But instagram has 2.3 billion users, and it takes a few clicks to sign up for this service. so talk about easy to sign up for, it won t be too long before there are as many people on threads as there currently are on twitter. griff: but interestingly, i ve been reading a little about it, you can t sign up for it in the european union. europe won t let it. and we ve got a full screen we can show you for what it tracks, what meta tracks, and i believe this is part of why it s banned there. you can see here, look at all this, health and fitness, financial info, contact info, user content, user data, purchases, location, on and on and on. so is it going to, perhaps, limit its success if they can t get it in the e.u.? well, right now the e.u. is cracking down on all sorts of big tech companies including google, amazon, etc. and the europeans are way ahead on privacy laws. as we saw recently in news, you know, government is now starting to buy private data.
To you an important story, to bring evan home. aishah: meantime, the dutch government falling into collapse after failing to reach a deal on restricting immigration. the netherlands prime minister, mark rudd, one of europe s longest serving leaders, will resign from his post prompting new elections in the fall. kitty logan is live with that. hi, kitty. [no audio] aishah: okay, i think we lost kitty logan, so we ll try to get back to her as well. griff: we re going to work on that. these are the gremlins of cable news. we ll fix that and be back. meanwhile, the battle of the billionaires, did you see this? meta s marker berg launches the social media app threads as a direct competitor to elon musk s twitter. oh, boy, a tech social media fight.
And museums being destroyed. so much pain. and yet 500 days of resilience, 500 days of love to our country, love to freedom, love to democracy and our willingness to fight for it. and 500 days of us saying thank you to all of our partners and especially to the united states, to the people of this great country for standing with us. we have to win together. so difficult 500 days behind us, but we till did not win, so we have to stay the course, as military people say, and we have to prove that democracy can defend itself. griff: secretary antony blinken putting out a statement saying the u.s. will stay with ukraine as long as it takes. you got an announcement yesterday, cluster munitions will now come to ukraine. that s a 180 shift because they were not supporting that. your reaction. well, this is, you know, we re so grateful to president biden, to everyone in congress
Negotiate some sort of ceasefire. the national security adviser, jake sullivan, shot that down yesterday, said absolutely not the case. your reaction. well, i m very glad and, of course, we knew that officially u.s. had nothing to do with it. i m very surprised that anyone on the expert level would even talk of these war criminals. they have to stop the war and leave the country, and then we can discuss something with them about reparations and everything else. right now we have to win this war together. it s about principles. griff: ambassador oksana markarova, thank you very much, madam ambassador. thank you. aishah: the brand new jobs numbers are out, and they are positive. but why isn t main street feeling any better about the economy? we re going to ask jonathan hoenig next. heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us.
Tim kaine. she ll also talk with 2024 republican presidential candidate chris christie. check your local listings for time and channel or set your dvr. also on mediabuzz, howie kurtz talking about media outrage over the supreme court s recent spate of conservative rulings. that s tomorrow at 11 a.m. eastern. don t miss it. griff drink a family left reeling after a father of four was shot and killed in d.c. earlier this week, nasrat ahmad was finishing a late night shift in the nation s capital when he was shot. he was an interpreter in the u.s. army special forces in afghanistan who pled the country in 2021 when it fell to the talibanful alexandria hoff joins us live with more on this tragic story. reporter: it s just terrible. ahmad s wife is speaking out, once in the u.s. they first relocated to philadelphia.