incredibly consequential for what speech gets aired and seen by ordinary people, ordinary americans. reporter: while major tech ceos are beginning to grapple with the unseen consequence of their increasingly powerful platforms, there are some calls for tech companies to be regulated as utilities. many in silicon valley disagree. i recently spoke to twitter and media founder ed williams about it. a congressman suggested there should be an act passing legislation to put disclosure requirements on social media advertising similar to the ones that we see on tv commercials. this ad paid for? reporter: what impact would that have? i don t think people would pay attention to it, not really. reporter: when it comes to regulation, williams isn t opposed. he s just doubtful of the process producing good results. i d prefer no regulation to bad regulation. there is no obvious thing you would say to facebook or google or twitter, go fix this now. oh, we re not doing that because we d
he s just doubtful of the process producing good results. i d prefer no regulation to bad regulation. there s no obvious thing that you would say to facebook or google or twitter, like, go fix this now. oh, we re not doing that because we don t have to. they are all trying. questions about content are complicated. the difference between a difference of opinion or political belief and a difference in prong facts is really hard to sess out. the same gray area applies to facebook. while the company says they ll disclose political ads, who s to say what constitutes a political ad and what defines propaganda? some are calling for editorial guidelines and you get into an area where most tech companies are like that s not something that really fits in our model or that we would even be good at.
it s incoumbent upon them both o fix this. he tweeted, the only problem with mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace seven years he failed. that should have never have happened. that wasn t exactly accurate. he has several other problems with mitch mcconnell as well. absolutely. again the white house is talking out of both sides. yesterday sarah huckabee, press secretary issued a statement saying the president didn t, had a good relationship with mitch mcconnell. comes out again on twitter and attacks him. leading into a very busy month of september, not just legislative initiatives the white house would like off the ground also critical things like a new, spending bill, and raising of the debt ceiling. these two sides definitely don t seem to be working on the same page. think about that a second, wolf. a white house statement about the relationship between the pret and the senate majority leader? that in and of itself indicates the problem at hand. you don t see that k
we say, dissembling about the true reason about the meetings, that initial statement and then releasing his own e-mails that are as, you know really i do think not only breathe new life into this investigation bud made everybody say, maybe we have been just taking collusion off the table too soon. everybody had said well, maybe not collusion, but something happened. but, you know, you don t answer e-mails like that on campaigns, chuck. you just don t. you know, the other thing that s interesting to me is how it came out. we re now the reason it came out is because jared kushner corrected his lawyers, and he s got two very prominent ones, they clearly to me are giving him the advice, whatever you ve got get it out and fix. so they find this e-mail, yet another russian they didn t identify, go fix your form. well, fixing that form means more people find out about it. now we know how this gets out. but michael steel, so u jared
steve: shot of the morning. sunday is father s day and our friends over at baskin robbins, brian, look at this, somebody did not leave the cake out in the rain. they brought it in. it s father s day cakes for baskin robbins. brian: everything is stereo typical male. steve: that s right. brian: it s tools and a tool box in there. if you want to see me uncomfortable, stick me near tools. if you want to see something broken or incorrectly done, put tools in my hand. steve: in other words, a lovely sentiment, essentially the message here is dad, we love you. now go fix something. brian: yeah, go fix something, cause you probably broke it! steve: look at the size of that knife i m supposed to cut this with. brian: i do feel as though mother s day gets more publicity than father s day. steve: it does. for us, we put more into mother s day helping find the gifts than father s day.