George kent will also appear. Cent brings decades of experience having worked in the obama administration. He could also provide deep context as to what happened before and after trumps involvement with ukraine. As the prublic just begins to pt names to faces, the white house is rolling out strategies for how to frame their messages. House republicans have circulated a memo that claims, quote, four pieces of evidence are fatal to allegations against the president. All right. For those details lets get right to capitol hill and nbcs geoff bennett. Jef geoff, whats the latest . Reporter republicans seem to think that the more narrow the focus of this ukraine question the better it is for President Trump. You mentioned that republican staff memo that im told was circulated last night from you read through the latest line of defense from republicans, theyre all entirely focused on the finer points of this july 25th phone call between President Trump and his ukrainian counterpart. So the first part, the first key piece of evidence that republicans point so is this. They say the july 25th call summary, the best evidence of the conversation shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. Heres the thing. These talking points, this spin, does not exist in a vacuum. House investigators have interviewed some 15 witnesses behind closed doors. Theyve released the transcripts of what . 11 of them that the American Public can read through. And if you read through this tapestry of testimony, when youre left with is that the majority of the witnesses to varying degrees all point to what is a coordinated extortion scheme, a bribery plot that started in the spring of 2019 and carried through to september. That you that this phone call whether its this phone call or another phone call President Trump says he wants to release the summary of, that those calls did not exist in isolation. And so that is what these public hearings are meant to demonstrate, ali. Whats your sense, and this maybe more your evaluation as a veteran of this than the actual reporting, but the strategy that republicans are planning to employ seems to be evolving on a daily basesy daily basis. Where are you now for republicans that are wanting to defend donald trump . If they stick to this and not go down rabbit holes, what they say is theres nothing to see here because the aid was ultimately released and the ukrainians didnt do the investigations. Yes, that is true, but thats in a vacuum. Based on outside reporting we know that president zelensky was prepared to make the announcement President Trump wanted in a september 13th interview with fareed saturday carria. Why didnt he do that . Because of the word of the withheld aid leaked and congress was in an uproar and the Trump Administration ultimately released the aid and zelensky canceled the interview. And so democrats, as they put together this story that theyre telling, any good story has a strong beginning, middle, and end. And theyre starting with bill taylor who you mentioned at the top of the show in large part because hes a widely respected career official who has served both administrations, democrat and republican, going back to 1985. Democrats expect him to give a dry recitation of the facts but a damning recitation of the facts because he is one of the witness whos say there was a direct link between those deliverables, the coveted white house meeting between president s trump and zelensky, the delivery of that aid and the open investigations. He talks about the irregular back channel. The irregular back chen he will is what Marie Yovanovitch ran afoul of and why she was smeared and ultimately ousted. That is why the country will hear from her on friday. Thats the first part. The beginning and the middle really of the story that democrats hope to tell, ali. Geoff, thank you my friend. We will be seeing you a lot this week. Geoff bennett for us on capitol hill. I want to bring in nancy cook, White House Reporter for politico and jason, writer at large for New York Times magazine. Welcome to both of you. Thank you for being with us. Nancy, let me just talk about a memo that went out from that went out to republican members of congress outlining the way in which they their defense of donald trump or their deflection of what democrats will be presenting over the next few days should look like. Whats your sense of the strategy that they are planning to employ . Well, i think apart from the memo my sense of the strategy is just that they want to make sure that the public hearings look as much like a partisan threering circus as possible. They want to make it seem like it is totally one sided, republicans have not had the opportunity to call witnesses. They want to make it seem like democrats are just doing something that they wanted to do since trump was first elected. And really the reason for that is they want to set the table for the Senate Impeachment hearings which likely wont happen until 2020 now. And they want to make it seem like the senators who will be having an impeachment trial and then vote, you know, they can dismiss it easily because its so partisan without having to address the merits of what the president actually did. So, to me, this whole house the public hearings, while they are very important and will consume really the next month and a half, they are setting the table for what will happen in the senate in the beginning of the year. Jason, the as much as republicans wanted to ride this socalled partisan process, the fact is adam schiff and the other committees involved have laid out their process. Much of the process are things that were designed by republicans in the past, but it is systematic and they are laying it out. The white houses response to this from day one has been anything about systematic. At some point are they going to have to meet democrats on the chessboard and match their game . Well, i think the republicans will have two two plans here. I think one of them will be to try to turn it into a kirk cuss a circus and make it look partisan. But theyre going to not maybe undermine their credibility but theyre going to question what it