Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he has galvanized democrats or people who want to vote in opposition to him. So people are taking that energy and they are going into local races, going into off cycle races, going into special elections. All of this is happening in response to the 2016 election when trump won. So it is not just happening in the rust belt or the northeast. It is happening all across the board. And donald trump for as much as hes been helpful to some members of the republican party, he has been the number one advertising poster child for people to come out and vote if you are a democrat or progressi progressive. They mentioned donald trump. They say their opponent is related or connected to donald trump. And the energy just flows from there. Charlie, is it going to be all about white women and how they vote . And then well ask eliza as well. Is that what youre watching there in ohio 12 . Although i made fun of the lebron thing, im actually quite interested to see how white men respond to this. It is a republican District North of columbus, but pretty close to cleveland and lebron remains pretty popular among men who like basketball at least in ohio. And so i wonder how this last minute twist will play there and well find out on tuesday. Your thought, eliza. I think he is right. This race white men are is very interesting as well. But white women i think this is sort of the beginning of a pattern that we will be watching certainly across the country. White educated married women who have tended in the past to vote republican but also might not be strong supporters of the president , might have questions about some of his tweets, some of the things that he says. If they go against him here, there could be an Arltrgument T that could be the beginning of a pattern. And of course the back and forth of lebron james, favorite
son of this state and the president Calling Don Lemon who is interviewing lebron james, he called basically not smart. And that whole thematic here when you look at the state of ohio, that the president would be coming out against one of their favorite sons. Politically that is the dumbest thing that somebody could do right before they go to ohio. But Donald Trumps universe is usually only about ten minutes in front of him. He saw something on television. Reacted to it. And then i dont imagine he thought much beyond that. Going into ohio, that is probably insulting lebron james is probably the last thing anybody would want to do. And going back to that statement from the president and his tweet, he says at the end of it, he says i like mike. By the way, mj comes out and says i actually do support lebron and what hes doing in the community there and that doesnt help because in addition to that, now the first lady
through a statement saying that she does support the efforts that lo Ebron Vamjames and folke him investing back into the community. Did it surprise you, and she might actually go and visited school the project that lebron james is investing in. I think the marriage between donald trump and Melania Trump is continually interesting when we see these divisions. There was the story a few weeks ago when she was watching cnn instead of fox news on Air Force One and her spokesman had to put out a statement that she can still watch whatever she wants notwithstanding a tantrum from trump about that. As someone who grew up in indiana as a chicago fan in the Michael Jordan era, it is noticeable that his statement was tepid. He didnt say he was against trump, just tepidly for lebron. About as weak a statement as he could have made. And what the pictures will
look like when you see the first lady should she go to this very Community Project that lebron invested in. Yeah, this is reminiscent of the child separations that we had earlier this summer where she kind of came out as against that, she went to the border of course that all blew up because her shirt that said i dont care do you, all of the headlines ended up being about that. But that was another division where she decided to go see something sort of dividing with her hufs and tmust and the pres. And of course going to a school that lebron just started does mark a Clear Division between the first lady and the president. All right. Thank you all. There is a new proposal to the white house from special counsel robert mueller. Team trump meeting this weekend to draft a response. What is on the table and what Team Trump Says is offlimits. S, diabetic nerve pain, these feet. Raised a good sport. And became a secondgeneration firefighter. But i couldnt bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. So i talked to my doctor, and he prescribed lyrica. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. Tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. Common side effects dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs, and feet. Dont drink alcohol while taking lyrica. Dont drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. Those who have had a drug or Alcohol Problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. Now i have less diabetic nerve pain. Ask your doctor about lyrica. Why are you dragging it out . Dont you know what you want to do . Sure, i dont want to do it. It is past the july 4th. Where do we stand . We would not recommend an interview unless they can satisfy us that there is some basis for this investigation. We havent yet made a final decision. There is a slight opening. Were still i wont give you a lot of hope it will happen, but were still negotiating. We havent stopped negotiating with them. Lets bring in now editorinchief of law fair and also nbc legal analyst and also former assistant for intelligence at the fbi. Benjamin, well start with but. We played a little bit of the sound of how Rudy Giuliani has gone back and forth. Is there any sort of penalty from going back and forth and from pushing this decision off . Yeah, let me translate that Rudy Giuliani knows quothose
