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Shattered by mere allegations. The white house defending trumps comments today. Take a listen. Ive seen that when the president is saying, talking about due process, hes right in this way. We are a country of laws. There is due process. Thats absolutely correct. But we as individuals have a duty to assess every everybody on a casebycase basis. And in this case, you have contemporaneous police reports, you have women speaking to the fbi under the threat of perjury, you have police reports, you have photographs. And when you look at all of that pulled together, you realize that rob porter did the right thing by resigning. It sounds like you believe the women . I have no reason not to believe the women. Theres plenty of people in the last couple of years, chuck, who theres been a rather of Sexual Harassment allegations, including your own network, which you later come back and say, we could have things done better. I think what you saw the president go through this week, i dont know if you played the video of the speech that he made or comment he made, hes extraordinarily saddened by this. Hes been let down by somebody who he trusted. Somebody who he put in a place of authority. And then wasnt told the truth. I think that saddened the president. I think you saw that this week. Cnns ryan nobles is at the white house now. So, ryan, what are you hearing there . Reporter well, essentially, sunday has been spent by the white house and this administration, fred, trying to clarify and clean up the mess thats been left behind by these accusations against two staffers of Domestic Violence in their past. And then the white houses slow response to deal with thosesations. And redplpeatedly today, White House Administration officials were questioned on sunday talk shows about the way this white house went about learning of these allegations and then how they responded to them when they did find out about those allegations. And among them was mick mulvaney, the budget director. He was on cbs face the nation this morning. And he attempted to explain the white house response. Take a listen. Why shouldnt women reasonably wonder if this white house doesnt have a lax attitude when it comes to the question of Domestic Abuse . I dont think we have a lax attitude. I think what you saw happen this week, major, was completely reasonable and normal. The president had reasonable and normal . Let me explain that. The president had someone working for him who came to him and said, look, ive been accused of this, ive been falsely accused of it, please dont believe it, its not true. If your cameraman came to you and said to you, you would probably give that person the benefit of the doubt, or at least you would want to do that, because you know that person and trust that person. Thats what the president did. In other words, rob porter achieved the chief of staff and the president of the United States . I think that under the circumstances, he wasnt entirely forthcoming with him and i think the photographs took everybody by surprise. And what the budget director is leaving out there, though, is the long, lengthy investigation by the fbi into rob porter for the benefit of declaring him able to have a security clearance. And it was during that investigation that we know these accusations of Domestic Violence were brought up. And that on multiple occasions, there were members of the white house staff who were told about these accusations. And even though porter did repeatedly deny them, it appears that in some way, shape, or form, these highlevel administrators just chose to ignore that piece of evidence. So, now, theyre playing cleanup, fred. Both porter and David Sorensen are out of their jobs, but its clear that this controversy will continue for the white house. Fred . All right, ryan nobles at the white house. Thank you so much. Earlier i spoke with democratic congressman adam smith and i asked him about a letter from democratic senators, demanding the white house give a timeline of who knew what and when about the abuse allegations. I think theres two troubling aspects of this. One is, yes, we do need to know when they knew what the situation was with mr. Porter. And i think, you know, Kellyanne Conway actually described it quite well. Given that mountain of evidence, the second they had that mountain of evidence, he should have been gone. So when did they have it . And did they pursue it . Now, my understanding is that chief of staff john kelly knew about this a while back, but he says he didnt know the totality of it. But i would think that the second you had an inkling of this, you would have inquired a about the totality of it. So one, the timing does matter. But second, far, far more troubling is what President Trump has said about it. If he had said what Kellyanne Conway said on your show this morning, that would have been much more appropriate. Instead, he basically made it sound like porter, you know, it wasnt his fault, you know . Just a mere allegation, gets thrown out. And that is just the wrong attitude to take towards Domestic Violence and abuse. You know, period. But given whats been going on with the me too movement and Everything Else in the last six months, it is beyond tone deaf for the president to react the way he did. Can you have it both ways . If Kellyanne Conway would say, she believes the women, the president hasnt acknowledged the womens versions of events, two very differing messages coming from two people working in the white house, but, of course, its the president of the United States who is leading the white house. And you made the point. Its not two people working in the white house. Its one person working in the white house and one person whos actually in charge. And what the president says matters more than anything, than any other people who work for him says. And as has happened far