"the wall street journal" may have shed a light on the management practices and have been kept from public view. this month the journal reported sthe cross check program reportedly exempts certainrt public figures from its terms of service and community standards. it also disclosed their own internal researchre documenting the harmful mental affects of the platform and the effects on children and teens. both of these reports are only amplifying concerns about facebook's inconsistent enforcement of its content moderation policies and its disregard and well-being for children and teens. i hope facebook will be forthcoming about its platform management practices and take this opportunity to address "the wall street journal"'s report andes is" also hope that facebok will outline what it's doing to increase transparency and begin uprotecting users of all ages n the platforms. following yesterday's data privacy hearing, what remains clear to me is congress must act to address the continued rain to censor content, suppress certain viewpoints, prioritize political speech, stockpile consumer data a

recent reports from "the wall street journal" may have shed new light on why facebook's platform management practices had been kept from public view. this month the journal revealed that facebook's so-called cross-check program purportedly exempts certain public figures from its terms of service and community standards. the journal also disclosed faish's own internal research documenting the harmful mental effects of the platform on its photo sharing site effects on children and teens. both of these reports are deeply troubling and only amplify concerns about facebook's inconsistent enforcement of its content moderation policies and its disregard and well-being for children and teens. this morning, i hope facebook will be forthcoming about its platform management practices and take this opportunity to address "the wall street journal's" report. i also hope facebook will outline what it is doing to increase transparency and begin protecting users of all ages on its platforms. following yesterday's data privacy hearing, what remains clear to me is that congress must act to address big tech's

senator cruz: so was "the wall street journal" not telling the truth when it said, quote, 13% of british users and 6% of american users trace their desire to kill themselves to instagram? that is from "the wall street journal." was that true or false? ms. davis: it's a misunderstanding of the research, but i'd point you to the blog post that our vice president of research wrote that goes through the research and explains the research. senator cruz: has the full research been released or not? ms. davis: actually, senator, we've released two of the specific studies and we're looking to release more research. senator cruz: what are you keeping secret? because you're telling us, if only you knew the full refrp and then -- research and then at the same time you're not releasing the research. so which is it? ms. davis: i understand your -- i don't understand your question. senator cruz: do you want us to examine the full research or not? ms. davis: two primary resources. senator cruz: so you've cherry-picked the ones you want us to see. i haven't seen this research. if you released it i'll hap

>> was "the wall street journal" not telling the truth when it says 13% of british users and 6% of americansers trace the desire to kill themselves on instagram and that is from "the wall street journal." is that a true or false? >> it's a misunderstanding of the research but i would point you to the research that goes through and explains. >> sehas that been released or not? >> we've released to specific studies. >> what are you keeping secret because youre are telling us its full research but at the same time you are not releasing the research, a so what is it? >> do you want us to examine the full research or not? >> so you've cherry picked the ones you want. have you released the research? if you really sit i will happily take a look at it. have you released the underlying research behindes that? >> senator, again i disagree with the characterizations. >> have you released the research behind it? >> you cherry picked so let me ask you if 6% of american users trace the desire to kill themselves to instagram you said that's not bombshell research. what would be if 6% is not, what wouldwh

what i thought is it's a window into how terrified the "wall street journal" can the murdochs still arenald trump and his base. >> well, it's a curious decision. i know people who work at the "wall street journal" who are street reporters who don't want to be judged by the editorial page. but let's think about what this was. it's not only just that it was form of president trump spewing the lies that he has been spewing ever since that november night that it was very clear to him that he lost the election. but it's that he also included these sort of fictional fake numbers going state by state making thing up that were clearly not true. it is sort of scary in these times when you think of all the different things that this country has been through. you think of january 6th and really american democracy almost coming to its knees, that we are now debating whether or not the lies that really fed into people trying to kill the vice president, to try to kill the house speaker, that they are fit to print in a newspaper. that being said, i understand, obviously, there are editorial decisions

