program that allows the chronically ill and people with disabilities to continue living in their homes. also in the new york times, little italy is getting littler by the year. in 1950, half the residents of the manhattan neighborhood identified them selve as italian-americans. now that number has dropped to just 5%. also, the census couldn t find a single resident of little italy who had actually been born in italy. that s a problem. time now for politico. and let s take a look it s not a big problem. i don t think it s keeping the residents of little italy up at night. i think you re right. can we go to politico now? maybe they were born in scranton or trenton. it is possible. let s go to politico with john harris. john, we ll start with sarah palin. one of her farmer aides is release agnew memoir that doesn t paint the former governor in a very good light.
it wasn t something controlled by hillary clinton herself. so it s found to not be true. but he is distracting i think from this russian news. and it s not working i think with americans who oppose him. but i do think to his base that it does work. people sort of make fun or joke about the president using twitter. but he is successfully distracting his political base from these looming charges against his farmer aides it looks like. but will time run out on that distraction if that investigation continues to bring more charges. and the big question i want to ask you is how significant will be it be if this charge isn t directly related to the trump team colluding with the russians if it s something very indirectly related. i think it s too early for, you know, trump himself or his supporters to declare a victory. and it s too early for trump s critics. it s going to be unclear based