Of facebook mark zuckerberg issued this statement: shares in the company closed down almost 5% in new york. not only has facebook had to deal with a major outage, the company has also been dealing with the fallout from a whistleblower leak. a former employee claimed that the firm prioritises its own growth over public safety. she is due to testify at a senate hearing in washington later. mike issak is a technology correspondent for the new york times stop ba asked how difficult a period this is for facebook? it asked how difficult a period this is for facebook?- this is for facebook? it has not been this is for facebook? it has not been a this is for facebook? it has not been a good this is for facebook? it has not been a good three - this is for facebook? it has l not been a good three weeks this is for facebook? it has - not been a good three weeks for facebook after the series with the wall streetjournal and a the wall street journal and a lot the wall streetjournal and a lot
Were multiple people who did encourage the president to release this transcript. but that is not the reason according to these sources why the president is now upset apparently with the white house chief of staff. rather, not the release of the transcript, but lack of an apparent strategy from the white house to handle the fallout of that whistleblower leak. we already know from past reporting that this white house was indeed caught a little bit flat footed with the pace at which the speed at which house democrats moved forward with this impeachment inquiry. and now they are still struggling to put the pieces together and figure out how they are going to respond. apparently the president s frustrations and other white house officials frustrations with mick mulvaney became clear during a meeting yesterday that is according to multiple officials. now, as far as mick mulvaney is concerned, a signor advi oor se adviser is denying it saying that has no basis in reality. but the white house
Previous ministrations did not leak as much as this administration is not because they fear prosecution, because they respect the office of the presidency. but, olivier, isn t that the job with people with classified information to decide whether or not they respect that particular president? can make no, obviously they take an oath to protect that information no matter who the president of the night of states is. it s not their job to assess the president on personal terms and the side, well, i can leak, i can t leak under this other. by and large, not really talking about whistle blower leaks. we are talking about full on disclosures of classified information. chris: a whistleblower leak is when somebody inside the government says there is something going wrong, and he leaks that information because he doesn t feel he is getting satisfaction. and the mechanisms that normally address their grievances are somehow not working. chris: and what you are saying these are different
Previous ministrations did not leak as much as this administration is not because they fear prosecution, because they respect the office of the presidency. but, olivier, isn t that the job with people with classified information to decide whether or not they respect that particular president? can make no, obviously they take an oath to protect that information no matter who the president of the night of states is. it s not their job to assess the president on personal terms and the side, well, i can leak, i can t leak under this other. by and large, not really talking about whistle blower leaks. we are talking about full on disclosures of classified information. chris: a whistleblower leak is when somebody inside the government says there is something going wrong, and he leaks that information because he doesn t feel he is getting satisfaction. and the mechanisms that normally address their grievances are somehow not working. chris: and what you are saying these are different
Effect and now here s eight cases at this moment coming forward that were all bottled up that have not been fully investigated. you know at this point, we re moving forward. some democrats would say the timing of this whistleblower leak is interesting. hillary clinton is thinking of running for president and now they re calling for a congressional investigation. what would you say to that? well, the point is that these are eight examples of malfesance and, in some cases, the conduct here is criminal. and the we have the facts that yes, indeed, investigations were open. and, yes, indeed, in the judgment of the inspector general s office, there was undue political interference. there was undue interference from political appointees. that isn t our judgment in congress. this is the judgment of the