We learned the former staff secretary held an interim security clearance presumably because his two exwives accused him off Domestic Assault yet he had access to classified information. Another person with limited clearance is the president s own soninlaw, Jared Kushner. Which is scarier that trump doesnt read his Daily Briefing or that Jared Kushner does . In the case of kushner, theres a potential Security Risk but also the more immediate question of how appropriate is it for him to have access to the material under any circumstances. That takes us back to the fact that the 37yearold real estate scion has no credential outside of who he married. The culture is created from the top down. Donald trump sold himself as law and order president. The man who would protect you, the man, unlike hillary clinton, who wouldnt Compromise National Security or classified information. But in his first year of office hes used an unsecured cell phone for months, revealed highly classified spy intel passed on from an ally to russian leaders while in the oval office. Released a gop memo about spying techniques. He lo he allows his soninlaw to have access to the same briefing. Again, he campaigned on not doing this. She sent vast amounts of classified information, including information classified as top secret. Top secret. Okay . And this is where they said that she was extremely careless and, frankly, i say grossly incompetent. Nbc intelligence and National Security reporter ken dilanian. Tom do you pree served at deputy isnt attorney general from 2007 to 2009 and was a lawyer for george w. Bush. Everyone, welcome. Jeff, lets start with you at the white house. Just listing those facts that donald trump has done or allowed in the past year in office, the kislyak meeting the kushner access, the porter access, the unsecured phone in the early days of his administration. How is the white house responding to this, especially given that he campaigned on not doing these things . Its a pretty damming list. When the white house gets questions like this they often reject the prem of the question. And we know president selectively choose and reveals information valid or otherwise to show hes the victim of a deepstate conspiracy to undermine his presidency. But lets talk about the issue of clearances for staff because thats the thing were drilling on today here at the white house. You heard the president ignore the questions from our colleague. White house employees who work for President Trump, President Trump as commander in chief can determine which executive Branch Workers have access to classified documents. But the thing s what is allowed and what is acceptable are, of course, not the same thing. For all of the shifting narratives about how the white house handled the spousal abuse allegations of rob porter, nothing changes the fact that rob porter, the person responsible for handling the information flow to the president didnt have Adequate Security clearance, and that the fbi considered him vulnerable to blackmail on account of the allegations made by his exwives and its leading to new questions about Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw and Senior Adviser who still doesnt have a full security clearance for his role in the white house after more than a year on the job. Kushner is getting special treatment given his relationship to the president and that is krj. There are also questions about don mcgahn and the role hes played. But at this point its not clear who if anyone will account for the many questions about who has access to Sensitive Information in this white house and why. Vulnerable to blackmail reminded me about michael flynn. Michael flynn was the National Security adviser also working or at least in the past working for turkey, not disclosing his meetings with russia or what he spoke about in those meetings. He was also, according to the doj, vulnerable to blackmail and he maintained that position, correct me if im wrong, for two weeks after sally yates and told the white house that. Thats another example. Ken, i was talking to a former obama intel officer this morning. When i asked him why Jared Kushner might still not have a permanent clearance or why it might be taking so long, the intel officer told me that his instinct is that the white house is not furbishing fbi for a resolution. That was probably the same thing for porter as well, that if they dont want to hear what the fbi has to say theyll put it off because they know it will be bad. Like troughing grade an exam because its likely to student loan will get an f. I spoke to a legal expert today, katy, who had the same adhere and said since he has an interim clearance, the pressure may be off to pursue it further. He said its unprecedented for someone to be receiving the president ial daily brief. When it comes to classified information, the president is like the king. Its his information, he can give it to whoever he wants. He can bring the white House Cleaning crew into his intelligence briefing if he wants to. But this expert said its unheard of for the president to go against the fbis conclusion if somebodys not suited for a certain classification level it would be extremely unusual if not unheard of for the president to overraid thide that. Kushner didnt tell the truth on his foreign contacts and hes a subject of the Robert Mueller russia investigation. This is a serious matter that would cause anyone to have trouble getting a security clearance. He had to revise his forms three times. Correct me if im wrong, but if i talked to former fbi agents, they say the number one thing you dont do to the fbi is lie or not tell the whole truth. Every time you update it they just restarting the