For quite some time. The girls and sister followed behind, joined in on the embrace. A surprise. They posted a video to facebook saying we only have him for a few weeks but we are really excited. Home on leave. I could play those all day. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Heres martha. Martha it making me misty at the start of my show. Thank you so much. Breaking tonight, on the heels of the leaked Michael Cohen tape President Trump called A Hastily Convened Press Conference in the rose garden saying this. The European Union is doing to us is incredible, how bad. They made 151 billion last year, our trade deficit. I said you have to change. They didnt want to change. I said we will tariff your cars. They said when can we show up . Would tomorrow be okay . Martha and tomorrow was. They showed up today and all of that happened during the grilling of secretary mike pompeo, democrats asking incredulously how the president could possibly meet along with blood and recruiting despite the fact that as rand paul pointed out, putin has met oneonone with the last three u. S. President s. Ben shapiro here on all of the days big headlines. We began with Trace Gallagher on the latest fallout from those Bombshell Michael recordings. Lets begin with what we kno know. The recorded conversation between then candidate donald trump and his attorney Michael Cohen is about buying the rights to the story of an alleged affair between trump and playboy model karen mcdougall. At the time the story belonged to American Media, which owns the National Enquirer. Here are the last nine secretary of the tape, listen closely. We normally put the words on the screen, but the tape is garbled and impossible to verb eight and thats the primary issue, exactly what did donald trump say . The white house and trump attorney Rudy Giuliani maintained mr. Trump said dont pay with cash. Michael cohens attorney lanny davis who gave the tape to cnn indicates that trump wanted to pay with cash. Davis even went on to say that only drug dealers and mobsters pay with cash, but the washington post, abc and nbc, not exactly trumploving media outlets, all agree the exact wording on the tape is unintelligible. Today the president tweeted what kind of lawyer would tape a client . So sad. Is this a first . Never heard of it before. Why was the tape so abruptly terminated, cut while i was prism will be saying positive things . I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are tapes can this be so . Too bad
suggesting the audio had been edited or doctored except the president suggested no such thing. He simply asked why the tape was abruptly terminated and there is a big difference between doctoring a tape and not playing the whole thing. After the president s question about why a lawyer would tape his client, lanny davis was asked about that on good morning america. Watch. Michael cohen has an answer to why he taped conversations and i think you will have to give that answer himself. I cant reveal that. But davis did reveal there are more tapes and they will apparently be released very soon and regardless of what was said on this tape, Harvard Law ProfessorAlan Dershowitz and the publication Law And Order both agree mr. Trump did nothing illegal and we should note the transaction to buy the playboy model story of American Media never happened. Martha. Martha fascinating, thank you very much. To talk about this and all of it really that happened this
afternoon, a head spinning day, ben shapiro, editor in chief of the daily wire. Joins me with a look at all of it. Good to see if any, thank you very much for being with us. I want to get to the trade issue, which i think was fascinating. A very hard pivot from the white house and a hastily convened News Conference as we just said. Very big news. I want to get to that in just a moment. Lets start with the tape from last night. Alan dershowitz, as trays just pointed out, said setting up a corporation for payment is fine, it happens all the time and he pointed out the payment was never actually made by judge napolitano said this morning that what they are discussing is a civil fraud and could be problematic for the president. How do you see it . The possibility of a Campaign Finance violation is really the serious question. Did President Trump hand cash to Michael Cohen to pay off the publishers of the National Enquirer to in ordeo help his campaign . That the basic question. There are a lot of dots to be connected. We dont know if the money did pass hands. How it past tense, we dont know, even if trump paid off the
National Enquirer whether it had to do with the election are not because thats really a matter of opinion. So as any of this really going to damage President Trump . I think not. I think its all baked into the cake. More than that i think its very difficult to criminally prosecute these types of cases. John edwards, the democratic president ial contender in 2008, a very similar issue. He was actually trite and there was a hung jury. The charges ended up falling apart and this is going to be the democrats hope it is, the kill shot with regards to the presidency. Martha here is a quick montage of some of the reaction to this news that Michael Cohen was flipping as they put it, watch. This is the president s he knows everything and if he flips, forget about it. Michael cohen has not flipped on donald trump. He could slip and be of value to the fence. Martha glee all across the board. What difference does it make in the end . A lot of wishful thinking. We will not know what Michael Cohen has until he actually shows what he has. I think at this point he
