And im phillip mena. We begin with news breaking overnight. An ominous threat and dire warning straight from north Korean Leader kim jong un, responding to trumps tough talk this week and hithd tting the commander in chief even harder way rare direct statement, hurling a number of insults at the president , calling him mentally deranged, ainto a frightened dog and a dotard, blasting this statement. I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue. Whatever trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectations. That statement comes after President Trump met with the leaders of south korea and japan, announcing his toughest sanctions yet on pyongyang. Today im announcing a new executive order i just signed that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. A new executive order will cut off sour
Tell us if you would or would not and why. There are the lines. You can tell us if you would reelect your members of congress on our social media pages. Focused post on our facebook page. The headline of the Washington Post. The headline says mccain walks tightrope in tough reelection race. Alex bolton is with us to talk about that race and others. Guest good morning. Host tell us about senator mccains race. Guest he is running against kelly ward. It is a very tight race. Actually, no, it is not a tight race. He is up by 26 points over ward according to the cnn poll, but it is a very nasty race. Ward went on television recently and said mccain is too old to be reelected and she also made the point, as a former position, she said, i know the average is notn males lifespan 86 years old, which is how old mccain would be at the end of his next term if reelected. She is saying, it is time for a change, he has been in washington way too long. As i mentioned, the cnn poll showed him up by 26
President obama took a tougher tone on his strategy. Their, withegin your thoughts. Republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independence 202 7488002. Send us a tweet, go to facebook. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open so start dialing in. Want to get your reaction to what the Washington Post and others say. They will defend their strategy against the Islamic State. Calls,we get to your listen to the president and what was a rare visit to the pentagon. We are hitting ice is stronger than ever. Coalition aircraft have been increasing the pace of airstrikes. Last month would drop more bombs than any other month since this started. Leaders,king out commanders, and killers when my one. Since this spring we have removed one of the top leaders, the second in command. Recruiter and one who broadly murdered americans and others and in recent weeks, their seniorhief, extortion or and a weapons graft or. The list goes on. Were going after isil in downtown rocca. The poin
Other. These are things that we should caviat there is no snap of the figures and in every wikipedia articles fully informative. But by getting a cohort of people who are highly knowledgeable and good editors will start to see Higher Quality articles that go deeper into what a bill does. What the circumstances are now, how it would affect things and what the outcome would be. Just to be circular, we can say the Washington Post, and put a sentence in there about with the Washington Post said. There is a certain level of adding references on the newspaper level, and then the next that is to go to the scientific papers. We will try to find Academic Studies with support statements. That is the next level of quality as we go along. We are just about out of time. Thank you all for coming. If you work on the hill as a congressional staffer, you care about the wellbeing of our republic, hopefully this battle has encourage you to become more involved in wikipedia editing and improve the debate.
They will get to continue doing whatever they want to do because they have got all the money. We have seen that a number of times it. Seems pointless. In fact, it seems insulting to the rest of us. In the end todays hearing may prove just as pointless. We will find out. For one brief moment today you got the feeling that maybe actual progress was being made. Maybe the good guys might not be entirely lame. That moment came when senator josh hawley asked Mark Zuckerberg, the ceo of facebook, about an internal tool that his company has developed called sentra. Hawley knew about sentra because a whistleblower told him how it works. Facebook employees used sentra to spy on users even when those users are not using facebook. Sentra gives facebook access to troves of personal data including the pages users visit and the accounts they have linked to facebook. You didnt know about this because all of it happens in secret. Its probably not even legal. So today at the hearings josh hawley confron