This issue. Jeff ben set live at the white house. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. Whats the latest with the troop deployments . Reporter texas is the first state to heed the president s call following his surprise announcement this week to deploy up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the border to help crack down on crime and illegal immigration. Texas has sent 250 guardsmen, arizona is sending another 150. New mexico also says its on board with the president s plan. Those are three border states all led by republican governors. California, the other border state led by democratic governor jerry brown, california hasnt made a decision about all of this yet. And you read the president s tweet which he sent in the last hour or so where he says the dems have been a disaster on this very important issue. Something we should point out, i spoke with someone familiar with the president s thinking in terms of politics as we approach this Midterm Election year. And this person said expect to hear the president talk a lot about taxes, the republican tax cut plan, trade, and immigration. These are the three issues the president sees as political winners to really animate, to drive the base. One of the reasons why its so important for the president to push these issues is because the Big Government spending bill he signed two weeks ago, thats expected to be the last major piece of legislation to leave congress in this election year. We know the infrastructure push isnt happening, there may not be a big Foreign Policy push apart from the expected meeting the president s going to have with the leader of north korea. So these are the three issues the president s going to focus on in the next couple of months here. Lets talk trade. Steve mnuchin says theres a potential for a trade war with china. Weve already seen stocks tumble amid fears. In about an hour about an hour ago, trump tweet good china. Reporter yeah. You talk about the stock decline. Look, yesterday the president gave an interview to wabc radio where he said there might be little bit of shower and thunderstorm pain, i think was shortterm pain, i think was the phrase he used, but there could be longterm gain for the American Economy if these tariffs are the thing that gets china to stop its unfair trade practices. Thats the view of the administration. So the president sent out another tweet about this which ill read, he says, the United States hasnt had a trade surplus with china in 40 years. They must end unfair trade, take down barriers, and charge only reciprocal tariffs. The u. S. Is losing 500 billion a year and has been losing billions of dollars for decades. Cannot continue. That said, the president s top economic adviser, larry kudlow, was right where im standing here, im talking to you just yesterday, as the markets opened, trying to do what he could to sort of calm fears on wall street. Hes suggesting that this could just be a tough negotiating tactic, that these tariffs might never even come into fruition. And while he says there is no timeline, certainly this entire thing could take months. These tariffs could take months before theyre ever applied. Theyre playing a highstakes game of chicken. Jeff ben tet white house this afternoon. Thank you. To break down the headlines, lets turn to our panel, josh barrow, Senior Editor at Business Insider and Sarah Westwood washington correspondent for the washington examiner. Thank you for joining us. Josh, i want to get your reaction to trumps tweet, the governors of new mexico, arizona, texas, all republicans, are backing the deployment. But we have yet to hear from california governor jerry brown. What do you make of that . I imagine they want to find out what the troops will do and the nature of the commitment. This is not that unprecedented. The president started talking about this saying he was going to send the military to the Mexican Border which sounded like a very strange thing for a domestic deployment. When you use the National Guard, george w. Bush and barack obama ordered this at various points for the National Guard to act in a support role, supporting the Border Patrol by doing things like surveillance. This is not that unusual a thing for the president to do. Obviously he wants to demonstrate that hes taking action with regard to the border. This is something he has executive power to do things, whereas he would need congress to agree to finance an expensive wall construction campaign. The thing i find a little strange about it is that when you think about what the major challenges in u. S. Immigration enforcement are, really stronger border enforcement shouldnt be at the top of that list. Weve already gotten a lot better at enforcing the border over the years. There are issues with interior enforcement and with employers being able to employ people who lack legal authorization to work in this country. Theres also some issues over what should be done when people show up at the Mexican Border seeking asylum which the administrations also been talking about. Thats not really something that the National Guard is going to be able to be helpful with. Sarah, we are 24 to 48 hours away from seeing the troops. What do you think the troops will do with tensions with mexico . Do you think that will cause any aggravation there . Obviously i think mexico and the u. S. Dont have the greatest relationship right now. Its potentially not the best timing for the president to be sending troops to the border now because hes also trying to push mexico to make concessions on trade when it comes to renegotiating nooft. At the same time nafta. At the same time that hes doing something that account vex mexico, hes also looking for them to be more cooperative. That said, you know, weve already seen mexico respond favorably to