signaling to prosecutors that he has a lot simply because he would like to get off the hook and the only way they cut a deal with him as if he has a lot. Im not actually sure that he has very much. The fact that the president has probably paid off a number of these types of cases before it actually helps the president when it comes to the legal case. Martha in terms of what we saw this afternoon, because as i said there were sort of a rush this afternoon, a call for all of the reporters to come to the rose garden. They set up the two podiums, they were not expecting a pilot with the head of the e. U. , who looked mildly happy i guess to be there. But the president has said that they are giving us such a raw deal. Do you think it sounds like the president got a good deal here . It sounds like trade were averted. The best thing the economy can hope for is no trade war. It sounds like now like the europeans are making some relatively moderate to minor concessions in the United States is going to back off its weapons with regard to tariffs. Maybe the president wants to keep in place the steel tariffs and aluminum tariffs. Frankly i just dont know at this point until we actually see the formal wording of the details. And until we see that we will not know whether the president made a good deal here or a bad deal. It is pretty clear that the direction everybody wants to move is freetrade. That in and of itself is a good signal. Martha one of the things i find interesting is we have the globalists at the white house who were fretting so deeply over the potential for trade war, which i guess may still happen. We sort of me to see how all of this works out, but when you hear that the e. U. Is now going to be buying more soybeans, that obviously is a hope to keep the farmers happy in the United States, that there are going to be in escalations and auto tariffs, at least not right now. It seems like this is the way the president does everything. He lays down this huge marker, sort of scares everybody that hes going to be so dramatic with these tariffs that its going to cause a colossal trade war and now as he says he got the e. U. Saying we can come to the white house tomorrow actually and they will buy an
enormous amount of Liquefied Natural Gas, which is terrible news for russia. The fact is the most plausible possible rate of the president s behavior, its also possible he just has a lot of stuff about tariffs and the other guy gets scared and they make a deal. Whoever you want to give credit to cover the bottom line is once we find it within the deal hes either going to get full credit or full blame for whatever is happening. Martha in terms of russia, the meeting now moves to next year. At the earliest, and as i said, the moves on the missile front, Liquefied Natural Gas, all of this is not good news for russia. All of these things almost feeling somewhat like the president is really bending over backwards not to prove that he will not do anything that would look as if he is kowtowing to russia in any way. The fact is theres always been a disconnect between President Trump specific personal rhetoric and his administrations policy with regard to russia. On the president was very
complement rhea Vladimir Putin over the last week and a half and his administration continued various sanctions against the russians. They continue to provide deadly weaponry to the ukrainians. They said they will not recognize the russian seizure of crimea is legitimate. All of this suggests either that the president is sort of playing both sides and hes carrying he speaking loudly and then he is essentially doing the opposite in order to promulgate a particular policy or as the president says stuff in the it up for him. Either way the outcome is basically the same. Martha another topic i want to ask about is the story today about Shadow Banning and whether or not certain conservatives having their twitter feeds shadow band. This is an idea thats been around for a while but why dont you explain to everyone what it is and how it works. Shadow banning can be done a couple of different ways on twitter. One of the allegations is that if you tweet something it just doesnt show up in peoples fees. Because twitter has essentially downgraded the content that you are tweeting about. The other way that it shows up
if you go to search for somebodys account online and it doesnt automatically fill in the rest of the account at the top of the twitter search bar. Thats been well substantiated. Vice news says this is happening on a routine basis to a lot of folks on the right side of the aisle but almost never to people on the left side. People have the right to be suspicious about the twitter trends and how twitter operates its business. They are not transparent when it comes to their logarithms and because of that, because they sort of perceived bias is going to be exasperated eveni understand why you dont trust me. The only way they will do better is if they come fully clean with the American People on how they operate. Martha questions have been right about the head of the rnc, donald trump jr. Sara carter the reporter suggesting today that some of what she was standing out there was not being seen and if this is true, its so surreptitious. The idea that you could be tweeting something in thinking or putting it out there but they
