if flattering the powerful was an olympic event, karen swisher would be mark spitz. to swisher, bezos' behavior since he left his wife and kids for his mattress has been "admirable," a "heroic moment," from "the most important tech missionaries in steve jobs." it goes on like this. for an entire column. at one point, this is the best, swisher frets that jeff bezos' privacy has been violated by the "national enquirer," which by eethe way his troop, but telliny she didn't spend a lot of time warning about whether america's privacy has been violated by jeff bezos, and that seemed like a worthwhile question to ask. : greenwald has been thinking about it a lot recently and he joins usus today. that was the first think -- let me just say clearly, i totally disapprove of what "national enquirer" did to jeff bezos, i do. but it does raise the question what is amazon doing to the rest of us? >> yeah, i wish we were a society that left consensual adult sex to the people engaged in them and had no interest in them and let them between them and their spouses or whoever it is in

joining us, recode editor at large and cnbc contributor kara swisher.ing, good to see you. >> good to see you >> what was your reaction to the initial journal piece in light of everything else we heard regarding data privacy of the company? >> well, you know, there you go. i mean, the thing is in this case it is complicated because these apps were sharing to get better ad targeting. what they wanted to do was use the facebook platform, and has the best ad targeting tools to get more users, which makes sense except it is sensitive information. in this case it is not clear what facebook knew and what they were doing but they were availing themselves to tools that allow them to do so it is pretty complicated, in this case looks like facebook wasn't watching, wasn't sucking them in saying give us the data, they just did. the same issue i have been talking about, sloppy management of the platform, meaning they don't know what's coming over or they're not as responsible for what might be coming in. secondly, people want to go there, that's where the people ar

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will thoroughly investigate the claims joining us, recode editor at large and cnbc contributor kara swishergood morning >> yeah. >> it is called a bombshell today, that almost understates it >> yeah. >> what do you think is important to know about it, day one of this? >> first of all it is interesting that he did it we're all pretty surprised he has been aggressive. people that know bezos know that he doesn't stand still for anything, i guess not in his personal life either the second thing is i think it is entirely appropriate that he did investigate. people were giving me a hard time, but he was hacked in some way, he should find out how that happened he has a lot of other secrets related to the company, all kinds of things. i think it is appropriate that he does that what's really interesting is that he exposed the nefarious behaviors by american media which have been going on far too long and put it out there for people to judge. it is interesting, fascinating, a surprise, kind of cool i guess. >> kara, american media's claim is that these bezos private pictures are newsworthy because t

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kara swisher joins us now along with the senior vice president for social justice at the news school.s. mia, i want to start with you. michael sanchez, the brother in this instance says he's not the leaker. the attorney for the enquirer says -- could he face legal charges? >> it depends on how he got the communications. yes, it's possible. and i think the question is going to be pertinent to what kind of exposure ami also faces. right? because depending on how ami got the text messages and the photographs, they could be subject to a possible criminal investigation on wire fraud, for example. >> into how they got it if it turns out they used illegal or questionable methods to get them? >> correct. >> one of the things you're writing about is how aggressive bezos is being when it comes to exposing this. you say most revealing is it is perhaps the best illustration of the in the your face aggressiveness that's made him the richest man in the world and arguably the most important tech visionary since steve jobs. is he about the only guy who could stand up to the enquirer? >> no. there's a

jon sopel bbc news, washington. ,jane: a brief time ago, i discussed this case with cara swisher, executivee. thanks for joining me. this ipretty sensational stuff. jeff bezos said it was a shock to him. how shocked i e you? cara surprised he became so aggressive so quickly. initially he talked about the end of his marriage before the national enquirer could come out. he was trying to get ahead of this, and in this case he was worried about how he got hacked. when he got pushed back from american media, which owns the national enquirer. he decided to take matters into his own hands and expose what they were doing. i hate to use the word expose. there are so many bad puns you could make because it has to do with pictures of his parts and sexual issues and his personal lationships, but the fact of the matter is he was under siege by these people in a digital manner, and he decided to react by talking about it digitally all over the internet which was fascinating. ne: as a strategy, do you e ink it is going to work? cara: i do because getting support. what is interesting, people are going dire