then the question then becomes, what is the wall street journal and getting out of this, right? because they're sitting there doing all of these sort of in depth reporting. is it just that they're getting the clicks on it and that kind of goes in at least makes them look good? i don't think that's the case. listen, i don't want any proof of this is simply my opinion here, but i believe the wall street journal, whoever is pushing these stories out has a motivation. and i think that motivation is to ultimately see mark sucker berg no longer in charge of the algorithms that facebook or the way the company is run. look again, i have a big disagreement with the way, but facebook does a lot of what it does. but i don't think the problem is, is that they're not sensory enough content. i think there's sensory in the wrong kinds of content. they're very good at sensory and political speech, but they're not very good is censoring murder videos and people having oregon transplant stuff. that's the truth. one of the complaints about this a system is that it doesn't seem to be catching very

dion nissenbaum is a wall street journal reporter focused on u.s. policy in middle east. wall street journal investigation is titled "afghan interpreter who helped rescue joe biden in 2008 escapes afghanistan". when we come back, we look at probes in donald trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. ♪ ♪ [music break] amy: these are orchestra, afghanistan's first all-female orchestra. this is democracy now! i am amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. the house committee investigating the january 6 insurrection has subpoenaed former justice department official jeffrey clark, whom donald trump considered installing as attorney general in the final weeks of his presidency because he supported subverting the election. this comes as information continues to come to light about trump's extraordinary efforts to stay in the white house after losing to joe biden. the senate judiciary committee recently revealed that trump directly asked the justice department nine times for help to overturn the election. the senate report states, "trump's efforts to use doj as a means to overturn the

the "wall street journal" reported one slide says we make body imagish image issues worse for one in teen girls. facebook's problems go well beyond what's going on on instagram. "the new york times" reports the same whistle-blower who has been giving research to the "wall street journal" is accusing facebook of easing security safeguards shortly after the election, and it ended up helping to insight the january 6th riot. this whistle-blower will reveal her identity tonight. she's scheduled to testify before congress on tuesday. so joining me for more on all of this is jeff horowitz, one of the "wall street journal" reporters reporting on facebook, and kara swisher co-host of the podcast sway. welcome to both of you. i should mention, we asked facebook to provide us with a guest, and they declined. jeff, i want to start with this and what we're going to hear tonight and next week from this whistle-blower. but it seems as if, whether it's -- what you've been reporting on on what they did on research of instagram or the elite group, sort of the fact that elite facebook users get treated

we now know where "the wall street journal" got their information. as a whistle-blower from facebook. she gave tens of thousands of internal documents to the securities and exchange commission and the "wall street journal." she says facebook chooses what is good for facebook over what is good for users. the reporter that broke the story says facebook is in disarray. >> it keeps them on the platform. >> yes. facebook has realized that if they change the al kau rhythm to be safer, people will click on less ads, they will make less money. >> wow. >> facebook says it works to fight hurtful comments. we'll hear more from the whistle-blower coming up at 5:30. >> thanks, scott. >>> still nearly two months away, but amazon rolling out early deals starting today. amazon said new deals will be added every day. target also giving shoppers a jump-start on the holiday season. next week they will bring back deal days and launch online sales. >>> the powerball, no winner. >> jackpots are growing more quickly. >> good luck to you, all those playing. >>> you don't hav

that's the whistleblower in the wall street journal, accusing facebook of generating engagement over public well being for profit. just how bad do you think this is going to be for facebook? will it stick? because every time it's hold up before congress or before any regulator, it's and so get headlines for 24 hours and then it's back to square one. well, what's interesting about the leak documents of the wall street journal published is that they show quite clearly that facebook is in decline and knows it's in decline . and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract preteens and a children. i am children, i mean even children. so i either is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down, but does the any trust or effort to break it up or coupled with. now what these leak documents show is in understanding by facebook officials that there are that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. there is also the other been about needs for facebook, that there could be up to one and a half 1000000000. facebook uses accounts and private