President Trumps threats when it came to the caravan coming through mexico. It didnt look lake there was a plan to look like there was a plan to stop the immigrants until President Trump started pushing. Then we did see authorities rush to break up the caravan. This could be a way for trump to prod mexico into taking more responsibility for enforcing illegal immigration. All right. Thank you very much. Josh, lets turn to Stormy Daniels for just a moment now. This morning her lawyer, his her lawyer, rather, tweeted, major announcement is coming. This story does not seem to be going anywhere. Has trump met his match with Michael Avenatti when it comes to at least staying in the headlines . Yeah. I think part of the program is to what extent is Michael Avenattis job as a lawyer and to what extent is he a p. R. Guy . Hes a showman. I dont know what to make of the claim that theyll have information about the identity. I want to wait and see, you know, what if anything they actually have to show on that. I think part of whats their overall strategy here is that the president finds it painful for this to be in the news. So as part of their litigation strategy, they want to make it painful for the president to drag out any action that hes trying to take against Stormy Daniels or that Michael Cohen is trying to take against Stormy Daniels under that agreement to go to arbitration that they had. And sarah, trump made his first Public Comments on daniels earlier this week. He told reporters that he didnt know about the 130,000 payment made to daniels for her silence. Could those comments come back to haunt u haunt him . Well, thats consistent with what the white house said publicly so far, that he didnt have any knowledge of the payment. He still officially denies that the affair even took place at all. I think if trump had come out and contradicted what his spokespeople had been saying to reporters all this time, that might put him in legal jeopardy. So far theres been no evidence to tie trump to the payment that was made to Stormy Daniels. Theres been no evidence to suggest that he was aware of the nondisclosure agreement. Come on so far it looks like President Trump has floated above it. I mean, common sense. Like Michael Cohen is just out there writing sixfigure checks to people right, common sense, you never know but so far theres not been any concrete evidence to tie him to that. I mean, no one can point to anything that suggests any document, any witness that says he had knowledge of it. My common sense would dictate that obviously no lawyer is that good to pay out of his own pocket. But theres not been evidence so far. Yeah. If hes not acknowledging it, can they now spoeak about that . Josh, can they speak about that . If hes not acknowledging that it never happened, can Stormy Daniels now talk about that and does that invalidate that nondisclosure agreement . Thats a matter before the courts. One thing thats surprised people is the president s been disciplined about how he talks about it. In court, theyre trying to enforce the nondisclosure agreement against her. If the president makes commence that hes also supposed to not be making under a nondisclosure agreement, that undermines their attempt to enforce that on her and to get penalties from her. I think theres probably a reason the president has been a little more restrained talking about this than about some other things that bother him. All right. Josh barrow and Sarah Westwood, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Now to the continuing fallout surrounding embattled epa chief scott pruitt. According to the associated press, pruitt reportedly spent millions of dollars on travel and for a 20help fulltime security detail that is three times the size of his predecess predecessors parttime conte contecontend contingent. Pruitt faces a long list of alleged ethics violationings relating to his staff and housing arrangement as a growing list of members in Congress Call for pruitt to resign. For more, lets bring in congressman steve cohen, democrat from tennessee. Hes also a member on the house ethics and judiciary committees. Congressman, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. You wrote a letter demanding the removal of pruitt from the epa. You have at least ten democrats who have also signed that letter this week. You say pruitt is currently under three separate investigations. What are those . Hes given two employees raises using an obscure part of the through give one employee a 50,000 raise and another 28,000 raise. He then denied that he knew anything about it. But if youre the secretary, you ought to know the raises given to two of your top people, and you ought to be the one that determines that. Hes also got the question about his Living Conditions in designees. And the most u in d. C. And the most unique Living Condition anybody in d. C. Has. Its with a lobbyist and or the wife of a lobbyist who gave him a 50aday rental fee for a condo on capitol hill but doesnt charge him on the days when hes not there. That is bizarre. You cant just leave your clothes and luggage and belongings and not be charged for that day and decide to be charged for the days when you get yourself in bed and put your head on the pillow. Theres a second bedroom in the condo that his daughter has occupied at no rent. Nobody comes up with does he have the use of the kitchen or the living room. Its obviously in the way it was written, its written for his benefit, not as a landlord would write it. And in that market, the landlord rules. Its a an area of great demand for housing. You sign a lease with the landlord for a team, months or years, not for a day. So thats unusual and ethically questionable. He didnt give the ethics people much notice of what he was engaging in. And then theres all the money he spent. The