. >> now the big gift trick shot of them all, called the rooftop super bowl swisher. >> and boom. >>s really impressive. they have a ton more. if you want to check out the entire video, head over to rightthisminute.com click on tv show or you can check it out on our mobile app. >> i will take all the credit for that one. i told him to throw it east/west wing, so -- >>> when ej speaks, y'all better listen. >> let me explain something to you when we leave. when we get over here, sit down. don't talk to me. don't look at me. don't think about me. i'm grown. i'm going to be with the grown folks, you be with the the rund. if you embarrass me, i'm going to embarrass you. i got chills saying that because i used to hear it often. >> it is loosely called a pep talk. >> it's a threat talk. >> a threat talk. >> when i say it's time to go, it's time to go. don't ask if you can stay the night. you cannot. don't ask if they can come back over here, they cannot. >> can husbands say that about their wives when they're leaving a party? >> no such thing as bye. >> don't get over there like you hungry

. >>> we're joineda by c swisher, the executive editor of recode and a "new york times" ri cotor. she's coveredzo jeff extensively. last night you see the bombshell that landed from jeff bezos. was this a stunner to you? >> in a lot of ways it isn't. he's been pretty quiet, especially onhe trump attacks on him. this was a real response i thin >> it was. if it's jeff bezos versus the "national enquirer," are those two -- is that like a fht made in heaven. have both met theirtc s? >> i feel sorry for the "national enquirer." that's what have to say about that. this is as astonishing thing for, first of all,ld the w richest man, a very prominent ceo of almost a trillion dollar company. 'sstonishing for him to go out on a limb like this and use the internet to communicate something that most ceos wouldn't doment it's quite a bold move on his part. i'm trying not to use metaphors here b aause it's problematic story on so many levels when you're talking about body parts which i thought i'd never do. i neveranted to talk about jeff bezos's netherworld regions in my life. >> pulitzers eve

realize "the wall street journal trafficked in warmed over drivel from supermarket tabloids and kara swisher'sumn, jeff bezos isn't afraid of total disclosure how are you doing? >> good. >> this story gets curiouser and curiouser. you raid an interesting point in the piece you wrote. what i took from it, jeff bezos could use this incident as an excuse, a motivator to protect everyone's privacy differently versus just to check mate his information opponent >> i don't mind if he does that, it is "national enquirer" and there are issues around how they collected this information if it turns out to be criminal, he has every right to look into that but i think there's a bigger issue, privacy of most citizens, they aren't the world's richest man, don't have the ability to hire the fanciest investigators and the most lawyers and have such a global platform i think one of the issues going forward is privacy, violations of privacy, misuse of people's consumer data, including by companies like amazon. what are the rules of the road and what should they be going forward. i thought i would use the opportu

hq2, talk to jim stewart about that and the continuing scandal around bezos himself with raka swishern a couple of minutes. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." stocks off highs of the day with the s&p 500 barely holding gains ahead of more china trade talks this week. as we drill to one of the underperforming sectors, it is in energy. this as u.s. crude oil prices tumble to lowest level since mid january. up tick in drilling activity along with refinery fire in illinois, weighing on the index. among the names to the down side, noble energy and occidental petroleum, chevron. worth noting, despite that rally, it is down 50% from recent highs last july i will send it back downtown to you at the new york stock exchange, david. back to you. >> thank you, dom chu at hq. >>> "closing bell" approaches, but not for a little while still, i'm very excited. >> most important hour of the day. laugh on friday, it made the week in terms of gains we were lower for the week heading into the final hour, things turned around, there was buying you get it it is important. also some big names on th

today bolstered by btig raising its price target yesterday and on jack dorsey's nterview with cara swisher on twitter yesterday. though that conversation and tweets drew criticism for how hard it was to follow the conversation he said submitting -- he said in that interview he's committed to improving twitter's security now a headline about morgan stanley's 5.6% stake in twitter seemed to bump the stock higher, but that isn't new it was first reported in september. now snap is up today that stock is up about 3%. googenheim raised its target, now up about 4%. raised on monday snap also launched a partnership with lego this week. in app shopping with a reality store. this points to potential for more retail revenue for snap >> thank you >>> now cvs is showing off its new health hub store a one stop shop for your health care needs and bertha coombs is live in spring, texas, to show us around. >> they've been going for about a month and they're giving up more real estate for health services back here, they have a bigger minute clinic. if you come in and pick up a prescription for hyper tension