but i believe the wall street journal, whoever is pushing these stories out, has a motivation. and i think that motivation is to ultimately see mark sucker berg no longer in charge of the algorithm that facebook or the way the company is run. look again, i have a big disagreement with the way, but facebook does a lot of what it does. but i don't think the problem is, is that they're not sensory enough content. i think they're sensory in the wrong kinds of content. they're very good at sensory and political. ringback speech, but they're not very good is censoring murder, videos and people having oregon transferred and stuff. that's the truth. one of the complaints about this a i system is that it doesn't seem to be catching very graphic videos. it's not catching content being put up by drug cartels, but it is catching on the other hand, somebody who says something that's labeled as violation of community guidelines or medical misinformation like a very good, a catching political stuff. they're just not very good at catching truly harmful content. like when drug cartels are posti

this time in a letter to the editor printed by "the wall street journal".seriousness of what he is saying and the halshoods and the lack of evidence he provide, they didn't fact check this. al schmidt. you were a key election official in pennsylvania during the election. this letter to the editor that the former president wrote is about pennsylvania specifically. i'm not going to put up on the screen what it says because so much is from outer space or provably false. but what was it like for you to read this? >> well, it was incredibly frustrating. as soon as i saw it, i sat down to prepare a rebuttal for each item. and for many of them, i have no idea what they're even talking about. because they clearly have no idea what they're talking about. it's prepared by some -- it looks like he just copied and pasted some figures from some goofy website that's advocating for an audit in pennsylvania. i think this is very similar to what we saw in arizona. and there's an effort to repeat that here. . >> again, i'm not going to put on the screen the different things

captioning sponsored by cbs >> according to "the wall street journal," robots are taking over italy's vineyards as wineries struggle with covid-19 worker shortages. >> open the wine cellar doors, hal. >> sorry, dave. i'm afraid i can't do that. >> what's the problem? >> i can't allow you to serve a montepulciano with a pan-seared sole. >> what are you talking about, hal? >> the flavor of a white-flaked fish is very delicate and will get lost in the dense texture of a montepulciano. >> i just like the taste of it, hal. >> you might as well serve a chianti with a tuna casserole. you're a philistine, dave. >> all right, hal, what should i serve?

leaking like a sieve to some big name news organizations. tonight, an explosive report in the wall street journal. the wall street journal revealed facebook was planning to launch an instagram kids zap, despite the company's own researchers concluding the platform already has an adverse effect on the mental health of teenage girls. the new york times then reported that facebook was planning to clutter its own news feed with positive stories about facebook to counter the growing criticism out there. but critics are a dime, a dozen, ex facebook data scientists turned whistleblowers are not. there were conflicts of interest between well is good for the public. i was gay for facebook and facebook this past week, frances helgrin, the unnamed source behind the wall street journal story shed her anonymity. facebook on research says it is not just the instagram is dangerous for teenagers, they harm's teenagers, is that is distinctly worse and other forms of social media. in her interview on c, b. s. news is 60 minutes. how can said the social media giant should declare moral bankruptcy for putting astron

we see this in the wall street journal this morning. a photo of chinese missiles and shiny military tests with hypersonic missiles launched for non-nuclear applications. >> you can see the last few minutes of this event go to our website c-span. oft rg. we are leaving this here to keep our over 40-year commitment of liven coverage of congress. the u.s. house of representatives today is considering legislation to award the congressional gold medal to service members who died in the august 26 terrorist attack during the u.s. evacuation from afghanistan. now live coverage of the house here on c-span ms. waters: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house pass the bill and pass h.r. 4111, the sovereign debt contract capacity act. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill.

