but went through the process is ted olson, the supreme court solicitor, former justice department official who when he was in the reagan government was investigated by an independent counsel, became a very famous supreme court case. it was a nightmare for ted olson and the trump team has reached out to mr. olson to see whether he would join them. he declined. but nonetheless, there s an awareness that dealing with a special counsel like robert mueller is a dangerous enterprise. on the other side, there is donald trump who thinks he has been wronged and he doesn t want those kinds of lawyers selling him out so-to-speak. i think he s brought in someone like joe dejenev to be the guy who is going to lean on the system to make sure trump s personal interests are represented and the lawyers dealing with mr. mueller don t make a deal that puts the president in jeopardy. paul: kim, let s turn to some other news this week on the
social media giant be far behind. we re back with dan henniger, kim extr str aassel and alicia . is the cambridge analytic an ana uproar overblown? it s definitely overblown. the trump campaign said it used the republican national committee s database because the data from cambridge analytica wasn t very good. cambridge analytica has said that it deleted any data that was improperly accessed. paul: so why, then, the uproar now? we know democrats in congress and the obama administration provided a lot of political protection for facebook, for google, for the big tech companies. now democrats are saying, look,
legislation regulating the social media giant be far behind. we re back with dan henniger, kim extr str aassel and alicia . is the cambridge analytic an ana uproar overblown? it s definitely overblown. the trump campaign said it used the republican national committee s database because the data from cambridge analytica wasn t very good. cambridge analytica has said that it deleted any data that was improperly accessed. paul: so why, then, the uproar now? we know democrats in congress and the obama administration provided a lot of political protection for facebook, for google, for the big tech companies. now democrats are saying, look,
someone who did not get indicted but went through the process is ted olson, the supreme court solicitor, former justice department official who when he was in the reagan government was investigated by an independent counsel, became a very famous supreme court case. it was a nightmare for ted olson and the trump team has reached out to mr. olson to see whether he would join them. he declined. but nonetheless, there s an awareness that dealing with a special counsel like robert mueller is a dangerous enterprise. on the other side, there is donald trump who thinks he has been wronged and he doesn t want those kinds of lawyers selling him out so-to-speak. i think he s brought in someone like joe dejenev to be the guy who is going to lean on the system to make sure trump s personal interests are represented and the lawyers dealing with mr. mueller don t make a deal that puts the president in jeopardy. paul: kim, let s turn to some