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[08:00:00] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: North Korea says it did not torture detained American Otto Warmbier who died days after returning to the U.S.

in a coma.

And CNN speaks exclusively to Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook unveils a new direction.

And we begin with the latest controversy and political battle obsessing Washington. The new Republican Senate health care bill is facing

resistance, and not only from the Democrats. So far, four Republican senators say that they are against the plan as currently written.

And Democrats are slamming it as well, jumping on President Trump's reported comment last week that the House health care plan is, quote, mean,

Democrats are calling this Senate bill meaner.

We're going to have all that in just a moment, but first President Trump has finally revealed that he did not secretly record his conversations with

fired FBI director James Comey. Joe Johns has that.

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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Trump finally coming clean, declaring that he did not make and does not have any recordings of his private conversations

with FBI director James Comey before firing him. The tweet coming 41 days after the President first implied tapes may exist, an apparent threat that

sparked weeks of speculation and refusals from the White House to give a straight answer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did President Trump record his conversations with former FBI director Comey?

SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The President has nothing further to add on that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He said he had no idea whether or not there was a taping system in the Oval Office. Could you try to find out?

SARAH SANDERS, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Sure, I'll try to look under the couches.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do tapes exist of your conversations with him?

S. SANDERS: No.

TRUMP: Well I'll tell you about that, maybe sometime in the very near future.

JOHNS: The President's admission couched by this cryptic message. "With all the recent reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and

illegal leaking of information I have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversation with James Comey."

REP. ADAM SCHIFF, (D) RANKING MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: If he didn't record these conversations, if they don't exist why did he suggest that

they did? What was to be gained by that? Was this an effort to intimidate James Comey, was it an effort to discourage other people from speaking out?

JOHNS: A senior administration official telling CNN the President has been amused by the coverage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Does the President regret the tweet?

S. SANDERS: I don't think so.

JOHNS: A Trump associate telling CNN's Jeff Zeleny, if he doesn't regret this he should. The effort does appear to have backfired.

JAMES COMEY, FORMER FBI DIRECTOR: It didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape.

And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square.

JOHNS: Comey testifying earlier this month that the President's tweet prompted him to leak memos of their conversations, which quickly led to the

appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, and ultimately to this Washington Post report saying the President himself is being investigated

for possible obstruction of justice. President Trump now raising questions about Mueller.

TRUMP: Well he's very, very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome. There's been collusion, no obstruction. And virtually everybody

agrees to that. So, we'll have to see. I can say that the people that have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Joe Johns there reporting.

I want to turn now to Suzanne Malveaux. She tells us what exactly is in this Senate health care legislation that is already sparking passionate

resistance.

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SEN. TED CRUZ, (R) TEXAS: This current draft doesn't get the job done.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put me down as a solid undecided.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think we've done a pretty good job keeping our promises.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Senate Republicans split over their party's new health care proposal. Four senators already saying they cannot

vote for the bill as it currently stands. The legislation was designed to appease moderates and conservatives but its upset members of both camps.

SEN. RAND PAUL, (R) KENTUCKY: It keeps the preexisting condition, keeps the regulations, and then subsidizes the death spiral. We are not fixing

Obamacare.

SEN. SUSAN COLLINS, (R) MAINE: I cannot support a bill that is going to result in tens of millions of people losing their health insurance.

TRUMP: I think that they'll probably get there. We'll have to see.

MALVEAUX: The Senate bill eliminates Obamacare's individual mandate, keeps insurance protections for preexisting patients but allows states to drop

essential benefits which can mean skimpier coverage and fewer treatment options for patients, including those with preexisting conditions. It

phases out Medicaid expansion starting in 2021, reduces income based tax credits and subsidies, cuts Obamacare taxes and eliminates planned

parenthood funding for one year.

[08:05:07] TRUMP: Little negotiation but it's going to be very good.

MALVEAUX: President Trump announcing that he supports the bill despite promising not to cut Medicaid on the campaign trail.

TRUMP: Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.

I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

MALVEAUX: Democrats say the Senate bill amounts to nothing more than a giant tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle class.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I) VERMONT: This is barbaric. Frankly this is what oligarchy is all about. It's the wealthy and powerful saying we need even

more tax breaks.