are blocking it so that you dont know that its not out there, but no one is seeing it, so they are trying to basically quench your voice over time and beat you down so that nobody is seeing what you are putting out there anymore and then they end up they dont listen to you anymore ultimately. This is one of the Serious Problems with social media generally, that theres no transparency. Sometimes they will change the access and will notify you. They say we have downgraded particular content, youre just dont see it anymore. Martha ben shapiro, always good to see you, thank you very much, have a good night. Fox news alert just moments ago, articles of impeachment have now been filed against deputy ag Rod Rosenstein. Jason chaffetz joins me with the breaking news and where this goes from here and how quickly. Also tonight, Secretary Of State pompeo grilled on why the president would risk oneonone time with Vladimir Putin. Do they ask the same of president obama or president bush . Who brought food and for a visit . Why the Double Standard . General jack keane live here next. Let your perfect drive come together at the Lincoln Summer Invitation sales event. Get 0 apr on select 2018 lincoln models plus 1,000 bonus cash. With advil liquigels, what bad shoulder . What headache . Advil is relief thats fast strength that lasts youll ask. What pain . With advil liquigels
near hemet california. It has prompted mandatory evacuations. Began around noon. Already has spread 200 acres. So far no injuries or deaths have been reported. We will keep on top of that situation. We will view updates as we get them. In the meantime, Secretary Of State mike pompeo on capitol hill today. He was there to find out what happened in helsinki. That was what the members of congress wanted to know and heres what it looked like if you missed it. Is there a strategy to this . What is it that causes the president to purposely, purposely create distrust in these institutions and what we are doing . To the president tell you that he discussed relaxing russian sanctions are not . Senator, i am telling you what he had a conversation with Vladimir Putin about and im telling you what u. S. Policy is today. I understand the game that you are playing. Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, i dont appreciate you characterizing my questions. I am afraid that at this point the United States, the Trump Administration is being taken for a ride. Fear not, senator. We have not been taken for a ride. I hope you can sleep a little better. Martha general Jack Keane Fox news senior strategic analyst, good to have you here as always. They really pressed him on this issue. They are convinced that something secretive happened in those two hours in the meeting with Vladimir Putin but as rand paul pointed out, the last three president s have had extensive oneonone meetings with Vladimir Putin and i dont remember this kind of outrage. I think it comes down to the democrats just dont trust the president. Within his right to have oneonone meetings. I think its his personal style. He wants to establish a personal relationship to lead to another meeting and also maybe get
something done. Just think of our adversaries, china, north korea and russia. He has praised all three of those leaders even though we have fundamental disagreements. He wants the personal relationship so maybe we can make some improvements on the fundamental disagreements. In some cases it will work, in some cases it wont. But we are not going to change it, thats his style. Martha you have to wonder if it put him in a more difficult position, that News Conference. That was always sought, the News Conference, because now hes saying that the meeting is going to be delayed, it wont happen until after the witch hunt, as he put it, that could be for some time. And destroy deal today is a real finger in the eye for russia with his Liquefied Natural Gas deal with the eq because their whole economy is based on energ energy. The press conference, they have to decide one of the outcomes we want to hear and what is the tone of the summit going to be an they just didnt prepare for that the way they prepared for the summit. But when you line up all the
things that this administration has done against russia, we havent had a president stood up to russia except to this degree comparable to ronald reagan. And to include the Reagan Defense buildup and the Trump Defense buildup. Martha there were questions about crimea and secretary pompeo really laid out very clearly what our policy is on crimea, if there was any vagueness that was left open. I think they had to clear up the fact that the president more than once had said when so many asked him a question about crimea, he would say it didnt happen on my watch, it wouldnt have happened if i was president. People i think you misinterpreted that. That we would conceded. A formal declaration that we are not going to do that. And pompeos and we will agree to disagree with them on ukraine. But there have been some positive things that came out. Admittedly they are not major, major agreements. Business exchanges, work on