is they actually know. Someone like ambassador yovanovitch, kent, republicans are going to try to sow doubt about how they know there was this quid pro quo or President Trump wanted there to be a quid pro quo, did you hear President Trump say that himself . I think democrats will be able to allow these witnesses to give a fairly damning narrative, but republicans are going to ask them, you are making are you making an assumption this is what the white house wanted there are what President Trump wanted or you know for a fact he said this . I think we saw in the closed door depositions, they dont necessarily know that. So i think they will try to meet them on the factual Playing Field a bit there. Nancy, you wrote in politico about this. Trump is expected to move in communications overdrive with an approach fundamentally at odds with what traditional president ial aides would advise. Hes relying heavily on his own instincts and skills to guide the white house all while feeling frustrated by aides lack of aggressiveness in defending him. The problem you write about and you talk subpoeabout is that tr messaging may work g may work theres a therabreath for you. 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But there are reasons why the things that donald trump would like to continue to repeat and hear repeated about his perfect phone call and things like to might not sustain for republicans in congress who are trying to defend him in the face of an actual public impeachment hearing. Thats right. And i think that part of the problem is that a lot of the people who are going to be testifying are not beholden to the trump orbit. And i think that part of the reason that trump has had such success with governing how he has wanted for the past three years is because he has so successfully bent the will of the Republican Party to his own instincts and his own desires and his own ideology. And what were seeing is folks like bill taylor tomorrow who will be testifying. You know, hes really not part of that orbit. He is a longtime career Civil Servant and really does not depend on the trump orbit for his financial means moving forward or trumps approval. And so i feel like its a bit out of trumps control in that way. What i will be looking for this week is does the president live tweet the public hearings . A lot of advisers i talk to believe that he will. And then does he release this second call transcript at some point during this week to change the subject . Thats the other thing that ill be looking for. Jason, you wrote an interesting piece, i just want to quote from it in which you say talking about Donald Trumps role, lets talk about adam schiffs role. His ukraine investigation has now been invested with all the hopes and dreams that democrats once placed in the special prosecutor Robert Muellers russia probe. Yes, you know, this in some ways is its almost of a bit of a doover for democrats. They had high hopes for what mueller would find and that was a bit of a letdown. The ukraine scandal gives them an opportunity to do what they werent able to do with mueller. For one, its a much simpler story or democrats think its a much simpler story. Mueller investigation into russia interference, it was very complicated, took place on multiple continents. One house against aide i talk to, he trefreferred to it as any shakedown. Schiff is not a prosecutor, hes a politician. Mueller famously did not respond to any of the president s tweets over two years in which President Trump was saying the investigation was a witchhunt, that muellers investigators were partisan. Schiff will respond to those things. He has responded to those things. He can fire back. He also is able to control the narrative in a way that mueller himself did not. The way democrats conducted this investigation first behind closed doors with information coming out in terms of Opening Statements from it withes, other information leaking out of those depositions now moving into the public hearings its generated a story almost every day which has kept the momentum for the investigation. I think democrats view this as a better opportunity in some ways. Thanks to both of you. We will have special coverage of tomorrows first day of the historic public impeachment hearings starting at 9 00 a. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. Now, today the u. S. Supreme court is considering the future of more than 800,000 socalled dreamers. The justices heard arguments today in the Trump Administrations challenge to Lower Court Rulings which block the administration from ending the deferred action for childhood arrivals or daca program. As arguments took place inside the court, hundreds of people gathered outside for a demonstration. Afterward, the plaintiffs took to the steps of the Supreme Court building to chant home is here. Heres some of the history of the program. President obama established daca by executive order in 2012. It allows people between the ages of 16 and 30 who are brought to the United States as children to work and study here without fear of being deported. President trump announced in september of 2017 that he was ending the program and he tweeted about daca this morning claiming some recipients are very tough, hardened criminals and that president obama said t order. Surprisingly, neither of two claims in President Trumps tweet are true. Immigrants are not eligible for daca if they committed a felony. A significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors. And they cant renew their dreamer stat s if they have a criminal record. But the president did say if the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, he would work with democrats to find a way for Daca Recipients to stay in the United States. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams is outside the Supreme Court with more on todays arguments. Pete, this is a big one. What were some of the key points that each side made and do you have a sense of how the justices responded to them . Reporter sure. Let me answer both your questions, ali. So what the defenders of daca are saying hire is there is tha Trump Administration was hiding behind its conclusion two years ago that daca was illegal and that thats just a pretext to avoid actually owning the policy decision. So what theyre saying in essence is if the government had to actually come right out and say we want to end this program because we think its bad policy, because we think it unfortunately attracts people to come here and think they can stay, there are many reasons why we might want to end it. But maybe the decision would come out differently. But at least it would be subject to court review. And the courts would be able to look behind those decisions and see if they were properly made, especially the daca defenders say when theres reliance on the program. Its one thing when president obama started it, but now nearly a Million People have depended upon it as well as their families, their communities, their employers, their schools and unitversities. For all those reasons they say the Trump Administration improperly tried to shut it down. But the solicitor jgeneral argud this is not for the courts to review because its an act of agency discretion. Its like a new police chief coming to town and saying im going to get tougher on enforcing the marijuana laws that. Cant be challenged in court. And that seemed to carry the day with the majority of the conservatives. There probably are five votes for that view, and thats all it takes to win in the Supreme Court. So i would think that the Trump Administration will probably prevail. Maybe the chief justices vote is in play, but if so he didnt show it today. When would we expect to hear a decision . Reporter not until the spring. And then well see if the president s right. If the Supreme Court does strike down pardon me. Every time im on with you i cough. Maybe its an allergy to ali velshi. I dont think so. If the Supreme Court does strike it down, well see if the president s right about that, if that will neenergize the congre to do something permanently. When he put this in effect in 2012, he said it was only shortterm until they could work out something with congress and here we are seven years later. Pete williams at the Supreme Court for us. While the discussion is focussed on ending the program could upend the lives of the more than 800,000 people who rely on or as pete says more than a million who are expected to it, the Supreme Courts decision could have broaderranging impact. In an oped published in the Washington Post last week, a cardiologist who is now president and ceo of the association of american medical colleges and a former leader of the former head of the Smithsonian Institutions and the president of Cornell University says the ruling could affect americans health. He wrote that, quote, excluding these talented individuals from the workforce would do more than simply thwart their professional aspirations, if it would deprive a huge number of americans of accession quality healthcare. Dr. David joins me now. David, i want to quote a little more from what you wrote. You said today there are approximately 27,000 doctors, nurses, dentists, physician assistants and other healthcare workers whos daca stat ace lous them to work and contribute to patient care. Its enable twop hundred current medical students and medical residents to pursue careers in medicine. So for those of us who may not think its got anything to do with us, it may have more do with a whole lot of americans than we thin first of all, ali,s great to be with you and have a chance to talk with you again. Thank you for having me on. Im not a legal scholar. Im not a legal scholar as you know. But i will say that the argument for rescission did not take into account the reliance of this nation on tens of thousands of Health Workers whose loss of Work Authorization will hurt our neighbors across this country. Lets talk about Something Else you mentioned here, because you talk about across the country, but there are particular areas in which some of these Daca Recipients could be influential in terms of healthcare. You said the physician deficit will be concentrated most heavily in communities with the greatest need, including rural areas and lowincome neighborhoods. As a resilient, some of oresult some of the ones that are hardest hit who are often bilingual will be served. Many of these dacary sipients are bilingual. And in some surveys that were done during the Training School and other training periods in 2016, as many as 97 voiced their intention to serve in the under served areas. So not only will it affect up to 5 million patients over the working lives of these healthcare workers, not only that, but it will concentrate in areas of our country where were already not giving sufficient access to the people who live in those areas. So it would make worse some of the social determine natnates o health, whether its in the rural areas, other areas where these folks are more likely to serve. And the association of american medical colleges which you lead has filed a brief with the Supreme Court to this effect. Yes, we filed a brief to which 32 other organizations signed on to wit, that we believe, as i mentioned before, that the argument for rescission did not take into account the reliance of the country on these tens of thousands of healthcare workers. And that was the gist of our argument. David, thank you for sharing that with us. David is the president and ceo of the association of american medical colleges. Hes a former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and former president of Cornell University. Also today, the Supreme Court dealt a major victory to the families of the Sandy Hook School shoot angd bing and a bl the gun industry. The Supreme Court is allowing the lawsuit to go forward. Its a suit filed by families against the gun maker remington. They say the gun should never have been sold to the public because its a militarystyle weapon. They accuse remington for marketing the gun in against. 22 students were killed in the massacre. Coming up, were looking at whether the democrats are missing the boat by focusing their impeachment inquiry entirely on the president s deals with ukraine and not russia. Plus, rockets were fired into the gaza strip in israel just hours after an air strike took out a senior Islamic Jihad leader in gaza. You are watching msnbc. In gaz you are watching msnbc. 