MALVEAUX: President Obama is criticizing the GOP's latest plan to repeal his signature domestic achievement, writing in a Facebook post "The Senate

bill unveiled today is not a health care bill. Small tweaks over the course of the next couple of weeks cannot change the fundamental meanness at the

core of this legislation."

The Senate bill sparking emotional protests outside the office of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. Police dragging away wheelchair bound

demonstrators and disability advocates, angry over proposed cuts to Medicaid.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Without Medicaid, I am dead.

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LU STOUT: And that was Suzanne Malveaux reporting.

North Korea is calling the death of American college student Otto Warmbier, a mystery. He died on Monday, days after he was returned to the U.S. in a

coma. Warmbier's funeral was held Thursday at his old high school and drew a huge crowd, heartbroken and angry over his death. North Korea held

Warmbier for a year-and-a-half before releasing him.

Now, Paula Hancocks joins us now from Seoul with more on the story. And, Paula, the North Korea says that the death of Warmbier is a mystery to us

as well. What are we supposed to take away from that?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, certainly there's going to be no comfort in it for many people, but it certainly it is a show

that many people, but certainly it is a show that North Korea is hitting back at this widespread condemnation of Otto Warmbier's death by saying,

quote, it's a mystery to us as well.

Now, we know that the Warmbier family blames North Korea. They have said that it is the torturous mistreatment of their son at the hands of North

Korea, which has lead to his death.

Now Pyongyang, through KCNA, the state-run media, is now saying that it is denying all allegations of torture. It is saying that the accusation of

torture are simply groundless, also saying that Otto Warmbier was treated in relation to domestic law.

Now, clearly there are many around world that blame North Korea. The fact that he spent 17 months in detention in North Korea, at least 14 months of

those were believed to be in a coma then being flown back to the U.S. just last week before passing away, a matter of days ago.

So, certainly a sense that North Korea feels it has to answer this widespread condemnation, but very unlikely this will give any kind of

comfort to anybody - Kristie.

LU STOUT: No, yeah, and North Korea it denies allegations of torture as it continues undeterred with its weapons program with the rocket engine test,

the latest one, has it advanced North Korea's goal of developing an intercontinental missile?

HANCOCKS: Well, we have heard from two U.S. defense officials that it carried out this rocket engine test. We - they say at this point it's not

clear whether or not it was a new type of engine test. We certainly seen many of these tests in the past, fairly routine, it doesn't necessarily

indicate that any kind of missile launch is imminent, but could potentially help when it comes to the development of the ICBM, the intercontinental

ballistic missile, which North Korea is so determined to have. That capability, Kim Jong-un, the North Korea leader himself, saying he wants to

be able to hit the mainland United States with a nuclear-tipped ICBM, saying from his point of view it's necessary to counter the hostility of

U.S. policy towards North Korea.

So, this particular test, another test in a long run of testing that we have seen in recent months. In fact, in recent years, certainly since the

beginning of 2016. This intense testing has been the fastest we've seen in North Korean's history - Kristie.

LU STOUT: Paula Hancocks reporting live for us. Thank you.

And now to the fight against ISIS. Iraq's prime minister says victory is imminent in the city of Mosul. And he says ISIS has effectively admitted

defeat by blowing up the centuries old al-Nouri (ph) Mosque, that's where the leader of ISIS proclaimed the birth of his caliphate three years ago.

Let's get the latest on the offensive by Iraqi troops there. CNN producer Salma Abelaziz joins us now live from Irbil just east of Mosul. And Salma,

is the Iraqi prime minister right, is victory in Mosul imminent?

[08:10:05] SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN PRODUCER: That's what he told reporters yesterday, Kristie, that we are just a matter of days from announcing the

full liberation of Mosul.

Now, we've heard these kinds of timelines before from officials and they are often much too optimistic. The reality is that this is a complex urban

battle. The old city is densely populated, about 100,000 to 150,000 civilians believed to be trapped inside. They are effectively being used

as human shields, the United Nations says. And this is an area where alleyways, streets, all narrow, and you are talking about places where

Iraqi troops can't even get humvees through. So, this is going to be house to house, street to street, a very diffcult battle ahead.

