it answers to mark zuckerberg. so if mark zuckerberg says jump, the engineers say how high? he said, we're going for the metaverse. they went for the metaverse. that quickly proved unpopular. so now they're moving on to ai. it's investors like that about meta. and i think that mark zuckerberg is really leaning into that for them. >> it's quite the transformation. and that the kind of the based zuck has. listen, i don't know if it's going to ultimately benefit investors or not, but for the for the last 12 days and longer than that, sure. it certainly has. steven levy, if you're out there somewhere, we love you. we'll get you back on again very soon. steven levy, sheera frenkel talking about it, thank you very much. and just a reminder, kelly, because, you know, we have long memories here. mark zuckerberg made his first appearance ever on cnbc. he 21 years ago. here it is. >> what is the facebook exactly? >> it's an online directory that connects people through universities and colleges through their social networks. there you sign on, you make a profile about yourself by answ

mark zuckerberg has gone beyond all in. you think zuckerberg and other business leaders that have done more than comply? right. how are they feeling going forward? watching not 24 hours after after the plane crash, donald trump up there blaming die like are they do they realize what they've just bought into? >> yeah. >> i think it goes back to elon musk again. >> all roads. >> go back to elon musk. when you think about his proximity to the president and how he's camped out in the white house or mar-a-lago, you know, mark zuckerberg and elon musk do not get along. and mark zuckerberg, you know, think about all the conflicts of interest, right? so we've seen all those ceos go down there. they're worried about him being this close, right. given these companies that he has. and they kind of all compete. right. >> so if you think about meta. >> competes with twitter, you have sam altman, who was just down at the white house who runs a really important company called openai. they're raising money right now at $330 billion. right.

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that role made him famous, and now he says he does not want to be associated with mark zuckerberg. critical of meta for getting rid of independent fact checkers, a move seen to curry favor with president trump and right wing voices. i think anytime if you're acting and you're going to play a real living person, you have to make that choice. whether you'd rather be, you know, like an animated cartoon character or whether you want to play somebody that. >> hitler, you know. >> yeah, yeah. >> even if the person is deceased, you still don't know what may come out later that we didn't know. so it's a risk. >> what do you think, spencer? >> yeah, well, what i said is true. i think there's a greater risk, though. obviously, if you're playing a person who is living because that person's that that person can change a lot in his or her views or involvement with political goings on. yeah. >> but i don't think anybody goes, oh, there's. there's jesse eisenberg. no, no. that's zuckerberg. i mean, nobody's confusing the two of them. and he's done other movies too, so. >> yeah, but, you know, he

the dominant social media platform of china, elon musk who now owns ex, formerly twitter and mark zuckerberg who leads meta which includes facebook, instagram and others, both of them have said that they look to tencent and what we chat has done for technical inspiration on new product ideas. so i want to emphasize again, china has some very strong, very competitive companies and the u.s. cannot afford to take its foot off the gas even for a second if we want to maintain our technological leadership. host: however let me was asked about deepseek during his confirmation hearing last weekend as part of a u.s. competitiveness when it comes to the ai space. i want to play a little of what he had to say and get your response. >> what this showed is that our export controls not backed by tariffs are like a whack a mole model where they get prevented over here and china figures out a way around it over there. we've got to find a way to back our export controls with tariff models so that we tell china you think we are your most important trading partner, we say no, the answer is no. it is a respect

the best example in this country most recently is mark zuckerberg talking about the cultural turning point that the election was, and how for that reason, he is ending the fact checking program, moving that part of meta to texas and as he later said on the joe rogan podcast, creating a more masculine culture. those are all really good arguments. they are not stupid. they are not arguments made solely out of fear. they are rational, and sometimes even more problematically, they are values-based. like the sponsor ability to others -- like the responsibility to other people. what we can propose as a counter argument they don't really help. first of all, if you are not willing to sacrifice your principles and your values indefinitely, eventually you're going to run afoul of the autocracy you are helping build. one thing you concede, two things you concede. and then you will start conceding other stuff and then eventually, like the publisher who asked me to kill a piece because 325 people would be fired, you end up in exile anyway. unless you really become a building block of that autocra

