Wom civilians in syria. A series of tweets warning assad and putin there will be a big price to pay. If he doesnt follow through and live up to that tweet, hes going to look weak in the eyes of russia and iran so this is the defining moment, mr. President. Defining moment. Trouble in the west wing, a new report detail alsos how chief of staff john kelly has lost his influence inside the white house. The president and Administration Officials using a familiar phrase to denounce the report. Can you guess what it is . When you read something in the Washington Post frankly, thats fake news most of the time. Most of the time . No, sir, its certainly not in that report. A klocloser look at people. Whats being used to inform us us, is being used to divide us. Certainly is. Facebook will begin telling users if their data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. As zuckerberg heads to congress. We have a big week. What does action look like . Just four days after saying he wants to get troops out of the country. One man who will help shape the president s decision, john bolton. His new job as National Security adviser today. I have a great team to break all of this down. Lets explain whats going on. Later today, the u. N. Security council will hold a meeting to discuss the International Response to saturdays suspected chemical attack in syria. Aid groups are accusing president assad of using chemical weapons to suffocate dozens of his own people in a rebelheld neighborhood near damascus. Assads regime denies it. But President Trump did not wait long to respond. On sunday morning, he lashed out at assad, as well as russian president vladimir putin. That is not worthy. And assad supporters deciding there will be consequences for his actionings. His team did not rule out a military response. This is one of those issues on which every nation, all peoples, have all agreed, and have agreed since world war ii, is an unacceptable process. If the president decides to act, he could do it quickly. Following a similar chemical attack last year. He waited less than three days to order a tomahawk missile strike on a syrian air base. Since then, the war, its only gotten worse. According to the Syrian Network for human rights, more than 11,000 civilians have been killed in syria since last april. Half of the countrys prewar population has been displaced. And much of the infrastructure has been destroyed. The u. S. Has relied on a small force of about 2,000 troops to carry out its policy of fighting isis and helping antigovernment militias. Last tuesday, just days before the alleged chemical attack, President Trump said the United States, we should get out completely. I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home. I want to start rebuilding our nation. So its time. Its time. We were very successful against isis. Well be successful against anybody militarily. But sometimes its time to come back home. So the president said that. And the pentagon has since walked it back. Senator john mccain says it was those remarks by the president that led directly to saturdays chemical attack. He said that by signaling the United States would, quote, prematurely withdraw from syria, President Trump emboldened the syrian leader and other lawmakers say the president now has to back up his threats or risk looking week in the e ing f the world. You need to follow through with that tweet. Show a resolve. Hes in office for more than a year. Hes got to send a message once again that what he said he meant. Nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Nbcs bill neely live in beirut. Peter, lets start with this is all happening on john boltons very first day as National Security adviser. Do we have any idea how hes going to impact the Decision Making process . Yes, stephanie, it is a good question. Weve now routinely seen john bolton here over the last several weeks. Hes obviously known as one of the most hawkish of the neoc neoconservati neoconservatives. And on russia, obviously significant with whats going on in syria right now. Before being tapp tapped as nat security adviser, he recently spoke on concerns saying it was effectively now a perfect time for trump to pivot, to make it clear hes not going to allow russian meddling. It gives you a sense of his view as relates to russia. His position does seem at odds with President Trumps, whos embraced warmer relations with putin. Heres that tweet you heard Lindsey Graham referring to just moments ago. You can see his language. He writes, if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand, the syrian disaster would have ended long ago. Animal assad would have been history. He goes on, yuz cas you can see describe it as being sick. He said theres a big price to pay going forward. Among other things, the president s comments really fierce in his language, his rhetoric directed towards syria, its regime and russia. Its likely, im told by a white house official, we will hear him address this in some form at his Cabinet Meeting scheduled to take place in the 11 00 hour. You know the United NationsSecurity Council will be gathering. And then this evening the president will gather with senior military leadership. Youll remember the last time he had one of these meetings is when he had these comments saying this is, in effect, the calm before the storm. Everyone was asking what storm he was referring to. Well, whether there will be a storm, a military storm, of any kind. That we wait to find out about. As tom bossert, his Homeland Security adviser, suggested, nothing is off the table. John bolton doesnt need senate confirmation, but he is in the clear to take this job . We know there are questions lingering