And most importantly, this is ISIS's last stronghold in Mosul. They will be willing to fight to the death, so battle still weeks away and one that

will be very difficult to fight, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, fight to the death and as its been alleged even blow up the al-Nouri Mosque, which was a significant symbol for ISIS.

But the mosque was also a deeply historic site in Mosul and for Iraq. Was that just another strike to the city's and to the country's cultural

heritage?

ABDELAZIZ: Kristie, it's hard to overstate the significance of this mosque in the history for not just Iraq, but for Islam in general in the region.

Built in the 12th Century, it was seen as a way of asserting Sunni dominance in the region.

The founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was himself a fan of the mosque and the creator of that mosque. And in many ways it was seen that whoever

tgot to be in that mosque got to lay ideological claim to the city.

I was on the outskirts of the old city in late April, and we could see that famous leaning minaret, to the ISIS flag hanging over it, and the soldiers

around us said next Friday, god willing, prayers will be al-Nouri. And now that will not only not come true for anyone, it is very much a way of ISIS

saying if we don't have it, no one will, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Salma, you mentioned in April you were there near Mosul's old city. You saw the minaret still standing. You must have also

witnessed the suffering of civilians there in Mosul. And as we near the possible end of the battle to retake the city, what do we know about the

humanitarian situation there now?

ABDELAZIZ: Kristie, it is absolutely dire. The United Nations has been ringing the alarm. Again, 100,000 to 150,000 civilians trapped inside.

Numbers between 8,000 to 15,000 people fleeing per day. These are people who are leaving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, their

families, their children in their arms in what is maybe even more terrifying is as they flee, ISIS is firing upon them. Many coming out with

gunshot wounds to the back. And those who are still inside, they have no basic services, lack of electricity, clean water, it is a terrible

situation. And they will be the ones to suffer in the weeks to come, Kristie, as this battle goes on.

LU STOUT: Salma Abdelaziz, we thank you very much indeed for your reporting. Take care.

Now, the situation here in Yemen is also described as a terrible humanitarian crisis, nearly half a million children in Yemen are suffering

from severe malnutrition. Now, the country has been devastated by war and near famine and a vicious outbreak of cholera.

Now, CNN has spent two months trying to get to the hardest hit areas, but as Clarissa Ward finds out, there seems to be an active effort to block

journalists. And a warning, her exclusive report contains distressing images.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are the images that Saudi Arabia does not want you to see. The youngest victims of

a near famine that threatens the lives of almost seven million people.

Baby Ahmad (ph) is just ten months old.

The nurse says he would be dead in two days if he hadn't come for treatment. But many Yemenis can't afford to get to a hospital. In a dusty

camp for those displaced by more than two years of grinding civil war, our team met husband, Hamza (ph). His 10-month-old son, Akram (ph) has been

malnourished for months.

"I cannot take him to the city because there's no money," he says. "We're hoping any aid group will come see us and help us but no one has come. We

await God's fate."

Access to the victims of this manmade famine has been drastically restricted. In recent months, CNN has found that the Saudi Arabia-led

coalition is deliberately blocking journalists and human rights workers from visiting the hardest hit areas.

The air, land and sea blockade imposed by Riyadh and its partners has brought basic services to a grinding halt. And deteriorating conditions are

being blamed for a vicious cholera outbreak with more than 1100 deaths in a matter of months, according to the World Health Organization.

For 25-year-old medic Rannah Sayid Farrah (ph), the days have become a blur. Like so many hospitals, hers is short-staffed and under equipped.

"How old is she," she asks? "Is she throwing up?"

The little girl, Ezra (ph), has been brought in by her parents. She is the third of their children to fall ill.

"I'm scared, of course," her father Ali (ph) says. "Your children are your world."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We wish we could finish this epidemic, this disaster. We want to finish this disaster. Patients are dying one by one. They will

die at anytime. You couldn't do anything for them.