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And he brings a unique perspective as someone who is steeped in ukrainian policy before the Trump Administration came into being. And despite the methodical way the democrats have mapped out how testimony should go in front of the public, there are risks in their own messaging strategy. As nbc political unit points out, there are two additional questions that maybe worth exploring. One, why was the Trump Administration or why was trump and his administration pursuing a strategy on u and against the United States expressed National Interests . And, two, why arent House Democrats trying to connect the russian dots . Is it a hangover after mueller . I want to talk about these things with cynthia, former federal prosecutor and legal analyst. And the charlie savage, New York Times washington correspondent and an msnbc contributor. Cynthia, you and i were talking earlier about george kent. A lot of attention is going to bill taylor, but bill taylor and george kent are both testifying tomorrow publicly and george kent is an important deal. He is important because he knows all about the history of the corruption in ukraine. So he can talk about what was going on with burisma before even shokin was there. And this was a specific investigation that went poorly. And he knows about every little teeny scandal. And then he knows about the next prosecutor and the scandals that were involved with that. He can give some arc to the story. Because most of us came in 2 3s into the story, right . Right. No context. Taylor sets up the key problem, this is the president was trading his personal needs for military assistance. Thats the big problem. Right. Now lets frame it. And george kent can frame it and take us into the ambassador when she comes in on friday. Marie yovanovitch who was removed. You know what else the one thing reading the kent transcript i think highlights to me and to other people is how smart the process is to have the depositions and then move to the open hearings. Right. Because 50, 60, 100 pages are spent trying to figure out the documents. That would be messy in public hearings. Its messy and everybody would turn it off. Right. So they could handle whatever they learned in those document requests that the state department is not turning over in two or three questions and keep it conlogical by the time you get to kent in the hearing room. So, charlie, the idea of keeping this digestible may explain the other part of the question why theyre not bringing russia into this conversation. A vally the president has been doing in ukraine seems to further russias interest, not our interest. But are they wary about bringing back the Mueller Report or co complicating a simple narrative . If you read the deposition of taylors testimony and kents testimony, they spend a lot of time explaining why american policy was to push back help ukraine push back against russia aggression, why that was important, white military assistance was important, and therefore while people like bill taylor were so upset that this aid was being jammed up for whatever reason before you then even get to this it has been important until the moment in which the administration, for whatever reason, decided to hold up the 391 million. Thats right. Part of what youre getting at is why arent democrats out there saying this is trump helping russia and sort of taking us back to that muelleresque 2017 period of wondering whether trump had clued with russia or was in league with putin. I think they want to stay away from that a little bit because its a distraction. Mueller did not prove collusion with russia and thats not whats on the table here. This could be any country. It maybe heightens it that Foreign Policy was being used, apparently, the allegation here, is foray i want you to announce an investigation into my politic russia was the adversary lurking behind all of this. But it could have happened anywhere in the world. It may not be relevant to the underlying case. To the essence is of it here. We may hear why was the president so antiukraine . We may well hear that giuliani and putin push that line constantly, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. My guess is you will hear that in the next couple of days. Lets talk about what republicans are plan doing because we know its not entirely a legal process. But insofar as someone would use this defense in a legal proceeding, the idea that the transcript, the memo of the phone call on july 25th didnt overtly show conditionality or evidence of pressure that zelensky said there was no pressure, that the Ukrainian Government didnt know about the hold on the 391 million at the time of the phone call and other matters, so the idea being no harm no foul because nothing bad actually happened and the ukrainians lardly knew it was happening. I think weve been through all of those and none of them are true. They can do that. Their problems going to be when the time comes, what witnesses are you going to call . Theres going to be pressure to do that and theyre kind in trouble because the president has stopped them from putting forward any really any witnesses who know anything. We have the three amigos that he put in charge of it. Sondlands a proven liar. Volkers en route to being a proven liar. Perry is not showing up. Mulvaney held up the funds and wont talk. So everybody who is central, they dont really have a solid witness. And i think the democrats are pretty effectively gone through those four points and shown them not to be true. Let me ask you, charlie, sondland, giuliani, and mulvaney, theres talk that theyre going to use these guys as fall guys, that there was some idea that they were working on their own. That sort of defies belief, but do you think thats in the works and is possible . Its something thats out there. Problem with that tragic strategy is that it concedes that something bad happened and the president didnt know the bad thing