around the super pac and their connections to Cambridge Analytica. Hes showing up to work today. Whats his clearance level . Its a good question. I raised that very question to the white house official. He said, we dont discuss publicly security clearances. But its presumed he must have some clearances to be involved in these conversations. Hes, again, been here meeting with the president and other advisers in recent weeks. So what that level of clearance is right now and those potential or those conflicts as you described relating to his pac, those we cant detail out what impact that could or may already be having. All right, lets bring in bill neely. Bill, there was a missile strike inside syria within the last 24 hours. It was originally blamed on the United States. What do we know about it . Yes, good morning, stephanie. Retaliation overnight. It came around 3 00 in the morning. And two u. S. Officials are now telling nbc news that it was israel that struck that syrian airfield. Russia had earlier given a very detailed explanation of what happened, saying two israeli f15s fired eight guided missiles. Five apparently were shot down but three landed at the airfield, killing apparently 14 people. Some of them, according to reports, were iranians. Israel has actually attacked that base. Its called t4, before, twice, in fact, just a couple of months ago. It follows the chemical weapons attack in which dozens of civilians, men, women, and children were killed. Medics on the ground almost certain that that was either a chlorine gas attack, possibly even a sarin gas attack. President assad, iran and russia saying this is all fake, its all as an excuse for military action. But of course as we know president assad has form here. Ive been to that area, just outside damascus. Douma has been besieged for five years. So russia this morning now warning of serious consequences. There could be serious consequences, russia says, if the u. S. Takes further military action. Of course, as peter suggested, trump has a real dilemma. Does he repeat what he did, it was almost exactly a year ago, and fire missiles, or does he pull back from syrias war . Just within the last couple of hours, russias defense minister, foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is saying that attack on the airfield, which we now know was done by israel, was a dangerous development, stephanie. Bill, thank you so much. And to the question, will President Trump do what he did a year ago with that tomahawk missile . He clearly made a statement. But we remind you, the war has only worsened since he did that. I want to bring in former u. S. Ambassador christopher hill. He also served in the state department and is currently with the university of denver. What are President Trumps options . It takes you back to the red line, line in the sand. What does he do . First of all, he has to put a military option out. The problem is, if he does something identical to last year, there will be a charge that its essentially feckless and somehow symbolic only. I think he has to do Something Like he did last year plus. He also has to be mindful of what the russians are saying. By the way, theyve been winning. The past year since that last missile strike has been a pretty good year for assad. So hes got to do something. But i think with the realization that the something is probably not going to change the dynamic. One would like to see the u. S. More involved diplomatically. A sense that we understand whats going on. That we care about this issue of syrian succession. And instead, the president himself has indicated were in for isis and once we defeat isis, we are gone. I think the president has kind of put himself in a box. It will be very interesting to hear what his new National Security adviser suggests. Because pinprick bombing is not something that bolton approves of. He wants to see us go all in. I think were going to see bolton confronted with reality today. I think were going to see a president kind of boxed in. By the way, i dont think the u. N. Security council, to be sure, theyll have a good conversation, but there wont be any resolution coming out of this because the russians are absolutely 100 backing assad. Then to that exact point, nikki haley gets a lot of positive support when she speaks, but the president is the one who ultimately makes decisions for what the United States is going to do. You just mentioned john bolton. Hes a guy who said years ago we never have pulled out of iraq. We heard just moments ago secretary mattis was questioned and he said all options are on the table. With guys like mattis and now with john bolton next to him, how will this influence the president . Well, i think one of the problems the president has created for himself is when anyone else speaks, people kind of ignore it, because they know it all comes down to the president and the president seems to like it that way. So he does have difficulty using surrogates, whether its his u. N. Ambassador or secretary of defense, because everyone asks, well, frankly, thats nice, but what does the president think . Theres no concept of a team in this administration. Its all about the president. The president wants it to be that way. I think he has a major problem here as he looks at his options. Because hes got to do something. He cant do nothing. At the same time, hes boxed in by what, you know, the range of choices. I suspect its going to be something a little more than last year but something well less than anything that could actually have an effect on the progress or the developments on the ground. All right, then lets separate words and actions for a moment. Nick burns tweeted over the weekend, President