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kara swisher, always great to have you, thanks for joining us today. >>> all right, when we return, speakingwhich, shares of general electric slipping on heavy volume thought all the bad news was priced in? think again. investors discuss the dividend cut and turnaround plan. >>> plus, uber selling to softbank could the investment pave the way for an ipo and more on those singles day results that absolutely smashed records. early baba investor joinus ensqwkll" turns. >>> taking a look at markets at this hour. the dow jones industrial average and s&p are breaking into the green, along with the nasdaq just barely coming off their first negative week in nine. tech stocks continuing, but you can see just like the rest of the market managed to go positive joining us now is scott wrenn, wells fargo senior global strategist good to have you here. >> hey, michelle >> if rip van winkle woke up today, he'd think the world is falling apart, there's a recession coming, the markets, all the averages would be lower. but that's not the case anymore, right? what happens with ge, because it's so much smaller

kara swisher joins you now, technology and business website, recode. thank you for joining us. >> no problem. >> these are -- they are not necessarily going after a certain political candidate but they are trying to do something pretty insidious. >> yeah, absolutely. you saw the range of things, one was looks like a black lives matter kind of thing and other is a confederate flag, they are going after division and trying to create divisiveness and taking advantage of the anger that exists and am my fiing it and using social media -- weaponizing social media to do so. it's pretty basic but at the same time totally insidious. >> how do they look at these things and say, we're not going to allow this stuff to happen? >> they already did let it happen. that's what they are getting grilled on capitol hill. the only thing republican and democrats seem to agree on the social media sites failed. there's a lot of grandstanding and big speeches from both sides and both come at it in different ways. now they have gotten dragged into a political fight. these heari

for more on technology on the hill today, let's bring in kara swisher, executive editor of rico good morning. >> how are you doing >> good. >> once again, facebook at least is increasing the number of estimated users that were exposed to content from russian accounts how many times can they do this and how does this make them look >> stupid. it makes them look stupid. i don't know how else to put it. this was not a good day for especially facebook or any tech companies on the hill. because one thing it seems like republicans and democrats can agree on is they are an gri at silicon valley that was striking to me. both sides took a whack at each of the companies "la la land" was just political theater. i do think they are sending publicers to these companies and expecting something to change with them. they are good to attack at this point given the situation, i guess. >> kara, i don't feel that same level of public outrage we had say during the equifax hack when people felt like their own information was koch might have had in a way that endangered them maybe that's about pocketbooks