his $31,000 dining chair out of the news. and also ryan zinke with what he was jared kushner. it s sort of who s going to overshadow the latest controversy, and scott pruitt s probably hoping to find somebody. right now he is the target. quite a long and impressive list there. evan, tara. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. more on the fallout at facebook, the social network announcing new changes to its advertising policies making it harder to create fake accounts and spread misinformation. ceo mark zuckerberg also coming out in support of legislation ramping up regulations for political ads on social media sites like facebook, twitter, and google. and zuckerberg will meet with lawmakers face to face next week when he testifies before the senate and house on why his company mishandled the private data of millions of users. joining me to discuss all of this is the host of tech radio show marketplace molly wood. and senior writer for wired magazine, erin griff
ultimately gotten away with the most wrongdoing. again, as i said earlier, he does not care about what scott pruitt has done. what he cares about is the repercussions of what scott pruitt has done and continues to do. it s the headlines. it s the taking away from trump making the headlines. it is not the act of wrongdoing. there s a reason why so many in this administration are behaving the way that they can because the example s being set at the top. evan, i want to give you the chance to answer, as well. why do you think that trump still has scott pruitt s back after this? donald trump likes scott pruitt because he s gotten results. donald trump forgets that you could put anybody in there because the republican party for the most part holds scott pruitt s views and would be able to execute what he has done. donald trump could have somebody who s a no-drama person running the epa, getting all of the results that scott pruitt has gotten, and not essentially having these really scan
on his tariff threats against china on twitter, arguing that the u.s. has been losing half a trillion dollars a year for decades. and as calls grow for embattled epa chief scott pruitt to resign, president trump defended his appointee as doing a great job but totally under siege. and stormy daniels lawyer has promised a major announcement exposing the identity of the person who reportedly threatened daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with president trump. joining me to discuss this, gop strategist evan sigfried and democratic strategist tara dowdell. tara, trump is back on twitter pushing the tariff drum beat after the dow fell over 500 points yesterday over fears of a trade war. how could this play out for a president who counts on a strong economy for so much of his suppor support? i think it s going to continue to do damage to donald trump. you see he s no longer bra ee e
hulu have pulled their ads. gop strategist evan sigfried. welcome to you both. this is not the first time that ingraham has courted controversy. she told lebron james just to shut up and dribble. look, that s the beginning of a long list here. so why even pick a fight with a school shooting victim? well, first amendment gives laura ingraham the right to be stupid and pick fights that she shouldn t be picking. i don t think she should have made that tweet or been picking that fight with lebron james. however, david hogg has gotten himself in a bit of trouble saying things that only divide us more. when he calls republicans sick and i will not say that word or he says that nra wants to kill students. domestic abusers can buy guns. that hasn t been legal since
wrote a memo about it and then he testified under oath to congress and said look, i view that as an order. as a direction to drop the investigation. and i did not comply. after that, james comey was fired. that is the essence of the obstruction of justice investigation that robert muler is pursuing against trump. in terms of his lawyer saying the president can t obstruct justice, there was a famous man who once said when the president does it, that means it s not illegal. his name was richard nixon. he said that after he resigned from office, having been presented with articles of impeachment alleging obstruction of justice, stephanie. i got to bring my panel in. it s a good one. there s a lot to unpack. nick ackerman, former watergate prosecutor. donna brazile, author of the new book, it s probably on your christmas list, hacks, the inside of the break-ins and breakdowns that put donald trump in the white house. and evan sigfried is a republican strategist and he bought me a bottle