counterterrorism together, work on humanitarian issues inside syria and try to reduce the violence. Those are not real concrete policies that will have farreaching impacts, but nonetheless there is some agreement and they didnt get any place on the new start treaty, which expires in 21 and also the fact that russia is violating intermediate Nuclear Force treaty, the inf treaty and we intend to violate it ourselves because they developed capability that is not permitte permitted. Martha is no doubt that secretary pompeo stood his ground and said that the president knows exactly what hes talking about. He said are brief and myself so i know he understands whats going on with all of this because there was the attitude on the part of some of those members of congress that they were just bewildered and couldnt figure out what had been going on there. But i do want to ask you one other thing about this comment by maguire, who talked about something that we dont hear all that much about right now, but maybe we need to pay more attention to, lets watch. More threats originating from more places and more individuals and we have had in the last 17 years. Bullets and drone strikes alone are not sufficient to counter extremist organizations. To ultimately win this fight we must address the causes and conditions that inspire Men And Women to join Terrorist Organizations of radicalized violence. Martha it looks like there has been a quiet on that front in some ways, is that inaccurate . There has been a quiet but isis did expand into 30 other affiliates around the world. Despite killing Osama Bin Laden and the Previous Administration claiming al qaeda is somewhat dead. They are Thriving Organization and the most significant is the organization in syria and the other one is in yemen. And the reason why its kind of quiet, we have finally penetrated into the virtual caliphate, particularly that
isis has. We took the physical caliphate not totally away but mostly away. We have made some Real Progress and a lot of our media folks, social media folks have taken down Tens Of Thousands of sites that they have an they have been cooperating with us. We have also learned a lot through the years dealing with isis because they were so sophisticated in how they use the internet. They recruited from four to 500 people, 30,000 plus in 18 months, largely on the internet. Its absolutely stunning. Martha its really encouraging to hear that you feel like we are battling that front well because that is their beacon and their way to reach people, so thats encouraging. The admiral is right, we cant shoot our way out of this. We have to hold this behavior accountable. So pull triggers against them when we can but we have really got to get these young people to reach out for an alternative to this radicalism. Martha general jack keane, always good to see you. Fox news alert, moments ago, articles of impeachment have now been filed against Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Hes been accused of Stonewalling Congress and its investigation into how the fbi handled the trumprussia investigation. So this is big news. Jason chaffetz breaks it down for a snack and diane black is known for her handling of the tax cuts and tax reform and for being a big supporter of President Trump, but tonight she is speaking out on the story about the threat on her life and the man who Police Believe is behind it. Multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies try new one a day with natures medley. The full value oft wyour new car . Youd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With Liberty Mutual new Car Replacement well replace the full value of your car. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty man 1 this is my body of proof. Woman 1 proof of less joint pain. Woman 2 . And clearer skin. Woman 3 this is my body of proof. Man 2 proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. Woman 4 . With humira. Woman 5 humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. Its proven to help relieve pain, stop further irreversible joint damage, and clear skin in many adults. Humira is the 1 prescribed biologic for psoriatic arthritis. Avo humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Woman 6 need more proof . Woman 7 ask your rheumatologist about humira. Man 1 whats your body of proof . Discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year like new crabfest combo. Your one chance to have new Jumbo Snow Crab with tender dungeness crab. Or try crab lovers dream. Sweet, juicy king crab and Jumbo Snow Crab cozied up with crab linguini alfredo. Even our shrimp is crabtopped so hurry in and get your butterdunkin game on Cause Crabfest will be gone in a snap. And now bring home the seafood you crave with red lobster to go. Call or order online today. Dates, deals, done tripadvisor. Visit tripadvisor. Com martha back with this fox news alert. Just a few moments ago republican lawmakers announced that they will file articles of impeachment against deputy ag Rod Rosenstein. Joining me now with what this means, how all of this is going to play out, former congressman Jason Chaffetz, author of the new book a deep state. Good to see her tonight, go to have you with us. What does it mean . Im Glad Congress is finally standing up for itself. How many times you have to have duly issued subpoenas that are totally ignored by the Department Of Justice . If you had done this you would be in jail but the only way to enforce the subpoena is to get the Department Of Justice to do it and Rod Rosenstein has been
more than cavalier in saying im not going to comply with that. They have redacted things that shouldnt have been redacted and they are not supplying documents to congress. Thats one part of it, noncompliance to duly issued subpoenas. The second part is this buys that application. It has his name on it. He is central to an investigation being done by congress. The Inspector General and perhaps others. So here you have somebody who should have recused himself. Hes signing off on investigation overseeing an investigation of which he has the central figure. Martha what do you think the likely outcome is an meadows and jordan are going to be on with Laura Ingraham later this evening to talk about it, but is this to force their hand so that they are more forthcoming with the documents, or is it real . Do they really want to impeach Rod Rosenstein . They should. We had the council look at this. We try to impeach lois lerner, something a lot of people dont know. Martha that turned out well. Under advice and consent of the constitution. Counsel came back and said if you are confirmed by the senate
