michael, this may be the most important thing i say here today, the science is unclear about the relationship between social media in particular and mental health. and i think that the reason i know i was given more than a year to talk to families and scientists is to try to get at the more nuance of the science here. i don t think we can show through the research that merely looking at social media and interacting with it causes mental health problems for all youth. i think we can show for some youth it s a problem and for other youth they actually thrive. there s a much bigger picture at play than that simple explanation expresses. matt, it s an important subject. can t wait for your next installment. thank you. thank you for having me, michael. appreciate it. i want to remind you to answer the survey question this week at smerconish.com. which political party has been
they include persistently feeling sad or hopeless, seriously considering suicide, even making a plan, attempting suicide, et cetera, et cetera. one more slide if i may. smart phone usage. yeah. what s the connection between these three slides that i ve just shown? yeah. so, i mean, first of all, i m so glad you picked those out because they show it in very plain terms what s going on. and what the smart phone represents is not the smart phone per se. and it s easy to say, oh, the rise of the smart phone and the internet caused this, but here is another way to think about that, michael. that represents a massive shift in lifestyle. the lifestyle went from outdoors, hanging out at the woods, your parents concerned about the kegger, my parents concerned about the kegger, maybe driving recklessly, but congregating to a lifestyle in
at the president s former attorney and fixer michael cohen. he says that the president knew in advance about the june meeting. and also, the secretly recorded meeting of trump and cohen, and rudy giuliani said that he wants everybody to hear all of the tapes even as he railed against cohen. you call ed him an honorable honor. how would i know? i have not had a bad deal with mi michael, and i did not know that he had taped conversations sur rep tisch shousely and grossly violate the attorney/client privilege and por tetend to the recordings without letting the other person know. and how much of his place of work and residence relates to the president beyond the tapes? well, i will see about if i
michael allen is managing director of beacon local strategies. he formerly served for republicans on the house intelligence committee. the perfect people to join me to help understand just how significant this all is in. mi michael, this question that looms over all of this. what does this really mean in terms of the extent to which jah rerd kushner can continue to do his job. he has been put in charge of brokering peace in the middle east, working on china. will he be able to serve effectively? i don t think so. i think he s been severely wounded. i worked in the white house for seven years and had a top secret clearance. when you go to meetings, you basically assume when the topic is national security that everyone has the same clearance level. it just introduces this incredible factor of awkwardness if suddenly you know from the
him. the reason we bring it up is we have moved away from the potential problems of conflicts. the hotel there in d.c. has become like a salon effect for the president. it is a meeting center of influentials in a way it never was before. and it s not a coincidence. the golf courses, the hotel, people want to do business with the president. and the family is profiting from these relationships and ongoing businesses and have done nothing to create a real firewall that should make people think twice about whether their decisions are coming from a public policy standpoint or financial interest. those issues are real. we ll stay on them. tim, michael, thank you. allison? how big are all these new russia rell invasievati. ns for the trump white house? will be how to drink this monstrosity. get help with hotels, free twenty-four-hour flight changes, and our price match guarantee.