firstclass travel everywherely goes. Morocco, he spent 40,000 to promote oklahomas gas industry, not having anything to do with the epa. Then an italian jaunt where he spent 120,000. He and security and family. What a great time they had, venice, florence, wherever they went. They might have been up at lake como where the hoitytoities go. He uses government money like its somebody elses, not his own. So far three republicans have also called for pruitt to step down. How big an ethical concern do you think that is in this case . We know that ten democrats have signed that letter, but now also three republicans, as well. Well, and leader pelosi has come out independently and called on him to resign. The fact is i think this is even too much for the Trump Administration. When secretary price got out of line with all of his travel, chartering airplanes which which pruitt does, as well, he charters airplanes and used military to fly back to oklahoma on many occasions that were apparently political, this is too much for trump. Price had to go with his travel and what he did. And pruitt needs to go, and i dont think that the president will put up with this any longer. And i think if i were mr. Pruitt, i would be happy i had a 50anitrate because hed be liable for some additional time on his lease if he had one for a period of time. And its not just pruitt, right . We have tom price, steve mnuc n mnuchin, ryan zinke, ben carson. What do you have to say to the Trump Administration about their spending had been snits. Theyre certainly good for the economy. They buy 30,000 dining room tables at hud. They have horses they ride around like theyre napoleon. Thats some of the things going on. And they have more security than you could imagine. Pruitt with a 43,000 bill for a personal telephone cabinet or booth in his office. So that nobody can listen to him. Who wants to hear him. Maybe hes calling Stormy Daniels. Who knows what hes doing to have to have a 43,000 maxwell smarttype machine to keep his conversations private. Then he wanted to have a biometric door panel for entry into his office and a 3,000 nobid sweep of his office to see if hes being bugged. The man needs help. And he doesnt know anything about the appearance of impropriety, and all federal employs are supposed top operate beyond reproach and the appearance of impropriety. This man reeks of it. Thank you very much for joining us this afternoon, sir. Nice to be with you from memphis where we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of dr. Kings passing. And renewed our commitment to the dream and to better a better world with peace, love, and justice. Truer words were never said. Thank you very much, sir. Were following breaking news out of germany this hour. A driver plowed into a crowd leaving three people dead including the driver. It happened in munster, the western part of the country. And Tammy Leitner is in our London Bureau. I understand you have new details about the driver of that van . Reporter thats right. Weve gotten new information about the suspect. According to sources within the Investigation Unit of nbcs german unit zdf, the driver is a germanborn citizen. We know he took his own life. Police believe he was the one driving the vehicle. Were told police told by police theyre not looking for anyone else believed to be involved. But they are interviewing other people at the scene. As you know, they have to talk to everybody. This can be a painstaking, slow process. Lets go through what happened. The attack happened at 3 27 p. M. Local time in munster. Police saying it was an attack but not necessarily a terror attack. We now know that the person identified by sources as yenz ar drove a vehicle into a crowded area of town. There were a lot of people outside because this happened to be one of the first nice days. People were at outdoor cafes, enjoying warm weather. Police trying to establish a motive, interviewing witnesses. Theyll likely be out throughout the night working this investigation and searching the moment where the driver lived as well as his vehicle and talking to family members. Phillip . Tammy leitner covering breaking news for us out of our London Bureau this afternoon. Thank you. A storm is brewing. Thats according to the attorney of porn star Stormy Daniels. The big announcement Michael Avenatti claims is coming in his clients case. After a dvt blood clot. I sure had a lot on my mind. My 30year marriage. My 3month old business. Plus. What if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . 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Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Plus had less major bleeding. Both made eliquis right for me. Ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. Hello. Give me an hour in tanning room 3. Cheers thats confident. But its not kayak confident. Kayak searches hundreds of travel sites to help me plan the best trip. So im more than confident. Forgot me goggles. Kayak. Search one and done. