smartest people in the world? preem reminds me what we asked after 2008. the credit swaps, nobody new, impossible for the s.e.c. and the government to regulate what was going on on wall street until it blew up. i'm afraid that's what we're facing afacebook. and joe bezos, he says it was an attempt to blackmail and extort him. plus real oversight of the trump administration kicks into gear this morning as acting attorney general matthew whitaker becomes the first high-profile member of the trump administration to face the democratic-controlled house. "morning joe" is coming right back.