too often in cases like this, the president is saying the wrong thing. I think its very inappropriate that he is, you know, essentially defended porter and said nothing about the victims. Look, the president is supposed to be, at least in part, a moral leader for our country. People look up to him. His voice matters. And what President Trump said on this subject is, i think, harmful to the overall effort to stop this type of abuse in the work plaus aplace and elsewhere. And congressman, as a staff secretary, rob porter was responsible for managing much of the information that ended up on the president s desk. Some of it top secret information. And yet he did not have full security clearance, just interim security clearance. There may be 30 to 40 others in the white house, reportedly, who have not received full clearance yet. So how worried or concerned are you about that . I think its a big problem. And as you mentioned, hes porter is far from the only one whos in this situation. And the reason this is a concern is, well, why dont they have security clearance . And are they, therefore, open to influence . And a lot of it, certainly i suspect in the case of jared kushner, is because of his business ties overseas with russia, with china, with other countries, with sovereign states that would very much be interested in influencing the u. S. Or gathering information. So if they dont have full clearance at this point, you do have to become worried about whether or not theyre compromised by foreign powers. And frankly, they really shouldnt be there. So what does the future hold for the chief of staff . Listening to close members of President Trumps inner circle, john kelly isnt going anywhere. I spoke to the president last night. I told him i would be with you today. And he said, please tell jake that i have full faith in chief of staff john kelly and that im not actively searching for replacements. He said, i saw that all over the news today. I have faith in him. And he does. You know, we all serve at the pleasure of the president. And it is a privilege and a blessing and nothing short of it to be there every single day to serve the country that we all love. And anybody who doesnt feel that way really shouldnt be there. Ill just say this, but he says that general kelly is doing a great job and that he has full faith in him. And he looks at the i think he looks at the full measure of all of us. All right, joining me now, cnn commentators Bakari Sellers and John Phillips and Washington Bureau chief for the chicago suntimes, lynn sweet. Good to see you all. All right, so, john, you first. You know, Kellyanne Conway says the president has full faith and full confidence in john kelly. Given last weakeks revelations should he . Well, thats a pretty intense sevendayaweek job, so i think in the best of circumstances anyone in that position would have the life span of a shirt from h m. He was brought in to provide organizational structure, to provide stability in the white house. Hes done a pretty good job at that. Clearly this guy was a problem that they trusted and they trusted probably when they shouldnt have. And if theres anything that weve learned from this me too movement, its that people can be very good at their jobs and still be horrible human beings. And you cant always but should the chief of staff have reacted differently if he learned in november about these allegations . Should he have reacted and acted differently . Should he have informed the president of the United States that the that there are two very strong, you know, allegations coming from his exwives . Well, i guess now that steve bannon is gone, we dont have someone leaking the details every 20 seconds, so we dont know exactly what the fbi told him. But, clearly, bracased on the evidence that weve seen, that Kellyanne Conway cited, the photos that weve seen, this guy was an abuser and a problem and should have been fired, was fired. Im happy that hes gone. And i hope theres now a Better Process in place for the future to streamline these things, so that guys like that dont stick around. All right. So still unclear the exact timeline of events. But bakari, a new report in axios says rob porter never represented anything that was his quote never represented anything about the abuse allegations to the chief of staff and that white house officials encouraged porter to stay, im quoting now, to stay and fight. So if that is, indeed, the case, what does that say . That the white house wants to keep someone because, you know, he is good on the job, but willing to ignore these allegations . Well, there are two problems here. The first is john kelly. And i know that he was supposed to bring some calm to the white house. And even some calm since to the white house. But lets think about it, even this year alone, you had steve bannon, the 130,000 to the importaporn star, you had fire and fury, the list goes on and on and on. You had the memo and the shutdown. So all of these things, the pure chaos that engulfs this white house every single week. And the problem with rob porter is that rob porter, he actually was the person who had the most sensitive documents that we have in the United States government, handing them to the president every single morning. And he didnt even have a security clearance. Not only that, but from a National Security perspective, he was someone glaringly so, that was susceptible to bribery or blackmail if anyone found out about these instances. Thats a problem. And number two, the president s response to this is just abhorrent. It makes no sense that you can sit here in front of a camera and tell people that you wish this person well, you wish them a great future. And to contrast that, you look at someone who takes a knee in front of a flag, theyre called a son of a bitch, but this person who puts his hands on women, you wish him well and have nothing but glowing praise