be open and connect the world it s one of the most impenetrable companies in the country. what we found is a lot of insights into how its top executive, sheryl sandberg, chief operating officer, and number one executive, mark zuckerberg, what they were doing and what they were thinking. in two years of cascading crises. and what we discovered can be summed up in three different buckets. they made many mistakes, screwed up, frankly. they covered up and then, in washington, they lawyered up or lobbied up. and there are many examples of how the top leadership actually were not paying attention and not prioritizing a lot of the things that were happening in terms of the abuse on their platform as well as the policy questions and the implications of what was happening on their platform. ben, you say this piece, this story left you aghast. can you explain why? you reported on facebook before. you have talked with people there. why did you find this so
that s happens. and i think he s not a repeat offender. they can say, this is a bad move, and we ll give you another shot. tmz says that abc is in talks to do a version of the roseanne show, without the name sake. if it s her concept it would be the connors. the talks are happening. they re early. they would have to buy out roseanne s stake in the show to relaunch it without her. i think it s a real idea. she feels she was fired weeks ago. it s only a few days ago. i m glad this week is over. the president screwed up, saying sam bee should be fired. frankly, bee, messed up, we should be able to debate the president s immigration policies without curse words and profanity.
dollars, generating hundreds of millions in tax revenues. did candidate trump want to interfere with that? i wouldn t do that, no. so you think colorado should be able to do what it s doing? no, i think it s up to the states, yeah, i m a states person. i think it should be up to the states, absolutely. reporter: but now that he is president, some who staked their livelihoods on the best of your knowledgening business are at bust bummed. we fully expected the president to uphold his campaign pledge to stay out of the way of these laws that are working so well in the states across the country. reporter: now attorney general sessions did not go as far as some advocates feared. he stopped short of explicitly directing more prosecutions, resources, or efforts on this very cold day, his words have having a chilling effect. tom, thank you. lots more to talk about. sean spicer tells cnn that he quote, screwed up. don t go anywhere. we ll have more on that. duncan just protected h
not pretend that the democrats got it right and they have the moral high ground. ner learning the lesson from clinton. i want to. any got it right on one senator but they ve gotten it wrong on bill clinton forever. you know what, bill clinton what is bill clinton doing right now? why are i am so tired of. . it has nothing to do with anything. it makes my point. the point is like what donald trump is president right now. roy moore is running right now. al franken is right now. and conyers is right now. and yes, nancy pelosi screwed up, but conyers is leaving and franken is leaving. so the democrats actually do get credit for doing this and it was a difficult decision. scott, let me finish, it was a difficult decision for them. this was not easy. it is somebody beloved by democrats, he s an icon, friend of senators. they decided they believe the women and said he needed to resign. they could pay a price for it. i think they should get credit for it. i don t think we should
they got this franken thing right. nancy pelosi got it very wrong on conyers on meet the press the other day. they ve gotten it very wrong for years trying to wrestle with bill clinton s legacy. so let s not pretend like the democrats have they got it right on one day and all of a sudden they own the moral high ground here. they still have their issues to reckon with they got it right on one senator, but they ve gotten it wrong on bill clinton forever. why are we even talking about bill clinton? it s getting old. i m so tired of it. it has nothing to do with anything. it makes my point. it actually doesn t make a point. donald trump is president right now. roy moore is running right now. al franken is right now, and conyers is right now. and yes nancy pelosi screwed up, but conyers is leaving and franken is leaving. so democrats actually do get credit for doing this scott, let me finish. it was a difficult decision for