keilar. major news this morning in a story that cnn broke overnight. for the first time, the department of justice is public acknowledging that it is looking into a specific aspect of the plot from high-level donald trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. this was a cnn exclusive. we learned that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former president trump the winner of seven states, states that he lost. this is the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. on the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certifications has been reported. we ve received those referrals. our prosecutors are looking at those. and i can t say anything more on ongoing investigations. but more broadly, look, the attorney general has been very, very clear we are going to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead to address conduct of any kind and at any level that is part of an assault on our democracy. the fake el
back to normal. sometime we can venture beyond it, to leave the known and take the first steps. so let us not return to what was normal, but reach toward what is next. what was cursed, we will cure. what was plagued, we will prove pure. what we tend to argue, we will try to agree. those fortunes were forsworn, now the future we foresee. where we weren t aware, we re now awake. and those moments we missed are now these moments we make, these moments we meet. and our hearts once all together beating, now all together beat. come, look up with kindness yet, for even solace can be sourced from sorrow. we remember not for the sake of yesterday, but to take on tomorrow. we heed this old spirit in a new day s lyric. in our hearts we hear it, for auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne. be bold same time this year, be bold same time. for when you honor yesterday, tomorrow ye will find. know what we fought for, not to be forgot, no for none. it defines us, binds us as one. come ove
time, didn t it? got everybody talking about the outage instead of what was being outed in congress. second, it s interesting that the outage has zuck searching for answers to do better, but he doesn t say that about anything happening in congress. not really. other than admitting congress does need to regulate social media more, he flatly rejects this central concern from the whistleblower. they have put their astronomical profits before people. now, astronomical profits before people. of course, do you believe this would make facebook different than many big companies? it s not a shocking suggestion, but it is a window into the reality that we see facebook as different from just a huge company because it doesn t make widgets. its service isn t something like even managing your money, which is very important. this is about the environment that is created almost as if it were a kind of oxygen. and the nature of it and the quality of it and how it s tested matters. now, zu
all right. let s bring in the big star of don lemon tonight, d-lemon, to discuss a little bit of the 1,300-plus-word response by zuckerberg of facebook tonight. don, he used 1,300 words. i could use two for what his message was. wasn t me. like shaggy? is that what you re trying to say? wasn t me? i m telling you what, you go through the different situations, not literally, depicted in that song, but how obvious the things were. look, everyone deserves a defense. so i ll just say that. but let me just be honest. they have to know what s going on. they can i can talk about i want a pig in the blanket for a party on saturday and all of a sudden pigs in a blanket show up in my feed, in my facebook feed or in my instagram feed or my twitter, wherever it shows up. they know what s up. they know what people are doing. they know what people are looking at. they have the algorithms. and you know, they have more people have these than they have these boxes that they usuall
warning, you re going to hear some very disturbing language. we have not censored this. i hearing the just caved. is that true? i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved we re going to drag mother through the streets. that was ryan nichols, and when we he got to the capitol, he didn t just talk the talk. he s accused of assaulting police officers with pepper spray. he is facing eight criminal charges and has pleaded not guilty. these people were calling for violence against then vice president mike pence because he would not do donald trump s bidding, and unilaterally nullify the 2020 election, and trump egged on those threats. trump called pence a coward in one of his final tweets. now after more than a year of tiptoeing around the issue, brushing it off as not seeing eye to eye with trump on january 6th, mike pence has dropped the pleasantries at least for the moment, calling out trump by name. i heard this week that president trump said i