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . No. Then why why did Michael Cohen make this if there was no you have to ask Michael Cohen. Michaels my attorney. And youll have to ask michael. Do you know where he got the money to make that payment . No, i dont know. Im sorry that was President Trump this week denying that he knew about the payment his lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet. I want to bring in our legal analyst, danny sav alos, and yodit yalaway. What does trump speaking about this mean . Trump saying he knew nothing about the 130,000 payout wasnt information we had already heard. Michael cohen has been consistent in saying he knew nothing about it. And Michael Cohens attorney has said the same. What makes this significant is, one, trump saying something for the first time about Stormy Daniels is a big deal. Two, what trump doesnt understand is what he says publicly can be used against him in a court of law. And so if this case were to stay in a trial Court Setting and Michael Avenatti gets to depose the president , its fair game. He can ask about the statement he made on the back of air force one. Trump could stay consistent with that answer under oath in a deposition and possibly perjure himself, or admit that he lied d on air force one. Either way is problematic for President Trump. You dont want to be in a deposition or trial Court Setting where youre being crossexamined, and you have comments in the past be brought back up. Thats going to be problematic for him if mike will avenatti gets Michael Avenatti gets a crack at him in a deposition setting. Could he be hurting his clients case by being in the spotlight so often . As a germ rule, you always run that risk. Avenatti has demonstrated that he is a mediasavvy attorney and hes careful to stick to the facts and not divulge too much or overcommit his client and somehow compromise her legal position. It is true. Attorneys can legally bind their clients with their statements which is why attorneys must be extra careful when appearing on media programs like this to not bind their client in a way that adversely messages that. That said, after gnats been careful. He stuck to the facts and a limitedavenattis careful. Hes stuck to the facts and the limited number of facts for his client. What of the accounts that the president is the subject of the probe and not a criminal target . You know, trump likes to be finessed. And mueller telling him that hes a subject is sort of letting those guards down. You know, come talk to me. I just want to know what you know. But we have to understand that just because you walk into an interview with these investigators as a subject doesnt mean you cant walk out as a target. And with trumps mouth, thats not really a hard thing to do because the man cant stop lying. But yeah. So i think its one of those things where, you know, you want trump, if you remember early on, was so adamant on having comey tell the public that he wasnt the subject of the investigation, he was so adamant in in letting that be known. And so telling him that hes just the subject makes it, you know, easier for him to go and cooperate. Im sure that trumps attorneys are letting him know that that could change very easily. Thats something that trump to your point would probably want to hear. Danny, we dont know yet when mueller will get to interview President Trump. What do you make what would you if you were in that position of mueller, what would you ask trump if you were there sitting at the table with him . If i were mueller, i would have none of us are mueller. We have no idea what his team knows. But i can guarantee you they will have exhaustive notes prepared, and for two reasons. First, so they know what questions theyre asking. Secondly because should an interviewee like trump try to massage the facts, once you go afoul of what the fbi or the u. S. Attorneys believed to be the truth, youve committed a brandnew crime under section 1001, which weve already seen during this investigation giving false statements to authorities and the connection with an investigation such as this. Trump needs to be very careful if i were defending trump, first i would be very, very squeamish about letting him sit down with investigators for an even informal interview because of the potential legal jeopardy. And secondly, i would advise him and prepare him exhaustively for questioning and explain to him that only, only the truth must be told, and secondly, assume that the questioner knows the answer to every question that he or she is asking. All right. You get to play Robert Mueller here then. What would you ask him . I have to laugh because danny said that the truth and trump, and that never can coincide well. The fact that trump loves to go off script is also problematic. Mueller is like so fascinating to me, i cant even begin to think like mueller. I mean, he comes out with these surprises, and youre always left wondering where did he pull that trick out of the bag. I mean, i dont i dont even know where to begin. Im sure that mueller has a lot to ask trump, and im sure that trump, no matter how much hes prepped, will fudge the interview. I dont even know im glad im not trumps attorney. Its going to be a doozy. It really is. All right. 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Instead, a neighboring congressman as well as paul ryans democratic opponent, randy bryce. And randy bryce has raised 5 million. I was interesting walking in here, just wrapped up, what the questions were going to be about to his democratic opponent. For the first 57 minutes, all the questions had to do with gun control legislation. This wasnt the only one. There were town halls across the country. No republicans took part. I want to play sound from one voter in virginia. Barbara comstocks district, a vocal republican. This is what one voter told us this afternoon. I think just showing them how we feel and how we dont feel safe when we go to school. Showing that some things arent okay and that its common sense that we should make better gun laws that are safer for everyone, i think its important. Reporter eye been talking to the voters ive been talking to the voters on the grounds. The one thing they keep coming back to was the fact that this was organized by two high school students, two different high schools here. They went and knocked on paul ryans Congressional District door, invited him. He declined the invitation. You saw the candidate and the neighboring congressman here listening to the voters concerns. Ive talked to multiple paul ryan voters, as a matter of fact. This is a district hes won now for