united states. many a did. that was the point, to open the borders without saying so. earlier this summer attorney general jeff sessions refers to the obama rule. now house republicans are teaming up withub democrats to stop sessions from doing that. just yesterday they tacked on amendment onto an appropriations bill that would preserve the asylum rights of anybody who claims to be fleeing gangan violence. that change would nullify any effort to secure our southern border. mexico and central america have plenty of gang violence. now all 150 million people who live there can cite that fact as justification to move here legally and stay permanently. when they get here they will find democrats eager to give them the right to vote. house republicans could stop this, they aren t even trying. one person who think republicans ought to care about this issue is former house speaker newt gingrich, he just wrote a piece about the left s plan to
of problems for social media giants. the problem started with a disappointing earnings call,l facebook admitted a combination of privacy concerns and new personal data handling rules that went into effect in in the european union resulted in a loss of a few million users and the ability to target ads as precisely as they could just a few months ago. you mix that in with the simmering worries of users here in the u.s. following the cambridge analytica scandal and the wind has blown the house of cards down. $100 billion down. the stock drop is the largest drop in value in wall street history. facebook stock closed down 19%, its lowest in nearly three months. a little further up the peninsula and san francisco, twitter dealing with bad news. vice news reporting that twitter was shadow banning some prominent republicans. when you searched for users like congressman jim jordan or g.o.p.
at the national archives and discovered a lot of nixon stuff, the hanky panky let s break into the brookings institute and the republican hdquarternd pretend the democrats did i it s on nixon is so criminal today. trump today it s hard to figure, what is he hiding that s so devastating to him and his presidency that he is playing this game of trying to intimidate all the prosecutors? i don t know but it must be something really serious. he s jeopardying his presidency over something we don t know but you can t fire comey, head of the fbi. you can t threaten to fire people around you threatening to fire mueller. you ve can t threaten to fire the deputy attorney general without bringing the whole house of cards down. maybe you should be his lawyer? he s paying his lawyer $1500 an hour to give him the wrong advice. the documentary also depicts the saturday night massacre when president nixon fired multiple attorneys general before he could find the one who would
people keep getting wrong it s not the crime it s the cover up. there s the reason for the cover up. there s a crime. in the case of nixon i did a lot of digging of the tapes and i discovered the knicks son stuff of saying let s break into the republican headquarters and pretend the democrats did it. it s all on tape. trump today it s hard to figure what is he hiding that s so devastating to him and his presidency that he is playing this game of trying to intimidate all the prosecutors. i don t know but it must be something really serious. he s jeopardizes his presidency over something we don t know. you can t fire comey head of the fbi. you can t threaten to fire people around you threatening to fire mueller. you ve can t threaten to fire the deputy attorney general without bringing the whole house
that s what gates will talk about. that s what manafort will talk about. that s the one thing that this president holds more dear than anything else and that s money. follow the money. i m guessing at the end of the day you will see that gates becomes the trump card if you pardon the pun that knocks the house of cards down. so samantha, you ve worked in the white house. you understand the loyalty for the office. those three people, we have flynn, papadopoulos and now gates. what do you make of it? i think what we are seeing is that process is working. i actually think that all of the reporting from friday with the indictments that came down and this potential charge as well or this potential blip, despite president s trump s repeated attacks on the investigation, on the department of justice, bob mueller is doing his job as just discussed. he is talking to witnesses and he is trying to get more people to talk and get more information. and that sends a clear signal that u.s. legal s