Im leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9 00 for my good friend rachel maddow. There will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. For now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. That does it for now. Who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again . You can blame me. Boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. Thank you, nicole. If its tuesday, Paul Manaforts trial is officially under way. Tonight, collusion confus n confusion. The wild evolution of the president s alternative explanations with yet another dimension of denial. Plus, midterm sabotage. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. Facebook you have . S snuffs out coordinated attempts of Election Interference but as the u. S. Government done you have no protect the integrity of the vote . Mark my words, america wont tolerate this meddling. And day one of trial number one for the special counsels office. How the Paul Manafort tax evasion
republican convention and put a pro-russia platform on their platform. so it seems like the timing to start mincing words is a little too conspiracy for me. ramesh, how quick are we? how soon is it where some of the president s maga defenders go this far. t atlantic wrote skimming maga twitter short for make america great again for those of you that aren t familiar it s easy to see the outlines of the pro-russian meddling argument emerging. america interferes in other countries elections so it can t be that bad. exposed democrats hacked e-mails was a victory for transparency, keeping clinton out of office was so urgent and important that it warranted foreign intervention. how long before that s donald trump s rationale? it s going to pick up. i think it will be a bigger part of the talking points for his fiercest defenders, partly because all of the previous ones
capitol hill with the senate intelligence committee where they re talk about social media and influence in 2016 and social media companies will be on the hot seat so this is good timing as well. well, you have facebook as the producer reminded me lost $100 billion in value. twitter got pounded as well. and they ve been trying to quietly do some work in getting rid of bots. when you said facebook s doing better, are you referring to twitter when you say other social media companies need to step up? i ve been very harsh on twitter but they ve done two things that i m supportive of. one is taking down social bots. the consequences, the negative part of social bots outweighs any benefits and the other thing they are trying to do is reshape community conversations so that there isn t so much trolling by downgrading or tamping down accounts that are aggressive so those are positive changes. will trust with the consumer
come back? if it can t keep people on these platforms it s going to be tough and facebook is trying to move it back from cats to kids. problem for twitter is that politics seems to be the engine on a pr front so they can t walk away from it the way facebook thinks they can. clint watts, as always, thanks for sharing your expertise. thank you. up ahead, there s hugging trump and then there s what one florida republican is doing. it s beyond hugging. well, we ll have to come up with a new word of phrase. we ll be right back. it s the ford summer sales event and now is the best time to buy. man: (on tablet) preparing classic campfire trout. say what? trout. trout. alright. you don t think i need both? why does he have that axe? make summer go right with ford, america s best-selling brand. now get 0% financing for 72 months plus $1,000 ford credit bonus cash on a great selection of suvs. during the ford summer sales event, get our best offer of the season:
or perhaps somebody connected with them were doing to rally folks on the left. it says here if trump wants to beat barack obama s twitter for twitter record for most liked tweet, he needs to tweet two words, i resign. this was the type of organizational tool facebook says they were using, russians were using to rally the left and then that goes to what you just were explaining, they were trying to gather followers. we have to remember everything they do in terms of a placement, the goal is dual purpose. you use it to rally one audience so any audience that is some sort of crack in the democracy that are actually anti-government or talking about degrading government institutions, confidence and trust in the government officials, they use those provocations and try to rally people in one sense but they ll point the opposition to the issues as well. so look at the protests for and against islam they tried to arrange in 2016 in texas.