for you. They translate loosely into mr. Mueller, i dare you to issue that subpoena. And the relevant question right now is whether mueller needs the interview enough to take Rudy Giuliani up on that dare. And that would produce a significant litigation. It is one that i think and a lot of other legal analysts think the special counsel would probably but not certainly win. And giuliani and his cocounsel are making the bet that mueller will not pull the trigger. And so the question now is will he or wont he. Is it i dare you, frank, is that what youre seeing too . This is a classic game of chicken. There are two cars racing toward each other and we need to see who will swerve off the path first. And each side is hoping the other swerves. But look, here is my position on the interview. There is no strategic reason for the president to want to sit down and do this. It is all bad. Hes already heard his voice on a Tape Recording Courtesy of michael cohen. He knows there is more tapes out there. He doesnt know what mueller has. If he continues to not be interviewed, he can pretends to be the beleaguered president and Claim Mueller is being unreasonable about parameters and demands. Mueller needs it not legally. Im convinced he does not need it legally, but rather for the court of public opinion. If were headed toward impeachment proceedings, he needs to show the public he is being gray us some enough to hear the president s side of the story. But that is the only reason he needs it. I think ultimately he would go to a Grand Jury Subpoena and try to get that. But this remains to be seen. So what number do you think it will be, were seeing 10 days, could it be 20, 30 . I dont think that you can predict the time frame. The president s lawyers will drag this out as long as possible because the moment they say no in a formal way, they force the issue. And so the longer they can drag it out, the better. And so the question is at what point does mueller either shrug his shoulders and say i dont need the interview, i wont litigate over it, because especially if i win the litigation, the president can just assert the Fifth Amendment and not testify anyway, or say as frank suggested i need to go the extra mile to try to show that ive done everything i can and play that card. And so i dont think that you can play out the time frame. It does feel like it is coming to a head, but it has felt like that before as well. And looking at maybe one of the indicators reporting coming out today from the Washington Post here, and that is that as
the president has been watching the reporting, he is getting more frustrate as of late, he is also worried that his son don jr. Might be next in the crosshairs here. Yeah, this is quite the scenario where perhaps Family Members including don jr. Now criminally exposed and that is leverage that the mueller team could use against the president. And that plays out publicly as well. Because the president may be very concerned not so much about the impact on his family as equally about what this looks like if he is not playing the family man and not protecting his son. So that could come into play here. But i dont think that will be what this Interview Decision is about. I really dont. I just think it is about whether or not the president says im not listening to my attorneys, im going to sit down mantoman and i can do this, by the way that would be a serious mistake, or whether he listens to his attorneys and he does not sit down with mueller. So how might the heat be turned up on don jr. From the previous interactions hes had with this investigation so far . Well, there are questions about testimony he gave to the senate to the congressional investigations. And, you know, you could have a subpoena issued to him. You could have a demand for an interview. So there are lots of ways the investigative temperature could go up. I agree with frank very much that the question of a president ial interview is a different question. And i dont think that is going to i dont think it would be proper actually for the investigation to use leverage against Family Members as a way of coercing the president. And frank, i want to squeeze this in. This is Mariia Butina, the gun rights advocate from russia in
the reporting coming out that she cozied up with a former Trump Campaign aide jd gordon who was the campaigns director of National Security for about six months. Again, the question, compazying to and what cozying means with again an advocate coming out of russia here. The more we learn about Mariia Butina the more she looks like not the Innocent College student. Looks like she is directed, looks like she is trying to penetrate circles. Got the earmarks of a controlled coopt of the intel intelligence services. We saw the comment 3 00 in the morning awaiting further orders. She was getting very close and likely the bureau thought she was getting too dloet iclose to inner tir kein inner circles. All right. Thanks. Republican heavy weight oig are starting to choose sides. Its Pretty Amazing out there. The world is full of more possibilities than ever before. And American Express has your back every step of the way whether its the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. Or getting financing to fund your business. No one has your back like American Express. So where ever you go. Were right there with you. The powerful backing of American Express. Dont do business without it. Dont live life without it. Experience the versatility of utility, with a range of suvs perfect for any adventure, at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. With no aerosols and no heavy perfumes. So you can spray and stay. Febreze one. Were in a small room. What . welcome. [ gasps ] a bigger room . how many of you use Car Insurance . Oh. Well, what if i showed you this . [ laughing ] hohoho wow. Its a computer. We compare rates to help you get the price and coverage thats right for you. Thats amazing the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. What . an unexpected ending