process and then theyre going to look at those updates and say why didnt you disclose this before . These folks in the white house are a security clearance processing disaster. If youre in the National Security community, usually you know always report your foreign contacts, any sort of trips overseas. These people, most of their life is either making trips overseas or meeting with foreign contacts. You also see repeatedly they dont disclose everything. This is leading to people discovering things and having to go back and processing again. What are the risks of allowing him, especially when to cnn if hes going to get a permanent clearance or not, what are the rivgsks of allowing himo see the nations most sensitive secrets, you have to put additional scrutiny and monitoring on that individual while they have the interim clearance. The other thing thats troubling is they havent divested from their businesses. Theyre still maintaining other activities outside the white house. So its like the version of insidertrating trading when National Security secrets. If youre watching everything that comes in, whats preventing you that making sure your real estate deals arent benefiting from it in some ways as well or picking up on this information. The first rule of thumb when you go in government is to get rid of all your associations outside of the government and the private sector. Usually we see your tax returns. We know about that as well. The things i listed, the Kislyak Lavrov meeting, the unsecured phone, the releasing the memo despite the recommendations by his own fbi and doj, when you hear those things, what does it say to you from your knowledge and experience about the way donald trump values classified information . Katy in this respect in that case so many others, there is a very unusual president. He is doing things differently than many of his predecessors. I think its fair to say prior administrations you would give a different degree of deference. We heard this president speak to the fact that, number one u he doesnt have faith in the judgment of a lot of these Law Enforcement officials, and shes shown a greater willingness to use classified information in more of a strategic sense, from a strategic declassifications or judgments that may not track the recommendations of his intelligence professionals but what he has deemed to be in the best interest of the nation. Do you mean his own political benefit, stuff that he can use to his advantage . When you look at the memo, he can use at a to his advantage. When you look at the meeting with kislyak and lavrov, you have to wonder was he trying to brag . The unsecured phone, he just wanted to talk to his present address, presumely. Is it about how donald trump could use it . Its a clear example of the president was obviously concerned about reports that he got about what led to the wiretap on carter page. When he was told of the information in the nunes memo, he said there what i classified secrets but thats outweighed by the greater good of getting the nunes memo out to the public because it told the story he felt the American People needed to know. Donald trump campaigned on this very issue. Hillary clinton cannot be trusted with classified information. You had donald trump surrogates saying even worse things that she should be locked up or shot for treason because these things and were seeing the way donald trump regards this information for the year hes been in office. D gentlemen, thank you very much. Update on breaking news we brought you last hour. The president s daughterinlaw has been sent to the hospital as a precaution after a suspicious package containing powered was sent to her apartment in new york city. Tom winter joins me here with the latest. What do we know so far . What we know from officer Law Enforcement officials here in new york is that Vanessa Trump, whos donald juniors wife was taken to the hospital along with two other people as a precaution after they opened a letter and inside the letter which was addressed to donald trump jr. There was a white powdery substance inside. And so out of an abundance of caution they took Vanessa Trump to the hospital along with two other people. They did field tests on the powder and so far it has come back negative for biological substances. No anthrax . None at this point. Theyre going to take that substance now and do a more thorough investigation, but at this point it hasnt come back to be anything suspicious. Theyre obviously going to investigate who sent this letter. This is an ongoing investigation, but so far its turning out to be nothing nefarious at this point. Donald trump jr. Didnt want to have his secret service detail. If he had the full detail, would their mail go through the a different Processing Center before it gets to them . Its a good question. Once you start getting outside of the first family and then once you start getting into spouses and relives. Why are they opening their own mail . Its a little unclear if there was procedure in place or if one needed to be in place. Was there a protocol that normally is put in place. Those are things that will be reviewed. But the good news is that it appears theres nothing actually suspicious or nefarious about this substance. Glad to hear theres nothing so far about the substance. Tom winter, thank you very much for being here. Good reporting. The white house is still trying to get its story straight on rob porter. Could it cost the chief of staff john kelly his job . Thats next. Hi, im joan lunden with a place for mom every day we hear from families who partnered with a Senior Living advisor from a place for mom to help find the Perfect Place for their mom or dad thank you so much for your assistance in helping us find a place. Mom feels safe and comfortable and has met many wonderful residence and staffers. Thank you for helping our family find our father a new home. We especially appreciate the information about the va aid and attendance program. I feel i found the right place. A perfect fit. You were my angel and helped guide me every step of the way thank you. 