dropped more than 75% due to ivory poaching. only about 350,000 remain, down from the estimated 20 million that roamed the region before africa was colonized by european countries but the ration national from the u.s. fish and wildlife service was allowing the import of elephant trophies would help elephants. its statement, in part read the following. fish and wildlife is overseen by interior secretary ryan zinke whose appointment. donald jr. and his brother eric trump posing with their kills including an elephant. trump jr. holding itself severed tail. even then an early sign that
shot. i think what s been happening with all this trophy hunting is that the hunter wants to go for the best and the biggest, the long ers horn, the longest tusk, the most splendid mane and this has to have a long-term effect on the species. but as you know, president trump s sons enjoy trophy hunting and now president trump is considering lifting the ban on importing elephant trophies. what would that mean? he did lift the ban but there was so much international outrage that he stopped lifting the ban and what it means is that it s even easier for the hunters to go and shoot these incredibly magnificent animals and import the horns or the tusks or the hides or whatever it is with no problem at all. just to show off to people.
was preparing to reverse the ban on elephant trophies, conservationists sounded alarm. it s thrill killing, bragging rights, trophies for a threatened species, the largest land animal in the world. shooting an elephant is like shooting a parked car. there s no sport in it either. from 2007 to 2014, elephant populations in the african savannah plummeted 30%, according to the great elephant census. in some places it s dropped more than 75%, due to ivory poaching. only about 350,000 remain, down from the estimated 20 million that roam the region before africa was colonized by european countries. but the rational from fish and wildlife was it would help elephants, legal, we well-regularitied sport hunting as part of a sound management program can benefit the conservation of certain species
90 miles out of el paso looking for suspects of the crime. ted cruz backing president, stark reminder of ongoing threat that unsecured border poses to the safety of our communities and those charged with defending them. we are also praying for the full recovery of his partner who was also attacked. i remain fully commit today working with the border patrol to provide them with all the resources they need to safeguard our nation. the 36-year-old martínez had been a border patrol agent since 2013, he was a father to a son and was engaged to be married. as for the president s border wall, 8 prototypes are being tested right now while the trump administration waits for congress to approve billions in funding. jillian and rob, back to you. jillian: all right, thank you, anita. president trump will decide whether or not to allow importing elephant trophies this week, commander in chief tweeting, quote, hard-press to change my mind that this horror
he said there are two things you need to know. the first is if i were innocent there s nobody i d rather have than robert mueller investigating me. if i was guilty, there s no one i would rather not have investigating me than robert mueller. i think mueller s going to get to the bottom of this. it s not going to be good. the journal when they made their editorial, one thing they didn t take into account is if donald trump and his group unveil everything that s true about russia, it may, in fact, be deeply incriminating. i think that s why they re trying to hide these things. well, if they continue to hide it, it will be worse than deeply incriminating. it will be deeply incriminating with a big fat cover-up. i know we re going to have this conversation again because it s not going away. coming up, the republican s controversial tax reform bill clears one major hurdle but now it faces another. that is next. first, president trump appears to imply he s keeping a ban on importing elepha