On the desk waiting for mueller to finally drop the report. As rachel said, we dont know if its coming today, tomorrow or three weeks from today. Who knows. Clues are piling up things are winding down whether its muellers team carrying out boxes and pushing carts full of files out of the office or the steady drip, drip, drip of prosecutors peeling off and going back to their lives. Yesterday it was andrews tan suit. Today there was another not so subtle hint. Muellers prosecutors holding an unofficial take your kids to workday. See, kids, this is where daddy or mommy defend america against the russians and maybe the president. You know folks are getting antsy when Robert Mueller gets the full paparazzi attention on the way to work and if the tension was hard enough to cut with a spork, several key players showed up at the justice department. William barr, Matthew Whitaker and rod rosenstein, former attorney general jeff sessions. It did not, it turns out, have anything to do with the mueller report. Just a ceremony to bestow former a. G. Jefferson sessions with a wait for it, ceremonial cabinet chair. For all his service to the justice department. According to the a. P. , the name Robert Mueller was not mentioned once. Something tells me, though, that mueller was on everybodys mind, however. So for now, we wait and refresh twitter and some of us are handling the long wait better than others. Say for instance, the president of the United States who cannot seem to resist the urge to pick twitter fights with a war hero no longer alive and with the husband of his top aid. Maybe someone should get him a fidget spinner. We patrol miromise, well tell immediately if there is breaking news and following the shot across the bow in the stand off with democrats this time over notes from the president s private discussions with Vladimir Putin. We also have a look inside the president s attempt to build a trump tower in moscow, which we now know continued into the 2016 campaign. And will have more on all of that later in the show. But we begin with richard that started out life as an executive as his familys tile company and wound up as a republican senator of pennsylvania. When he died in 2016 he was allizal remembered as liberal to conservatives and earned that because of during watergate he was an outspoken critic of nixon. He was the third republican senator to call for nixon to resign saying i cannot remain silent in the face of an obvious moral corrosion destroying and debasing the presidency. That was in 1974. Two years later in 1976, this happened. I am proud to accept governor regans invitation to be his Vice President ial running mate. This bold, unprecedented action dramatizes the leadership, the courage and the openness which governor regan will bring to the white house. Governor regans decisive stroke in one fail swoop unites the Republican Party for november by bringing together the conservative and moderate wings of our party. It instant gives our party across the board appeal. This exciting action spells victory in november but more importantly, it spells government that is responsible and responsive to all people. This exciting action spells victory in november or not. If regan was hoping to get everyones attention by choosing the former tile Company Executive to be the running mate, well, that worked. The New York Times called it a total surprise, regan chooses a liberal for the running mate so definitely learned regan headlines but didnt earn regan much more than that. West virginia. That did it. Gerald ford was over the top. Ford lost to carter which you think would make other president ial candidates think twice. That did not stop texas senator ted cruz from dusting off the regan playbook and giving it another shot in 2016 when he tried to energize the campaign and peel off voters that wanted a woman on the ticket by carly f as his running mate. We know how that worked out for carly fiorina. Help me welcome your next first family, heidi cruz, caroline and kathryn and the next president of the United States ted cruz. He just kept shaking evens hand. Making an early Vice President ial pick to secure voters. We are seeing hints of that in 2020 race. This one actually might just work. We saw it when senator cory booker sat down are rachel right here at this very desk when asked if he would commit to putting a woman on the ticket as a running mate. Senator booker said he would be looking at women first. Shortly after announcing that he was in, beto orourke says if he wins the nomination he would also pick a woman as his running mate. So this is now a thing but now move over booker and beto, biden may do you oned a vicars to joee saying he may choose stacy abrams. She narrowly lost the bid to georgia and the first African American woman to deliver the state of the union response. The it factor is so high ten days ago when she tweeted 2020 is definitely on the table, she nearly broke the internet. So the possibility that 2020 is on the table for stacy adrams perhaps as a mart of a biden abrams ticket has made waves so far abrams is not denying it. Shes said to keep the options on the table for 2020 and beyond. Thats not the only conventional strategy biden is considering. Hes also considering pledging to serve one term. Quote, framing mr. Bidens 2020 campaign as a onetime rescue mission for a country. The abrahm strategy and the oneterm pledge both in an effort to tamp down concerns about electing a 78yearold president next year. The times notes they had lunch and declined to say if he broached the subject of the vice presidenc presidency. Read into that whatever you well. Here is something less up for interpretation. 