Trump is right to blame putin for enabling assads barbaric chemical weapons attack. And said that trumps first strong criticism of putin is, quote, not woreworthy. What do you think . I think this is the first time weve heard President Trump say anything negative about putin. I agree it is noteworthy, but i think well have to see more than one tweet about putin to suggest that the president has changed his view that somehow at the end of the day he always needs to improve relations with russia and the way to do that is to modulate any criticism. I think were a long way away from a change in the president s standing, viewpoint on putin. What we do see and the rest of the administration has a willingness to go after oligarchs and implement sanctions, et cetera, but i think the president continues to be very careful. It is noteworthy but lets stay tuned and see if theres more of this. As it relates to syria, you know, we can criticize the president. Youd have to criticize a lot of other people. The president is being handed a wildly complicated, some could say almost unresolvable, situation. If you had to look back on last years action, when he launched the tomahawk missile at the syrian air base, did it have any impact on assad . It certainly, i remember wilbur ross said it was after dinner entertainment that was free. He certainly got criticism for that. What do you think about what the president did . Did it matter at all . I think it didnt. Think it was along the lines of things that were done in bosnia when the serbs would commit some egregious crime against the people in sarajevo. There would be some what was called pinprick bombing at the time, and it really wasnt until the end of that conflict that the u. S. Went in with a much bigger force option using nate quote to really go after the serbs. For the purpose really. I think this is important to keep in mind, for the purpose of getting all sides, including the serbs, to agree to a peace proposal. The problem we have in syria is the u. S. Is not involved and theres really not any kind of peace proposal on the table. Theres no notion of what the governing structures of syria should look like in the future, and the russians and iranians who are present, they feel it ought to be the same old system of this rule under assad. So i think the problem, when you say the president is confronted, he is confronted with. Thats because he has failed to develop any kind of strategy, any diplomatic approach, any policy toward that region of the world where syria is incubating and just causing all kinds of tensions throughout the arab world, arab and iranian world. So syrias problem caused by our diplomatic inaction. All right. Ambassador, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts this morning. I want to bring my panel in. The former white house senior director and former state Department Senior adviser under president obama. Bob torricelli, former democratic senator from my home state new jersey. Edward siegfried, republican strategist. Can you give us a sense of the United States role in syria and compare it to countries like russia or turkey . Because its definitely not the same. Absolutely not the same at all. A large part of this is the United States has been on its back foot when it comes to syria. Trying to support opposition people and groups and even candidates without a clear understanding of who is the leader among all those groups. You have within those groups people that could be islamist extremists, which is certainly not something the United States wants to report. You also have humanitarian organizations involved in that. You have assad essentially running a military dictatorship at this point. With the missiles and the military of the russian government behind them. You have iran supporting the shiites so they have a religious attachment to supporting the assad regime. Its been very difficult for western allies to figure out who they can support and how, outside of the u. N. System. Speaking of the u. N. System, there is a Security Council meeting today at 3 00. However, russia has used this system to its advantage, demanding that any humanitarian intervention happen through the u. N. System and wading through this long process of consensus in that process, the world has forgotten that a child turning 7 years old today has known nothing but war. So this is the reality on the ground. Without either an outpouring of support from the American Public for active military intervention or any moral leadership from President Trump it seems to be very difficult for the United States to take any direct action. It is so difficult to look at that video right there, bob. When you see president assad and putin standing there, smiling. Knowing 4,000 to 5,000 people have been killed in syria. 11 Million People displaced. Images of little kids laying there on stretchers getting eye washes after an attack like this. The certaintyian isyrian obsern rights compares this to a toddler throwing toys in a mill tar squall of emotion. The delink quince of u. S. Actions. We know ivanka said the president was upset when he saw the images of young children. All of us were. Heres the table set in front of john bolton. Weve had two administrations and ten years of relative american disengagement. Were all proud of the 2000 soldiers there. But that is somewhat less than the new jersey state police. America has disengaged. Meanwhile, the iranians have consolidated, making iran making syria into a client state. And putin in a bold and historic move. Moving the russian army and air force into syria made it now more than a client state. Its a base of operations. Syria is now an away game for the United