WARD: Pleas for help appear to have fallen on deaf ears. President Trump's recent trip to Riyadh and the announcement of a massive weapons deal was

seen by many to embolden the kingdom, leaving Yemen's conflict for now a silent war.

CNN has reached out to the Saudi Arabian government for comment on this issue of suspending journalist access to the hardest hit areas of Yemen.

The Saudi ambassador to the UN said, quote, "Saudi Arabia does not exercise any kind of censorship. Many news reporters and UN personnel have been

granted access to Yemen. The Yemeni government, and not the Saudi-led coalition, usually process visa approvals.

Clarissa Ward, CNN, London.

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LU STOUT: Now, Reuters is reporting that Qatar has been given 10 days to comply with a list of demands if it wants to restore ties with Arab nations

that cut ties this month over Qatar's alleged support of terrorism.

According to the report, there were 13 demands. They include shutting down the al Jazeera TV network and reducing diplomatic ties with Iran.

Now, Brexit negotiations are heating up in Brussels where the British prime minister is hearing criticism from EU leaders. The European Union's

negotiator says Theresa May's exit plan does not fully guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. She has proposed a new UK settled status.

Now, for those who have been in the UK for more than five years.

Now, the prime minister says more details of her plan will be published on Monday.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is moving away from targeting users and looking into encouraging

communities. An exclusive interview on what that means is next.

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[08:21:00] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.

Facebook is nearing 2 billion users, and many are raising questions about its growing impact and influence. Facebook has been accused of being a

platform for terrorist recruitment. It's seen murders live streamed on the site, it's been used by hate groups.

And Facebook has become so big it's also raising questions about the power it wields. For many people, Facebook is the internet. It's where they get

their news. It's where they watch videos, where they shop, even for some, where they work.

Now, Facebook is used by everyone from world leaders to small business owners. Any changes on the site can have an enormous impact on the

millions of organizations that depend on it. And the content on Facebook can have an incredible influence on the billions of users who see it.

Now, Facebook is changing a fundamental part of its site, its mission statement. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the new vision is aimed at creating a

more united attitude. Laurie Segall caught up with Zuckerberg for an exclusive look at what this new mission means.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARK ZUCKERBERG, FOUNDER AND CEO, FACEBOOK: Our new mission is to bring the world closer together. And for the last decade, our mission has been to

make the world more open and connected. And we've been really focused on these ideas: giving everyone a voice and helping to connect people,

especially with their friends and family.

And I thought those were really good things. And we're going to keep doing them. And we're definitely not done with that mission yet. But now I just

feel like we have a responsibility to do more in the world, right. I mean, when you look at the world today, you know, giving people a voice and

helping people connect are good and they've made the world better in a lot of ways, but our society is still very divided. And that means that people

need to work proactively to help bring people closer together. It's not just enough to help us simply connect, we need to work to bring the world

closer together.

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY: You've always had such an interesting utopian view of things and it seems like this mission now looking forward is

something a little bit like Facebook's grown up.

ZUCKERBERG: When I look at the greatest opportunities and challenges for our generation, things like ending poverty or curing diseases or stopping

climate change, those are things that no one group or country can do by themselves. We have to build a world where people can come together to take

on these big, meaningful efforts. And that change isn't going to happen top-down. There's one in the world who can snap their fingers and make that

happen. What we need to do is empower people all around the world to build communities. Things like church groups and sports teams and neighborhood

groups and groups for people who love dogs and new moms and dads, those are the groups that bring people together. And once people are coming together

in these smaller groups, that actually grows and it ends up with much bigger changes in the world.

SEGALL: How exactly do you do that?

ZUCKERBERG: If we are trying to do something like run a group with thousands of people, you need tools to help manage that. That's a lot of

what we're announcing today we have 300 of the people here who have built the strongest communities on Facebook. One of the women here, her name is

Lola. She started secret group on Facebook called Female In. I don't know if you've heard of this. She describes it as, a no judgment support group

for women to talk about whatever issues matter the most to them. So, whether it's issues in their marriage or their job or health or anything.