76 and 45, the respected ages of joe biden and stacy abrams. Thats a 31yearold spread. And one looking past 2020 to the future. Joining me now is a Senior Advisor to move on. Org. Great to see you, as always. Hey, joy, great to see you, as well. Lets go through this biden gambit because there are two ways to interpret it. One would be he so badly wants to be president that he wants to have stacy abrams as the human dangled to say look, look, if you let me have this thing you want, you can have her as my apprentice and number two or that he sees himself as a stabilizing figure but recognizes people might be concerned with his age so he wants to have somebody waiting in the wings to be Vice President. Are either of those striking you as more true and do you think that this gambit might work . I want to add one more thing, joy. Can you imagine 40 years ago we would be having this conversation that we would be talking about stacy abrams, a black woman who graduated from spelman, spelman alimb being seriously considered for a v. P. Pick and should be on everybodys list, period. She should be on that short list for everyone that has now already announced thats in the race and also, the diversity of this primary we have Kamala Harris who is an alum of Howard University in the top tier. Thats phenomenal and we would never be having this conversation four years ago. Look, with the two examples you gave me, ill add one more to that, which is i do think that there is from biden he feels as if look, if im going to jump in and he understands hes going to be 78 years old, if he were to get the nomination in 2020 that he wants to show look, i am like just handing over the party or bringing with me the Younger Generation of party, as well. Like hes realizing that look, i know where the party is going. Its getting younger and black women are a big part of it. I mean, since 2016 as we saw across the country that black woman came out in record numbers. There is a little of that, as well. If this is going to work, i do not know. Voters will ultimately decide. Is it going to happen . Also, i do not know. At the end of the day it will be up to stacy abrams. Shes incredibly smart. She has a plan for everything. She said herself as you mentioned in the intro she has 2020 on the table and so she has the power right now. Shes a rising star, and i am ecstatic shes being considered at all. Right. But shes also considered maybe running herself. Exactly. There is a line after argument why should she be number two if she could be number one . Thats a great argument. Were so excited about beto. Is he going to run . How is he going to launch his campaign . Why are we not having that conversation about stacy abrams. She ran her race in a deep red state georgia and out performed everybody else for the g gubernatorial seat before her. Why not have the number one seat instead of two . Thats up to her. She said she would decide by april. Thats a very good argument. There is a little double standard there because were talking about beto but how about stacy abrams. Yeah, speaking of beto, one of the things that is so impressive is his fundraising, Bernie Sanders had been the leader in terms of the fundraising hall. He raised over 6 million. Biden has expressed concern that he might not be able to raise those kind of online donations in the same way. Adding stacy abrams would fix that, right . Absolutely. Adding abrams would add an energy that would be that would give a boost to the launch. Weve been judging a lot of these folks by the money but launch. What are they doing . Whats the inspiration . Whats the message . It would be all connected. Clearly the money is important because what it does is when you see these small dollar donations, this grass root donation it shows there is a movement for your campaign and those are people you can go back to over and over again and so biden has never really done that before. Lets not forget the last time he ran alone was 12 years ago. He was supposed to raise 20 million. He raised about 11 million. And so he didnt reach the number that he needed to at that time, and he dropped out right after the iowa caucus. So yeah, this is a different scenario for him that hes never experienced and yes, stacy abrams would add that energy. Lastly, would she be the human ent human lock to say to White Working Class voters, hes okay. Would she serve that same function because he has issues with past views on bussing and anita hill and stuff that will come up. I was thinking about that. I dont think stacy abrams is a buffer for issues hes going to have to deal with his record on the crime bill that doesnt take away from that. I think he has to seriously come out and when he runs, whether with a v. P. Ticket or not, he really has to say hey, let me address these issues of my past. My record on things ive said is not going to go away. I dont think shes a buffer for that. Senior advisor to move on. Org. Thank you is much. Thanks, joy. Joining us is nbc news president ial horn tore yi president ial historian. Thanks. It didnt work with Ronald Reagan who united left to right as on oan outsider. Has that been tried . Thats it in terms of modern Major Party Candidates and both of the cases that you said, you know, that you mentioned in history both cruz and regan was a dgimmick because you had candidates running behind and thought this would be a hail mary that would fix it. If you look at it more generally, joy, there are a couple reasons to do this. One, we as voters have to know what a president ial candidate will do once he is in the Fall Campaign and beyond. This gives us a very good idea of what the future will be like if we know who the Vice President is going to be and another thing is that if a candidate like a joe biden chooses a running mate, it will make him look different. It makes me think of 1984 who chose the first female for a major party ticket. People saw mondale in a different way. They saw him as sensitive to what