was happening. It does take me back to Michael Cohens testimony about how trump operates as sort of will no one rid me of this priest without actually given the order. He doesnt want to be forced to say it explicitly. There could be some of that going on around here. But right now trumps defense is this is a perfect call, nothing was untoward here. Even if i did pressure them, theres nothing wrong with that. So throwing someone under the bus for something that was fine doesnt work. Youve got to pick one strategy or the onlier. Thank you both for being here. Cynth cynthia is a former federal prosecutor. Up next, will the hearings change the publics opinion on the impeachment of President Trump . Steve kornacki joins me after the break. But first, theres a new front runner in iowa. Just released poll of iowas Democratic Caucus goers finds mayor Pete Buttigieg has surged to the top at 22 . Th that is a 14 gain since august. Joe biden is at would two at 19 , Elizabeth Warren is at 18 . Senator Bernie Sanders is at 13 and theres a 4. 5 margin of error. The poll also found that less than onethird say they are firmly set on their choice and most say theyre open to supporting a different candidate on caucus night. Well be right back. You are watching msnbc. Night. Well be right back. You are watching msnbc. 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Its only been said behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Heres where americans stand right now on the questions of impeachment. According to the real clear politics average, support for impeaching the president sits at 49 with nearly 46 opposing. Democrats hope the televised hearings are going to display testimonys thatcompelling that will decisively shift towards impeachment. But what does the past tell us . Joining me now is the National Political correspondent steve kornacki. Steve, you and i talk about this all the time. Our political situation and environment is so different that sometimes the past is not the most accurate har ben jof what. What do you think . We have two sort of major sets of hearings, the Senate Watergate committee hearings, summer of fall of 73 and then the House Judiciary Committee in 74 where they drew up, debate and passed articles of impeachment. Ha you s what you saw was that Public Opinion did move if the was responsive to the revelations. Finally got to the point that on the eve of his resignation in august of 1974 about 2 3s of americans said they wanted to see Richard Nixon impeached and removed from office. There was a slow but steady climb in that number. But different era. Media landscape didnt have the partisan, polarized media sources that dominate the conversation back then ro, only three televised stations. So there was really one story that was being told nationally back then. Right. I think because of that, Public Opinion was responsive to it. In your remarkable book, the red and the blue, you sort of indicate that partisanship changed, you know, about 20 years ago or almost 20 years ago. Were talking about 1973. There was a whole different way of thinking about it. So if the public moves had mood shifted as it did in watergate there was some sense that the partisan mood would shift, or at least the mood of members of congress and senators would shift, which it did do in the nixon impeachment. Were in a different world now in which we see a whole lot Less Movement across political lines when it comes to people elected to congress. Absolutely. Try this on for a statistic. At the end of the impeachment drama with Richard Nixon just when he was about to resign from office, a poll found the Republican Party, his party, was split right down the middle on the question. 45 opposed, 44 supported it. With numbers like that what did you get . Breaks among republican lawmakers. It was republican lawmakers who went to the white house in the summer of 74 and said to nixon, youve lost us. If you try to fight thing youre going to lose and be removed from office in the senate. Thats what forced him to leave. Compare that with the numbers now, five, eight, 10 , those are the numbers the percentages of republicans polling now that support trump. That hasnt been moving. Does the idea that a republican law maker is going to get primary play a role in them not shifting their views despite the public may be shift sblg a major thing thats happening from the watergate era to today is the sorting out of the two parties. It used to be they werent that cohesive. You used to have liberal republicans rarity lfrom the no conservative democrats from the south, they were all uneasily share this party umbrellas, their party labels. Back then it was a lot easier for fish susures to develop. Now theyre more defined. Thank you, my friend. Steve kornacki, nbc news National Political correspondent and the author of the red and the blue. All right. Coming up, google reportedly secretly tapped into the medical records of millions of americans Gathering Lab results, ddr dr. Diagnoses, a complete health science. The tech giant says it is all legal. Well have the details after the break but first good news from atlanta where former president jimmy carter is resting comfortably at Emery University hospital after undergoing surgery to relief pressure on his brain. That came as a result of a number of falls this year. The Connor Center says there were no complications from the surgery. The former president will remain in the hospital for observation at 95 years old, carter a cancer survivor, is the oldest living former president. You are watching msnbc. Oldestg former president. You are watching msnbc. I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Now, theres skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months after just 2 doses. Skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches or coughs, or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. Nothing is everything ask your dermatologist about skyrizi. Google is collecting intimate details about americans health. Hospital records,atients or the doctors. Thats according to new reporting by the wall street journal which cites people familiar