about him. Thats the problem that this white house is having, not just with staff, but with messaging. And to sum this all up, its just a mess. Lynn, there is a very strong oped in time. Com. Rob porters exwife, jennie willough willoughby, her response to what the president has said in front of the camera on friday as well as his tweets. And, you know, she has some strong messages, talking about, saying, you know, how she felt when she watched the president on friday. She said, i cant say im surprised, but when donald trump repeated twice that rob declared his innocence, i was floored. What was his intent in everyone sid sizing that point . My friend turned to me and said, the president of the United States just called you a liar. Is that the message that people are grasping from the way in which the president has handled this . Perhaps not, because she has been a very effective communicator and her own testimony has been very impressive and her own credibility as a witness, to what happened to her seems to be unimpeached, because she is calmly told her story and she told it to others in realtime. But what this shows is, i know theres been talk about how the press shop and the white house handled this, didnt handle it. I am an advocate of getting a factbased timeline out. But, fred, the reason this has cascaded and created even more problems is President Trump himself. When he said what he said on friday, he did not have to do it. That he wanted to go he invited them in. Yes, he did not have to. He could have even have said, mr. Porter served the white house well. Okay, he could have said he wished him best. But once you go into the territory of impugning the character of the woman, it just in a sense, for a man, for a president who in a tweet complained about due process, he certainly stuck his two cents worth in in the situation that he did not know about, okay . So, i mean, the enormity of what he did, i applaud what she wrote, because she pointed out so many things in that essay that trump denied her own due process, her own ability to tell her story, that is credible, factbased, and coupled with the other woman, the other wife, and a picture. So this is the enormity of why what President Trump doesnt understand, that his own actions are now creating another story line next to the rob porter departure and how that was handled. And if he thinks thats going to cause more attention on infrastructure week coming up in the next few weeks, hays got another thing to reckon with. So the overall handling of the allegations, the incomplete, you know, security clearance, overall general competence, even about how the chief of staff is managing all of this and steering the president. Former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie actually had these comments to say about that. I think in the end, weve got to hear from john kelly has to what he knew. And we havent heard that directly from him yet. And i think the president needs to hear that before he can make an evaluation of competence. In the end, george, this is about competence, and you have to as the chief of staff be able to competently run the place. If theres allegations against that, the president will have to make that call. So bakari, what kind of call do you expect the president might make on whether john kelly stays or goes . Nobody pushes baby into a corner, right . Nobody pushes donald trump into a corner. This is when he just he treats everything like a pr crisis. Thats it. He doesnt understand that he has a cultural problem in the white house. So whats going to happen, when we push against john kelly, when we push against donald trump, when we simply want them to recognize that they made a mistake, that they have awful human beings who have worked in the white house. Youve had not one but two people who have been accused and resigned because of Domestic Violence. All hes going to do is close ranks and put his back up against the wall and say, look, im going to keep everybody around me, nothings going to happen, and were going to fight back. Thats what we know donald trump to be, even if he is wrong as sin, hes going to continue to fight. John . Kudos to bakari, by the way, for the dirty dancing reference. I would expect kelly to have the full support of the president. Hes opinion effective at his job. He was the chief of staff that helped push the tax bill through. Theyre certainly moving on infrastructure coming up in the next week. Immigration is also something thats on the horizon. You need someone competent, you need someone in that office as the chief of staff who can keep the troops in line. I dont think hes going anywhere. And lynn, you do believe all of this is going to impact the agenda, including infrastructure or even immigration . Its all a distraction. And all this boils down to, the person who creates the biggest threat to implementing the trump agenda often is President Trump. He you know, maybe this could have gotten attention on some of the substance that the white house wants to talk about, if trump hadnt created, you know, through his availability, when he talked about the wives and on his own tweet storm. So if you want to talk about substance and agenda, talk about it. Now, if chief of staff kelly can do that, im not saying his time is up there. But what i do see in my analysis is that his credibility has taken a big dent in these past few days. All right, lynn sweet, John Phillips, Bakari Sellers, thanks so much. Good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, coming up, more than 70 People Killed after russian passenger jet crashes near moscow. Investigators now piecing together exactly what brought down that plane. Well take you live to the crash, next. Your heart doesnt only belong to you. Bye grandpa. And if you have Heart Failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital compared to a leading Heart Failure medicine. Dont take entresto if pregnant. