a whole lot more straight ahead but first let me get to this linkedin cofounder reed hoffman, issuingology for donating reportedly up to $750,000 to a group linked to spreading false information in the alabama senate runoff election. reed says, well he claims he wasn't aware the group was tied to a project that used the same tactics used by russia to interfere with the 2016 election. he said quote i have funded a organizations to truth discourse in the united states. i would not have knowingly funded a project using such tactics and refused to interact with any such organization that had such conduct. alabama attorney general looking into whether the it could violate campaign rules. liberal groups quick to denounce all things about russia. i wonder where is the outrage from americans with very deep pockets doing the same exact thing? joining me now, bustle.com senior direct are to have research, fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and independent women's forum voice fellow kelsey harkness. jessica, let me start with you. these rich silicon valley folks, generally progressives, they h

this organization, that reed hoffman.ted total 7 50,000 in total, called american engagement technologies. and they claim that they use social media data analytics to increase civic engagement. they were doing is giving some money to another group, new knowledge that spread misinformation that judge roy moore was getting helped by russians, a fake news but they put it out inflation news, and thigh created the bots to make it look like that. >> right, david, to put it in perspective, during hearing they said russia and internety is research agency. a spend a hundred thousand on alabama election a year and a few months after presidential elected, why didn't twitter and facebook pick this up, such a big race, the epicenter of everything, this thing, if you think use of these tactics they model it right after russia, same playbook, a bunch of russia bots and create division, get people to vote for someone else. david: it could have woning thee election. >> no doubt. david: everyone was focused on they talked about prejudice i

very focused on deliberate structured growth and you can question whether that's the right thing reed hoffman about blitz scaling. this is not a company trying to blitz scale. they did experiments around customer acquisition, cutting back on tv advertising last quarter that caused some hiccups in their customer acquisition. i think this will be perhaps a case study in whether this deliberative approach in the era we're moving into, whatever it is, where the market goes from here, where the economy goes 2019 and beyond, whether that approach is the right one, or whether more softbank driven approach of pedal to the metal, figure out the brakes later is the way to go. >> market reaction seems to be the street saying the early adopters are in, we don't know if they're hitting a wall or not. maybe they're questioning it >> they're growing, making money. but the question is are you in the old amazon camp of more growth maybe not at all cost or most of them, but slogan steady when you have the subscription game >> stock was $51 in the middle of september >> ipo price, yeah. >>> when we come back, w

reed hoffman added that he categorically disvows the use of misinformation to sway an election. expressed support for a federal investigation to look into what happened in alabama which echos senator doug jones' position on the same reports. >>> and after months of international uproar over u.s. intelligence beliefs with the plot to kill jamal khashoggi, russia is warning against the attempts to push the 33-year-old out of the line of recession. bloomberg quotes russia saying of course we are against interference, the saudi people and leadership must be decide such questions themselves. the saudi government has repeatedly denied the prince's involvement in khashoggi's murder. >>> can and vladimir putin says russia is ready to deploy sonic nuclear missiles next year over what putin claimed was a test of the nuclear system. putin said russia has obtained a new type of strategic weapon. the new system is highly maneuverable, allowing it to evade even the defense systems. putin doubted russia's arsenal of hyper sonic nuclear weapons as invincible. according to "the washington post,"

reed hoffman a billionaire who invested in facebook very early on, publicly apologized because of funding a small group boosting democrat doug jones to push disinformation against roy moore. basically a russian-style tactic. doug jones has disavowed it, has called for an investigation. it appears there's a federal investigation into this. and it shows the legacy of the 2016 election where now instead of just russians using russian-style tactics, these tactics have actually infected the american process. >> you can't come to me because i'm taking you seriously. >> is it nice to be -- >> yeah. that's the second doughnut. >> really putting it down. >> he rejected mine. >> we digress. >> you know what? what's kind of odd about this it's been a long time since we talked about ballot stuffing back into the 1960s and whether or not people dead people voted in chicago. >> i'm from chicago. i'll tell you about all that. >> but you go back to the founding of the country there was nasty stuff going on back then too. i think we had come in modern times to really trust the system and this is a breakdo

then you have reed hoffman in this kind of a situation, again i think it is great he apologized but itff. kristina: it is done. the damage is already done. i think your guest brought up before, maybe our data should be property right going forward. it continuously happens on social media. charles: i would like to get paid every time they use my data. >>> right now the dow jones industrial average we're off 427 points. the nfl enjoyed a increase in ratings this year and relatively lack of controversy so far. this as the league, there are signs maybe it is putting some of its problems in the rear view mirror. we have jason whitlock coming up because there is a new set of problems that are starting to emerge. ♪ i'm ken jacobus and i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet? kristina: welcome back. a lot of market watchers are blaming computer trading programs for all the volatility. listen to what former att

reed hoffman gave $750,000 to anti-fake news organization.." that organization is accused of using social media to split conservative votes in last year's alabama senate race. democrat doug jones beat republican roy moore. and we telling you about this yesterday. now we have an update. three homeless men caught on camera attacking a police officer will face charges. ♪ get back. get back. get back. jillian: seen fighting off the men inside a new york city subway station after a woman reported them for harassment. right now two suspects are under arrest. the da deciding to charge them after that video went viral. and this story is incredible a father takes several flights on christmas just so he could spend the holiday with his flight attendant daughter. a passenger seated next to dad howell on delta airlines posted these photos online. howell was also planning to fly with daughter pierce the following day. pierce shared the passenger's post thanking him and gate agents around the country for helping dad make every flight just so he could spend