the president blasted the kochs in a series of tweets tuesday calling them a total joke in real republican circles. He also said he never sought their support and doesnt need their money or bad ideas. Trumps attack came after a kochlinked Group Launched an ad targeting the president s tariffs. Were seeing a rise in protectionism. They are doing whatever they can to close themselves off from the new. This is a natural tendency. But it is a destructive one. The billionaire brothers did not endorse the president in 2016 and have since criticized several of his policies. Lets bring in a democratic strategist and former executive of the New York State democratic party, and also a republican strategist and political analyst. Great to see you both. And i guess since were starting with that, well go to the republican friend on the table. And so you your thought about what clicked in the Koch Brothers brains that said okay, we are actively now going to, if you will, go up against this
presidency. Because the Koch Brothers have long been people of principle. Whether you agreed with them or not, they have been very consistent. The president is so insecure because he never knows what policy he is for for how long that of course he would attack somebody else because he fears he has the bigger platform which is nice, but id be very careful if i was the president going toe to toe against the Koch Brothers because they have been in this game a long time and they have also supported a lot of members of the house and senate. And they have a lot of loyalty and as you mentioned, they spend a lot of money. And they do it wisely. They stay on message, they stay on issues, something the president doesnt do. And lets dig a little deeper. Although they are almost omnipresent some might say, were talking about heartland billionaires, the Koch Industry Big Footprint in the south here could have Ripple Effects if those that they support in the heartland decide to push and go
along with them. Absolutely. Now, as a democrat, im not going to stick up for the Koch Brothers here at all. But what i will say to susans point, yeah, they have a tremendous amount of support, snell wa they will wait this president out. They have the money and support to do that. But looking at it from the outside, outside of the republican party, it is a situation where the party itself even the grass roots, even in Middle America is coming to a reckoning. They will have to figure out whose side they are on and whether or not they want to stand up before the Koch Brothers who have been so bad for my party and for my former president in barack obama, or do they stand with President Trump who nobody can and just one quick thing. They went straight to camera. For years they were really quiet, they were behind the scenes. This is personal. They are not hiding. They are saying we have a problem with you and here we are. When we look at what is happening in ohio since weve been watching live pictures
throughout the last hour and a half or two and we expect the president to arrive and get there on the ground, the question might be is the president in a phase where for local politics, he is not a help in some cases, a help in others, or is it a nancy pelosi messaging which is coming from the president as well and republicans . Which is the dynamic . Now that were weaning our way of on of the primary season, in a primary the president is key. He is absolutely helpful. In the trump district that is going to be supportive of donald trump, by fi5 to 15 points or more, the president is bad. In a Swing District, he is toxic , horrible. This is not a Swing District and they lost ten points, balderson did. Ohio 12. It is supposed to be a trump, 15 point trump seat. It is now a one point seat. And that is a clear reflection of the president s policies and more importantly his tone and his messaging and how he deals with people. But not easy for your side either because you remember the headlines from the a. P. That said republicans united, democrats divided. You might be divided into what might be called technicolor for republicans it might be seen as binary, right . Trump or no trump. I dont think were as divided as most people think. And you are starting to see numbers improve for us in states like wisconsin, michigan and minnesota, that is very important. I think donald trump may have single handedly sunk that Congressional Campaign by going against lebron james. Showing he does still not understand politics. The point is all politics is local. Are so what will you learn from a party from what is happening in ohio 12 then . I think the trump effect, the negative trump effect is built in. We still need to talk about big