is the language we now use, probably the best example again in this country most recently is mark zuckerbergtalking about the cultural turning point how the election was and for that reason he is ending the fact-checking program moving part of meta to texas and joe rogan's podcast, creating a more masculine culture and those are all really good arguments. they are not stupid. they are not -- they're not arguments made solely out of fear. they are actually rational and sometimes even more problematically values based. responsibility to other people. the only thing that we can propose as a counter argument is they don't truly help, like first of all, if you're not willing to sacrifice your principles and your values indefinitely eventually you're going run autocracy that you're helping build. you can see one thing, you can see two things, you can see the t in the lgbt and you see the lgb and the lgbt and start seeing other stuff and eventually like the publisher who asked me to kill a piece because 325 people would get fired, you end up in exile anyway and unless you really become building blo

you also have google with their gemini product, and then, also , you have meta and mark zuckerberg'sk app which made waves in silicon valley weeks ago. they have sparked concern that the united states isn't even in first place nationally on a.i. you have that question of, yeah, does this bode well if two of the biggest minds in a.i. are piecing against each other. sam altman was right next to the president, and you had elon musk saying, i don't think the money even there. sam altman responded and said, look, maybe this is good for your company if you throttle our announcement here, but elon musk was calling him names. it is a very public spat between these two big names in the a.i. space. >> at some point there is going to be a calling of competitors. that is usually the case with many types of big, competitive industries. the competition is at the core of the legal case. okay, if you have this company that is trying to build itself, is it really a problem if they renege on their promises? >> very interesting. thank you. >>> president trump is hosting benjamin netanyahu at the white

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talented writer, director and actor, whose resume includes the super villains lex luthor and mark zuckerbergabout cousins. "a real pain" is on hulu now. please welcome jesse eisenberg. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thanks for coming. i know you live in new york, right? >> yes, but i was able to fly out here. >> jimmy: oh on a plane? >> yeah, exactly. [ laughter ] i was going to do a boat, but they said the canal would take too long to be on the show. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we're going to reclaim that canal, and don't worry, it will go by like that. >> exactly. if this was next week, i think i could do the canal. they wanted me here the day after. >> jimmy: are you a good traveler? are you good on -- >> i'm a fine traveler. i'm not like in general a fine person. going through normal stuff, i don't excel. but traveling -- maybe traveling's an exception. a lot of people are nervous travelers. but because i know there's nervous people on the plane, for some reason, it comforts me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh. >> you know, as opposed to like the rest of life. when i'm sitting around, self-act

this is the language we now use probably best example, again, in this country, most is mark zuckerberg talking about the cultural turning point that the election was and how for those for that reason, his ending the fact checking program moving part part of metadata to texas and as he later said in joe rogan's podcast, creating a more masculine culture and those are all really good. they're not stupid, they're not they're not arguments being sold of fear. they're actually rational. and sometimes even more problematically, they're values based, right? it was like a responsive ability to other people. the only thing we can propose as a counter argument is they don't really help like, first of all, if you're not willing to sacrifice your principles and your values indefinitely, eventually you're going to run afoul of the autocracy that you're helping build. you can seed one thing, you can see two things. you can you can see the the t and the lgbt. and then you will see the lgbt lgb in the lgbt, and then you will start seeing other stuff. and then eventually, like that publisher who asked

. >> includes mark zuckerberg. >> at at facebook. >> and instagram, as well as others don't want to beurse, you know, it's tied up in this question of extremism and. you know, you know, you know, the manipulated attempts to push european countries in a particular direction. so europeans are now afraid. that american social. media companies are going to try to shape. >> their politics. >> and so they're thinking maybe they will need to regulate social media. and of. >> course. >> you now have a pushback from the social media owners. >> and this unholy alliance. i want to press both of you on what that says about our relationships with some of these same companies and individuals. i have to sneak in a quick i have to sneak in a quick break. we'll all be right my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪♪ ♪ yeah... i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ♪♪ with skyrizi 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and most people were clearer even

