people told the truth about donald trump when he was less powerful. this is often the case. it s harder to tell the truth to power, and to be fair, some people think they re going in there and checking his worst impulses. some are and doing some good for the country. it is striking how many people in and out it s one thing if you re a member of congress or a member of the administration. what s striking is how many people outside just want to get along with the guy. he s president, i guess. it s powerful. you don t want to be at odds with your president if he s from your party, but i think it s shortsighted. what strikes me is the beginning, we re seeing finally the cracks and the facade we should have seen a long time ago. conservatives, republicans realizing this is not going to end well. they re not they don t want to be on this train. they still don t have the nerve, a lot of them to break. i would say the closing of the weekly standard, it isn t i think will be a contrarian
if i could just say about bill kristol, he s been a towering figure in journalism. i often disagreed with what was written in the weekly standard, but it always set a standard, and the reason it s had trouble is because the industry is having all kind of trouble. it has nothing to do with criticism of president trump who has eviscerated the intellectual conservative movement which became the never trump movement. i think we re seeing now the result of that, and he can t form anything resembling a governing coalition in the congress right now. it is getting worse rather than better and hopefully the forces of conservativism in america will begin to reject this before it completely destroys the movement and it can rebound from that. president trump just reporting mulvaney as his acting chief of staff.
congress is we hind a wfind a w make the aca stronger and more americans get coverage. you see more and more states are expanding medicaid, providing coverage to more citizens. they recognize the law works. and what we need are leaders who fix things that provide gaps where people don t have coverage but don t try to undermine the law. millions of others with preexisting conditions depend on this to provide health care coverage. we need quality leadership to move it forward. i think that s what we ll get with the new congress. this appears as this this is going to find its way to the supreme court. how concerned are you about the future of the affordable care act? well, legal theory terms, i m not concerned. the lawyers who led the previous effort to repeal the affordable care act have themselves said this is an idiotic decision.
keep track of. it s easy to get confused. it s all the shifting narratives. he feels like this is good for him with the public and also macon fu may confuse the members of congress. rudy giuliani is dry ice for the trump white house. i mean, he s kind of this fog machine. you re not sure whether he s totally in possession or i should say in control of what he s saying as you said he said november 2016. that sounds like a bomb shell. s he might have meant november 2015. that serves the purposes of the of the president. because the whole idea here is simply to on if i skate. it s to create a cloud of confusion in the mind of the public that you lose track. in that sense, whether rudy giuliani is crazy like a fox or just crazy doesn t matter.
troubling for all americans. the russia story and their motives are one thing. understanding the capacity in these platforms is another. i hope it will give us another push to get congress to move on an internet privacy bill of rights. most of the focus has been on facebook and twitter. take a look at these instagram numbers. russians operated 133 instagram accounts according to the reports. posts went from 2600 a month in 2016 to 6,000 in 2017. russian gram posts generated 185 million likes and 4 million user comments over three years. what groups of people did the russians target? what do we know about these groups? i think what you ll learn more than anything else is if you want these reports are going to be great to understand where the digital platforms are moving. and i think you re getting a signal here about where audiences are shifting and engaging more online. instagram clearly appearing as one of the more high growing