issues, affordability, the fact the tariffs are hurting Middle America. We need to talk about that and Shay Grand Experiment and change is not working, but we have a response. Plus your turnout numbers. Because that has been a big factor is seeing the increase in not typical voters, prime voters. And ill add it is also atypical candidates running. We have native american, africanamerican women running for governor in georgia. So if we have the ability to bring in new candidates, it encourages new voters. Muslim american in michigan could be a first. So what will you learn from ohio 12 . Because this is the last special election becaufore the normal election shall we say. Again, turnout. Right now the republicans, yes, advantage is turnout for us. But we have no way of expanding. Whereas the democrats can really appeal to a lot of people who
are not typical voters and can increase their math plus when you look at suburban women, College Educated folks, that really does change the dynamic. So i think that is part of what were going to be looking at as a party, is our turnout still there and is it enough. And it appears that what the idea will be because the president did release a statement just within the last hour or two when he gets on the ground there, he will be focusing on tariffs and it appears the economy. Shouldnt that be what your party is focusing on . Good we should be. And i think you are starting to see the more of that. And going back to the point of the intraparty problems, when you have candidates like a won in the 14th, talking about big things, i dont like the going after her as the socialist. She is talking about big ideas. And there are a lot of particularly young voters that went into the polls when
throated for barack obama athro throat voted for barack obama and they noticed him bailing out the Auto Industry and reenergying health care, so they have seen government do big things and important things. But promibarack obama was prepared. She is not prepared. Fine, you dont understand the issue of Foreign Affairs and the israel palestinian conflict, fine. But you should know about the unemployment numbers. Ill finish with this. Based on all of these dynamics that has been asked many times, two party system good . Do we need more parties . You see that in the states multiple parties. I think that you will see it ecan he merge nationally. Not anytime soon, but well get there. Yeah, 2028 probably. Thank you for giving me a number. Great to have you both. Great meal of politics we got to share. Manafort on trial. Bombshell revelations from his accountant and how it fits in to Robert Muellers case against him. I couldnt catch my breath. It was the last song of the night. It felt like my heart was skipping beats. They said i had afib. Whats afib . I knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. I needed answers. My doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. Oncedaily xarelto®, a latestgeneration Blood Thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. Warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your bodys natural bloodclotting factors. Xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. For afib patients well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke. Dont stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of stroke. While taking, you may bruise more easily, or take longer for bleeding to stop. Xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. It may increase your risk of bleeding
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loans. She said manafort was in serious debt by 2016. 1 million in Clothing Debt alone. With manafort trying to use the bank loans to sustain himself financially. Still in question, Whether Rick Gates will testify there. Joining me now, signor justice correspondent and the our legal analyst back with us as well. So you were in there, and you have to start there, right, ryan. What stood out to you in what happened this week . I mean it was sort of amazing. I think what you have to look at if you look at The Big Picture here is that essentially what manaforts team will have to argue, that there is this tremendous conspiracy that he had no clue about to save him a lot of money on his tax returns. And just not really a believable or plausible scenario. And i think that it will be a challenge once this switches over to the defense side to make that case to the jurors. You had all these situations where manafort directly was paying for a lot of his more
expensive purchases, the landscaping in the shape of an m at one of his properties in new york, red roses measured out. An ostrich jacket. But those payments were coming from the overseas accounts, so i think that will be tough for the defense to say that he had no clue that any of this was a going on. Ben, when you were watching this happen and the whole issue of what laporta was saying came about and then the wife walked out and then we have her coming back on monday, what are we going to see on monday in cross that may be of any import here . So look, i was not in the courtroom watching it from afar, yeah. Just wanted to be clear about that. But the defenses job here as you heard, it goesis a difficul task. This was a strange tricase to go trial with for the defense because the facts are pretty bad. So their job is going to be to deflect all of the quite obvious improprieties that take place on to the people who worked for manafort rather than himself even though he was clear lit ly beneficial airplane of of it. But you only need one member of the jury to refuse to convict. And you effectively win even if you dont get an acquittal. And so the game here is to generate doubt in the