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Is there no no such thing any longer as due process . Axios sites Anonymous Sources saying donald trump thinks rob porters actions were sick, so why cant he say that with his own mouth and why cant his aides say i had on the record. Numerous reports say hes trying to get his team to rewrite history and claim he actually fired porter. So what happens had tight end white house ends up losing its chief of staff . Political reporter for rear clear politics and ann palmer and curt bar della is a huff postcolumnist. Curt, you have a lot of tights. Its been six days since this porter story broke. And the white house still hasnt settled on a narrative that explains why a year after learning about the allegations that were facing rob porter, he remained in that post. Why arent they on the same page. You said the keyword there. That was for ann. I think its another example of this white house really struggling when it comes to dealing with issues of dvd. You saw it in alabama with roy moore, the rebound. And you had different aides having different points of view and the president clearly standing behind him much longer through the election than a lot of other people in his white house. This is another example where hes sticking by rob porter despite many people in the white house uncomfortable. They cant say role of the folks inside the white house when this sort of thing happens, caitlyn when the president isnt speaking up for Domestic Violence victims. That it could be colored the way he sees himself, through the prism of his own accusations. Are they working for the American People . Right. Seems like theyre working to protect the president at this point because according to this reporting people are saying behind the scenes the president fields this way, but publicly he has had six days worth of news the coverage weigh in differently than he has before. We saw the statement he made in the white house on friday where he didnt even mention the victims of this abuse. And he also took to twitter over the weekend defending this. Whats interesting to me is that this conflicts with Everything Else the white house says theyre trying to do. John kellys story line now is that he took care of this 40 minutes after hearing these this report which is not only conflicting with all the other reporting thats out there and his own statement and his own timeline. But also the president is continuing to defend this person, raising questions aboutwell did they want him to go . So this is a scandal in the white house that is lasting several days because theres so many lays, the desk abuse, the National Security elements with security clearance, white house hiring practices, the circle around john kelly. And i think the president is only serving to kind of fuel this for the coming days. What is the reaction, curt, among the gop. What does this do for 2018 . Does it make those running having a harder race . There are 79 women running for governor, and number of Democratic Women up nearly 350 . According to emilys list, more than 26,000 women have reached out about launching a campaign. Is there a concern among gop congressmen . I think what youre seeing is a continuation of what we saw during the whole roy moore fiasco, republicans trying to bury their head in the sand and avoid having to talk about this. Fundamentally they dont see these issues as real issues. It was referred to as soap opera news. That was an insight to window in which republicans tend to look at these issues, very important and major allegations and they continually tend to to be silent, try to avoid them or talk over them and try to move on to something else. Thats been the republican trend since donald trump became president of not addressing what he says. Not addressing what the white house is doing. In the morning the implications of these personnel decisions are having. Theyre going to hope they can bury their hands in the sand and not get tagged. A source close to the white house talking to mike allen saying that donald trump is looking to find unexpected cultural flash points, something about the nfl or tweets about it, hes going to start culture wars all over again to make sure the gop wins in 2018 and he wins in 2020. Worked for them in 2016 hitting those cultural flash points partially because white women voted for donald trump. But theres reason to be concerned. Abc Washington Post poll says the support for donald trump among white women have fallen ten points. Are white women the key here for democrats to focus on trying to pick them off . Right. Democrats have been focusing on the suburb areas trying to attract more moderate republicans who dont like donald trump as weve seen before. But also women, of course, are extremely key in elections and ems in midterms. I think what youre hearing about these culture wars, weve seen the president do this over and over again. And its a way to rile up support among his base. Midterms are going to be a competition between the two bases. Everything that donald trump does energizes the other side. While this issue this week surrounding this particular scandal might not be the exact issue that mobilizes voters, its kind of the agagregate and democrats will point to this that serves to animate democrats. What happens to john kelly. Is