you can do that, but very few members are willing to pull that trigger and people like jordan and meadows and i hope a host of others that will start to understand it is one of the constitutional letters that is given to the power of congress to stand up for itself because right now they are totally impotent. They arent able to do anything and the Department Of Justice just thumbs their nose and puts the arm up and consequently congress cant do its job. Martha i think people feel like they see folks on the Oversight Committee just throw up their hands and rant and rave about not getting what they want and you can understand the argument that technically they should be turning over these documents. They get stonewalled all the time and are never able to actually push it through and push the envelope and make them give you what you want. One of the Turning Point is when jim comey tweeted out he wants people to vote for the democrats and the reason why they want to do that is because these are the same people are under investigation. What do they think is going to happen when the democrats get in
charge . All these investigation i wrote a book about this stuff. Thats what they want to do. They go after these people. The only way to get their attention is to ratchet it up. The entire top echelon of the fbi has been decimated. People have resigned, people have been demoted. Somebody has been fired. If you have a 560 page Inspector General report. The imperative to congress to fix this and fast is there. When Rod Rosenstein stands in the way of all of that by not allowing congress to do its job, then we should get rid of them. The only way to do that is through impeachment. Martha and anyone who brings it up is disrespectful to the intelligence agency. Thats the line that comes back. A couple of things here. You just mentioned if democrats get control, it looks like thats increasingly likely. The latest Quinnipiac Poll has democrats up by 12. Thats a generic question. Would you rather see a democrat or republican in your district. 51 say they would rather see a
democrat. It looks at least these are the same polls that set Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States and by about 8 00 p. M. On Election Night martha how confident are you in disbelieving multiples . Im willing to bet a chickfila on it. One of the democrats offering . No new leadership, pelosi and schumer. What is their message, we are going to raise your taxes. All they are is obstructionist. The resist Movement Just says no to everything. Ron, the senator out of oregon saying that because President Trump wants to take away Security Clearances of former employees, that we should impeach them. They way overplayed their hand. So republicans i think have been the adults in the room. The economy is doing well and look at the announcement tonight when the president played a tough hand. It looks like hes going to win and being able to reduce the tariffs. Thats huge. Martha thats a big story. Heres palmer im talking about how much time they have left and how much they can get done. Watch this. You only have nine more full days. Jason chaffetz was on with us earlier, only nine more full days until the midterm elections. Thats crazy. Right around the corner. We have a lot to do. Martha how is it that they have nine more working days between now and november . Its congress. Martha nine days between now and november you cant give up recess. Come on martha youve got to be kidding me. Theyve basically been sitting back since the tax reform passed. They have to pass with the resolution on omnibus that that but they will probably do a short term that everybody will go along with it. They might do something with taxes in the house but in the senate its all about judge kavanaugh and getting him to the Supreme Court and getting other judicial nominees. Think about it, Mitch Mcconnell promised we are going to work through august except they are taking the first week off. Martha he says that when he makes those threats they do get some movement. They get they all know its a bluff martha you better follow through. Dont take the first week of august off. Martha the deep state. Quick quote for the book. I didnt know what it wasnt until i started in congress but there are an army of bureaucrats who push back as they want to take down the trump agenda. I lived it, i saw it, my Real Life Stories will be on the bookshelf in september, but you can order it now. Martha former congressman, good to see you, good luck with the book. All right, coming up next, Congresswoman Diane Black is speaking out for the first time about the threats against her life for standing behind the president. She joins us exclusively tonight. And remember this guy . Ive got a big truck just in case i need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself. I just said that. Martha i just said that and i just won the republican