how should "the wall street journal" have handled this issue? >> completely differently.ey should have done, when they published the letter, if they were going to publish the letter at all, i question even that they should have put the skepticism and context around it that they didn't afterwards. the letter you were just quoting from. michael if i came to you to your guest book and said hey, i've gait a great guest, but they're bananas. would you put them on the air without pointing 0 out they're bananas? so there's bad stuff, coming back in the corrected editorial, they pointed out for example, particular examples in trump's litany that were just flat-out wrong. why they didn't do that the first time, it really gives free real estate. and it's a very damaging thing for a professional news organization to do that. >> i read the journal, perhaps as we do online, looking for a print script here. to your point, there it is letters to the editor. they printed it, frank, like any other letter. there's no sidebar, there's no explanation. and then a day later, they came back wit

. >>> joining me for invite and analysis are "wall street journal's" peggy noonan, former also crryuer"punchbowl news." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck ç todd. >>> good sunday morning. at least congress made sure the government didn't shut down, but that's not all that didn't happen this past week. democrats will slim majorities and big differences of opinion did not manage to pass either of their two big priorities. moderate democrats wanted to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and keep negotiating on the progressives' larger social spending wish >> everyone wants these roads and bridges, but people aren't going to remember the rode the way they will remember if they wake up in the morning and they now have child care so they can go back to work. >> we need a vote. we need to be real. are we going to deliver universal pre-k to this country or not. >> house speaker nancy pelosi promised to call a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill on mon

i've written about a thousand stories of trump in the wall street journal.d to give people a reason they keep turning the pages here so it's the only one to date that explains trump inside the room details from the oval office under the hood of the 2 billion-dollar campaign, excusive memos, text messages into some of the decision-making process there and -- and another unique piece of this is the front-row joes. two years with the people who go to 30, 40, 50, by the end of 2016, rallies. what i wanted to do is understand through them about the movement. what about them as people as men and women had them coming back again and again and effectively seeing the same show and about trump he could elicit this kind of energy and what i found was and i was very, very lucky that these folks trusted me to tell their story and i will forever be grateful. i think it really enriched my reporting and understanding of this movement in our country right now and, i mean, these are folks who had a lot of time on their hands. recently retired or almost retired. maybe never ha

the wall street journal's report on instances where conflicts inadvertently were not identified before a key was result or transfer dis troubling. and the administrative office is carefully reviewing the matter. i can say with absolute certainty that i never made any decision in favor of a company, because i own stock and was invested in that company. i dropped the ball. thank you for helping me stay on my toes the way i'm supposed to. i just blew it. i regret any question that i've created the appearance of impropriety or a conflict of interest. the newspaper highlights a new york judge who handled a pollution claim against oil giant exxon mobil while owning ex on stock. and colorado judge, who oversaw case against nbc universal owner, comcast, in which they to own shares. the judges failure to step aside when there is a financial conflict of interest violates federal law, and this has sparked a furious public reaction. will they go to jail and be impeached? if not, then it's just another story of entitlement with no repercussions and prosecutions . we expect judges to be fair and imp

can have external research to have safe, privacy protected access to our data. >> about "the wall street journal" findings and internal research, you came out and said there's information in the journal's series was inaccurate. "the journal" says not of facebook cases cited a single error in our reporting. instead of the spin they should address the public directly and release all of the research we based our reporting from that they claim we misrepresented. will you continue releasing all of the data "the wall street journal" based their reporting on? >> as i said earlier, i doubt cnn or any other company that does discussion would randomly dump documents from the outside world. that's not something any reasonable company could be expected to do, which is external research -- >> okay, you're not. >> we have shared. we have shared and we also shared with external researchers plenty of data, and we will continue to do so. >> this whistle-blower went to "the journal" apparently, "60 minutes" trying to call out facebook, which they believe are real problems. we see "the new york times" this weekend