he going to be able to survive this . I think theres a lot of momentum, obviously, internally and externally by different factions to have him go. Hes been somewhat of a stabilizing factor, sometimes its overstated how stabilizing he is. Im not sure the culture wars ever stopped. I dont think hes been ever to stop that. Right now it appears that theyre trying to put on a brave face and say hes going to be there for the long haul. The big question would be who would replace him . This white house had a hard time getting people to come into it because of the controversy that continues to royal through the administration and its ranks. Maybe he would like to ship kelly out, but theres not a huge number of people who would want to take that position. Kelly has his own issues, obviously. This is one of them, the calling robert e. Lee an honorable man. The list goes on for him. But ultimately, the culture is established at the top in the west wing and donald trump is somebody, curt, that surrounded himself with pretty controversial figures that he has defended. Look at the men donald trump has defended in the past. We got a graphic there. One of those is your former boss, steve bannon, who had his own allegations against him during a divorce proceeding that were ultimately dropped because his exwife didnt show up for courted. Why do you think he surrounds himself with them . You look at donald trump who he himself has a long record and history of being accused of misconduct and sexual harassment. And i think he sees in all these men the same philosophy that the women are at fault or this behavior isnt what he defines as summary judgment. Hell, you go back to the campaign, Corey Lewandowski put his hands on a reporter, Michelle Fields, left abuses on his arm, and hes bringing him up on stage the next day. Steve bannon did nothing to defend Michelle Fields either . He did the exact opposite. He ran the bus over her. This is where my part in all this came in where i left breitbart because i wasnt comfortable lying to all of you when asked if breitbart was defending michelle, when they werent. Its a trend. The trump bannon way of making it the victims fault, trying to bring under incredible scrutiny every detail every victim says and find a hole in their story to discredit them rather than the opposite which is believing these allegations are true and acti acting accordingly. That was a remarkable story. Michelle fields said she didnt think they were going to go after her as breitbart reporter, which had been championing Donald Trumps cause. Donald trump right after that would victim shame and victim blame Michelle Fields, holding up Corey Lewandowski at all costs, no apologize or admission whatsoever even after the video. Caitlyn, ana palmer and curt bar della, thank you very much. This week the senate will begin rare and open debate on immigration. How far apart are the signs . And what will the president actually sign . Well go live to capitol hill next. When this bell rings. It starts a chain reaction. Thats heard throughout the connected business world. 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The Washington Post quotes one immigration votech as saying theres not a lot of planning and i think theres going to be a helterskelter quality to it. These uncertain talks come with high stakes, though. Congress has just three weeks to figure out how to protect 800,000 dreamers from deportation. Thats if they want to. And the president has established his baseline. Trump insisted any reform that doesnt include funding for his border wall is a nonstarter. Msnbcs Garrett Haake joins us from capitol hill. Garrett, there are a lot of moving parts. Theres a lot of different factions with a lot of different ideas for the bill. Give us a broad sense of how this is going to play out. Katy, its going to great. This is the wild wild west of legislating. Starting tonight, Mitch Mcconnells going to open up debate onual be a blank sheet of paper and theyll have the next couple weeks in the senate alternating amendments to put forward their ideas and fight this on the floor of the senate. This is main typicopic, next we both houses are out for the week. Doesnt leave a lot of time to get anything done before that march 5th deadline which will be extremely difficult if not impossible. But the process will begin here in the senate. And itll start tonight with an offer from the icu side of the ledger here, the group of republican senators are going to introduce their proposal once this debate starts. That largely mirrors the four pillars we heard about from the president. A path to citizenship, money for the wall, they will curtail family am i immigration and get rid of the diversity lottery system. It sketches out what will be the right side, the conservative side of the debate. And then well see this pingpong back and forth over the next couple weeks. Its going to be very, very interesting. Suzanne collins has been Holding Meetings in her office among senators and from what gather today from what i read in the Washington Post and New York Times, it doesnt seem like theyve come to any sort of agreement in that room. If you cant get in the room from Suzanne Collins passing the baton, how do they expect to get it done on the floor of the senate . My conversations with senators in that group indicate they have come to a pretty good agreement on two of those issues, on the idea of a path to citizenship and on securing the border. Its those other two proposals, the other parts the president wants addressed, family migration and the visa lottery that have been the sticking point. Thats led some senators to propose narrowing the scope of this bill further to get it to be whatever