minds of one person. So juries are funky things, and lets ask our reporter who is in the room, how was the mood there in the room . I mean it is always tough to read juries. But ive been wrong before certainly. Well, there is the judge, also manafort, lots of things to watch for you. Definitely. I think the judge was definitely sort of trying to curtail prosecutors who were using sort of more explicit language. He did not want them to refer to oligarchs. He made a comment along the lines that it is not illegal to be rich and over the top spending isnt illegal. So i think the prosecution is sort of shifting away from that sort of language. But to be clear, a lot of the expenses, these really big clothing and landscaping expenses are pretty key to the case because they were paid for using these overseas accounts. And they were entities that his accountants and Financial Team believed were clients instead of entities actually controlled by manafort himself. And the lawyer testified that she thought it was strange that or rather the accountant testified that it was strange that there were loans coming from people that they thought were clients. Ben, what do you make of the judge . So judge ellis is an
excentric. And he has been a bit of a wild card in this whole proceeding. At one point, you know, causing quite a flurry in the conservative media by raising the anxiety that there may be a problem with muellers appointment, only then to turn around and write a lengthy opinion saying just the opposite. He has clearly held the prosecution to its paces and limited its ability to sensationalize this by talking about oligarchs and by making too much of the spending. I think in the broad scheme of things, that is a good thing in the sense that this is at the end of the day a Tax Fraud Trial and the question isnt were you doing business with viktor yanukovich. The question is were you not
paying taxes and fraudulently taking action to avoid paying taxes that you owe the government. And so forcing the government to be very disciplined in the way that it presents that i think is by and large a healthy thing. Ryan, we were talking about the accountant 1 00 p. M. Monday was when she gets crossexamined. What else are you watching in terms of duration . Any sense ever that this will go for a week or two or three based on your conversations with those in the room . Actually the prosecution has made it clear that they expect to wrap up their entire case by the end of next week. So the Big Question Is Whether or not rick gates will testify and i think that it seems clear that he will, but always a chance that wont come about. But i think that that is really going to be the key to this case because that is who the defense really wants to pin all of this on. And even though a lot of these dealings and a lot of the relationships he had with the lawyers only had to do with Paul Manaforts personal taxes and he
had no benefit from them, they will try to say that he was somehow behind all of this and his right hand man was the mastermind of this scheme. Two great voices here. Ryan and ben, thank you both. The u. S. Political system once again under attack. The role russia may be playing this time. What facebook is doing about that and what the Trump Administration is not codoing. T. With moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay . Even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. So i talked to my doctor about humira. I learned humira can help get, and keep Uc Under Control when other medications havent worked well enough. And it helps people achieve control that lasts. So you can experience few or no symptoms. 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. Be there for you, and them. Ask your gastroenterologist about humira. With humira, control is possible. That make it easy for your uber driver to find you,atures taking the stress out of pickups. Because leaving an event shouldnt be one. Uber is moving in a new direction. Forward. We acknowledge the threat is real, it is continuing, and were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. The reality is it will take all of us working together to hold the field because this threat is not going away. I you fully share the Intelligence Community and odnis assessments, past efforts and those today to interfere with our election and of the current threat. Top u. S. Intelligence officials you might have seen is it this week saying the russian threat to u. S. Election remain very real. This as facebook pulls down skins skin dozens of fake accounts aimed at undermining the United States democracy. 32 profiles were removed for activity that facebook said violates its policy against
coordinated inauthentic behavior including posts like this would be uruld b one urgin attend an event against fascism and another advertising a group with a job calling itself resisters and pushing for a stop against the trump regime. Other accounts targeted africanamericans with names like black elevation. Facebook says it cannot identify the source but that it is similar to russias efforts around the 2016 election. Joining us now, from the Washington Post, shes been closely following the story for us. And also will sumner, tech and internet reporter for the daily beast. Elizabeth, one might start how big of a threat is it that they are identifying . Is it more or less than what we saw in 2016 . I think it is less, but were only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. And what is really fascinating about this one is you can see the real world tentacles and the
