Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Absolute positive proof of identity on social media, otherwise youll get bchblg of people to leave because its unsayre. So whats the middle ground here . How do you keep Facebook Free while not u allowing it to be b rebust platform . Thats the conflict youre seeing play out with the executives. If you hear Mark Suctizuckerber interview, they are really trying to come to religion on this particular issue. How do they on the one hand shut down obvious Patent Misinformation that is designed to mislead while still allowing people in Mark Zuckerbergs words to be b wrong on the internet sometimes. This is something youll see members of congress probing facebook out consistently. I think youve seen change in exactly where the company feels like that line is going to be
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
presidential candidate since bill clinton in the 90s has used, it s the economy, stupid. well, that phrase is still big news if you want to call the white house home. the u.s. president donald trump gets that. but even as he continues to publicly tout the strength of the u.s. economy, sources tell cnn he is privately concerned about his strongest political asset. our sarah westwood has this report from the white house. reporter: president trump has been pushing aides to come up with plans to mitigate the effects of a potential economic downturn. amid his own private concerns about economic growth. plans have included new tax cuts, indexing capital gains, and renewed push on capitol hill to pass his renegotiated version of nafta, usmca which stalled in the house for months. the president and his advisers know that trump s fate is tied closely to that of the economy. they know it s his number one selling point heading into 2020. president trump this weekend is
more thing. how do we keep it going because i ve argued on the show for something that i think the president can do with or without congress blocking him which is indexing capital gains and keep the thing moving forward in a positive direction. he talked about maybe doing that and then it seems to go away again, payroll taxes also we discussed, what you think the president should do to keep this moving forward. first of all it is a booming economy. i m so sick of all this talk about recession. there is no recession on the horizon. this is the best single economy for workers. if your worker looking for a job, there s never been a time that you or i has had a better time to find a job. how do we keep it going? we keep these policies in place. i do like this idea of indexing capital gains for inflation.
more thing. how do we keep it going because i ve argued on the show for something that i think the president can do with or without congress blocking him which is indexing capital gains and keep the thing moving forward in a positive direction. he talked about maybe doing that and then it seems to go away again, payroll taxes also we discussed, what you think the president should do to keep this moving forward. first of all it is a booming economy. i m so sick of all this talk about recession. there is no recession on the horizon. this is the best single economy for workers. if your worker looking for a job, there s never been a time that you or i has had a better time to find a job. how do we keep it going? we keep these policies in place. i do like this idea of indexing capital gains for inflation.