solid and the evangelicals in his corner and does this start to puncture th that or is itt pennet trabl. and it is largely impenetrable and this summer there is a significant probability, although you can t say how much, but pretty significant there is another vacancy on the supreme court and nothing like a supreme court vacancy will rally the right to president trump s side. this is always been a transactional relationship between the religious right and this president. they give him their support he gives their judicial nominee and policies through executive orders that do things like protect religious freedom. so as long as he continues to deliver and hold up his end of the deal and this president does know how to make and cut deals, or at least he says he does, this is one deal that he seems to really have sealed. this is an excellent point.
bribes and fake sexual situations and we can expose them on video and trick them and manipulate the world. the only irony on that is he was hoisted on his own digital he hasn t been fired. he s been suspended, whatever that means by cambridge. you re right the president was silent, facebook was silent. they now say they are taking action this weekend against cambridge, not because of what they found, not because of an internal audit but because it was in the paper, because it s on tv. everyone who watches msnbc who are pretty sophisticated news viewers knows when you go off tv, out of the news, somebody else s turn, they go back to business as usual. i m having a hard time hearing ari. i have to bring in former democratic senator evan bai, co-chair of the political reform group, no labels. a former member of the senate intel committee. okay, you have to walk us through this. what would you be asking facebook if you were still in
potential client but was a pretty stellar reporter. in this clip we hear the ceo alexander nix who has been suspended as ceo of c.a., because now it is pending a full investigation. he s sitting there boasting about the company s work for the trump campaign and how well he knows the president. you have met mr. trump? many times. you have? we did all of the search and the data and all of the analytics and we provided the campaign [ inaudible ]. and formed the strategy. oh, heavens. cambridge analytica responded by saying that it never claimed the company had won the election for trump. i want to bring in two women looking at this very closely, anna schechter, a reporter from nbc news investigative unit and also jesse hempele from wired and a author of a new piece out this week facebook, in the age of the big tech whistleblower.
the president to make. he also spoke with speaker ryan and leader mcconnell this afternoon. what can you tell us about that? because those two have been relatively quiet in the last week, when you seen gop leadership get asked, what would you do if the president fired robert mueller, we haven t heard much from their camps. and now they are talking about the president and we know he has mueller on his mind. yeah. it is a big question if that topic came up, steph. you are right. what they were discussing, the omnibus. the fact they are trying to keep the government open and it could shut down by friday. it seems like they are poised to keep it open. there were concerns the president wouldn t support a spending bill. we know that house speaker paul ryan was here at the white house for 45 minutes along with the vice president meeting in the residence with president trump and spoke with leader mcconnell by phone and addressed the last-minute concerns that president trump had including fun
analytica. and the president has not weighed in. he is going after jeff bose os and amazon and if we thought who is the biggest competitor and we thought china or amazon or alibaba and he goes after companies like nordstrom which they drop the ivanka line and he has this entanglement with cambridge analytica but he is not saying anything. and cambridge analytica at the time in 2013 according to zuckerburg s own statement, they didn t violate the facebook policy. so this app thattal erk sander croagan created an the other apps working on that platform, they all access the friend data of all of the unwitting people who have no idea that their personal information was being so that is stunning. and facebook said mark zuckerberg is admitting in 20 is a a journalist at the guardian told them that, hey, there was a