the last 18 years. Whether theres enough republicans willing to flip over and vote for the democrat, there are two running off in a primary here is the question. And whether the guncontrol reform measures are enough to get voters to the polls. Note there was frustration why a month after the march for our lives rally there that theres still has not been much guncontrol legislation taken up as part of the spending bill there. They ultimately passed fix nics which forced local Law Enforcement agencies to put more information into background checks and also put a little bit of money into a grants program for school protection. A lot of voters said thats not enough. Speaker paul ryan should be at the forefront of the movement. Phillip . Vaughn hilliard at one of the many gatherings around the country today. Thank you very much for joining us. Sweeping sanctions. The white house takes its strongest stance yet against russia while the Foreign Ministry promises a harsh response. How the measures could impact the relationship between putin and President Trump. From only the thickest, juiciest heinz tomatoes. No one grows ketchup like heinz™. And i recently had hi, ia heart attack. It changed my life. But im a survivor. After my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. Its for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. Brilinta is taken with a lowdose aspirin. 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And Stormy Daniels lawyer has promised a major announcement exposing the identity of the person who reportedly threatened daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with President Trump. Joining me to discuss this, gop strategist evan sigfried and democratic strategist tara dowdell. Tara, trump is back on twitter pushing the tariff drum beat after the dow fell over 500 points yesterday over fears of a trade war. How could this play out for a president who counts on a Strong Economy for so much of his suppor support . I think its going to continue to do damage to donald trump. You see hes no longer bra ee e about the stock market. I think the problem for trump is this is the way he operates. It is chaotic. It is ill thought ought, ill prepared, and thats the way he reacts. He responds and reacts based on things he sees on television, segments that he sees. That is not a recipe for effective governing. He often surprises his own administration and fails to look at the consequences of his actions. Thats not to say that there arent issues around our trade deficits that should be explored. They need to be explored in a thoughtful way. It cant be based on your ego, it cant be based on political expedience and whipping up the base. That is not a recipe for effectively management of the economy. Evan, trumps threat to impose another 100 billion in tariffs on china, it could have unintended consequences for the gop. Bloomberg speculates that the tariffs could wreck the party at the ballots this fall. What are your thoughts on that . First of all, tara says that the tariffs do damage to donald trump. They do more damage to the American People and american consumer. Tariffs are taxes, and taxes are tariffs. And theres no way around it. And china has yet to even really even retaliate in any significant fashion. And look what has already happened. If china really wanted to go after us, they would start limiting the exports of Rare Earth Minerals and metals that the United States is the biggest consumer of. And we put those we use those to become microchips and put them into cell phones, cars, gps systems, and americans are 100 reliant on it. If china limits that, trump would be and the American People would be in significant trouble. It would remind me of the hamburger crisis of 1946 which caused republicans to take the house and the senate by overwhelming odds in the midterms after world war ii with a very good economy. I think that the president has failed to understand that chinas retaliation is doing significant damage. Take the wine industry, near and dear to my heart. You have china about to become the biggest consumer of wine in the world. And the tariffs they have proposed in retaliation against california, oregon, washington wines would cost cost the American Economy 1. 62 billion a year. And it would absolutely cripple the American Wine industry while europe would flourish. Tara, lets talk about other issues going on within trumps administration. We know he is publicly defending scott pruitt. But the a. P. Is reporting that he was in a meeting with the president yesterday fighting for his job. How do you think the president really feels about the head of the epa . Well, i think that donald trump probably wants to keep scott pruitt in place. The issue is that he cant keep scott pruitt in place. What scott pruitt has done, hes been the biggest grifter in the Trump Administration. The stuart detail he has is costing millions of dollars, the flying first class, literally after being exposed the first time, he just escalated his behavior. Its getting to the point where hes dominating the headlines. Thats when we know that trump makes his move. He makes his move when the headlines are just being dominated by a member yet another corrupt member of his administration, and it doesnt matter what hes saying publicly, we know that hes praised people on many occasions publicly. And then hes tweeted that theyve been fired. And evan, what do you think the president should do with scott pruitt . First of all, you know, the person whos most upset at the situation is former congressman Randy Duke Cunningham who lived almost rentfree on a boat in washington, d. C. , provided to him by a defense contractor who had business in front of his committee. That was in 2006. Duke cunningham went to prison for eight years and two months because of what he