is a data grab that may have affected the 2016 race. private information from some 50 million facebook users used by a data firm with ties to the trump campaign. how did this happen. and government use the the hearing on the merger within at&t and time warner getting under way. will politics play a role in this?
we have a lot of debate was the march just a march. one major point in that conversation is that that march was a massive data grab of names and phone numbers of people who want to have their voices heard. it turns out there s some advantage in defeat when it comes to not just the energy and momentum but the determination to let s have this be more than an expression of feeling. this has to turn into action. we re going to see over the coming months whether they are able to accomplish what they are studying the tea party and some hill staffers who watched how the tea party was able to succeed have created a primer on how to lobby congress. that s been download half a million times. you re seeing much bigger attendance at meetings and emily s list recruiting candidates, all of this on the ground who is going to be doing what to take state legislators back.
the women s march on washington was far bigger than that for president trump s inauguration. remember that the tea party movement looked at first like nothing more than a rowdy, incoherent bunch of sore losers until it swept democrats out of power in the house in the 2010 midterm elections. i covered some of those early tea party rallies, and i saw similar levels of energy and engagement. and yes, anger, at the women s march. the millions who participated nationwide now constitute the kind of broad-based network that can be harnessed into effective political action. the trump administration can hautely semis the dissenters by saying, as the obama administration once did, the elections have consequences, but the next election is right around the corner. eugene robinson, that was a data grab, as was pointed out on our show yesterday. people were asked to text in their support, their phone numbers, their e-mails, all being gathered and possibly
just listen to his former lawyer. i know him to be a kind, jest will, nonaggressive person. someone you wouldn t mind your grandmother going to lunch with. yeah, until he orders the pizza. how did the cops find this creep? phone records. now, did we violate his rights there? and did we violate everyone s rights by violating his? that s how we apply the logic of surveilling terrorists. i get it, this was a specific search, not a mass data grab. but why shame a program that provides fruitful benefits by catching killers before they can kill again. phone records are the least of our worries. consider the ferguson protesters that were hired, yes, hired by the acorn successor group to protest. they staged a sit-in after they stopped getting paid allegedly. the group known aptly as
hit. neiman marcus about a security breach. we are learning from the company that it discovered the cyber attack in dissem in the middle of the shopping season. they only went public with all of this last night. right now, it is unclear how many people were affected and the timing is worrisome for shoppers. millions of people were scooped up in the data grab in target stores. and target announced its own in- house investigation revealed a wider crime than initially reported. dom nick has more on this. reporter: hey, there, harris. neim an marcus discovered in middecember. and a top forepzic firm to investigate that and they found evidence of a criminal cyber activity intrusion is how the company is striebing it. considering that target came out