. >> the fallout from meta ceo mark zuckerberg's decision. >> to end. >> fact checking. >> what's yourd. >> voters about where. >> the. >> country may be headed after the biden administration leaves? >> actually behind closed doors? they're still asking what the they're still asking what the hell happened? hoda kotb: four days after she was shot, erica woke up and started talking to her family. in the icu, erica was feisty and combative. her neurosurgeon, dr. moriarty, said that was a positive sign. her brain was rebooting. did you pray a lot? oh, yes. hoda kotb: judith was the most religious one in the family. and a week after surgery, her prayers and unshakable faith were answered erica's condition was upgraded from critical to fair. she looked real bad, but i never dwelled on she wasn't going to make it. hoda kotb: now the family had to turn its focus to the one who did not make it, erica's mom, earon. on may 25, 2006, a week after she was gunned down, earon's family gathered for her funeral. and the man who delivered the eulogy was none other than the officer who'd raced erica to t

mark. zuckerberg's decision to end fact checking. >> what's your. >> message to. >> concerned voters. >> about. >> may. >> be headed after the biden administration. >> leaves. >> actually behind. >> closed doors? >> they're still asking what the hell happened? >> in tech? stocks in the us have proven very volatile, with a big slide this week, then a bit of a bounce back. some of this relates to fears about chinese ai competition that might outstrip what american companies have done, and it comes amidst donald trump's embrace of tech billionaires. oracle ceo larry ellison, for example, was at a big white house event in week one, but then went on to lose over $20 billion in that stock slide. i mentioned, at least on paper, losing 20 billion in a day is a good sign. you have a ton of money. meanwhile, new reporting on elon musk trying to take his twitter game plan and apply it to the entire federal government. he has stormed into washington. the new york times reporting that musk shows up in person at these agencies and is trying to sort of twitter fight the federal government, installing some of

. >> from meta ceo mark zuckerberg's decision. >> to end. fact checking. >> what's your message to concerned. >> voters about. >> where. the country may be headed. >> after the. >> biden administration. >> leaves. >> actually behind closed doors? >> they're still asking what the >> they're still asking what the hell happe keith morrison: it was a standoff, tense and unpleasant. karen, the grieving mother furious at a team of state troopers she did not trust, determined to find out herself who murdered her bright, beautiful bonnie versus detectives who, in turn, did not trust her and so told her little about what they knew what they were learning. but they eventually let her see the autopsy report, and that's when karen saw a dozen or so brutal head wounds. that's also when the medical examiner told her about one extremely important piece of news, horrifying but potentially useful. bonnie had been raped, as well. and as awful as that was, it left one sliver of hope. the killer left behind his dna. match it, and they'd solve the case. so who w

by 2010, he made a maim name for himself with roles like facebook founder mark zuckerberg in "the socialending question? >> reporter: it earned him an oscar nod and the juice to branch out into writing and directing. when covid shut down the film industry in 2020, eisenberg and his wife anna strout moved back to her native indiana and spent their days volunteering at her mom's domestic violence shelter in bloomington. >> i was volunteering every day at the shelter. it sounds wizard weird to say. it was the happiest time in my life. i was painting walls and fixing garbage disposal and i loved it so much. i loved being able to, like, accomplish something where there was no, like, critique of it. >> reporter: is makes sense. you fix the garbage disposal. the garbage disposal is fixed. end of it. >> exactly. >> what have i been telling you all night? the closer you look, the less you see. >> reporter: much all the roles he played on screen and off, he says this one, the confident illusionist in the now you see me movie franchise is the most challenging because it's absolutely nothing like hi

mark zuckerberg, founder and ceo of meta, which owns facebook and instagram, agreed to settle a lawsuit with trump for 25 million. these three multibillionaires are working with trump for one very simple reason -- they understand that trump's policies are designed to make the very wealthiest people in this country even richer. since trump's selection mr. musk has become $154 billion richer. not bad in a couple of weeks time. he earned a great investment. he only spent a couple hundred million on the election, and now he's $154 billion richer. mr. bezos has become $35 billion richer. and mr. zuckerberg has become $43 billion richer. mr. president, i am concerned not only about the growing movement toward oligarchy in this country, but i am deeply worried that under the leadership of president trump we are moving rapidly towards authoritarianism. and all over this country people are alarmed and shocked by what they have seen in the last several weeks. just a few examples, just a few, last week president trump attempted to suspend all federal grants and loans, in direct violation of the u.

