Tariffs. Im worried that the harm to our economy will be greater than the tariff effect on mexico. Do you think the white house understands how upset Congressional Republicans are about these tariffs . I think they understand the concerns very well. But trump will likely feel hes got some new ammunition to make his immigration argument. New numbers just released by customs and Border Patrol show undocumented immigrants at the southwest border during the month of may reached a 13year high. More than 144,000 and more than 132,000 were apprehended crossing the border illegally including 11,000 plus children. Joining me now is nbcs White House Correspondent kristen welker. Some of the president s biggest supporters are against this, Mitch Mcconnell is against it, ron johnson, rob portman. Ted cruz said were holding a gun to our own heads, but you heard the president , hes dug in, so where is this going . Reporter the president has been defiant, chris, there is no doubt about that. Look, th
but now they used it to line their pockets. how exactly did she is trolls make money? it really added insult to injury, you re absolutely right. they did it by using what s called link short nurse to push ads to some of the users who were clicking on their fake news links that they were pumping out at this internet research factory in russia. as you said, we ve known about this entity for some time, robert mueller indicted them, it was headed by putin s chef and is mentioned in the mueller report but this report took a deep dive into the entire twitter archive, 10 million tweets, nearly 4,000 accounts and what the researchers found is that this was even more sophisticated than we first understood. it was a very clever propaganda operation. there was a core group of small accounts that were impersonating american news sites and pmpg out fake stories aimed at the extremes of both parties and eventually more towards trying to get donald trump elected. there were thousands of automated a