but jake, despite the fact that the president opened the door to a graceful exit, we don't know if dr. jackson will walk through it. i'm told that he is still thinking this through, he's not yet advised the white house what he wants to do. one school of thought is he wants to answer the questions before hearing and another school of thought is it is wiser to step away if he doesn't get confirmed. so no answer to this yet but yet one more potential staff shake-up. >> jeff zel annie at the white house. >>> and my political panel joins us. and we have caitlyn collins from move on.org and corrine pierre and a new book out today called "suicide of the west", called everything from magnificent to a toured force. congratulations, jonah. but let's talk about the panel discussion. take a listen to how president trump talked about dr. jackson today. >> i have gotten to know him pretty well. he's a great doctor. and it was a suggestion, now i know there is an experience proble

senator john thune, mr. senator, what did zuckerberg tell you? >> hey, stuart, good morning.st off, we talked about the hearing obviously and the importance of him getting out ahead of this taking it head on and -- and aning the questions and being transparent and being accountable, i think that's what the american people want to see, i think that's what the members of congress certainly want to see in the wake of this sort of latest scandal. stuart: what was his tone in talking to you? was it reinforceful, defensive, how did he come across? >> i think he gets it, stuart, i think he understand that is he needs to be -- he is remorseful, obviously, i think he fundamentally believes that facebook missed the boat when it comes to these contracts that they had with the firms that were able to access a lot of their users' data and in some cases misused the data. he's taking, i think ownership of that responsible, which he should and the question going forward, what will they do to protect people's' user data in the future. >> he said that he would take some steps which would reduc

so you are looking at video you're hearing and seeing that the opening remarks of senator john thune who is chairman of the senate commerce science and transport committee they were to question the chief executive of facebook's mark zuckerberg the first time i've seen him not in a hoodie we'll go back to that soon. starts talking with me here is teresa locker from vises multimedia tech but for motherboard. jobs soon the making points which is going to haunt her all for the rest of our lives that there is an implicit bargain whether it is spelled out or not you get nothing for nothing so if you if you sign up for whether it be facebook or sign up for one of the sit on facebook. something you trade your data for it even if you say yes yes yes yes yes do we really know or sodomy we don't we don't especially we didn't know up until now and that was frightening but what was it for every one person three hundred other people got signed up a did not know about something that just came out today is actually a link that facebook sent around with which users can check whether their doctor has

john thune (r) south dakota> "after more than a decade of promises to do better, how is today's apologyblumenthal (d) connecticut> "we've seen the apology tours before i don't see how you can change your business model unless there are different rules of the road."in the past 18 months, facebook has acknowleged that russian operatives used the app to divide voters and boost donald trp.and that a political consultancy hired by trump and other republicans, improperly gained access to data on 87 million facebook users, including 71 million americans. "if facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix these privacy invasions, then we will." the most uncomfortable moment for the facebook founder came when one of his questioners turned the tables. "mr. zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" :"(laughs) um, no." "if you messaged anyone this week, would you share with us the names of the people y

. >> bill: that from john thune last nie. chairman of one of the two senate committees that will question mark zuckerberg. he is meeting with thune and other top lawmakers. byron york, fox news contributor. how are you? good day to you. just a guess. i think some of the most fire today will likely come from democratic senators who will lay the election results at the feet of mark zuckerberg. is that where this is going today based on thune's response? when i suggested russia will come up he said you can believe that. >> i believe you can bet on it. there will be some ritual beatings which are a tradition on capitol hill. give a senator five minutes he'll take 4:45 minutes to talk and throw a question at the end. a number of democrats obviously very angry about facebook and its role in the 2016 election. first they were upset about russian ads and postings. probably didn't have a lot of influence but they were upset about it. then came the cambridge analytica thing. the political firm that helped donald trump and used personal

he just left the office of senator john thune from south dakota which is where we are now.d to senator chuck grassley's office, chairman of the judiciary committee. he's been basically fielding questions from these lawmakers about what he's planning to say tomorrow, what the company's been going through, and what it plans to do going forward. senator diane feinstein of california, he met with her earlier today and she previously said weeks ago when the analytical scan da first broke that if facebook cannot police its own platform, it needs to be regulated. that is going to be something that zuckerberg is going to be asked often about tomorrow and wednesday during these hearings on capitol hill, but he's trying to establish a personal relationship with these lawmakers first. >> is that normal, kayla are we just focusing on, you know, there were news headlines, zuckerberg reportedly in this office meeting with this -- is this a normal part of the process when any ceo is about to testify? >> reporter: well, regardless of whether it's a ceo, kelly, i mean, it is typical for a p

yesterday we caught up in an exclusive interview with chairman senator john thune.expects today. here are his comments. do you think you're prepared for tomorrow? >> yeah, i think he is. he's obviously got a lot riding on this, but it is important for him to take it head on and be his own spokesperson. >> okay. >> this is an important day for him and for his company, and we'll welcome him to the committees tomorrow and look forward to what he has to say. >> so we are seeing this continuation of an apology tour that started the 25th of march. you'll recall facebook taking out these full-page ads in newspapers in the u.s. and in the u.k., part of mark zuckerberg's apologetic comments. i'm going to read part of them. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility. that was a big mistake. it was my mistake and i'm sorry. i started facebook, i run it and i am responsible for what happens here. the list is long and getting longer. there's fake news, there is this pressure that during our presidential campaign, 2016, that 125 million americans -- so more than hal

thune: it is early. kevin: when you are ready to talk about it, you know where to come. thank you, i appreciate it. alix: that was candid are surly with senator johnire spurred northern california's wine country, the most effective wildfire season on record. it took toll on utility companies. the stock had a big slump from to februaryovember on investor fears that the utility could be forced to pay costs related to the blazes. losses,ave clawed back but are down 22%. to talk about the financial issues surrounding that recovery is pedro pizarro. he is international president and ceo. thank you for having me. alix: why are you on the hook? bero: it says utilities can held fully liable if utility equipment was involved in the cost of the fire, regardless of fault. was that utilities be able to recover costs from customers from that. the infrastructure is out there. government can recover from taxpayers heard there was a case last year that the public utilities decided for cost recovery was not provided. that broke the chain in terms of being able to get recovery. we are working with state agencies and the legislature to pursue ways to clarify that. i

thune and casey on senate finance in 2017. before i discuss this bill in greater deal, i want to look across the room to my great friend, mr. john lewis. it was in 2015 that mr. lewis and i crossed the edmund pet us bridge. it was at -- edmund pettus bridge. it was that time that he stopped and spent time with my grandson george. as we were talking across the george, who was 8 at the time, said, grandpa, we're actually going to do this. we are going to cross the edmund pettus bridge with mr. lewis. i said, you're right. can we come back to the 100th anniversary? i said, george, we'll do that together. you and i will come across the bridge at the 100th anniversary. he said, how old are you? i said 65. he said, grandpa, it might be get across that bridge. i said, george, don't worry. if i can't walk you can push me across. i always felt you are such an iconic figure in the house for people who stood up for civil rights. that weekend was one of the most gracious weekends and best weekends with my son, my grandson had. this bill would ensure that all nonprofits -- sorry -- when it comes to charity, the american people are truly uniq