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. 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Recovery efforts are in your own wordway right now at the site of a plane crash in moscow. And we are learning there are no survivors. The passenger jet disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from moscows airport, headed for southern russia. There were 65 passengers and six crew members onboard. At least one of the planes black boxes has been found in the area where the plane went down. Russian president Vladimir Putin has sent out condolences to families and the victims and promised an investigation. Nor International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen is at the crash site. So, fred, even though its very early on in the investigation, are there any indications of what brought it down . Reporter so far the russians say theyre still looking for indications of what brought it down. The plane is an antonov 148, a commercial airliner thats not really flown very much outside of russia and former soviet union countries, but its also a fairly new aircraft. It was only seven years old, and that aircraft model has only been flying since 2009. The age of the plane, certainly, investigators dont believe is necessarily a factor. They say that right now, theyre looking on the one hand possible mechanical failure and laooking at possible pilot error. Theyre also not ruling out the factor that the weather might have been a factor. This morning in moscow, there were some pretty heavy snowstorms going over the area, certainly caused some disruption in flights anyway. Thats one of the things that the investigators are looking at. But as you say, it is still very early in the investigation. One of the bright spots has been that they discovered that flight data recorder, where they hope to get some new information from that, as well. Pretty difficult work for the recovery rcrews. Im right here at the scene. They have a lot of specialized equipment and theyre having to move a lot of snow out of the area, as well. Because it was that big snowstorm going on. And obviously, very difficult for the rescue crews to work in that field. But they say that they are trying and they want to find out what happened to that plane, as fast as possible, fredricka. All right, Fred Pleitgen, thank you so much. All right, straight ahead, evangelical leaders are asking the president to take action on immigration. Well speak with one of the former members of trumps evangelical Advisory Board about what might get done. With its historical ance records. Test. You could learn youre from ireland. Donegal, ireland. And your ancestor was a fisherman. With blue eyes. Just like you. Begin your journey at ancestry. Com if yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. Ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. 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He can go into a rage and enter the Nuclear Launch codes. How bad does it have to get before congress does something . At holiday inn express, we cant guarantee that youll be able to contain yourself at our breakfast bar. Morning, egg white omelet. Sup lady bacon fruit, there it is but we can guarantee that youll get the best price when you book with us. Holiday inn express. Be the readiest. Welcome back. Lets take a look at our top stories right now. A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the grand canyon, killing three people. You can see the helicopter on fire there. Four survivors were rescued from the remote scene. The ntsb is investigating the crash. Police in ohio have just identified the suspect in the deaths of two of its officers. The suspect, quenton lamar smith, officers Anthony Morelli and eric joering were responding to a Domestic Violence dispute 911 call in the city of westerville outside of columbus. Authorities say they were immediately shot as they entered the apartment. The police chief said the officers were two of the departments best. And teenage slopestyle snowboard eer red gerard pulled off a gold medal. Despite crashing in the two earlier runs, the 17yearold really carried out a spectacular final effort that no one could match, making him the youngest american, by the way, male, to win an olympic gold medal since 1928. All right, immigration is the big issue on the floor of the senate this week and now evangelical leaders are urging President Trump to help immigrants. They posted a fullpage ad in the Washington Post and specifically mentioned the future of dreamers. Could immigration be the Tipping Point issue for a loyal trump base . Cnns sara sidner takes us to a Christian Church gathering where immigration is on many worshippers minds. Reporter both are of mexican heritage. They came together in San Bernardino to take part in a religious gathering normally held in guadalajara. But for the first time ever, the light of the world church has brought it to the u. S. Faith has brought these two together, but some of their political views couldnt be further apart. Is donald trump a good president in your view . I believe he is. I believe he is. I believe donald trump is actually trying to improve this great country. I believe that hes doing everything that he can to improve our immigration laws. Reporter from immigration to job creation, for felix, mr. Trumps presidency has inspired hope. For lopez, its invoked a totally different feeling. Fear. When President Trump came in and he started saying all these Different Things about immigration, there was a fear, all over the United States. Reporter from the president s words to the wall, both saying the rhetoric has energized them. The wall will be a great help. And it will happen. Believe me. Reporter are you in agreement with a wall going up on the border . I mean, personally reporter as a priority . I feel, if we look at it economically, i dont think its the best investment. Its definitely going to cost us a lot of taxes, thats for sure. Reporter felix says there is absolutely a need for a fence or wall. He wants the wall. I, personally, have lived you know, living in arizona, i have seen and worked at Border Patrol stations out in remote areas. There is no protection. All they have are the spikes that prevent vehicles from driving through. Reporter but felix and lopez can agree on a few things, such as their reaction to the white house chief of staffs comments about dreamers failing to sign up for daca. The difference between 690 and 1. 