and on that got avoided here. the president was i think frustrated with aspects of this. he got some money for a border wall. not as much as he wanted. both sides end up spending on something that is still a short-term measure. a big v.a. proposal they were trying to get done to help the veterans. nothing on that. didn t make it in. gentlemen, appreciate it. thank you very much. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg said he would be happy to testify before congress if in fact, he s the right guy to talk about it. a, isn t he facebook ceo? b, what would lawmakers like to know? we ll ask members of the house intel committee next. shooting pain in my feet. i hear you, sam. cedric, i couldn t sleep at night because of my diabetic nerve pain. i hear you, claire, because my dad struggled with this pain. folks, don t wait. step on up and talk to your doctor. because the one thing i keep hearing is.
oh, that s that is hard. you know, i think that it is it s really hard for me to have a full assessment of that. you know, the reality is why? well, there were so many different forces at play. the organic posting that people did, the get out the vote campaigns that we ran, the pages that both candidates ran, the advertising that they did, i m sure that all of that activity had some impact. it s hard for me to assess how much that stacked up compared to all the campaign events and advertising that was done off of facebook and all the other efforts. and i think it s also hard to fully assess the impact of that organic activity, which we re actually quite proud of. also the bad actors too. and the bad stuff. that s what i m saying, yeah. so i think it s hard to fully assess given the stakes here, why shouldn t facebook be regulated? i actually am not sure we shouldn t be regulated.
there s still outstanding questions. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. welcome to your new day . alisyn is off. erica hill by my side. a lot of news once again. we begin with cnn s exclusive. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg breaking his silence about this massive data breach. millions had their information improperly obtained by a data firm linked to the campaign. what facebook is doing to safeguard your information. this is all going on as lawmakers ramp up talk of regulating social media giants like facebook. congress facing a friday deadline, meantime, to avoid a government shutdown. the house is set to vote on a $1.3 trillion spending package. we will tell you what s in is and what s out in this 2,232 page bill. plus, the president s legal team weighing in on the special
antonio working throughout the pendency of the campaign. all the questiothere is ques regulation. jackie speier said, yes, we need to look at regulation. what would a regulation look like for a platform like facebook when it has been difficult for people to define exact lu what it is. first to me is if you see something you must report something. if you see interference on your platform as they were seeing russians paying in rubles to advertise to americans, that should have been been reported to the fbi immediately. any political ad put forward in a coordinated way should have to meet the same requirements they would have to meet if it was put on airwaves, radio or television. there are already regulations in place as to how user data can be used. that is concerning to me.
after governor granholm, it is interesting to me he s bragging about his social media effort when that social media effort was cambridge analytica was part of it. the kicker about this to me is he s drawing attention to this at the moment when cambridge analytica and facebook and frankly the mueller 13 indictments, the 13 russians that mueller indicted, are all wound together. you know that mueller is taking a look at the connections between cambridge analytica and the russians. and did cambridge analytica, who trump campaign employed, give data to the russians to be able to do that targeted advertising that those 13 russians who were indicted did? there is just it is not hard to draw that line. we don t know. we don t know. if that line is connected yet. there is reason to think that robert mueller has been asking questions about cambridge analytica. and the russians together. that s something, that s speculation now who knows if it goes beyond that.