What she's found is that people come and start talking about basic issues, but then it actually has given people an outlet for some important things,

too. Now sometimes women come and talk about domestic violence and within minutes, she says that people get thousands of messages of support. Offers

of places to stay and help with child care and she didn't start off trying to build a community that was going to the culture around domestic

violence. But when you start bringing people together and giving people a way to connect that's the kind of thing this can lead to.

That's what we want to try to unlock in the world. Our view is if we can help build those tools and give more people like Lola in the world the

power to build more of those communities, the world is going to be a much better place.

[08:25:10] SEGALL: Take me inside Mark Zuckerberg's head, the moment that you decided you needed to change Facebook's core mission. Was there an

event that happened or was there just a moment when you said we've got to change something.

ZUCKERBERG: Well for most of the last ten years, this idea that the world should be more connected, was not very controversial. Now I think there's

starting to be some people who question whether that is good. So just in this evolution where for me and a lot of the people I work with at

Facebook, we feel like giving people a voice is a really important thing to do. But it's not enough to just give people a voice, you also have to help

build common ground, right? So that way people can move forward together and aren't just sharing a lot of different opinions, but you have to help

reconcile that. So, that way people can come together as well. And that's a lot of the responsibility that we feel now. And the mission that we want to

take on for the next ten years of the company.

SEGALL: We keep hearing we've never been more divided. We've never been more polarized. Was it the political climate that led to this awakening?

ZUCKERBERG: I think it's really this feeling that simply connecting the world is not enough by itself. That you also have to work and do proactive

work to help bring people closer together. You need to give people a voice so we can get a diversity of opinions out there. But you also need to do

work to help build enough common ground so that way we can make progress as a society together. Where you want to help people stay connected with the

people they know and care about. But you also want to make it so people get access to new perspectives, too.

So, we're going to keep on doing everything we were doing before. To connect friends and family and to help people share. But now we also want

to help people build communities. And other ways that they can connect and help people bond and come together and spread tolerance and a lot of the

values that I think we all want to see in the world.

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LU STOUT: And we will have more on Zuckerberg's plan to build communities on Facebook. Stay tuned for part two of CNN's exclusive interview in just

over 10 minutes from now.

Now just ahead right here on the program, officials in Moscow are talking about building thousands of new apartments, but homeowners are talking

protest. Ivan Watson has been talking to everyone to get the full story coming up.

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[08:32:05] LU STOUT: Homeowners in Moscow are fighting to stay put. They are protesting the mayor's plans to demolish and replace thousands of

apartment blocs. More than a million people are to be affected. And even though they'll be getting new places to live, some say that they are on the

losing end of the deal.

Ivan Watson went to ask why.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They say home is where the heart is. For Olga Navistkaya, home is this two bedroom Moscow

apartment with its cozy kitchen. She bought the place in 1998 and raised her daughter here.

OLGA NAVISTKAYA, MOSCOW APARTMENT OWNER: I'm very happy here.

WATSON: But all the fears her days may be numbered. The Moscow city government wants to demolish her apartment building. Offering her a new

home in this high rise, it's still under construction and some of the tiles have already fallen off. Olga does not want to give up her home.

NAVISTKAYA: My rights are still my rights, my sleep is still my sleep and they have the right to have my voice listen too.

WATSON: Olga lives in what Russian called "Khrushchevki" identical concrete apartment buildings that sprouted across the Soviet Union during the reign

of Nikita Khrushchev. This fulfillment of the Soviet dream celebrated in the 1962 film where a couple sings about the joy of a new apartment. A half

century later the mayor of Moscow is planning to demolish more than 4,000 buildings like this as part of one of the largest urban resettlement

program in modern history. Pledging to give some 1.6 million Muscovites homes in more modern buildings. Some Moscow residences are delighted to

kiss their crumbling Khrushchevki goodbye.

TATIANA BOWMAN, APARTMENT OWNER: We are tired to live here it's a terrible condition. We live in a terrible condition here and we would like them to

leave the house. So soon as possible.

WATSON: But the resettlement program has also sparked protest. Thousands of opponents have taken to the streets, many of them think real estate

developers will be the winners and they'll be the losers.