the future should be. But there are a couple reasons not to do it. This is not just on biden but more generally. One is that this is sort of a gift to front runners. A front runner has a much easier time getting someone to run with him or her than someone who is maybe 5 of the polls. Jimmy carter in 197 at t6 at th beginning of the campaign had a hard time going to Walter Mondale and saying would you be my Vice President and i think you can fairly say its a little distraction because in this nominating process, after all, were really choosing a president who not a Vice President. Yeah; a, and does it under c there is another woman running, does it sort of almost try to clear the field . Is that what it might look like . It might well do because if you have, you know, a front runner running with a Vice President field and got tickets running against them, its something weve never seen before that happens. Its fascinating. Very complicated. Multiple people. Can you imagine. Mps mpsbc. White house opposition and the latest request, thats next 6789 the latest request, thats 6789 ent from national. Its kind of like playing your own version of best ball. Because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if its a better car class than the one you reserved. So no matter what, youre guaranteed to have a perfect drive. [laughter] vo go national. Go like a pro. See what i did there . This and even this. Hark, i deep clean messes like this. But i dont have to clean this, because the selfcleaning brush roll removes hair, while i clean. [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. About 50 of people with evesevere asthma k . Have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. Fasenra is an addon injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. Fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. Fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. Fasenra may cause allergic reactions. Get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. Dont stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection or your asthma worsens. Headache and sore throat may occur. Havent you missed enough . Ask an asthma specialist about fasenra. If you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. You know reliable support when you have it, and that dependability is what we want to give our customers. At comcast, its my job to constantly monitor our network. Prevent problems, and to help provide the most Reliable Service possible. My name is tanya, i work in the Network Operations center for comcast. We are working to make things simple, easy and awesome. There week the powerful head of the House OversightCommittee Elijah Cummings tore into the white house for the failure to provide a single piece of paper. To make a single testimony available to congress. The blanket denial of any and all requests for records appears to be part of an interrible strategy. Latest example was today with the white house refusing to turnover any documents related to Donald Trumps multiple private meetings with russian president Vladimir Putin. Cummings and house chairs demanded details of meetings between trump and putin between the wake of a Washington Post report that trump took active steps to conceal details of the meetings including having no notetakers present and at one point seizing the notes of the state Department Interpreter and instructing her not to discuss what chance pyrtra transpired. Tonight they are consulting on appropriate next steps. Cummings may have more help getting other news he injected into the headlines today. Remember back in late 2017 when it was revealed that both the president s daughter and his soninlaw had been using private email accounts to conduct official white house business . And that they were not alone but were among at least six white house advisors doing the same thing . It was kind of shocking, right . You would think that would be one thing they would know not to do considering the Trump Campaign spent a year and a half beating Hillary Clinton over the head with a crowbar and labeling her a criminal that needed to be locked up for using a private email while serving as secretary of state. At the time of the reports, jared and ivanka tried to explain it away saying it had taken place in the early days of the administration, just a few emails. Except that in 2018 we got reports ivanka trump continued to use her personal email to conduct white house business not just in the early days but throughout much of 2017 and kushner was managing the u. S. Saudi relationship in the fall jou fallout over the murder of Jamal Khashogg khashoggi. Now today House Oversight chairman Elijah Cummings says this practice never stopped and kushner continued to conduct official white house business on whats app as recently as december. In a cummings says he confirmed mr. Kushner has used and continues to use whats app as part of his official duties of the white house and that ivanka trump continues to receive emails on her personal email account. Now i should also note in addition to jared managing the u. S. Saudi relationship over whats up comings said his committee has documents showing in the early days of his administration, Deputy National security advisor k. T. Mcfarland was using her aol account and thats what she used to discuss handing over Nuclear Technology to saudi arabia. This is real life. Back to jared. The only reason Jared Kushner even has a top security clearance is because his dadinlaw the president demanded he get one over ruling advice of his own intelligence officials, chief of staff, the Top White House lawyer and over the deep concerns of the cia. At their meeting in december comin cummings asked jared the he used whats up. Thats above my pay grade kushners attorney described and recommended he take this jared up white house. Okay. Cummings is demanding the white house provide documents about the app by april 4th and significant gue suggested he may issue subpoenas that if the white house refuses to compile. The white house will review cummings and provide a quote reasonable response in due course. Okay. Dont hold your breath. More ahead. Stay with us. Your breath more ahead stay with us how your skin feels. So, when the world expects you to follow the rules, write your own. Because no one gets an opinion on how you live your life, why you shave, or how you show your skin. My skin. My way. You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. Sarahs last tuition payment, sent off. Feeling good . Oh yeah. Now im ready to focus on my project. This is why we plan. You never cease to amaze me, maya. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Uh uh, i deliver the news around here. Sources say Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Over to you, logo. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Dearest britain. We love you. Maybe its your big hearts. Your sense of style. Welcome to ba100. ba100, youre clear for takeoff . How you follow your own path. Youve led revolutions. Of all kinds. Yet you wont shout about it. Its just not in your nature. Instead, youll quietly make history. Cake. Beds. Poetry. Trouble. Love hope and rather a lot of tea. The best of britain, from the moment you step on board. It is one of the juiciest. In 2006 donald trump junior and ivanka trump got to go to moscow, their father gets them a private tour of the kremlin and ivanka gets a special perk. She gets to go behind Vladimir Putins desk in the kremlin and sit in putins private chair. The best part when the New York Times asked ivanka trump whether the story was true, he said quote its possible she sat in putins chair during the tour but she just does not recall it. Who can remember . Maybe i sat in putins chair in the kremlin that one time. Who can say . The guy that claims to arrange the tour and encounter is felix sater born in russia and grew up in brooklyn with Michael Cohen convicted of financial fraud but avoided prison time by becoming an fbi inform paant and wound us a Senior Advisor. Felix sater is best known for working with Michael Cohen to broker the trump tower moscow deal, which donald trump was secretly pursuing during the 2016 president ial campaign. Even as russia was attacking our election. Felix sater is set to give public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee which will mean the two primary players in the deal, Michael Cohen and felix sater will have given testimony under oath to congress. And today less than a week before saters testimony, the developer that was supposed to build trump tower moscow. In the latest edition of the trump inc pod cast, wnyc go through this letter by the russian developer felix sater e recruited pitched himself to Michael Cohen. Cohen testified he was keeping his boss donald trump apprised of all these developments. In this letter, the developer andre describes his qualifications and projects of suburban development and a giant mall in north dakota and an Office Building in new york city. Maybe not the resume of someone prepared to build a giant moscow skyscraper but okay. What todays Trump Inc Podcast discovered is even those accomplishments were over sold. The suburban development as never been completed. The mall in north dakota was never built. They did create this nice imaging of it and the building in new york city, well, here is what happened when two reporters went to that building. They asked to talk with the super, david whose been there since the early 90s. Hi, nice to meet you. Hands are cold. Property records she he owned it for a year, bout it cash, took out financing and sold it for a 23 profit. During that year they didnt make any major improvements onnon the building and he never met rosov but did meet another russian speaker during the deal. Felix sater. Yeah. Felix sater, his name shows up on the sale documents as an authorized significant tor atur this builder appears to have owned for a year and felix sater was the only guy who went there or signed paperwork . Thats what the developer is holding out as a qualifications to build trump tower moscow as the tallest building in europe because of course, apparently that was good enough for donald trump, though. He signed a letter of intent for the developer to do just that. He signed it on the day of the third republican president ial primary debate, a primary he went on to win while saying nice things about Vladimir Putin and never revealing his moscow project. The more you know. Joining us now is aroundrea bernste bernstein. Thanks for having me. Great to be here. There is a letter of intent signed to build this trump tower moscow and architectural rendering of it. Was there any other qualifications this gentleman had to build the largest tower in europe. There are people who were actually Real Developers in moscow. One of their names has come up in connection with the trump tower meeting much later on, an actual developer in moscow so what it is really confusing is we know trump was in touch with a real developer. This developer seems to be a second tier developer. He didnt bring projects to fruition. The whole deal, the more we looked at it, the pieces did not add up and what is so strange is that all of the parties seemed really bent on getting this thing built. We know now that Michael Cohen did indeed call the kremlin, did ask for a favor and this was while the kremlin was planning its attack on the u. S. Election. So i mean, this is kind of business as usual for donald trump since he started in real estate in new york decades ago. He has been cultivating high level government officials. Thats been something hes tried to monetize but when you go to moscow and trying to build a building with a second tier developer and youre literally asking for help from the president of russias office, the question has to be raised why . What are you trying to do here . How do you think youre going to make this money and why are you keeping all this secret for years trump kept this secret from the american people. We got some answers but we also got a lot more questions. The key question i think that you asked is if you are trying to do this ambitious project, its so important you dont feel like you can disclose it but pick someone thats not experienced and in theory couldnt even do it. Do you have did you find in what you were looking at, was it a real project because if it was real, you would think they would go to people one of the things that weve asked ourselves over and over again is that trump often works with Inexperienced Developers over the years hes done this. Sometimes the projects get built and sometimes they dont and there are delays and there are lawsuits but the way the trumps structure these deals is that they are able to make money. Right. And this deal was particularly front loaded if you read the Licensing Agreement in terms of the athe amount of mony trump would get up front. It was lucrative. There is a possibility there was just an intent to get money up front. We dont know. But one of the things that is so confusing is there seemed to be not a sight and they seemed to be asking the kremlin for perhaps permission to get a nice coveted location so there you have it. The question of why were they seeking a favor from the kremlin from a hostile foreign power at a time when nobody else was really investing in russia or few people were because of the u. S. Sanctions. The more you look at the deal, the stranger it seems. It was yeah, well put up a tower like trump tower in new york, it was a strange confusing deal with a lot of Business Partners that have a lot of questions around them. And donald trump is built with felix sater before. Is this similar to the deals hes done with him . They worked on the trump soho here in manhattan and weve done a lot of reporting on it. That building did go up but went bankrupt during the course of the marketing or after the marketing ivanka trump and donald trump junior were investigated for felony fraud by the manhattan d. A. That case was never brought and the building is no longer the trump soho. Its the dominic hotel, nor even though one of the things they were investigating for was claiming that it was 60 sold, nor was it ever more than 30 sold. So there was a building. Yeah. But it had a lot of problems and one of the things thats so interesting with trump is that seems more typical than say trump tower new york which is a sort of tall and as it goes relatively normal Development Project as these things go. The licensing money. Thats what they seem to be going for. Cohost of wnyc and really great thump inc pod cast. Thank you very much. A native u. S. Citizen get this battles with ice, details on the policy that almost got him deported. Thats straight ahead. Almost g him deported thats straight ahead. You might take something for your heart. Or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Guys go through a lot to deal with shave irritation. So, we built the new Gillette Skinguard with a specialized guard designed to reduce it. Because we believe all men deserve a razor just for them. The best a man can get. Gillette. I felt totally, totally powerless. There was a moment where i panicked. I went from angry because nobody was listening to me to really frightful moment because i was literally told at one moment i was to sign this paper that they were tired of listening to me and i had three days and i was being sent back to jamaica. That is peter brown recounting the harrowing details of how he a philadelphia native almost got deported by i. C. E. He turned himself in for violating probation on felony violence against a Police Officer and flagged by i. C. E. As an unauthorized immigrant. He spent three weeks trying to prove to the county and to i. C. E. They have the wrong guy. He was finally released but only after his roommate emailed his birth certificate to an i. C. E. Officer. Hes suing the Monroe CountySheriffs Office for violating his constitutional rights. Peter brown is one of potentially hundreds of u. S. Citizens detained by i. C. E. In florida alone. According to a new report from the a. C. L. U. , they say i. C. E. Is issuing requests, known as detainers asking Miamidade County and other states to hold people in jail for up to 48 additional hours after they normally would have been released so that the agency can take them into custody. What the aclu describes as illegal, they analyzed data they got from a lawsuit and found 420 cases between february 20, 2017 and february 2019 in which i. C. E. Issued detainers for people listed as u. S. Citizens by miamidade records. They argue i. C. E. Cancelled 83 of the cases because the agency ultimately determined that those that had been detained were in fact u. S. Citizens. If i. C. E. Could make those mistakes in these cases, how do we know there arent more . Counties signed agreements with i. C. E. To hold inmates for ice in exchange for 50 an inmate. For the american citizens who have been through this experience, up sounds terrifying. I didnt know who i was being shipped there thinking i was being sent away from home. My home to jamaica. Joining us is micah cubic. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Lets go through this. It is illegal on its face for an american citizen to be detained and deported. How is it half the counties in florida signed up to do this anyway . So i think the National Administration and its eagerness to create an environment, fear and harassment and intimidation for immigrants have been so over zealous and sloppy in the way they managed this detainer process that american citizens get caught up in the process. The process is a sham from beginning to end. Even folks who watched just television, Police Procedural know to be detained youre supposed to have probable cause but i. C. E. Doesnt create probable cause in detainers so as a result, they never go through the process to figure out whether the people they are trying to find are actually the one whose are being detained or not and in the process american citizens, folks who have never been immigrants at all, natural born citizens as well as naturalized citizens get caught in the process. I should thats a tragedy and a shame. Absolutely. I should note we reached out to i. C. E. And they did not respond to our request for comment but this is what they told the huffington post, they said a spokesman for i. C. E. Is facing several lawsuits and said the agency could not comment on the report due to pending litigation. I should throw that out there. Has anyone to your knowledge actually been deported by this process . So i dont know of anyone myself who has been deported but there are certainly dozens and dozens of cases of citizens who were detained and who absent intervention from the aclu or organizations would have been deported. There are systematic structural problems in the way that this detainer process works, and thats why local jurisdiction cities, counties, states all over the country should stop participating in this way. Its important to noit thte the detainers are requests that cities and counties to choose to grant or refuse and the fact so many of them choose to grant them is a serious problem that has financial liabilities for the taxpayers of the jurisdictions. Cnn reported there is an i. C. E. Officer fired last may for forging a supervisor for undocumented immigrants internal emails and i. C. E. Documents obtained show that other officers across the fivestate region were worked had improperly signed warrants on behalf of the supervisors on evenings and weekends and gave their officers presigned blank warrants illegally handing them the authority to begin the deportation process. It feels like i. C. E. Want to grab as many immigrants, they think are immigrants as possible to get them out of the country. Thats what it looks like. Very clear there is a policy in place here of trying to make life as difficult for immigrants or people who they think might be immigrants. One of the problems with this process is that it creates an enormous incentive for racial profiling and communities of color that wind up suffering the worst impact from this policy. But youre absolutely right. The process involved in order to issue a detainer is really a sham from beginning to end. What happens is they fill out a list of check boxes to decide whether someone stays or goes, whether someone is eligible for a detainer or not. There is no individual probable cause. There is no individual determination. It doesnt go before a judge. It all bureaucratic paperwork, check boxes and nobodys constitutional right should be violated because someone checked a box. We saw what happened with 21 sal savage. Thank you mike, thank you so much, appreciate your time. Thanks for having me. Up next, makes sense airlines would charge extra for comfortable seats and lighting but a report shows they are charging airlines for things that seem pretty darn essential. Thats next. M pretty darn essen. Thats next. Mini was born to do the only thing we ever wanted to do. Drive. To hit start and just go. Fast and far. Around town and around hairpins. To leave everyone in the dust, and leave rubber on the road. Because mini was born to drive. Drive for yourself at the mini born to drive sales event. Special offers at your local mini dealer. Turn up your swagger game with one a day gummies. One serving. Once a day. With nutrients that support 6 vital functions. And one healthy you. Thats the power of one a day. Uh, well, this will be the kitchen. And wed like to put a fire pit out there, and a dock with a boat, maybe. Why havent you started building . Well, tylers off to college. And moms getting older. And eventually we would like to retire. Yeah, its a lot. But Td Ameritrade can help you build a plan for today and tomorrow. Great. Can you help us pour the foundation too . I think you want a house near the lake, not in it. Come with a goal. Leave with a plan. Td ameritrade. [zara larsson wow] baby im not even in a gown and the only thing u have to say is wow make youre jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop make u say oh my god my drop drop make youre jaw drop make u say oh my god and you never felt this type of emotion make youre jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop make u say oh my god my drop drop make youre jaw drop make u say oh my god want more from your entejust say teach me more. Into your xfinice remote to discover all sorts of tips and tricks in x1. Can i find my wifi password . Just ask. [ ding ] show me my wifi password. Hey now [ ding ] you can even troubleshoot, learn new voice commands and much more. Clean my daughters room. [ ding ] oh, it wont do that. Welp, someone should. Just say teach me more into your voice remote and see how you can have an even better x1 experience. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Air bags are now standard on all vehicles here in the United States. But that was not always the case. Now washington is concerned about requiring airbags in automobiles. Devices that if you have a headon collision inflate instantly and the front seat passengers are thrown forward into Something Like a soft balloon. A woman who had this happen said it not only saved her from injury but didnt even mess up her false eyelashes. The Insurance Companies say airbags are best. This Insurance Industry test shows an airbag inflating to protect a passenger in a 35mileanhour crash. He was unharmed. But the car industry favors seat belts. We know that when safety belts are used theyre more effective than airbags. Theyre also cheaper. That says it all right there. Seat belts are cheaper than airbags. So why do we need airbags . In 1971 top ford executives met secretly with president Richard Nixon in the oval office to persuade him to kill a regulation that would require airbags on every new car sold in the United States. Nixon played along, and those regulations were quashed. But automakers werent just waging their war on airbags in the oval office. In 1976 the wall street journal did an extensive report on how Car Companies and their dealerships often sought to pour cold water on any interest that customers showed in airbags. The wall street journal spoke to customer after customer and they found they were basically getting stiffarmed every time they tried to buy a car equipped with airbags. Dr. Ludwig klein, a new york physician, says seven buick and olds dealers he talked to gave him various excuses. Some told him the airbag was too expensive. Others claimed erroneously that it might suddenly pop out in his face, causing him to lose control of the car. Some even claimed that airbags were not sold on a buick lesabre, the model he was interested in. That was also not true. Because of relentless pushback like that, airbags did not become mandatory in this country until 1998. And that was because the u. S. Supreme court ruled unanimously in favor of the safety requirement. Since that ruling airbags have saved at least 44,000 lives. Imagine what that number could have been had that safety feature been mandated sooner. Well, today we got another story along that same vein. This one involving the airline industry. When airplane manufacturers sell their planes, they charge airlines extra for things like premium seating, special lighting and extra bathrooms. But it turns out they also charge the airlines extra for other things. Por ejemplo, according to the New York Times boeing charges extra for a backup fire extinguisher in the cargo hold. That same report says that aw Brazilian Airline carrier was forced to pay 6,700 extra for oxygen masks for its crew. Then theres this. The times reports that as the pilots of the doomed boeing 737 jets in ethiopia and indonesia fought to control their planes they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits. One reason . Boeing charged extra for them. Now, while its not yet known what caused the crashes, investigators are looking into whether a new Software System might be partly to blame. Faulty data from sensors on the plane may have caused the system to malfunction. As the times reports, boeings optional safety features in part could have helped the pilots detect any erroneous readings. Boeing says its Software Upgrade for the max fleet will be coming soon along with those safety enhancements. But todays reporting certainly makes you wonder, could a lot of lives have been saved if those safety features were standard to begin with . Well be right back. ll be righ. Four months after 20 School Children and six adults were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, Connecticut Congress considered a relatively small tweak in our nations gun laws. A bipartisan measure to require background checks for all gun purchases to close the loophole that allows gun shows to skip background checks. That modest straightforward little tweak failed in the senate. Ive heard some say that blocking this step would be a victory. My question is a victory for who . A victory for what . All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that lets dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check. That didnt make our kids safer. The unspeakable tragedy of the attack on sandy hook got the entire nation seemingly to agree that surely something must be done this time. This Time Congress simply had to act because this time we were talking about little kids and their Elementary School teachers. Surely, congress had to do something about a massacre like that. But everyone was wrong. Nothing changed. Then on june 12th, 2016, 49 people were murdered at the puts nightclub shooting in orlando, florida. Following the shooting the fbi revealed the gunman was on the terrorist watch list for a year. Then a logical next step emerged in the Public Discourse that maybe people who were on the terrorist watch list should maybe be banned from buying deadly weapons. So republican senator marco rubio of florida sponsored legislation aimed at stopping suspected terrorists from buying guns. That failed too. On october 1st, 2017 a gunman murdered 58 people and murdered hundreds of others at an outdoor concert in las vegas. The deadliest mass shooting in modern history was carried out with the help of bump stocks, a modification that makes guns fire like machine guns. Families of the victims advocated for a ban on bump stocks. Who needs to make a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun anyway . It was a very modest proposal. And that modest proposal almost failed too. But it passed and it will go into effect next tuesday after nearly two years of back and forth. That is gun policy in america. Where the nras the boss and Congress Acts like theyre employees. Contrast that with new zealand where six days after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques the Prime Minister announced today that assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons will be banned. New zealand will ban all militarystyle semiautomatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. Six days, joy, makes new zealand look pretty impressive. Ah, sanity. You have a great evening, friend. Ou