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but i believe in what the president wants to do in protecting our border. I believe in building the wall and i believe in Holding People accountable that come to our country illegally and im never going to back down on that. This is something that we as legislators know in the business, this is not the first time. This can happen and yet i love what i do and so im willing to be there when i have to be there to say the tough things. Martha do you know if he was ever at events that you are speaking at . Was he publicly in your space ever . Not that im aware of. I know that most of this was done through various means of communication, but not that im aware of. Martha he left a voice mails . Yes, he left me voice mails. Martha can you give us some indication of the nature of the voice mails . I cant except i can tell you that they were very serious and they concern the police. Thank goodness that we have Police Officers who were there
to investigate and the grand jury listening to what those tapes said and felt that it was serious enough to arrest him and he has been apprehended. That makes my family feel bette better. Martha im sure it does. Martha i have been through this before, its what is a public servant, it is what we face and many times people dont talk about it, but we are in these situations. You never know when it is going to be serious, as it was with Gabby Giffords and also with steve scalise. Very scary for our families. Martha looking at this this afternoon, in 2016 there were 902 threatening incidents against members of congress. In 2017, there were 2,000. You say that part of it was because of your strong support for the president , is that why we are seeing an escalation, because politics are so dramatically divisive now . I think sometimes the rhetoric just gets people so stirred up and there are people who are very radical in what
they say. Not just that they disagree with what you say, and we all can be disagreed with what we say, but when there are these radical statements made an insinuations that would be physical, i think it does and its unfortunate because that is not what our dialogue should be about. We can disagree with one another but when you have things that are said that are so difficult that are going to cost people to get so angry, then these kinds of things do happen unfortunately. Martha Jason Chaffetz wrote the segment coming up and he said he had similar experiences and less protection when you go home to your Home District then you do at the capital, although they have made some efforts to increase her protection. They cant do it all. Thank you, very good to see you tonight. Thank you for having me. Martha Chris Stirewalt joins me now. Good to have you with us tonight. I want to switch gears here and talk a little bit about this
georgia race. Here is a little sample of ryan kemp and his Advertising Campaign that appears to have worked. Donald trump is right, we must secure the border and end to sanctuary cities. Two things if you are going to date one of my daughters, respect and a healthy appreciation of the second amendment. Sorry. We are going to get along just fine. Ive got a big truck just in case i need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself. I just said that. Martha yep, i just said that. Chris stirewalt, you say things like that a lot of times too. Maybe not just like that. I have never held a firearm on another living human so im at a disadvantage in that way. Martha thats because your children arent dating age yet. Thats true and i was blessed not to have daughters in that way. Those ads did not work for kemp. He was losing considerably to casey cagle. What lost this race for casey cagle, who interviewed him, he was consistently ahead, one of his former rivals from the first round of the primary, they do a two round with a runoff. In the first round this guy went in and he ask him for his endorsement. He flipped his iphone in his pocket, turned the record on and he said things that are true but the politicians shouldnt say in public and this guy released the audio and it blew the bottom out of him. I mean roasted him. And then at the end, he gets the dirty tricks and just as hes trying to scrape back from the bottom, the white house weighs in. The president tweets and then mike pence comes down for a visit because one of the big things that he has going for him, hes a political ally of the man who is now our Agriculture Secretary and that good work for him worked in the white house, worked with the administration, got him the help and let him to a 39point win. Thats a lot of points. Martha i looked at the map, theres 118 section in the middle of the state and that was all she wrote. Chris, thank you. Im going to say that all the time now. I just said that. Coming up next, the war on straws, part two, and now jail time. I kid you not for waiters and waitresses who dare to give someone a plastic straw in some places. Is one more pointless environmental zealotry. We are going to band straws because theres a lot of plastic in the ocean. Banning these straws is going to make no difference. Martha is john stossel right, and whats behind these laws that could throw some plastic straw offenders be careful in jail. Jackie nunez, the selfproclaimed straw lady is here to explain next. I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Yes, sir. Are you listening . Yes. Plastics. Mped out of nowhere, or if you forgot your bike was on the roof rack, you only pay one deductible instead of two for a claim involving both your auto and home. And when you save that much, its almost like it. Never even happened. Thats auto and Home Insurance for the modern world. Esurance. An allstate company. Click or call. If you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,. With reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And the otezla prescribing information
