it if they what could happen to facebook then could it be broken up. well this is really tough to say at this point we haven t seen a case like this in those proportions since a similar case against the microsoft about 2 decades ago and big then it took years before we had an outcome overall there is this discussion quite often and openly if facebook became too powerful especially with the acquisition of instagram and but microsoft for example big then they have to change some of their business practices so i m not quite certain if the company really will be broken up at this point and as i said to will take years before we really know what s going on in any case we ve been to some brave new world of regulation now what will this level of regulatory scrutiny mean for the world of tech at large understand that alphabet
business i m on in berlin welcome it may have just settled one privacy investigation with a 5000000000 dollar fine but facebook s troubles and the united states are far from over an alliance of 8 states plus the district of columbia announce an anti-trust probe into the social media company the new york state attorney general a t. shirt james said in a tweet that the aim was to find out whether facebook quote endangered consumer data reduce the quality of consumers choices or increase the price of advertising this follows an announcement from the justice department that it would also be conducting a competition review of online platforms. joins us now from wall street dns if this probe finds that facebook did indeed behave and can had it if the what could happen to facebook then could it be broken up well this is really tough to say at this point we haven t seen
any deviation could make the winds stronger. watching the storm very closely. chad myers, thank you very much for keeping us posted. i want to go straight to freeport on grand bahama island. patrick oppmann and his team have been there for days now. the communications difficult, the conditions even worse. patrick, please tell us what you are seeing this morning as the sun comes up. reporter: good morning, well, you know, the winds have dropped somewhat. yesterday it was just incredible how long the storm went on, and how actually in the evening it seemed to intensify to a point we haven t seen all day yesterday. right now maybe we have category one tropical storm force winds, but we are sensing, you can sense that the storm is leaving or is at least less powerful, that may allow us for the first time in days to get out later, and sort of assess damage. we have seen people who have had to evacuate their homes.
this affects green cardholders, doctors, and others who are serving and deserve to be rewarded. and not punished. i think this targeting is appropriate for people who should be focused on serving their company. are you hearing from other companies that would be affected? yes, we are. we heard from families all over the globe. they re very anxious and worried about how this policy affects them. and how best to respond to it. at this point we haven t had any answers and the policy and the announcements have been very confusing. let s be clear, anna, i think the trump/pence administration
congress, that are like ones here in the united states. congress needs to change them. i often found american people demand things, when there is a real crisis i think both parties see there is a real crisis along our southern border. we have to keep it secure. i was in el salvador where ms-13 is headquartered. we watched drug trafficking, we watched young girls trafficked across the border. i think democrat come to understand this is a crisis. i hope people from across the political spectrum help to solve the problem. brian: we are at a point we haven t been since the 1980s, where war could be just around the corner. people will focus on one speech and one chant yesterday. if you watch all the sunday shows. ainsley: talking about the rally last week. the president had the rally in north carolina. he spoke for more than an hour 1/2. the crowd starts yelling, send her back, for a few seconds and media focuses on that.