The government says they want to give people better housing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't believe it's not true.

WATSON: Among the participants at a recent protest Olga Navistkaya waiving handmade sign.

NAVISTKAYA: We should understand that we have come for the, that we have everything -

WATSON: She's one of many Russians determined to show the government that a home is something worth fighting for.

Ivan Watson CNN, Moscow.

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LU STOUT: Now, a close friend and confidante of South Korea's ousted president has been sentenced to three years in prison. Choi Soon-sil was

found guilty of obstruction of duty. She allegedly used her ties with then-President Park Geun-hye to get her daughter admitted to a university

in Seoul.

Now, she was a key figure in the corruption scandal that led to Park's downfall. Mass protests erupted after it was revealed that Park shared

secret government information with Choi.

You're watching News Stream. And up next, Facebook has been accused of fueling divisions, but as you heard a bit earlier in the program, Mark

Zuckerberg apparently has a plan to tackle that. We've got part two of our exclusive interview with the CEO of Facebook.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, we heard from Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg a little while ago talking about Facebook's new mission to build communities. Now, in part

two of this exclusive interview, Zuckerberg tells our Laurie Segall why he thinks Facebook's new mission is so important.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ZUCKERBERG: People are connecting over something that they have in common. If you want to engage on issues that you disagree on, right -- so things

that society is divided on, the first thing that you need to do is connect over your common humanity, right? And that could be something as simple as,

you know, we both have families or we both like a T.V. show together. So bringing people together and creating these communities is, I think, a lot

of what we can do help create more civil and productive debate on some of the bigger issues as well.

SEGALL: What have you had to learn from the spread of misinformation, or what have you learned to make sure that people can really connect?

ZUCKERBERG: Yes. I mean, the biggest thing that I've learned as I've traveled around is that great communities have great leaders who are

engaged and who just feel an ownership of taking care of the people in their groups. So, one of the things that I think that we can do is just

empower leaders and all these folks who want to start communities around the world to do this.

SEGALL: You've spent a good amount of time traveling around the country, sitting at the dinner table with folks in Ohio, Indiana, going to

factories. Are we as divided as it seems?

ZUCKERBERG: On some political issues I think we are. But on more things than are usually covered, we are not. I mean, people have a lot of the

same interests, right. I mean, a lot of people like the same sports teams, and bond over the same things in their neighborhoods. We all kind of want

the same things for our families and the people that we care about.

And one of the things that has been really inspiring to me as I've gone around is I've seen people who, you know, I might disagree with on

different things, but you really come away with this feeling that people genuinely do care about helping and caring for other people.

And, you know, that just gives me a lot of faith.

SEGALL: Facebook is is nearing 2 billion users, so how do you ensure for the next billion users that Facebook is a good place for democracy?

ZUCKERBERG: We want to give every one in the world a voice to express what matters to them, right, and help bring people together to be able to solve

important challenges.

One of the big things that I think that we need to do is just help connect the half of the world that's not on the internet to the internet. I mean,

that sounds like a very basic thing, and you and I probably take that for granted, because we've had the internet for awhile, but you know for a lot

of people and a lot of parts of the world, just having access to share your opinion or send a message to your partner, or your friend or learn what the

prices are for products at the market, look up basic jobs. I mean, those are important things that a lot of people don't have an equal opportunity

and access to do.

So, there are a lot of things that we can do to solve this. At Facebook, we're building technology, like solar powered planes to beam down internet

access to places that might be remote islands or in the middle of a rain forest. We're working on new business models with operators to do this.

But this remains one of the things that I'm most excited about for the next decade and beyond is just unlocking access to the internet for the next

three or four billion people. And I think if we can do that, all these folks who today don't have the tools to, you know, start business or create

new tools, they'll now be able to make our lives better, too. And that's going to be a very powerful thing.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And while Zuckerberg says his new Facebook groups can help foster unity, there are concerns that hate groups could also thrive in such

groups. Now Zuckerberg says Facebook is using artificial intelligence to identify users trying to engage in terrorist recruiting, but he doesn't

want Facebook to be in the business of policing content.

That is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Alex Thomas is next.

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