you re not going to be the only one watching. a lot of folks are going to watch his hopeful return to the field. thank you for that, jesse care. we have a lot more coming up. you are watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. hi, hi, everyone. and yasmin vossoughian. welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are very thankful for that. you have the split screen moment in the israel-hamas war. on the one side, more strikes by israeli defense forces in gaza, leaving victims and destruction behind. on the other side, the u.s. ramps up diplomatic efforts across the region. will this intense fighting and talking lead to results? we have multiple reports across the middle east for you coming up. from abortion rights to accusations of voter influence, what you have not heard yet about this weeks off year election in some states. we have a live report on that. do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth? that s the first question former president donald trump will
up. also 126 million users were exposed to russian-back accounts, fake news. millions of facebook users were exposed to voter influence. facebook sold $100,000 in ads to russians that influenced the 2016 election likely in favor of mr. trump. joining me now is reid hunt, a ceo of popular.vote and bradley tusk, a regulatoried a vie or the for tech companies. welcome to both of you. thank you for being here. reid, as a former fcc chairman, the big question on everybody s mind here is what an outcome looks like. what success looks like. and to many americans and many people around the world, success looks like some sort of regulation on facebook, and then it gets treated like a content
clients, what do you say about cambridge analytica and its connection to facebook and voters? well, this is all very troub troubling, erin. and my job as attorney general is to protect consumers. and the fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of millions of facebook users across this country. billions across the world. and i think what users are entitled to, given how vast the amount of information is they make available online, that they have some assurance that a company like facebook, which controls this massive platform, is going to take some responsibility to take reasonable steps to protect against this very kind of theft or misuse of their personal data. so, i mean, you know, you talk about the hundreds of millions of users in the u.s. look, we understand here from the latest reporting that perhaps 50 million facebook users here were impacted, with their information taken without their consent, by this voter influence firm that was hired by
minority voter influence in today s elections? the president and director council of the naacp legal defense and egts found joins us as well as zach roth. i m going to start at the table with you, zach. you wrote, because today is actually the one-year anniversary of the shelby v. holder decision that essentially gutted the voting rights act by declaring section four unconstitutional and therefore basically making, as you call it, a zombie out of section five. you say shelby s most direct impact was felt in the southern states that were suddenly freed from oversight in their voting changes. almost immediate moves took place to pass voter restrictions in the states you isolate are texas, north carolina, alabama, mississippi, georgia. all across the south. they didn t wait very long. no, in fact, the very day, in fact a few hours after the supreme court made its ruling, greg abbott, the republican attorney general of texas, said we are going to move ahead with our voter i.d. law, which