from the president today. the white house says they are a call to action, not just presidential venting. stirring the anger is talk of a caravan making its way from mexico. talking about his border wall, threatening to cut off aid to mexico. something the president doesn t mention in his tweet storm? he signed off on a bill that had a 10% payment to his border wall. and there are other changes the president wanted but didn t come close to enough needed for passing. joining us the rest of the hour, bloomberg silas kippur.
briefings that president drunk was it what was getting and also there is one thing which doesn t mention and that is that from the first of april r.t. russian state propaganda channel t.v. channel will stop brokaw saying in placentia only in the in the in the east coast and in the area washington it will be kicked off major cable providers and i think that what you have to follow i suspect so it s some action against american media here for example the authorities may order local providers to drop c.n.n. from their shadowy i think that will be coming up but again i suspect that there will be more wolves now by both washington and london and especially with regard to putting people on these a band lists as well as in this to getting russian assets in both countries so it does sound like you expect things to escalate beyond the script our case they need sounds like a sampling of all skulls. yes i think that what gloria. johnson
discussion around their words and actions. once again from the left, if they don t like speech, rather than engage it or debate it they want to shut it down. kudos to twitter to not do that. griff: did not mention president trump by name. doesn t mention. pete: mahmoud ahmadinejad or iran if they are worried about violent statements. lisa: critics say president trump is this authoritarian dictator but yet shut down his ability, his access to free speech and his first amendment right to be able to tweet out what he wants and to communicate with twitter users and to voters. so, again, these contradictory narratives that we are seeing from critics on the left and some from the media. griff: not just critics. pete: the left you mean the media? lisa: be partisan a little bit. griff: he has said time and time again that he wanted to speak over that media, that has been so nasty to him and speak directly to his base. but the thing whether he
how what consumers feel about their own economic prospects, about business conditions, and yes, going forward, outlookwise they see wages going up, they see more jobs available, they see stocks going up. but, what donald trump doesn t mention is that although we ve had month to month fluctuations on this number the general trend since the recession has been positive. so this is not an unusual thing to see, consumer confidence has been trending in this direction for quite some time. the other issue is here, you know, now that he s out there taking credit for this number, you know, the big question is, can he actually implement the policies that are driving this consumer confidence? what are those policies? lower taxes. r res leg lags, more spending on infrastructure. there s a question mark as to whether he s going to be able to pull those off and consumers also are turning on the tv and watching us talk about the dow possibly hitting 20,000.
the times, doesn t mention what was said in those posts but they were missed during three different background checks. had they been found the authorities might have left her out of country. this morning, investigators are wrapped up their search for evidence at a lake near the site of the massacre. cnn s anika cabrera has the latest. reporter: fbi officials aren t confirming what the items they have found in the lake nor confirm if they have to do with this case. one fbi official telling me they