8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didnt sign up. What do you think about what he said . What i think is that, you know, honestly, thats just very rude to be saying and demonizing people like that. I believe that comment was wrong on the part of chief of staff john kelly. You know, he shouldnt have made that comment. Reporter and when it comes to dreamers, they like more than 80 of americans polled are in support of allowing dreamers to stay in the u. S. You know, we have our political disagreements, but one thing that weve been taught is to love one another. Reporter sara sidner, cnn, San Bernardino. All right, joining me right now to discuss all of this, passtor ahar bernard, on the table this week, evangelical leaders pushing President Trump to take action. Good to see you. Do you believe this is a turning point, potentially, this week . A turning point . I dont know about that, fredricfred r reeka. Weve had so many turning points over the last 18 months of the campaign and while he was in office. I think only one thing influences the president and that is political expediency. And when it comes to daca, i hope, because once i found out about the letter, i signed on to be a part of it. And it is my hope that somehow, you know, hell understand the importance of this going forward. You know, especially around these evangelicals, who are trying to support it. Evangelicals are not monolithic, by the way. Theyre all over the political and social spectrum. And as they gather to push something forward, they have to be very careful that theyre not compromising their moral authority, and in the process, befriending this kind of president. The president has said he wants to tackle immigration, do something about daca, he wants to do something for dreamers. Weve heard that from him in a variety of ways. Am i hearing from you that you dont believe him . I cant help but be skeptical, because the reason i got onboard with the Advisory Council is because he said he wanted to do something about religious freedom, which he has done in terms of signing that executive order. But he also said about an inner city initiative. And these are the things that compelled me to be a part of it. But i didnt see any of that develop. So im skeptical. Usually the office of the presidency also means that the president is a leader of morality, for this country. And that is being applied here on the issue of immigration. Were also seeing his leadership and the issues of morality as it pertains to these recent, you know, stepping down of two staffers on the issue of Domestic Abuse. How would you grade this president on the issues of morality . I think im giving him a failing grade. And problematic to that is the evangelical community. Because in 2011, there was a poll done by the brookings, and in 2011, 64 of white evangelicals believe that immoral personal act disqualified a political candidate. Five years later, 2016, that number dropped to 49 . But this president won a lot of support from the evangelical community. Yeah but what theyre allowing, the mulligan, what theyre allowing, the past, it means that they are lowering their standard. Ironically, on the other side of that, a poll for those who are unaffiliated to any religion, they poll 63 , all right, in 2011 and in 2016. They went down to 60 . Just a 3 drop. So what is it . Are those who are religiously unaffiliated more moral and have a higher moral standard than we who supposedly present morality . So you were on trumps evangelical Advisory Board . What was the lure on being on that board and what happened that you have since left it . You know, i want to believe that you can make a difference. That having a seat at the table, you have a voice, you can help to shape policy. But, unfortunately, again, this president doesnt seem to take advice unless it is birthed out of political expediency. So i had to make a decision. And with charlottesville, of course, he didnt represent a core of values that could quickly make a decision on a moral basis. Soy h so i had to pull away and let go. Because i didnt want it to be identified with whatever the bottom is going to be. And i dont think weve hit bottom with this president yet. Did you tangle with the idea of how potentially helpful or useful your role could be that as an adviser, that you could bring your ideas and thoughts to the table, even if you felt that it wasnt necessarily in agreement with the president , that perhaps that could be influential by being at the table, being in the room . I was willing to sacrifice the reality that there would be disagreements across the board. But i was willing to do that, believing that there would be a discussion, a conversation, and movement with regard to specifically his inner city initiative. I havent seen anything materialize. And were with what, 18 months beyond a campaign and the firstyear presidency. I havent seen anything happen. You dont sound very hopeful . Im a man of faith, so im believing the best, but this president makes it difficult to do so. Pastor a. R. Bernard, thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Coming up, the very people responsible for theglued to evee now trying to get us unhooked . Hear why, next. People would stare. Psoriasis does that. It was tough getting out there on stage. I wanted to be clear. I wanted it to last. So i kept on fighting. I found something that worked. And keeps on working. Now . They see me. See me. See if cosentyx could make a difference for you cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Find clear skin that can last. 