russia, that sean spicer and others called fake news, that s blown out of the water, we re now bringing facebook into it. they re part of the investigation. if you believe this is going to happen again in the next round and the next round, it s only going to increase with sites like facebook and others. they built this gigantic machine, and it s eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that it s now through that social network they re being called to account. people understand that $100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it was a radio station, if it was a television station, that was like pumping out stuff to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, with targeted messages, we would all be pretty clear there was something seriously going on. a violation of the laws that problem hit foreign interfere e
that s right. look, they built this gigantic world span ing machine, and it s eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that it s now through that social network they re being called to account. people understand that $100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it was a radio station, if it was a television station, that was like pumping out stuff to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, with targeted messages, we would all be pretty clear there was something seriously going on. a violation of the laws that prohibit foreign interference in our election. so facebook can t they sponsored presidential debates. they are taking zuckerberg on this tour, as if he s going to be a national candidate, and they still might be. you can t get that deep into politics and then say, we re just a flat form, just the phone company. facebook is really facing the unintended consequences of having two billion users, from a business pers
their credit and debit card numbers. dairy queen says about 400 stores across the country were affected. it follows cyber attacks on target, home depot and other stores. dairy queen? they re hacking dairy queen now? i know. you ve got to buy your blizzard with oreos with cash, i think. even something as innocent you can t even go get a sundae? no. you pay cash. cash is king now, i m starting to believe. getting hacked. well, fast-food restaurants, you can use your cards there, but apparently, they re losing a lot of pep in their step. fast food? eh, that doesn t really count anymore. they re slow these days, actually about the slowest in 20 years. a new study showing the average customer wait at a drive-through is now more than 3 1/2 minutes. now, okay, still, that s pretty quick to get a meal, but still, that s up 40 seconds from last year. the slowdown being blamed on rapidly expanding menus, making it tough for workers to keep pace. they re getting more complicated. th
we re going to lose it because congress will support the defense industry, not our real really a shame to see that happening. americans expect the best from our troops and want them to have the resources that they need whenever they feel it s necessary. there s no political constituency in capitol hill for the soldier or the marine. the constituency is for buying big ticket items and pork. period. it s going to hurt us badly. we ve been through this cycle so many times, uma. after every major war, after world war two, we cut the army and we had to reduce it, but we cut it to the bone. then we got the korean war. we were unprepared. after vietnam, we cut the military. had to rebuild it painfully in the reagan years. after the cold war, we cut it dramatically. rumsfeld, he was a villain in this. he wanted to cut it even further. guess what? he was for buying all sorts of fancy stuff. when we got to afghanistan and iraq, it wasn t the $350 million
15 to plus 15 in that range, then it s a winnable or election for either party. that s sort of whether when we re in coin flip territory. you have to take into consideration what s going on. not an election about the economy, it was a national security election, very close election in any event. but it was really dominated by the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i think what s more important, like in any poll, the same thing applies here, looking at the trend line. is it going up or is it going down? not necessarily the very last number. we have trended it all the way back for the entire obama presidency but also have done these snapshots for all these presidents. nbcpolitics.com. we re going to have apps, all sorts of fancy stuff. it s already there. the map is already there, too. you can see it s all there. nbcpolitics.com might be the most traveled political site. it might be. we know it is. you can get the latest updates on the vci, and all the latest, of course, at msnbcpol