one of china's leading executives at the request of whington has ignited fears that china might e retal here to join us is casey newton. jeremy owens, and yia frooed. welcome to you all. i in, a. facebook unveiled a security flahat allowed people to access photos even those that haven't been fully up loaded. when did facebook know about this a w they tell us just now? >> this is the biggest issue. it's bad enough that those are photos that you wanted to post. and it includes photos you didn't want topost. they knew about it in september, and are letting people know about it in december. and european regulators knew about it in november. >> it is part of a pattern. we hear over and over again, we had this flaw, thisbreach, and we don't hear about it until months later. are there any calls fine facebook at this point or have some other kind of sanction or penalty? >> there are provisions in the european law andth consent decree with the federal trade commission that requires them to notifabout data breaches. there is no law at this point that prevents companies from having data breaches b

from city contractors to increase the remedies available for whistle-blowers who have suffered retallationnd have greater confidentiality protection for identity. >> we have good legislation. quite frankly, it updates the whistle-blower protection policy to make it easier for whistle-blowers to file their claims. and to protect their identities and their livelihoods when they report corrupt or misuse of funds. you may recall the hearing about the african-american community about concerns. they have suffered being whistle-blowers in their respective departments. the version before you today reflects a delicate compromise between the department of human resources, the ethics commission, and the controlers office. i would like to thank patrick ford from the department of ethics, i want to recognize the leadership of ben wilson in the controller's office and susan guard and mickey callaghan. the three of those entities have been able to produce this -- an update to the whistle-blower protection. this will result in more than just an equitable system for whistle-blowers in san francisco. i thin

in retally the biggest problem right now is the president of the united states. he has engaged in this chaotic turf war of unsettled markets. he's presiding over a turbulent administration. the best people advising him are leaving. it's a moment of concern about the markets about the stability of the united states government right now. i think that's the biggest problem the markets have. >> we should point out here that it was president trump who actually appointed jerome powell to run the fed. what's the president's gripe with jerome powell? >> the president's gripe with jerome powell is that he has embarked on a set of rate increases including one that he followed through on last week to try to normalize the level of interest rates in our economy. the fed has been stimulating the economy ever since we had the financial crisis in 2009 and 2010. and while it was having loose monetary policy to try to spur investment, turn the economy around, the president and many other republicans were saying this is improper. this is done to prop up obama. in fact, donald trump

one thing we should say about the auto tariffs, part of what they're doing is unwinding retall ya toriill a long way to go before -- from the trump administration's perspective, there's actual progress on addressing the concerns they've raised over the last few years. dagen: it certainly, john -- it's dagen mcdowell. i pointed out -- >> hi, dagen. dagen: the wall street journal broke the news i think on tuesday that china was going to move to do this, particularly on the punitive auto tariffs. so they go back to 15% which is where china had reduced them in the middle of the year before this fight broke out with the united states. but it might ease some of the tensions even more than we realize because i believe volvo has signaled it was going to pull back on investment plans here in the united states because it ships a lot of cars from the u.s. to china, so it will help jobs in the u.s. in the sense of bmw that makes suvs down in south carolina or mercedes-benz or volvo, any automaker that has jobs here that ships to china. >> a couple points. you mentioned bmw and volvo. ironically, a