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And now a group of former tech employees are teaming up to battle the negative consequences of the social media platforms that they helped create. Joining me now to explain all of this is laurie segall, cnns senior tech correspondent. Okay, laurie, what is this all about . This is a Huge Movement happening. You go behind closed doors in Silicon Valley, a lot of folks are sitting there saying, what did we do . So theyre trying to come up with a solution. You have former google and apple employees, facebook employees, the guy who created the like button is involved in this and theyve created the center for humane technology. So what theyre trying to do is actually raise awareness, theyre creating an ad campaign, the truth about tech. Theyre going to work with Tech Companies, go in and try to have ethical designs. Teach Tech Companies how to actually create products that dont necessarily addict us. Well see if that happens. I know win spoke to tristane harris whos leading the movement, a former google employee and asked him why Silicon Valley is talking about this now. People are realizing that technology is a political actor. Its one of the largest and perhaps the largest cultural force in the world. Because 1. 5 billion people use youtube. Thats about the number of followers of islam. These products are completely unaccountable to human interests. People in the Tech Industry know all of this is happening now. So its now just a matter about getting honest of how we fix it. What do you tell parents who dont exactly know how much screen time their child should have, who worry their kids are addicted. What do you tell parents who are asking that . I think some simple things like right now if youre listening to this, if youre a parent, turn off all notifications on your phones or your kids phones except when a human being wants your attention. Thats one change you could make. And another one is another one is turning your phone to gray scale. Make your phone gray, it takes out all those like slot machine rewards. Its more like a tool and less like an addictive substance. Do you think we can put the genie back inside the bottle . I dont think its about putting it back in the bile, but redesigning the genie. Every time you open up that Blue Facebook icon, you just activated a super computer thats going to play chess against your mind to figure out whats the perfect thing i can show you . And its only Getting Better and better and better at doing that. And when you realize youre bringing a knife, like millionyear of evolutionary hardware up to bat against a super computer, youre going to lose. Pretty strong words. I dont think, fred, that people sometimes know what theyre up against. Every product the colors, the words you see, they were all designed by engineers who want you to pick up your phone. Its called growth engineering. This is something theyre great at. So i think its great that were having the conversation. But its a hard conversation to have. Oh, it is i mean, its a there are multiple industries that have sprouted as a result, right . So youre plugged into a lot of tech people, Silicon Valley, what are people behind closed doors really saying about this . And perhaps even admitting about their own problems, addictions . You know what is so funny to me, ill talk to someone like, i just got back from a Digital Detox roadway treetreat. My kids were all going away from tech. The founder of twitter just came back from a meditation retreat. A lot of them are sending their children to schools without tech. Thats not going to solve the problem that we all have. Thats why we have to have this conversation. You know, you have the center for humane technology, something theyre going to be looking at is potential regulation. There are going to be these ad campaigns that we see all over, talking about the dangers of addiction to technology. So i think its going to have to be a cultural force. Oh, my gosh, so, do you think that eventually it could lead to even legislation . I mean, or is this strictly corporations taking personal responsibility km . Well, its interesting, you want them to take the responsibility. Theres a business incentive to get you to pick up your phone as much as possible. You would have to fundamentally change the model that facebook goes off when it comes to advertising to because were in this attention economy, which eyeballs translate to money. You want them to do this. And they want to do this, to a degree. But what are the investors going to say . Many of these companies are public companies. So you have folks in washington paying attention. I think this last year, what happened with the election and the weaponization of facebook, to upset democracy, you have people in washington paying attention and putting pressure on these Tech Companies. So well see. Stay tuned. Oh, my gosh, getting unhooked. Thats going to be tough for everybody. Myself included. Laurie segall, good to see you. You too. Thank you so much. Well be right back. They appear out of nowhere. My secret visitors. Hallucinations and delusions. The unknown parts of living with parkinsons. What plots they unfold, but only in my mind. Over 50 of people with parkinsons will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. If your loved one is experiencing these symptoms, talk to your parkinsons specialist. There are Treatment Options that can help. My visitors should be the ones i want to see. My visitors should be the ones a heart transplant. Thats a whole different ballgame. I was in shock. 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