tonight after a report claiming the company hired a con summiting firm to to spread disparaging information about facebook s critics. today, mark zuckerberg said he did not know that facebook has hired that company. he says coo sheryl sandberg did not know, either, and that the relationship with that company has now ended. they continue to look into it. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. remembering the singer and actor own a famous tv show, known for his music and his wit. also ahead tonight, the district attorney ambushed in his car, bullets shattering the windows. news on his condition tonight. the couple raising more than $400,000 to help a homeless man, but tonight, what we ve now learned about all of them, all three facing charges. and the image coming in from washington, d.c., tonight, perhaps the only picture of the snow we welcomed today. a lot more news ahead. a lot more news ahead. stay tuned here. en to both reduk of cardiovascular
what they call it now. he s running for president and rising in the polls. but former speaker newt gingrich s is also a corrupt example of how the revolving door helps washington. gingrich says he s never lobbied, but just months after le leaving congress, his con summiting firm, the gingrich group, took in more than $1.5 million from the now taxpayer owned mortgage giant, freddie mac, the very same freddie mac who along with fannie mae is blamed by conservatives like newt gingrich is a primary driver of the housing crisis. maybe it was newt s consulting that did it. newt says he was paid as a historian, but where is the line between consulting and lobbying? and should former lawmakers be allowed to do either? i think we both know the answer. one of the nation s most notorious and powerful lobbyists, jack abramoff, says no way. this is exactly what i m talking about. people who come to washington, who have public service, and they cash in on it. and they use their public