States. Whatever we do is going to have to be limited because of ten years of disengagement. The previous strike, as you just suggested, was no more than bouncing rubble on an old air field. Repaired within hours. It wasnt a positive message. It was a negative message. These kinds of actions of a gas attack bring no consequence. Had we done nothing it would have had the same impact before. All right, well, then, to that note, i want to share, because i noted it a moment ago, general mattis just spoke and i want to share that sound and i also want to share what Lindsey Graham had to say. Heres what mattis spoke. First thing we have to look at is why a chemical weapon is still being used at all when russia was in the framework of removing chemical weapons. Working with our allies and partners from nato to qatar and elsewhere, were going to address this issue. Can you rule out taking actions, launching air strikes against assad, mr. Secretary . I dont rule out anything right now. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I dont rule out anything. It was five days ago when trump said were not going to stay. I want to share what Lindsey Graham said on fox today. So the regime has to pay a big price. What would be a big price to lose your air force . This should be the last time a barrel bomb is dropped on innocent civilians by the assad air force. We have the capability to destroy his air force, to ground his air fleet and we should use that capability. What do you think . First of all, i want to know how much the Syrian Military was emboldened by President Trump pulling out of syria. What i am seeing right now so far are positive steps. I think were going to end up with a coalition positive steps by whom . By both the president and france. I dont normally praise the president but they had a very productive call. Emmanuel macron has been on this like a hawk. I think the United States is going to give the u. N. Security council a chance where we know it will fail because of Russia Holding the veto and we will then move forward as a coalition of nations which will make it stronger and we need to have a strong strike take out the Syrian Air Force. Perhaps hit some of their intelligence targets. Show them theres a huge price to pay. But at the same time, we need to not make the same mistakes we made last april when we just did a tiny little strike and then walked away. We need to have a longterm solution plan. That will get assad out and bring peace to the region. That involves sanctioning russia, to bring russia to heel. Its a very strong message. Look at the stock market. Scrambling since the sanctions. Figuring out how to help out. Emmanuel macron is the one world leader the president does actually like. On the off chance my friend john bolton has anybody watching the show this morning, the most important thing he can do this morning is consolidate this relationship between trump and macron. This cannot be an american russian problem. This is a russian western alliance problem. That would bring entirely different consequences. The only appropriate action here is taking out the Syrian Air Force. Denying assad the one thing he cares about the most. Hes an air force guy. Thats the one problem. The problem of course is how integrated the Syrian Air Force is with the russians. We have to leave it there, evan. Guess what, this story, its not going away. Thank you so much. You two stick around. Coming up, even saturday night live is noticing President Trump versus amazons jeff bezos. One former treasury secretary is comparing those attacks mussolini. And revealing whether your information was affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. As Ceo Mark Zuckerberg prepares to face congress. Heres a question, if your data was affected what are you going to do about it . First, trump is trashing a new and revealing report by the Washington Post about white house chief of staff john kelly losing influence and getting angry at the president on multiple occasions. Trump called it a poorly written novel of one of the writers. That writer is going to join me next. This year, were taking it up a notch. So in this commercial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, wow, maybe ill glow too if i book direct at choicehotels. Com. Who glows . Just say, badda book. Badda boom. Nobody glows. He gets it. Always the lowest price, guaranteed. Book now at choicehotels. Com but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. You know whats not awesome . Gigspeed internet. When only certain people can get it. Lets fix that. Lets give this guy gig really . And these kids, and these guys, him, ah. Oh hello. That lady, these houses yes, yes and yes. And dont forget about them. Uh huh, sure. Still yes xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. Now you can get it, too. Welcome to the party. Welcome back. Im stephanie ruhle. This report by the Washington Post knocked me off my feet. It details signs that kelly may be on his way out. Quote, kelly neither lurks around the oval office nor listens in on many of the president s calls, even with foreign leaders. He has not been fully consulted on several recent key personnel decisions. And he has lost the trust and support of some of the staff. That provoked a response from the president who tweeted, more like a poorly written novel. Phil rucker is the White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post. He cowrote the piece. Phil, as somebody who covers this white house, i know firsthand this is not a poorly written novel. You are inside the white house. What is john kelly standing there . Yes, well, first, stef, let me just explain that this reporting with my colleagues Ashley Parker and josh dossy was based on interviews with 16 white house officials, Administration Officials and advisers to the president. 