that just isn't happening right now. >> mark zuckerberg said tonight that the "wall street journal's"eporting and frances haugen's whistle blowing and supplying thousands upon thousands upon thousands of pages of data and information, what he says about that is, what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively leak documents to paint a false picture of our company. what is your reaction to that? >> you know, i heard that tonight, and i thought, okay, first of all i didn't even know this information was coming out. i was going on my own on this for years, trying to put in some rules of the road. i talked on your show about it, for political ads, trying to do something about all of the hate speech that was part of what led, and that's what the documents showed today on january 6th. the fact that they weren't doing anything, he claimed that they limited 96% of hate speech. his own researchers saying it was only 5%. so what this is is the truth is coming out. at some point the truth was going to come out, and then the question is what do you do about it. that's what i'm asking my

the wall street journal reports that 131 judges failed to recuse themselves from 685 cases since 2010 involving firms in which they or their family held shares. and 2 thirds of the cases ended up being ruled in their favor. the judges or relatives held stock's worth more than $15000.00 in companies involved in $173.00 cases, and more than $50000.00 worth in $21.00 cases. the report also found that in $61.00 instances, the stocks were treated during court proceedings. us courts administrative officers . it is looking into the allegations. the wall street journal's report on instances where conflicts inadvertently were not identified before a key was results or transfer dis troubling. and the administrative office is carefully reviewing the matter. i can say with absolute certainty that i never made any decision in favor of a company because i own stuck and was invested in that company. i dropped the ball . thank you for helping me stay on my toes the way i'm supposed to. i just blew it . i regret any question that i've created the appearance of impropriety or a conflict of interest. th

the article points out in the wall street journal that they don't know what the cash is, where it went to, nevertheless, so it's very mysterious over there. whereas in the united states, like it's too much information and you can't tell what is real and what's not. so this is the american dream, that myth of the horatio alger, that everybody can make it. and property seems, if you're looking at the outside from the g o economics, political chess board of china, you know, they look at the united states and where every, the middle class grew because of property prices. right? so to me that seems like the reflexive 80 here is a think that's the reality of how it all happened. like that's way to the middle class of for their huge population there. unless look at what they've done, they went a little bit overboard. i would say in terms of how for in house prices are to the chinese economy. the article in the wall street journal is called empty buildings and china's provincial cities testified to ever grand debacle. the property giant borrowed heavily to develop in, out of the way places lik

. >> wall street journal senior white house reporter michael bender provided a behind-the-scenes look into president trumps 20/20 reelection campaign . here's a portion of that conversation. >> there's no shortage of trumpet books but you can fill a library with booksover the trunk the last 30 or 40 years . i've written over 1000 stories about trump and just the wall street journal and i wanted to get people something that they originally keep turning the pages here. so i picked this book is the only one to date that explains trump with inside the room details in the oval office under the hood of the $2 billion campaign, exclusive memos, text messages and into some of the decision-making process there . and another unique piece of this is the front row. i was embedded for two years with the people who go to 30, 40, 50 by the end of 2060 60 rails and what i wanted to do here was understand through them a little bit more about this movement. what about them as people as men and women had been coming back again and again? and what told us about trump was that he could elicit this kind of

>> this is what is so outrageous about what "the wall street journal" did. es a fleece vest to this radicalization. that's what "the wall street journal" has done. you have to think about what radicalization is. you need your army. that's what tucker is doing. then you need people to forgive the army saying they're not that bad. this is a perfect storm we're seeing now. it's a shame that you don't have a strong political pushback from the radicalization that is going on. it's heading towards, whether it's the elections and you silence it, it's the di deplatforming. it's these lawsuits. it's also beginning to expose what the establishment is doing. it's promoting violence as a voting -- as an essential part of voting. you see it in virginia, georgia, everywhere. violence and the threat of violence in particular against minorities who would assert their constitution al constitut part of the gop's plan. >> we're going to talk more about the virginia front in a moment. thank you, juliette and bill. >>> next, the criminal complaint alleging a sex crime filed again

