Facebook shares are slipping. After federal regulators announcing it was punishing facebook with five billion dollar fine. Many are up in arms saying that is only a slap on the wrist. We have that and so more on making money. Robert mueller is in the hot seat right now. He has been there all day long, close right now to wrapping up this marathon testimony on his russia report. This before two house committees. Hillary vaughn will lead us off with a live report from capitol hill. Hillary . Reporter charles, democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are celebrating their hearing that wrapped up earlier this morning with special Counsel Robert Mueller because they think it convinced the American Public that maybe didnt read the report but saw the testimony that they need to proceed with impeachment. So for people who have read the Mueller Report or who followed these issues, this hearing was not surprising. For people who did not, this should have blown their minds. The broad consensus o
i guess the collusion now is dead, because everyone found that after a year of study there s been in collusion. there has been no collusion between us and the russians. now there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the dnc and the russians. julie: here to debate, former dnc deputy press secretary and beverly hall berg, fellow at the conservative think tank, the i . house republicans intensifying their assault on robert mueller once again and the latest here with the two lawmakers essentially calling for jeff sessions to step down. would that. if it were to happen, clear the way for trump to then fire mule center. i think that there is potential. but here s the reason why there is concern to begin with. the lack of evidence of collusion isn t because of a lack of investigation. there have been now six investigation against trump. and yet they have found nothing. this is more than what we saw
things that he s done. there s a lot going on this washington, d.c. that s being buried, and i think it adds fuel to the fire. arthel: indeed. this is more to be heard from everyone involved in this story. beverly hallberg, we thank you. thank you. arthel: and we will be right back. allstate. if you total your new bike, they replace it with a brand new one. that s cool. i got a new helmet. we know steve. switching to allstate is worth it.
the way, is a distant relative of the legendary baseball player of the same name. this as staffers are reportedly lawyering up amid the ongoing investigation into russia meddling and the revelations about donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort s meeting with several russian players in june of last year. joining me now is beverly hall berg, president of the district media group and a fellow at the heritage foundation. beverly, good to have you here. thanks for having me. arthel: let s start here, in terms of getting a handle on situation, who could lead the charge and what direction should he or she give? whatever, whoever is leading the charge, the main thing to keep in mind is anytime you have a crisis communications scenario, which i think we could easily say last week this russia story is, you need to tell the story fully and early. sadly, neither of those things happened. it s this drip, drip, drip of information that s coming out that is especially damaging to the a