16 . Onesix . Yes. Everything in our story was factchecked with the white house. Theyve not contested any of the facts other than that tweet from the president. So the president knows its real. How can the white house get away with Peter Navarro calling it fake news and the president saying its a poorly written novel when the white house didnt push back on anything . Youd have to ask dr. Navarro that but that was an unfortunate comment from him and i thank chuck todd for defending our honor there. This is real news. He has lost considerable power. Hes lost considerable standing with his colleagues. They dont trust him anymore. Hes being left out of decisions. And there are these escalating clashes between him and the president including last week or a week before where he seemed to threaten to resign. He who said, im out of here. He may not be popular in the white house but does he have the support of the president . We both know theres a lot of people inside the white house that are not fans of john kelly. They dont like the way he leads. They dont like his conduct. But theyre not in charge, the president is. I want to share another quote where you said kelly initially viewed his job as babysitting. But now feels less of a need to be omnipresent. While trump who once considered kelly a security blanket feels increasingly emboldened to act a lone. This stood out to me. You also have leon pineetta who said you basically become a white house intern being told what to do. Wow, white house intern . Yes, that was a pretty strong remark from leon panetta. They worked together at the pentagon a few years back. Look, i interviewed panetta and he made it clear that he thinks kelly has lost that sacred bond, that trust, with the president. Now, look, President Trump hasnt fired kelly, at least not as of this hour. Our reporting shows kelly is probably going to stick around for a while now, just with this diminished standing. You know, clearly Current White House officials, many of them no longer trust him. They dont view him with the same sort of level of integrity that he had when he first came into the job eight months agoing. Were two minutes into the trading day. The dow is up close to 200. I want to talk a bit about the reporting were seeing this morning. That there were no discussions among officials and the president before he announced the china tariffs. Axios reported, quote, there was not one single meeting in which senior officials sat down to debate the pros and cons of this historic threat. Trump didnt even ask for advise from his new top economic adviser larry kudlow. So youve got President Trumps surrogates out there saying were negotiating behind the scenes. Yet reporting is saying theres no negotiations. Theres not even talks between kudlow and the president. Yet larry kudlow is now in the position where hes out there to the media day in and day out calming the markets saying were all on the same page. Yesterday, he told jake tapper he would be okay with the president imposing tariffs when we both know for last 20 years larry kudlow has been wildly opposed to tariffs. Yes, look, theres a clear difference between what larry kudlow has believed over the years about tariffs and what donald trump has believed over many, many years as a private citizen about trade policy, about tariffs. These tariffs, its something trump ran on. Its something he in his gut has wanted to do the entire time hes been president. There was a long sort of stalled out debate if it were inside the administration for the first year about this issue. But trump in the last month or so has decided hes going to move ahead and do it. I think you see someone like larry kudlow more as a public face, expecting him to get out there on tv, out in the public and really defend and articulate the administrations policy as opposed to somebody whos going to come in and redefine the trade policy and turn it in a new direction. Well, nobody redefined anything in the house of trump. Phil, great, great piece, loved it. Thanks so much, stef. And the socalled caravan President Trump has been fixated on will make its final stop in mexico city today after travel morgue than 600 miles by bus since last month. The migrants are mostly women and children fleeing poverty and Gang Violence in honduras and other countries in central america. Msnbc is traveling with them on a bus from pa wueblo to mexico city. Where will these migrants go once you reach mexico city . Stephanie, most of the people here say they want to reach the u. S. Border. This is a caravan that started without 1,500 people in neighboring guatemala. They stopped for a couple of days here in pueblo and now theyre making their way to mexico city. The tara van has dwindled to about 500 people. As you can see around me, most of them are women and children. Theres a baby here thats five months old. Theres one in the front seat that is only a month old. Most of them say they are fleeing what was once considered the murder capital of the world not too long ago, honduras and political repercussion following the president ial election there last year. I want to introduce you. Can you tell us, stephanie ruhle, where do you want to go . [ speaking Foreign Language ] United States of america . Shes 11 years old, stephanie. Youre her mom. Can you tell me why you want to get to america so badly . I would like to go to america because im looking for a chance to get a better job and better life for my daughter. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. For sharing your story with us. Over and over again, stephanie, this is the story that you hear. Women and children trying to procure a Better Future for their loved ones and for their kids. Well keep following their journey all the way to mexico city. As many of these families try to reach the u. S. Southern border, stephanie. Thanks so much. Joining us from mexico. Coming up, President Trump blasting amazons jeff bezos for hurting mom and pop shops. Could the president be wrong about Small Business being the backbone of the u. S. Economy . Or at least wrong in 2018 . Diet. And exercise. And maybe even, unproven fish oil supplements. Not all omega3s are clinically proven or the same. Discover prescription omega3 vascepa. The one thats this pure. And fda approved. Look. Vascepa looks different. Because it is different. Its pure epa. Vascepa, along with diet, is clinically proven to lower very high triglycerides by 33 in adults, without raising bad cholesterol. Thats pure power. 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Mr. President , why do you keep attacking amazon . Do you really hate jeff bezos that much . I do, i hate jeff. Because hes way mature than me and he admits to being bald so i feel threatened on two levels. Next question. Oh, my gosh. Lets talk money, power, politics. Eric baldwin returned to saturday night live as President Trump, poking fun at the president s recent attacks on amazon and its ceo jeff bezos. But its not funny because many of his attacks are lies and look whats already happened to their stock. The president of the United States is attacking a publicly traded company, spreading lies, and it is impacting their share price. Who owns the stock . Not just jeff bezos, foundations, endowments, your 401k. I want to bring in the founder and president of a nonprofit Public Policy think tank, information technology. Also the author of big is beautiful, debunking the myth of Small Business. Along with former senator bob torricelli. Robert, Washington Post is saying this donald trump and jeff bezos situation, they dont even inhabit the same world. President trump is just mad at jeff bezos. Hes mad at the Washington Post. He doesnt even understand the way amazon works or the way we shop in the United States because jeff bezos didnt put shops around the corner out of business. Walmart and malls did years ago. The American People have decided we want large quantities of stuff fast delivered to our door and we want it cheap and jeff bezos is the guy who did it. Well, absolutely. Stephanie, what we have to remember, this is not a new phenomenon. You eluded to that in our book, big is beautiful. We traced this history. You can go back to 1928, a New York Times headline, that says big business is sweeping retail. There was a panic back then and it wasnt around even amazon or walmart, it was around a p. And a p was seen as the dominant company that was destroying retail. Now we dont even know about a p. Then it was sears. Sears is close to bankruptcy. Then it was walmart. Look, consumers make these choices because its good for them. And consumers are choosing to shop with amazon because its good for them. And as we point out in the book, Big Companies are important source of progress. Better wamgs, lower prices, higher quality, more innovation. And to demonize one or most of these companies is just a huge mistake. Its a mistake but what does it cost the president . Because amazon has lost billions of dollars in market value since the president began attacking the company. I dont see the sec going after the president. And one of the issues is his lies work. Yesterday, i had an amazon product delivered to my house by the Postal Service. And i noted Postal Office working on a sunday. My mom said, well, the partys over for amazon. They havent paid their taxes in years. You know why she thinks that . Because the president told her. Thats mythology thats out there, 15 years ago but it works. Absolutely it works. Amazon has Fulfillment Centers in virtually every state and they pay sales taxes in virtually every state. The Postal Service has a thing called the postal regulatory commission. The prcs job is to determine the most effective and fair rates so that companies dont get special deals. So amazon is paying what theyre supposed to be paying for the Postal Service. Theyre paying taxes. Whats really happening is consumers are saying wow, this is so great, i get to go on my phone and i get to have a product like you did. Comes to my house sometimes in the same day. Whats not to like about that . So the idea that somehow but i also think this is also about the president s base if you will. A lot of small retailers not being happy. Just like they werent happy in the 1920s. And complaining and pushing back. This is a very populous theme. Theres a great line by huey long, the populist governor of louisiana in the 30s where he said id rather have gangsters and criminals in my state than chain stores. Wow. That was the 1930s. Welcome to to 2018. Senator, does the president s crazy routine, is there a chance it works . Because we can laugh at it and say jeff bezos, he doesnt need the post office, hell use his own delivery service. Xi jinping, he doesnt care what the president said, hes going to be in power forever. Is there an argument to be made one of these guys can say this guy is operating with no facts and he can create real financial destruction around the world, maybe we need to play ball with him . Let me stipulate to everything thats been said. This is the latest version of walmart and sears. This has been going on in the country for years. But thats not what this is about, okay, due respect to both of you. This is about the Washington Post. So im an amazon shareholder. My