on the house side the judiciary panel is in talks with facebook on an appearance, nothing confirmed. and unclear if zuckerberg will be the company s representative to a hearing. house intel committee ranking member adam schiff has invited several players in the cambridge analytica saga to appear and then there s the house and energy commerce committee where they work to secure an appearance by facebook representatives. joining me a member o that committee john sarbanes of maryland. good to see you, where does all this stand with your committee? do you want to talk to zuckerberg or is it okay if he sends one of his other officials in. i think at this point it s best for zuckerberg himself to start appearing in front of congress and not just send lawyers and other company executives. he s the face of facebook. he s the genius behind it. he understands better than anybody how it works. he ought to come and testify and
deep state. bannon became the central character in the analytica saga, we are hearing from another. last hour facebook ceo mark zuckerberg posted his comments since the data scandal broke. before he laid out what they are actually doing about it zuckerberg says, quote, we have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can t then we don t deserve to serve you. i ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn t happen again. the good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today, we have already taken years ago. but we also made mistakes. there is more more to do and we need to step up and do it. we are pleased right now to welcome our newest msnbc contributor natasha bertrand who covers intelligence and national security for the atlantic. thank you. natasha, great to see you. let me just ask you straight up off the top, forget about mark zuckerberg for a moment. let s think about steve bannon and camb
and the overall strategy of the campaign. the company says there will be a full and independent investigation indeed. the company released a statement saying, it does not use entraple, bribes or honey traps and denies using untrue material for immaterial purpose. and the undercover video revealed from channel 4 said the cambridge analytica employees say they were passing information on hillary clinton through robert and rebecca mercer who both brought in steve bannon into the trump campaign. it s worth taking a step back to look at what we know about the web of americans in the cambridge analytica saga. here are the big players involved. the mercers, the funding sources, steve bannon, the messaging guru, donald trump, the candidate, and cambridge analytica, the data source.