and this is very misunderstood because in the financial price and the wall street journal and in the financial times and on c, b. c. they still claim to the belief that markets and prices are driven by something called fundamental analysis that's false. people's to look at so called technical analysis. that's meaningless. as peter lynch said, another famous money manager technical analysis is perfect and predicting the past . right? so this is a not misunderstood point, i think people, the only thing that's really showing this to be a complete waste of time. that is to say, any attempt to value securities or a global economy in any rational way is of course, bitcoin with us, a kind of another point. right. and also it seems like geo politics and also geo economics is all about competitive advantage. they're all trying to study their enemy, the other side of the board. and of course, the 2 great power is in the world right now. certainly economic powers and united states and china and china is very closed. mysterious people don't really understand. like we're going to go into this eve

tonight the "wall street journal" was forced to break this remarkable story which nbc has confirmed which is a very, very big deal. here's the lead in the "wall street journal" tonight. quote, the biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the trump administration around $450,000 per person in compensation as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma. the u.s. government forcibly taking little kids away from their moms and dads and refusing to return them. that is something none of us will ever be able to make right. that happened in our lifetimes -- in our time, in our lifetimes when we were citizens of this country, that happened in our names and we will never be able to fully fix that. if you were ripped away from your parents, taken out of their arms as a little kid and forcibly kept apart from them indefinitely, how could that ever be made up to you? how could that ever be made up to your family? none of us will ever be able to mak

he doesn't care "the wall street journal" is saying there are inaccuracies there. . it's not like this is new either. "the wall street journal" has had four years to learn donald trump lies and that he spews multiple lies at the same time even at the peril of the country. and that many times news organizations have chosen to live fact check him on television because there were so many lies. so why -- i hate to monday morning quarterback, another organization's decision, it's annoying, but at the same time fact check it in real time. we can do this. we've learned this about this one political figure that the lies come in multiples. >> it's something, again, a side-by-side comparison might be a better way to do it moving forward. i will say i found a lot of things to be critical of "the wall street journal" editorial page when it comes to their opinions on russia. i will say on the stop the steal nonsense and conspiracy theory they've been dead on, dead right about that. they've been dead right about all of donald trump's conspiracy theories especially after the elect

for facebook the wall street journal recently published leaked documents showing that the company knows that instagram is toxic for teen girls. though you can also check insta for ways to flush out those toxins with an amazing matcha tea that gives you a brazilian butt lift. ( laughter ) ( applause ) on sunday, the whistleblower who leaked those documents came forward on every teen girl's favorite long-form investigatory news program, 60 minutes -- ( laughter ) ( applause ) the whistleblower is former facebook product manager and supergirl at ann taylor loft, frances haugen. haugen's biggest bombshell was that facebook 'chooses profits over safety.' wait a minute! ( laughter ) did i hear that correctly? are you telling me that a corporation chose money over the safety of consumers? this is so disturbing, i need to calm down with an ice-cold four loko. ( cheers and applause ) mmm. mmm. mmm. ( piano riff ) ( applause ) mm, mm, mm mm, mm, mm. tastes like stealing a luggage cart from a hotel and riding it naked down a hill into highway traffic. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i'm get

"the new york times" and "wall street journal" reviewed emails from gruden showing he used homophobic, misogynistic, racist language referring to some of the biggest names as part of the nfl, specifically releasing a statement as he resigned saying in his departure, i love the raiders and don't want to be a distraction. thank you to all the players, coaches, and staff and fans of raider nation. i'm sorry. i never meant to hurt anyone. but when you look at the emails, spanning 2011 to 2018 as an espn analyst, he used racist language to describe nfl players association executive director demaurice smith during the backout over the collective bargaining negotiations, "the times" showing he criticized the team drafting an openly gay player in 2014 in michael sam, used homophobic language to describe roger goodell. a league source confirmed to cnn the accuracy of "the times" reporting and reached out to gruden, the nfl, raiders, and we haven't gotten a response just yet. but amid all these homophobic comments coming to light, the ironic part of all of this is the first active nfl player to