foundation is i am personally of course i am distressed at the share price. I care a lot more about freedom of press in america than i care about my portfolio. This is about the post. Donald trump doesnt like what he reads in the newspaper so hes gone to undermine the institution is it working . I have a real fear it is working. And theres no consequence . The post as a counterweight to the New York Times. While newspapers are failing all over america. With all respect to Television Journalism and the internet, theres still no substitute for the investigative journalist in the newspaper who can spend days and weeks on a story. America needs the washington like it needs New York Times. This intimidation might work. I hope all the counsinstitution there from calipers to the state of Florida Pension Fund hold firm and feel like i feel in my own little portfolio. Were not going to be intimidated. Were not going to abandon amazon. He doesnt care about local retailers. He doesnt care about local workers. None of that matters. What he doesnt like is the investigative journalists in the Washington Post who were working on the russia investigation and other problems of this administration. Dont look at anything else. Wow, senator, robert, thank you so much. Thats a good note we should remind viewers and the white house. No one is attacking the president. No one is saying they dont like the president and theyre not rooting for him. What were pushing back against day in and day out are the lies that the president is spreading and that the white house is supporting. Thats what were standing up against. Next, we are taking you to the front lines in the battle against fake news. There you go. Perfect foray. Msnbcs Chris Jansing gets exclusive access to the effort to combat the epidemic ahead of this years fast approaching midterm elections. You wont see this anywhere else. 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Com experts so we know how to cover almost weve anything. St everything even close claws. [driver] so, we took your shortcut, which was a bad idea. [cougar growling] [passenger] what are you doing . [driver] i cant believe that worked. I dropped the keys. [burke] and we covered it. Talk to farmers, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum welcome back. Im stephanie ruhle. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with ranking members of the Senate Congress committee. Bill nelson in just a few hours on capitol hill. Tomorrow, zuckerberg is expected to get a grilling in front of the senator nelsons committee and on everything from major privacy breaches to the use of social media as a problem ganda platform. While Congress Considers its options, the Democratic National committee is taking action of its own. We got exclusive access to the dncs efforts to fight fake news. Take a look. Reporter we attend one of the top tech schools in the country, but hes taking a semester off to try to fix a problem that keeps him and his childhood friend up at night, fake news. Weve had a couple late nights. Couple. Theres been nights till 6 00, 7 00 in the morning and get up maybe 8 00 or 9 00 the next day. Reporter why are you doing this . Theres this new fight for truth and thats where we want to put our time towards. This man has joined the fight too. After a successful fight at uber and twitter he now works for the Democratic National committee. They developed an innovatety program to fight bots. Fake news has been prop indicated by commute computer programs around the world or by organizations round the world to confuse and distract voters from what the real story is. Lets use this robot to the represent bots. The berkeley guys nund most most angry and partisan tweets were coming fast and furious. A single account operating around the clock. The crazy thing is that the technology that we as a society built to connect and inform us is being used to divide and confuse us. So they developed a program that identifies with nearly 97 accuracy accounts that arent being run by a human but a bot. Click on an icon on bot check me and you can find out whether a tweet is from a political propaganda machine. Theyve idd half a million accounts so far. Another program will go live soon allowing to you feed a photo into it and find out if its been photo shopped. This pro football plier, for example, never burned the american flag. Reporter so realistically you can fix that . I think we can start making moves in the right direction. Across the country at mit, a groundbreaking study of ten years of tweets by 3 million users shows why thats so hard to do. We found that false news da fusions further, faster, broader and more deeply than the truth in every category of information that we studied. And political news travels, by far, the fastest. We also found that false news is 70 more likely to be retweeted than the truth. And even the best technology cant control the human appeal of fake news. People who spread things that novel gain in social status because theyre seen to be in the know or having access to inside information. Reporter at a dnc meet, they talked about identifying fake news, though finding it doesnt mean people will stop sharing it or believing it. So the dnc is testing out a series of ideas to help. Including a Morning Report that would warn Democratic Candidates about fake news and suggest ways to respond. But with midterms looming and control the congress at stake, no one can answer the key question. How do you design a social media system that values and promotes truth over lies . This goes to the heart of our democracy, our civil society. The spread of falsity say potentially very dangerous thing. Twitter has not responded