way facebook is charging head first into free speech issues. Facebook said that they were going to take down these accounts because of this real world rally that was going to come up next week and they were worried about the harm that this clash could cause. However, during the last year of this Group Resistors being active, they actually planned several rallies that actually took place. So you see that the real world tentacles, hundreds of people showing up and being boosted by russian influence infiltrating progressive and leftwing movements, that is growing. That is a different part of the conversation than we had last goround. Youre saying the reality of the unreal or the digital in this case here. So, will, from what youve learned also, as you heard from elizabe elizabeth, less than what it was in 2016. Whats your view on that and what might be seen as remarkable about these recent efforts . Sure. Again, it is less than in 2016 from what weve seen so far. We have no idea what else might be going on. Again, this has been paired with
actual Hacking Attempts on at least one u. S. Senator. In this case i think whats interesting is indeed how these groups are interacting. In the past we have seen them perhaps russian groups draw out real world american protesters, but in this case they were teaming up with actual genuine american groups and activists who didnt realize they were in the hands essentially of a foreign actor. In the case of the unite the right counterprotest for this White Nationalist protest next week in d. C. , the activists on the left who were planning to counterprotest this event are real people, i met some of them, and they did not realize their groups had teamed up with essentially with a foreign group. Elizabeth, one of the points that has been made is facebook is moving forward to be more open about what they were doing. Before they were not even admitting that they had a specialized group, if you will, a task force, right, going after this stuff and now theyre being very open about it, putting out videos. Sheryl sandberg saying for the
social platform, this is an arms race. Has there been a change in tone now and openness about what they need to do . Yeah, they are really turning this almost into a political mission. I mean, look, theyre doing advertisements all over the place now, tv, radio old school medium, right . Old school mediums, yeah. Theyre doing facebook too. Theyre doing videos too. Here we were connecting the world and something went wrong. Theyre trying to show theyre making a good faith effort. You can see in this last announcement how complicated it is. They didnt want to attribute this to russia. The story we reported yesterday said twitter gave almost identical accounts to congress about six weeks ago that they did attribute to the russian ira, to the Internet Research agency, and these were accounts that were almost identical, so youre looking and saying why facebook wont attribute it to
russia for political reasons, but think about the problem that causes for real world people. Their events are taken down and dont know if it was tied to russia or not. So it creates more confusion. I think as they go deeper into this issue and theyre hiring 20,000 new security and Safety Specialists by the end of this year, so its a huge push thats started to influence their revenues. Their revenues were down 20 this month because of the spending that theyre doing on security. So i think thats only going to that whole mess is just going to get more complicated and tangled as we head into the midterms. And folks are asking, will, as facebook makes these moves, is it really because they ideologically believe this is the right thing to do or are they really trying to Stem Off Future criticism in 18 and 20 . How real is this move . Because 20,000 is a big number but earnings is not something to sneeze at certainly. Certainly, absolutely. It seems as though facebook is getting ahead of this in a way
to stave off either future criticism or indeed perhaps congressional regulation, if somehow it turned out that they were used to really manipulate the 2018 or 2020 elections, they would be in a lot of trouble. Thats why were seeing facebook try to be a little proactive. But again, not all that proactive. Theyre also facing criticism from republicans who accuse them of discriminating against conservatives. So facebook is really in the hot seat for all kinds of reasons right now. And the pictures of the two of you bring up one question i want to ask question quickly. Elizabeth, youre on the west coast there in our bay area camera and my friend, will, youre on the east coast in our Washington Bureau and you know that the fingers have been going this way from both sides saying its washington, d. C. , that doesnt get it and washington, d. C. , says the valley doesnt get it. Are we at a better place where theyre working together now . Quickly, elizabeth, to you. Yes, the conversations are
starting to happen. They were basically absent during the 2016 election. But it raises the question who is responsible for this, private companies or law enforcement. Ten seconds to you, will. I think theyre working together more but at the same time i think theres a very confusing message coming out of the Trump Administration in terms of how much theyre going to do about this so it remains to be seen. Elizabeth, will, great conversation. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Tshirts at a prominent museum sold for 20 and all about false news. What the hubbub was all about that came to an end today. When i touch you like this
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