mark. >> zuckerberg's decision. >> to end. >> fact checking. >> what's your message. >> to concerned. >>dministration leaves? >> actually behind closed doors? they're still asking. >> what the hell happened? >> in an. >> immigration raid set for aurora, colorado, has been postponed indefinitely. the operation planned for the denver suburb was supposed to take place yesterday. >> however, two. >> sources tell nbc news that it was called off due to media leaks and safety concerns. joining us now, colorado secretary of state jenna griswold. >> she's also chair of. >> the democratic association of secretaries of state. thank you. madam secretary, to be with us this morning. let's start with that news there about this raid in aurora. aurora, colorado, of course, attracted a lot of headlines this year. donald trump vilified the state, made a lot of false claims about this city, made a lot of false claims about it. this raid postponed. what do you know as to why, when it may be rescheduled? and just. >> your. >> thoughts about how it's become in the political spotlight? >> well, first off, good

the dominant social media platform of china, elon musk who now owns ex, formerly twitter and mark zuckerberg leads meta which includes facebook, instagram and others, both of them have said that they look to tencent and what we chat has done for technical inspiration on new product ideas. so i want to emphasize again, china has some very strong, very competitive companies and the u.s. cannot afford to take its foot off the gas even for a second if we want to maintain our technological leadership. host: however let me was asked about deepseek during his confirmation hearing last weekend as part of a u.s. competitiveness when it comes to the ai space. i want to play a little of what he had to say and get your response. >> what this showed is that our export controls not backed by tariffs are like a whack a mole model where they get prevented over here and china figures out a way around it over there. we've got to find a way to back our export controls with tariff models so that we tell china you think we are your most important trading partner, we say no, the answer is no. it is a respect thin

the dominant social media platform of china, elon musk who now owns ex, formerly twitter and mark zuckerberg leads meta which includes facebook, instagram and others, both of them have said that they look to tencent and what we chat has done for technical inspiration on new product ideas. so i want to emphasize again, china has some very strong, very competitive companies and the u.s. cannot afford to take its foot off the gas even for a second if we want to maintain our technological leadership. host: however let me was asked about deepseek during his confirmation hearing last weekend as part of a u.s. competitiveness when it comes to the ai space. i want to play a little of what he had to say and get your response. >> what this showed is that our export controls not backed by tariffs are like a whack a mole model where they get prevented over here and china figures out a way around it over there. we've got to find a way to back our export controls with tariff models so that we tell china you think we are your most important trading partner, we say no, the answer is no. it is a respect thin

trump, yet i don't recall the same outrage when billionaires on their side of the aisle like mark zuckerberg, george soros, or any of the others donating massive sums of money to their side of the aisle. mr. ash, i want to start with you. i read something you stated in your testimony. you said rather than a bloated bureaucracy, we face a workforce stretched too thin, forced to oversee an increasingly complex web of outsourced operation with limited personnel and resources. you say that in your testimony? >> yes sir. >> i would like to read a list of priorities at usaid. one of the agencies elon musk ma who has triggered my colleagues on the left so much, the agency for international development, which had a budget over $40 billion in fiscal year 2023. this is not an exhaustive list, it is a small list. $1.5 million to advance d.e.i. and serbia's workplaces and business communities. $2.5 million for electric vehicles in vietnam. $2 million for sex changes in lgbt activism and while i'm all a. $6 million to fund tourism in egypt. hundreds of thousands of dollars for nonprofit linked to designa