did. And scott pruitt for something similar is basically right now Still Holding his job. There is zero accountability in this Trump Administration. And its absolutely outrageous. Scott pruitt needs to not resign. The president needs to actually fire him. Even via twitter because that humiliation would be deserved considering whats happened. What weve seen is that the president promise today to drain the swamp. Because a lot of americans are angry at the dysfunction in washington. But scott pruitt is the ultimate swamp creature. He doesnt care. He feels like he is abuse the powers of his office to suit his own wills. I think its brave that congressman elise stefanic, ileana roslehtinen, and others said he needs to go. I applaud the democrats that have done that. Its a moral and ethical issue that were facing. The Trump Administration is refusing to homeland peop to people accountable for wrongdoing. Why is it that President Trump has Scott Pruitts back after all of this . I was going to say trump has Scott Pruitts back because Scott Pruitts behavior is not unlike Donald Trumps behavior. Donald trump is the person whos ultimately gotten away with the most wrongdoing. Again, as i said earlier, he does not care about what scott pruitt has done. What he cares about is the repercussions of what scott pruitt has done and continues to do. Its the headlines. Its the taking away from trump making the headlines. It is not the act of wrongdoing. Theres a reason why so many in this administration are behaving the way that they can because the examples being set at the top. Evan, i want to give you the chance to answer, as well. Why do you think that trump still has Scott Pruitts back after this . Donald trump likes scott pruitt because hes gotten results. Donald trump forgets that you could put anybody in there because the Republican Party for the most part holds Scott Pruitts views and would be able to execute what he has done. Donald trump could have somebody whos a nodrama person running the epa, getting all of the results that scott pruitt has gotten, and not essentially having these really scandalous situations. I have to also say that the person whos probably happiest with the scott pruitt story is ben carson because thats pushed his 31,000 dining chair out of the news. And also ryan zinke with what he was jared kushner. Its sort of whos going to overshadow the latest controversy, and Scott Pruitts probably hoping to find somebody. Right now he is the target. Quite a long and impressive list there. Evan, tara. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. More on the fallout at facebook, the social network announcing new changes to its advertising policies making it harder to create fake accounts and spread misinformation. Ceo Mark Zuckerberg also coming out in support of legislation ramping up regulations for political ads on social media sites like facebook, twitter, and google. And zuckerberg will meet with lawmakers face to face next week when he testifies before the senate and house on why his company mishandled the private data of millions of users. Joining me to discuss all of this is the host of tech radio show marketplace molly wood. And Senior Writer for wired magazine, erin griffin. Thank you for joining us. Lets start with the new policy changes here. The advertisers must verify identity and location to buy political or issue ads, verify who manages large facebook pages and new labels on ads showing who paid for them. Are these changes sufficient or just steps in the right direction . Molly, well start with you. This is not a time for consumers to sit back. If anything we should be saying i dont know why this wasnt required before. You have to be a real person. You cant use a suds eliminate. I think pseudonym. I think that these are basic steps in terms of securing your platform and political advertising on that platform. I dont think we should give facebook too much credit here for taking what are essentially common sense steps that they probably should have taken and would have been required to take if they were a traditional broadcaster or traditional news publisher. Erin, washington has welcomed changes. What about the users . The concern for the average facebook uuzbekistan faceboo user. Has facebook answered this question, can they keep, as a facebook user, can they keep our Information Safe . I think that that is a huge question that a lot of people have. The funny thing is facebook has been answering to these privacy scandals for the last 14 years. The company has been apologizing repeatedly. Any time they do something that surprises us or throws us off, people are outraged. Facebook apologizes and waits a couple of weeks for it to die down and continues on with business as usual. This is the first time that it has escalated to this level. People are actually deleting facebook. So i think maybe the company is finally taking this more seriously for the first time. At least thats the hope. And molly, Mark Zuckerberg has come out in support of the honest ads act for stronger regulations on political advertising on line. Senators, mark warner, push for more legislation for this for months now. Will there be any broader support for this bill do you think . I think there could be support for Something Like an honest ads act. I dont think that that would address the primary concern with facebook which is exactly as was articulated. Its the data collection. What i would like to see is broader regulations around how consumer data can be collected, how long it can be whether we have the right to ask for data to be deleted from servers and companies that facebooks given our information to. I think the honest ads act could go somewhere. Thats a bit of an easy fix. Doesnt get at the heart of what really is the problem with facebook and a lot of other Tech Companies which is that its an economy built on our personal information, and we dont have any control. This is a feature of facebooks product, not a bug. Its not an accident. This is built into what facebook is. Its why its a 500 billion company. Thats right. Molly, erin, thank you very much for joining us. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Boots on the ground. President trump deploys National Guard troops to stop the caravans of immigrants he claims are headed into our country. What the move really means for our Border Security. Its easy to think that all Money Managers are pretty much the same. But while some push High Commission investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. Fisher investments never does. 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Its the first step in President Trumps plan to curb illegal immigration. Texas is sending 250 troops to the border and arizona will follow suit next week with 150 more. Joining me now is the National Press secretary for the libre initiative. What are your Major Concerns here when you have a military presence on the border . Its understanding that this is more of a cosmetic move for the president. He hasnt been able to accomplish his promise of securing the borders, moving forward with heart for the dreamers, so hes trying to take action but its a cosmetic move. The National Guard cannot detain people at the border. The National Guard can only play a role of assisting individuals, they will not be armed and they will not be able to go to the core of what we need, which is actual Border Security that includes surveillance, modernizing our technology, fixing infrastructure so at the end of the day this is more of a cosmetic move for the president. I want to get your reaction to those who point to president obamas decision to send 1200 members of the National Guard to the border in 2010. Is it fair for democrats to criticize President Trump for this move . Its important to understand the context. When president obama called for this action, he worked with the governors in texas and arizona but it was important to understand that we had an influx of unaccompanied minors at the border. Were talking about something about 50 to 60,000 minor children coming from mexico and from central america. So it was a crisis and a need for reinforcement. Many people have said the reason why the president is calling for the National Guard is because of this caravan coming from central america. The numbers dont pair at all with the 60,000 and 70,000 numbers we saw during the obama era. So the National Guard is not going to be able to play the same role weve seen in the past. We think the president should work with congress. Theres a deal on the table, a deal they can take that couples Border Security, the improvement on our border with a certainty for dreamers and thats a longterm permanent solution. What do you think this is about . Do you think this is just political posturing . Again, the president ran from day one talking about the crisis at the boarder or the need for Border Security. Its no need that since day one hes been looking for opportunities to build the wall, if it was part of a infrastructure package or part of the omnibus or part of the march 5 deadline on daca, hes looking for these opportunities but he has not been able to accomplish this so we believe this is his way of sort of saying im taking action. Hes trying to look for a win but again this cant be a win unless were going the core of the problem and the core of the problem is that the border needs improvement and in order for that improvement to come, sfrunfunds have to come through congress and the only way to do that is by coupling it with some real action for the dreamers. Ill add this, the president and congress had action in 2017. They had tax reform. But in 2018 people are getting frustrated because there seems to be a lack of urgency to move forward on Border Security, on dreamers, on criminal justice reform, if they want to have these accomplishments for the 2018 midterms, theyre going to have to start putting urgency into their agenda. Wadi gaitan, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Well speak to you again on another day. Thank you. Did john kelly threaten to quit . Details on a new report that a recent oval Office Blowup almost ended with the chief of staffs tenure. Copd makes it hard to breathe. 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Have a good weekend, my friend. Im richard lui at the headquarters in new york city. Oval office meltdown. A new report that john kelly got so heated with the president he threatened to quit. Pruitt under pressure. Calls for the right and left as the ethics scandals pile up against him. Storm watch. A major announcement coming from Stormy Daniels lawyer about the man she claims threaten her to keep silent. Order to the border. National guard troops are deployed to the mexico border to help secure it until President Trump gets his wall, but whos paying for . Also new developments from munster, germany, where a truck plowed into a crowd of people, killing two and injuring dozens more. Well start this hour with new reporting from axios this afternoon. Jonathan swan reporting white house chief of staff john kelly threatened to quit acourting to sources familiar with the event. Kelly reportedly blew up at the president at an Oval Office Meeting the same day. A Senior Administration official tried to pour cold water on the report and said calling it a threat was probably too strong. It was more venting frustration. This coming amid the president reshuffling his cabinet and escalating trade tensions with china. President trump tweeting today the u. S. Is losing 500 billion a year and has been losing billions of dollars for decades, cannot continue