with the matter and internal documents. It details googles socalled project nightingale which gathers personal health data on millions of americans across 21 states. Google reportedly began the Initiative Last year with the nations second Largest Health system ascension, which is a catholic chain of more than 2,500 medical facilities based in st. Louis. It starts when patients check into one of the affiliated hospitals, doctors offices or seen sooen yo yore care centers. The results are loaded into the nightingale system. The data involved in project nightingale includes lab results, doctor diagnoses, and hospitalization records among other categories and amounts to a complete Health History complete with patients names and dates of birth. This is not anonymized. Is actually real information tied to real americans. The Company Involved the Companies Involved told the wall street journal that the project is in compliance with federal health law and includes robust protections for patient data. Joining me now is the cofounder ever the center for Humane Technology who is an early current investor in facebook, was previously a google investor and hes our guru when it comes to issues of privacy on the internet. Roger, you and i had a conversation a few months ago in which you we werent talking about this particular thing, but you warned of this being the danger, the fact is, i came away from my conversation with you thinking google knows everything about me anyway because they have the ability to read my emails and everything i do goes through them. Now what were learning is this is actually a formal method in which google gathers this information. The problem that we have here is that ascension hired google to provide cloud services, aplace a place to store all the medical records. That should be very private and secure. What is that google has a Health Artificial intelligence operation which, for a long time, it promised would never havedata, and would, therefore, be kept completely separate. In september they moved that operation into google, into the same place that the Search Engine and all the other products are, so that raised a lot of concerns. Then employees at ascension apparently in the documents that were provided to the journal made reference to the possibility that google employees had downloaded patient information. And one of the tells was that people from that health care ai group were assigned to the team working with ascension and would have had access to all of that data. That is obviously a very, very scary possibility. You know, i dont think anyone knows for certain whats happened here, but given the fact that google has been effectively found guilty several times of privacy violations, its hard to be comfortable about where we are. Right. Youve written this book, and youve always argued we focus a lot on facebook because of the politics Mark Zuckerberg gets involved in, the testimonies and things like that. But, in fact, google has a lot of data through google and through youtube. To a lot of people data privacy is an abstraction. Its my information, i should have rights to it, you shouldnt get to monetize it. You postulate what Companies Like google can do. When they have so much information on a person, they can create voodoo dolls in a way, they can determine what your behavior is going to be. So its not monetizing your existing behavior, its predictive. Its almost worse. Imagine everywhere you touch the digital world, traveling, doing a financial transaction, going to the web, whatever it is, you leave a digital footprint behind. All of those are assembled. They are available in the marketplace. Google, facebook and others can take them and construct a voodoo doll. With that they not only predict your behavior, but because they control your information, you do all your searching on google and facebook and products like that, and as a consequence, they can steer your behavior, they can manipulate your behavior in directions that favor them. In my mind that is just completely inappropriate. Personal data, the kind were talking about here, should be a human right, not an asset. There is no way corporations should be able to use it for their economic benefit. But they can, because if these companies if google and its partners have Health Information on you that you dont even have or dont know how to compute, that could spell trouble for individuals who are looking for health services, individuals who are looking for insurance, individuals who would like to keep their job but their company may know something about them. Which is why i spend time in washington working with legislators to get new laws to make sure personal data is treated as a human right, not an asset. Roger, you have written about this, and i encourage people to read your book zucked. He is at center of Human Technology and a onetime google investor. In the next election we could be dealing with fake video, and now after sharp criticism, twitter says it has a plan to deal with deep fakes or aimodified videos in which people appear to say or do something that they did not do or say. 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Thats the kind of market weve had for the last few days. That wraps up this hour for me. I want to thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts right now. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york with the support of the public majority in the senate is the only thing standing between donald trump and his potential removal from office. If the house votes to impeach him, nasty infighting on Donald Trumps west wing on the eve of the impeachment proceeding against the president probably isnt a good omen. The Washington Post, front page story reads, quote, the white houses bifurcated and disjointed response to democrats impeachment inquiry has been fueled by a fierce west wing battle between two of President Trumps top advisers. Thats according to white house and congressional officials. Quote, in the three years of his election, mr. Trump has never been accused of running a cohesive, unified team. 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