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awareness. i want to bring in our justice correspondent pete williams. pete, walk us through the pentagon s concerns here. a lot of folks are likely going to be opening one of these dna testing kits tomorrow morning. this was a somewhat surprisingly blunt memo issued december 20th. yahoo! news first reported it. it basically says, it urges military personnel not to get these kits. it says there s concern the information they send in could be used either to track them individually or track them as part of a military unit, putting them in potentially the military unit at risk. i have to say this is not a new concern from people at the defense department. back in july, the chief of naval operations was speaking about this, gave a speech in washington and said much the same, that military personnel should stay away from this. i think the reason this d.o.d. memo came out just before christmas is the memo says there
test kit makers have said it s generic data without anything to identify specific people. and the home dna kit makers say they take security very seriously. ancestry.com says it does not share dna data with insurance companies or employees. 23 and me says no information is shared without consent and says its customers can, quote, choose to have their samples stored at our lab or have it destroyed. this was reported by yahoo news and consumer advocates say these kits can help people manage their health and learn about their genealogy. their advice is read the fine print about how the dna will be stored and shared. reading the fine print is probably always good advice. what makes military personnel more vulnerable? well, the dod memo says that one of the reasons it was being sent out is because they received information that some companies were offering special deals to military families to try to entice them to buy these
faltering. he wants to help some of those folks in the rust belt states. lot of people who voted for him. exactly. and he does have that constituency that has been on the so-called short end of the stick of a lot of the industrial change that the u.s. economy has gone through. the the problem with tariffs tariff is an import tax. and so consumers will pay more, manufacturers will pay more. it s going to slow down growth and it s not necessarily even going to change china s behavior. so by trying to prop up one industry at the expense of the entire rest of the economy and meanwhile you re not going to change china s behavior, what are we trying to accomplish here? the national security argument is a hard sell especially when page one of the d.o.d. memo says military only uses 3% of u.s. produced steel, so why is steel so important? there s been a question
key west. obviously we want people to get home, but we also do not want to risk anyone s safety or security. i support the locals in these efforts. there s some frustration, a lot of anxious people here here at florida international university. i don t think it s worth risking anyone s life in order to rush people back home. shepard: there s some talk of evacuating people from big pine, middle torch, summerland, cudjoe. what is your thought on requiring people to leave? at this hour, i don t believe that is necessary. that was a rumor that came out of a dod memo. senator rubio and i have discussed this. obviously there s people that want to leave the florida keys, we want to help them evacuate. at this time shepard: senator rubio tweeted in favor of it, congressman. well, since then he s spoken