they produce in the senate to just deal with those two issues and leave the family migration and the visa lottery stuff for another day. There is some appetite for that in the senate, but thats a nonstarter in the house. So its a very complicated puzzle thats being put together essentially by a bunch of different people playing with all the pieces at the same time. Garrett, whats going to happen in the house . Is there anything the senate can come up with that will be acceptable in the house . Bonus question, what will donald trump sign . Well, let me answer the second part first because i think its key. This is how theyre working becoming in the house. Paul ryan end every statement he makes on what hell bring to the floor with this idea of something the president is willing to support. Its going to work backwards. You might have to lobby the president of the United States to say hes for it. The president could provide a lot of cover for republicans in supporting a bill like we just saw on this budget deal where a number of conservatives didnt love it but having approximate support of the president was a big deal in convincing republicans to get behind it. Msnbcs Garrett Haake, i hope youre enjoying your long nights. Thanks. The white house is breaking with gop tradition with its plan to fix americas crumbling infrastructure. Their words, not mine, as the president describes it. A look at how much the trump plan will cost and who gets the bulk of the tab. At t. Rowe price weve helped our investors stay confident for over 80 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Cohigher ad higher parents arent perfect, but then they make us Kraft Mac Cheese and everythings good again. Almost a year ago the president gave himself a c or c plus when it tacame to messaging. Just after the knew year it was might be able wolffs tellall book about the president s mental stability and also led trump to slam his former chief strategist, steve bannon. The next week, President Trump said in a televised immigration meeting with lawmakers he wanted a, quote, bill of love. But those negotiations were quickly overshadowed when he referred to african nations as shole countries. We had our first Government Shutdown and then it was the week of the president s first state of the union shortly he addressed congress it was reported he wanted Robert Mueller fired back in june 2017. The final week of january, the president found himself going against his own Justice Department and the fbi. He decided to release the controversial nunes memo despite their objections. Then last week brought rob porter and thousand white house handles allegations of Domestic Violence. A story that is still in the headlines today. So what news is being overshadowed this week . Infrastructure. President trump attempted to stay on message during a white house meeting this afternoon. This morning i submitted legislative principles to congress that will spur the biggest and boldest Infrastructure Investment in american history. The framework will generate ant unprecedented 1. 5 to 1. 7 trillion investment in american infrastructure. Well have a lot of public private, that way it gets done on time, on budget. It leans on state and private investment and asconsist of 200 billion in funds. It will increase spending on the military and new border wall and fighting the Opioid Epidemic while making big reductions in entitlement spending. The white houses first public in a long time that large spending increases and the 19. 5 trillion tax cut are putting severe pressure on the governments debt. Joining me the reporter behind that Washington Post piece, damien po let at a and am i la mcguinness. Thank you for being here. Damien, i have a bit of a whiplash here because seven years ago republicans wanted an amendment to the constitution to balance the budget. Now they have a republican president who is proposing eliminating the budget deficit, not to mention the tax bill added to the deficit and this infrastructure plan which is going to add the deficit. Where do republicans stand . I think since President Trump took office theyre on a spending spree. The budget last year would have eliminated the deficit by 2027, a surplus. This year theyre project ing a deficit and even 1 trillion deficit in the next two years. So i think were seeing them almost fully embraced this idea of spending more on the military even if it requires them to spend more on other programs to get votes from democrats and big tax cuts for everybody to the juice economy. Theyre piling up debt when the Interest Rates are going up and it could be incredibly expensive and difficult to respond. Experts say the stock market is starting to have some flucization. What the budget does it reflects how bad your fiscal situation is in terms of the numbers. This is a big switch for republicans whove been insisting on balance for years and years now to completely give up on that goal. But at the same time his budget demonstrates how bad the situation is. So the rhetoric doesnt point this as this big problem which it is for the country, but the numbers show theres really no way they can get to balance. I dont think balance is the necessary goal, but getting the debt under control most certainly s. If you pull out the exaggerated part of this budget, Growth Numbers that are higher than is realistic, a lot of savings that are really not going to materialize either overstated or politically impossible, you see what were facing is trillion dollars deficits forever until he hit 2 trillion and more but growing indefinitely. This is such a departure from where we are a year ago and its a reflection of a tax cut that wasnt paid for and a new spending bill that wasnt paid for. We seem to have given up on fiscal responsibility even when the president was running for office that he talked about as such an important priority but its disappeared. Last years budget did have this kind of line item for tax cuts. That did end up happening. So its not the tax cuts they envisioned in the budget but they did get that threw. So i think in some respects we should look at this budget as statement of priorities. Maybe the border wall or more military spending that the white house is going to push on, but a lot of things arbitrate going to happen. 550 billion to medicare cuts is really hard to do in an election year. They want to completely reform and make changes and cuts to food stamps and medicaid. Those would be really difficult too. I think what this budget shows us is when you get up to trillion dollars deficits in a strong economy, at a time when things are supposed to be going well, its going to be hard for congress to spend more on other things. Its starting to tackle entitlement, they couldnt do it in 2018 in an election year. Thats right. The president said its going to be impossible to do that without support from democrats and democrats are going to try to use the budget to hit him over the head going into november. Maya, what would you want to see in a president ial budget . You need to start with an actual fiscal goal and the goal needs to be reasonable and achievable. And that means ensuring the debt doesnt grow faster than the economy. On the revenue side, we cant afford the tax cut we just had. We either need to talk about scaling back big portions of it or looking for new revenue sources. Damien just mentioned entitlement reforms that need to happen. We have to address the aging of the proposition and the political nonstarters shows how unrealistic we are talking about what needs to get done to preserve these programs and also to get all this borrowing under control. But it all starts with leadership at the top. You need a president whos going to emphasize hard choices instead of massive borrowing at a time when the economy is expanding. Theres been zero sign of that. I dont imagine its going to be change anytime soon. That puts it stable Economic Situation at jeopardy. That doesnt bode well at all. Guys, thank you very much. Next, a followup to a question we asked last week, what is better for American Workers . A bonus or a pay raise . Before the break, something i find unbelievable today a huge hat to mirai nagasu who became the First American woman to ever land the triple alexa in the olympics. Heres some photos of her highflying feat that scored her the bronze. 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That was former president barack obama today thanking the staffers who helped support him during the eight years in the oval office. And with that, one more thing before we go. The 45th president and former first lady were both on hand for the unveiling of their official portrait which will hang in the Smithsonians National try that again. Which will hang in the Smithsonians National portrait gallery in washington, d. C. And we wanted to end todays show with the powerful point made by Michelle Obama about the impact these portraits will hopefully have on every young person who sees them. Im also thinking about all of the young people, particularly girls and girls of color. Who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this Great American institution. [ applause ] that will wrap things up for this hour. Ali velshi picks things up. If i said 45th president , i meant 44th president. Yeah. And then i like the portraits. I think they are they are different. They are modern, but the obama one reminds me of Homer Simpson fading into the hedges. So the flowers are all significant to him in his background. There is a kenyan flower, a hawaiian flower, the chicagos flower in it. So it is all it is sort of hidden in that shrubbery. It is a nice departure from tradition and a good way to celebrate a different i was looking back at the portraits, jfk was interesting. It was a big departure. It is very colorful. And then bill clinton has one that is pix ill ated. And there are interesting things in there. Did you watch the crown. Yeah. When he had his i hated it. I had forgot than part of churchills history and he hated it. In the movie in the tv show they show his wife having it burned and i dont know what happened in real life. But he hated it. I liked it and i thought it was authentic. They are fraught times when someone is doing the portrait that will outlive you. I cant imagine you would like what somebody draws of you. Obama said he liked the process and picking the artist and going through it. Interesting times. I like them. My mom likes them too. Shout out to my mom for liking them. Have a good afternoon. Im ali velshi and in this hour the White House Press briefing is expected to start and once again the administrations controversies are overshadowing its legislative agenda while the white house wants to focus on infrastructure, it is the president s comments about Domestic Abuse and former staff secretary rob porter that remain in the spotlight. Top aides are now in full damage control mode. I think that the president , like all of us, were saddened and surprised by the revelations that came forward last week. Rob was a friend to many of us. He did a great job here inside of the building. But we can have zero tolerance for Domestic Abuse and violence against women and i think the president in my conversations with him is very clear about that as well. Zero tolerance, despite the insistence that the president has been clear on his stance, he tweeted over the weekend, peoples lives are being