them and be responsible for them and mark zuckerberg will have to attest that those privacy agreements are being adhered to and if he doesn t, he could be both criminally and civilly liable which is no small thing since it s a big company and they could screw up again. i m with bill though. there was some restraint. if they did something wrong, they should be unearned. that s how the should be punished. my fear is had they will use this as a an excuse to go after them in a much bigger way and more consequential way. i m not sure that will be good for consumers at the end of the day. so this is and i think congress will have to get involved because we don t california passed the privacy law that will go into evidence i believe in 2020. we don t want this done on a state by state basis. we need congress to say these are the consumer protection laws and when companies violate them, we ll go after them. i think that s what needs to
address that going forward? so much of this including seat belt regulation is done on a state by state basis. what can be done at the federal level? the ntsb will make recommendations. they re not hindered by cost benefit analysis or things like that. they re going to make recommendations that are based solely on how do you stop this tragedy from happening again. and the congress and the states have to act. thank you so much for your expertise. joining me now by phone is valerie abeling. she lost her niece in the crash and knew some of the other victims. valerie, first of all, we re so sorry for your loss. how are you doing? how is your family doing? as best to be expected. my family s just going through a lot. it s a horrible tragedy and there s no words to describe how we feel.
right now the president s primary focus is on pushing through things that we know have broad bipartisan support or things that we can do from a administrative perspective that we can do immediately. we haven t let go some of those other things that we ll continue to review and look at as i mentioned in the opening part of my first comments. was there a single thing in this proposal from the president that is not supported by the nra? anything in here that the nra opposes? look, the president still has in this plan the age limit increase. that is part of one of the things that will be one of those things will be reviewed on what the best part forward is on that front, whether it can be done at a federal level or whether it needs to be done on a state by state basis. the president doesn t have the ability to create federal law. he would need a number of other individuals to come together to help make that happen. so what he is pushing forward are things that can immediately
the next few minutes in your in boxes. but right now, the president s primary focus is on pushing through things we know have broad bipartisan support or things that we can do from an administrative perspective that we can do immediately. but we haven t let go of some of the other things that we re going to continue review and look at as i ve mentioned in the opening part of my first comments. was there a single thing in this proposal from the president that is not supported by the nra? is there anything in here that the nra opposes? the president still has in this plan the age limit increase and that is part of one of the that is one of the things will be reviewedo reviewed on the best path forward whether it could be done at a federal level or done on a state by state basis. but the president, as you know, doesn t have the ability to just create federal law. and he would need a number of other individuals to come together to help make that
caucus in 50 states, and our election rules provide that those primaries and caucus are largely run on a state by state by state basis. and there s no evidence that the dnc reached in artificially shaped the results. bernie sanders won some states. hillary clinton won morement bernie sappeders won some caucus. hillary clinton won some caucus. there s no evidence that there was any outside interference in the actual electoral results. i just find it funny. i mane, you know, half an hour ago you were saying that the russians change the votes to help it for president trump. that s not what i said. you implied it. no, no, no. there s an ongoing criminal investigation by someone who is well respected by democrats, republicans i just think it s funny they re talking about there was no votes changed because of this agreement in the democratic party. here is what happened is the democratic party shut out bernie sander votersment the reason bernie sanders didn t how did they d