to our request for comment on this but previously they have said and im quoting here theyve spent years working against attempted manipulation including malicious automated accounts and spam, although all the experts we talk to say none of the social Media Companies are doing enough. This is a real concern for the rnc and the dnc because while theyre trying to figure fig out, the clock is ticking towards the midterms. Nobody does enough out of the goodness of their heart. They do more when theyre regulate dodd so. I want to bring my panel in. Senator, lets talk about facebook, Mark Zuckerberg showing up on the hill. If you were there questioning him, what would you ask him . Because, remember, not just the last year, the last Administration Facebook and the social media universe has been a darling in washington, not just because of lobbying dollars, but we were talking about Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg, those two running for office not that long ago. Well, one, i would restrain myself because hes not a particularly popular character, has not handled this well, i would not want it to motivate me to be more aggressive on the issue than otherwise i think that i should. Because heres the real answer to what i think we should do in this situation. Ive never said this before in all my years of public life. Sock it to us. I dont know. Im just not sure. And my greatest concern would be that we rush do something. I know i feel strongly about Foreign Government interfering in the debate. I feel strongly about computer driven communication without a person behind that. I can see a reason to regulate that. Beyond that, it is really regrettable if these companies cant selfregulate enough in a way that the government has to come in itself and regulate social media. It may be necessary, but it really is regrettable and i id at least give them a shot, one more shot to selfregulate somehow before we do that. Theres something beautiful about i dont know. Because when were talking about government, km which clearly didnt and i dont blame them for moving as quickly as technology did or Mark Zuckerberg himself. He created a behemoth that really has only been on the world stage for the last few years. He didnt know it was going to get this big and this out of control. By want to do share what weve already heard from some lawmakers because this is what john kennedy said just yesterday. Weve got to talk about the initial bargain. Who owns my data . Do i own it or does facebook own it . The Service Agreement with facebook, its written in swahili. Nobody understands it. He brings up a fair point. Yeah, absolutely. I think that senators need to ask Mark Zuckerberg, are the person mem and people throughout the world the consumers or are they the product . Because if theyre just using us to sell our data to other firms that they can use, thats a big, big violation of the trust. And it goes against. But is it . Facebook is not a public service, its not a park. We use it for free day in and day out. The really damning thing for facebook wasnt the Cambridge Analytic ka stuff, it was a report that came out just after that said facebook had said they had removed paying attention to what you were doing on your an drooud droid phone but the reporter himself was able to download his entire call history and text Message History long after facebook was doing this. Facebook for time and time again and other social Media Companies have come out and said were sorry, were going to do better for one issue or another. And theyve been completely unable to. So how is Mark Zuckerberg responding to coming to congress . Hes hired a team of outside experts to train him on how do it because he doesnt want to look too defensive because nobodys going to be his friend in the senate tomorrow and i think its going to be a big problem. But it gets to a bigger problem here which isnt just social media. Weve not written our Digital Privacy laws. The next 20 years were going to see tons of court cases where Digital Privacy is at the forefront if the who owns our information . Republicans use information to target advertising, some with democrats and Corporation Dollars and we are getting that from all of these different companies. Then the answer then nobody is regulating. Its not about attacking facebook, its about right writing Digital Privacy laws for all of us. Privacy is one of it, the other part is spreading fake news and part of that is identifying that. Youve got a couple guys from berkeley who decided that they wanted to do this. You have somebody else who had great jobs at hightech companies who decided he was going to leave them to work for the dnc because hes sitting at home on Inauguration Day saying swe have to do something. That study from mi strks critical. Lets say you eliminate bots and technically right now theyre at the early stages of trying to figure out how to control fake news, its the human factor. It makes feel good when you get more retweets, more comments on mace book and its more likely to happen if its something insinneddy airy or juicy and thats more fake news. Who are the people that are determining what fake news is . And whats satire. Theres one other force at week here. If youre at a facebook table today youre talking about whats going on with our users. I dont care what zuckerberg says, my guess is people are dropping it hand over fist. Talking to your staff you mention facebook they look ought crosseyed. Its like you said you were on aol in 2005. Great conversation. Thank you all so much. Before we go, no matter what you know theres always good news somewhere and we think good news rules. 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