yes, and that s why republicans are so freaked out about it. roy moore lost an unlosable race and the senate is in play. they re going to do everything possible to squash him. but, again, in this particular era running against the establishment, running against washington is not necessarily a negative. vaughan hilliard, great exclusive, thank you charlie sikes. we have big breaking news. president trump was just interviewed by chuck todd at the white house. here s a portion of their conversation. did you green light something s had you said if you do it i ll do this? nothing is green lighted until the very end because things change. you never gave a final order? no, but we had something ready to go subject to my approval. they came in and came in about a half an hour before. we re about ready to go. i said i want were planes in the air?
there s not a whole lot of russian impact on the release the memo campaign that s been on soshl media, having to do with these allegations that the fbi used its surveillance authority. quite a bit thing on social media. good, independent reporting that russian patrols have been heavily involved in amplifying this message. and so senator feinstein and representative schiff demanded facebook and twitter look into this carefully and tell the world about what was going on with the russians and they came back with letters that are pretty thin. so they ve gotten new letters because these members of congress are not happy with what they ve heard so far. totally not pleased. jill and kaitlyn, where does this go in washington? congress is clearly, it seems, not going to let up the pressure. and the pressure is important because, remember, the russian meddling is said to be continuing in 2018 and into 2020. that s been the big question mark about, you know, the white house undermining all of
people aren t spending as much time on facebook, is that spin or does he have a point? he might have a point for the good of the world but not for facebook investors, my guess anyway. how significant is this, anyway, when they re saying they re trying to do these things to fight fake news? facebook and these other tech companies have been playing defense on the questions of fake news, on the manipulation that the russians pulled off on their platforms during the election and i think they re trying to figure out how to handle it, facing all this pressure from capitol hill and within their own industry. and i think they re still trying to work it out. i don t think the numbers going down are an inherently good thing but probably it s a good thank they re trying to react to all these pressures. you ve got twitter also in the crosshairs of washington shall releasing this initial report on the whole release the memo hash tag. walk us through what they found. twitter, in response t
hard-earned money. joe voted no on tax cuts for job creator creators. reporter: joe manchin argues that he doesn t think any of those votes he took would have supported he doesn t think any of those votesy bad for the people of west virginia. he framed it instead as a potentially voting to take way health care for hundreds of thousands of people in west virginia. but he also had this memorable line. the vice president s comments are exactly why washington sucks. i m disappointed in his comments but will continue to make washington work so west virginia and our country work. adopting a little bit of the trump approach to, you know, this kind of back and forth, using language that we ve probably all heard him use privately. but he s now taking that out into the public sphere here. and, of course, running against washington never a losing way to approach things typically. hallie? what are you watching for today? i know you have briefing there
awful lot of people in washington who question that, if the president if this were 2019, and the president would be running in a year or less, the idea of running against washington, even though he has been present for four years, and in fact running against leadership, donald trump has always been less a republican than his own separate brand, that would make a lot of practical sense, but we are not to just before the general election, the presidential election in 2020, we are just before the midterm election in 2018, the president has got three years plus where he has got to work with republican leaders in all of the things that we just talked about in terms of taxes, debt limit, and infrastructure, and the budget, so separating himself from the g.o.p. in addition to which, if he hurts republicans and they don t end up running and voters don t come out in 2018 and he ends up with a democratic house or senate or both, he may look