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saying her questions were not inappropriate just because it made the white house uncomfortable. The White House Press corps has now filed a complaint and just now fox news president jay wallace released this statement, quoting here again. We stand in strong solidarity with cnn for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press and Sarah Sanders has also now issued a statement and im paraphrasing here. She is saying look, the bottom line is we asked her to leave, she refused to leave and therefore we set her questions were inappropriate and she was later banned from the rose garden News Conference. Sarah sanders went on to say we do support a free press, but this particular case was inappropriate. The white house getting a lot of pushback on this. Martha we all remember when president obama try to push back on members of fox news at different times. Disputes over sitting in the front row in the briefing room, but she is a member of the White House Pool and should be treated as such and not isolated. At least on the face of it, that
question appears to be very similar to the one that was shouted by a number of organizations there. We will see where it goes. Thank you very much, good to see you tonight. On a lighter note, sort of, the war on straws is spreading across the nation, which we talked about last night. 15 cities that have approved bands on Plastic Straws and many others are considering joining the starless societies. Santa barbara, california, is going one step further. In the city may even jail repeat offenders. I kid you not. So what are the facts behind these laws . Joining me now, jackie nunez, who calls herself a straw lady and is the founder of the last plastic straw. Good to have you here. I want to jump right in because we dont have that much time. I guess my question is, its fine to want to cut back on plastics, i think everybody understands the need for that. If we dont want our oceans flooded with plastic even though the u. S. Is a smaller contributor in asia and africa, which constitute most of it, but if i want to have a plastic straw, isnt it my right to be
able to have one, or should the government have the right to bear my freedom on that . First of all, im not for straw bands, i never have been. Im for Source Reduction of single use plastics, so i am all for our landfills are overflowing. There is a lot of plastic everywhere where it doesnt belong. We dont have a handle on it, so you can point fingers to other countries, but we dont even handle it well in our own country. Martha but you are saying you are for a forced band . Its not a forced band, i think every community can say what and what cannot be acceptable. We are all taxed, our landfills are overflowing. If theres better alternatives out there that they can handle ghost we went to give you the paper straw, which collapses and doesnt work, and they put it in a huge plastic covered cup, im not sure that thats getting us anywhere, is
it . Its a start. And as far as a collapsible paper straw, it all depends on what kind of company you get it from. Theres a lot of cheap ones coming out of china that had some bad chemicals in it and i wouldnt use it anyways. We do have a good company out of the u. S. That actually makes a paper straw that last in your drink for three hours. So there are alternatives. The great thing is that its bringing a lot of innovation and great design things. Martha i hear you and i think theres nothing wrong with encouraging people to do something differently. Its america, you can encourage people to do whatever you want but if im a waiter or a waitress and i twice get caught giving someone a plastic straw because the customer that im waiting on has requested it, i could go to jail in santa barbara, are you okay with that . Theres exemptions for people who need straws. Martha what about people who want straws . Just people who want them. I think what the core of it is not really about necessarily distraught, its about the plastic for single use. Martha i get what you are encouraging, but the ban and the law and the jail time takes away my freedom, if i choose to use that plastic. Shouldnt i be allowed in the United States of america to use it if thats my choice, even if i understand all the options on the problems with It Potentiall potentially . I think theres room for regulation. I think its topdown, bottomup. There are a lot of people that are demanding this change and i think theres a lot of businesses stepping up and doing it. Martha but they are mending it because they have been told things that people drink 500 million straws a day, which is impossible, theres only 325 Million People in the country. They have been looking at the internal video, which is a sad thing, i watched it today, but to me its all about the band
and about forcefully telling people what they can and cannot use with their own money and their own time. Our communities, we are taxed by this burden. The true cost of plastic is beyond just martha its more expensive to make paper straws than it is Plastic Straws. Its really actually the burden that the plastic straw is a gross polluter in every state of its existence. From the extraction to productions, the manufacturing to shipping. Theres a lot of burden on it on our environment and its also taxing our wheat strings. Its clogging up our drains. Clogging up the oceans. Martha i hear you, i think you made your point. It never was and will be disposable. Martha thank you. We will be right back with more of the story right afteron th. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Wlets do it. . Come on. This summer, add a new member to the family. At the mercedesbenz summer event. Lease the glc300 for 429 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing