participate in those debates. that is going to be something to watch. heading into those, senator kamala harris has the edge somewhere else. on social media. more than 16 million interactions on facebook and twitter. she s followed by senators warren and sanders, former congressman beto o rourke and joe biden round out the top five. as axios points out, president trump showed unmatched ability to generate online attention in 2016. for this campaign, he has a potential rival in kamala harris. and that may be partly why the trump campaign is zeroing in on harris along with booker and warren. they re under the belief they are probably the most viable competitors at this early stage of the game. i m joined by felipe reinas, a.b. stoddard and aaron blake are back with us. what do you make that they are focussing in on harris, warren, booker. that doesn t seem particularly insightful to me.
nation of mankind. and pray god gist you the wisdom to understand the responsibility you hold in your hands. are you prepared to put on the table that, yes, actually, they re right. what this requires is massive government intervention. it does, it does. yeah. i have no problem saying that. martha: that was freshman congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez with an admission that might give some politicians pause but it seems many 2020 democratic hopefuls were unfazed. i support a green new deal i will tell you why. climate change is an existential threat to us and we have got to deal with the reality of it. when the planet has been imperil in the past, who came forward to save earth? from the scourge of nazi and totalitarian regimes? we tame forward. martha: as axios points out today the bottom line any hesitation 2020
quote, this calls into question white house security. white house staff members are freaking out today trying to figure out how the podcast host was so easily transferred from the white house switchboard to air force one. per a source familiar with the call. nbc s hallie jackson joins us from the white house. i know my protocol for a conversation between the president of the united states is to go through the head of affairs. any talk of a broken or nonexistent process at this white house? no comment officially from the white house. in this instance, normally that would not be interesting, no comment from white house officials. in this instance it is, because if that was not the president or if this was not an issue, because that wasn t actually the president, you would be hearing about it. there would be push back saying, well, this was fake, this is edited or faux podcast. that is not the reaction we ve heard from west wing officials today so a couple things to point out. number on
.so you can do even more. the coca-cola company yes, this is senator menendez. is the president available? yep, one moment, sir. i ll connect your call. sir, your call is connected. hi, bob. hey, how are you? how are you? congratulations on everything. we re proud of you. congratulations, great job. you went through a tough, tough situation, and i don t think a very fair situation, but congratulations. that was an interesting behind the curtain look at how the president of the united states receives calls when he s on board air force one, made more interesting by the fact that that wasn t senator bob menendez on the phone. it was actually a prank call to what sounds an awful lot like the real donald trump. courtesy of the stuttering john podcast. the host got through two call screens, even reportedly jared kushner and as axios points out,
i may not. i told stadiums of people, i may terminate. are you reopening the door to tpp? i would do tpp if we made a substantially better deal. the deal was terrible. the way it was structured was terrible. if we did a substantially better deal, i would be open to tpp. the president also reiterated that he may terminate the north american free trade agreement citing trade deficits. we have a trade deficit with mexico, mexico, $71 billion a year, right? we have a trade deficit with canada, of a substantial amount of money, i don t have a number, but they keep arguing it. i won t tell you it s $17 million, okay? we have a trade deficit with canada we have a massive trade deficit with mexico. we got to do something. we can t continue to so unfortunately, president trump s nafta deficit figures don t really line up with those from his own trade office, as axios points out, the office of