what did jack dorsey tell our friend, kara swisher, on twitter. >> go. >> he said basically that elon musk is one of the most exciting twitter users out there. so if elon musk gets a muzzle, if people start feeling that they need to be muzzled some way on twitter if twitter can be a weapon of self-destruction, what happens to twitter i don't know what was behind this move today. >> that's interesting, melissa again, this sounds to me like now we're giving elon musk a lot more credit. you know, he's the reason why twitter's valuation is the way that it is that's almost as absurd as tesla's valuation. so i hear you and i do think his tweets are the subject of enormous speculation, laughter, horror, you tell me. but when i think about it, twitter responding because i think twitter would have a much bigger issue if the president stopped tweeting rather than elon musk. the reason twitter is such a great platform, this is happening in realtime. there's a lot of really smart people doing a lot of work on tesla than a lot of the people that own the stock i bet most of the retail investors tha

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. >> the timing is interesting you had that twitter based interview between swisher and dorsey very hard to follow. even jack dorsey came out and said we have to take a look at this because the thread is complicated. i wonder if this is one more piece of that conversation >> it's difficult to do this on the back end to make it work smoothly >> is that what it took for them to figure out twitter threads are hard to read >> no. increased scrutiny >> i don't know how to create one yet. i know how to follow them. >> you can knit, create -- >> if somebody else like elon musk got in that conversation and hillary clinton and you got all they entry points wait what were they talking about. >> our message to twitter is get to it. thank you all very much. >>> coming up, it's been hyped as the new fortnight and a big money maker for ea but our next guest says wall street is wrong about apex legends. he'll tell us why. (indistinguishable muttering) that was awful. why are you so good at this? had a coach in high school. really helped me up my game. i had a coach. math. ooh. so, why don't traders hav

the guy is a hero to a lot of people and many pop like caria swisher said i don't love him in general and they go okay, yeah, i respect that guy. what a lesson for people dealing with crisis management. >> to make it even more pump and thises could directly donald trump's former attorney general. donald trump was obsessed with jeff bessos well before that. as bezos got richer and rich are, it would drive clump crazy. so the ultimate bully is really, veal feeling this one. long before this matter started, he had a lot of bess i don't doing so what happened next? what -- what part of the story are you going to be following today? >> sure. well, in the media there's does he ami weight in? but the bigger picture, joe, is i want to go back with if you have already topped to catch and kill stories, to silence acuresers of donald trump. why are you still out there pursuing, like you said, a guy whose name made be a household game for us as the national enchoir are have on jeff about bezos. i wonder what does he jeff bezos maybe have on the national enenchoirers. he's inviting all of us to su

. >> kara swisher, thank you for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> congratulations. >> it's so hard not to make puns. >> that's what twitter's for. >>> all eyes on capitol hill where the acting attorney general is preparing to face congress after a day of drama over whether he even would appear. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker with the latest on that. hey, kristen. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are getting our first look at what acting attorney general matthew whitaker is saying on capitol hill. there's the live shot there. in his opening remarks he defended his handling of the special counsel's russia investigation but said he won't discuss communications with president trump. you can expect fireworks. this morning the acting attorney general matthew whitaker says he will testify on capitol hill after a day-long standoff with house democrats who backed down after threatening to subpoena him if he didn't answer their questions. that move an attempt by democrats to prevent whitaker from claiming executiv

>> contessa, thank you very much for that to discuss further, joining us is executive editor cara swisheryou called this essentially. >> yeah. >> now that it happened what is your take? >> i wasn't surprised. i don't think amazon wanted the headache and growing and growing and had not just local and state politicians but someone like representative ocasio-cortez putting a lot of focus on it, on twitter and elsewhere. for amazon, probably too much of a headache to save it is not a good time to be a billionaire looking for gimmes, real or perceived. not a good look to give away money to amazon when its founder is richest person in the world and all the perception july things around this are bad, bad for those that negotiated this and amazon and not surprised amazon left and, you know, i think they could have coop rated, the community, come up with a new way to do this to benefit everybody. it was done too quickly by andrew cuomo who's seems to be the worst poker player on the planet i think it had to sort of end this way and why i was predicting it. >> so it may have been mishandled on many

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