assistant editor of the "wall street journal", james joins us. let's talk about global energy. saudi arabia comes to mind, are they going to play ball? >> i know it can be hard to follow what he's doing here because it all seems contradictory. we see a lot of the u.s. and the president trying to reduce energy production, fossil fuels, we see huge subsidies in this bill to continue to try to develop energy sources but the president realizes how unpopular high gasoline prices are so simultaneously saying to the dictatorships overseas, please pump oil, it's hard to follow but very costly for us. eric: for the countries listen? when they all sit down at the g20 and with their white wine and whatever, maybe something better, to the commodities meetings with something concrete? for the countries actually increase production to try to reduce gas prices? >> i'm worried what they may have on the menu as u.s. taxpayers and i think we should all be concerned because the general play here with the climate negotiations is to get countries like ours to pay more to subsidize this transition b

i spent eight happy years at the "wall street journal" before the murdoch tape.d working journalists there. first, they were pressured to go easy on trump during the campaign and now you have the editorial page publishing something they know to be a false. you know, if murdoch takes this once great newspaper any further down the toilet, we'll call it the wall street urinal. >> he said if rupert murdoch were applying for american citizenship today, he's a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti democratic propaganda he is. and dean, that's stewart stevens that used to work for mitt romney's campaign. this guy owns 20th century fox. he owns fox news, the "wall street journal", "the new york post", harper collins publishing, in the u.k., the sun, the times, the news, the news u.k., this guy has massive assets and these assets are doing things like doing denials on the pandemic. this could kill people. whipping up white nationalism. white replacement theory is fine to say on fox news. that's open white nationalism. your thoughts of mr. murdoch. >> he only bec

he is the technology reporter for "the wall street journal" who is behind the journal's explosive projectf pages of internal documents from that facebook whistle-blower, frances haugen. you received this over time. and you have been breaking this over the past couple weeks. stock's down 15% since your reports started. of course, we just found out her name last night. # but, jeff, let me ask you about this outage just to start. because it's -- it's massive, right? you have now got 3 billion people who interact with those products around the world. the company's still not confirming the cause. so is this timing really just a bad coincidence for facebook as it is dealing with this very, very massive moment? >> in terms of if you are asking if there is any link between the reporting that's come out recently about them and this or the whistle-blower, i -- i think coincidence, very definitely. this is facebook basically managed to disconnect itself from the internet at large. um, just kind of the map of the internet. they are kind of -- severed those ties briefly. they are back up now and -- or

that comes from the wall street journal, where the united states is in talks of hundreds of millions of families separated at the border. let's go back to our phone lines and talk to edward, calling from harrington, delaware on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for your format today. there are a couple of things i would like to talk about today. firstly, people need to understand the difference between climate and weather. they are two different things. weather is what you look out your window, go outside and experience, where climate is the effects that we are having, whether it be something that is happening every thousand years or whatever people want to say, but the desalination of our oceans are causing issues with our title currents that affect the weather. we are having more severe weather because of those desalination of our oceans. another thing i would like to bring up is, people in america have a tendency to blame others for something that they could probably experience themselves. what i mean, we are so used to having instant gratificatio

we see this in the wall street journal this morning. a photo of chinese missiles and shiny military tests with hypersonic missiles launched for non-nuclear applications. how worried should the average american, the average australian, or european be about chinese military power and the threat of chinese military power? >> we should be very concerned about the military threat. personally, i do believe the most efficient deterrent would be to replace the current strategic ambiguity with all clear strategic clarity when it comes to taiwan, and i see the establishment of the new alliance between australia and the united kingdom and the united states, as as an instrument that could deter mainland china from taking taiwan because the combination basing realizes is it would be too costly in treasure and lives to attack taiwan, and i think they would refrain from doing that. i am very much in favor of strategic clarity, and the kind of security guarantee from taiwan. >> and you think that is a new initiative spearheaded by the united states in