The foreign minister. The meeting was about russianamerican relations. I dont see anything illegitimate or illegal about it. In principle, i am looking with skepticism and lots of interest at the new and continuing report on how donald trump won the provincial election. The meeting cited were those taken by George Papadopoulos. Foreign policy advisor and candidate, and professor overseas were poorly introduced the young man to figures advertised as having strong crewmen connections. This all lead papadopoulos to arrange a meeting with russia with candidate trump and initiative the campaign rebuff your documents show papadopoulos guilty plea, the professor told papadopoulos as papadopoulos later described the fbi, they come of russians, had their own curve, that thousands of emails. Today, the telegraph newspaper in london identify the professor as a teacher at sterling universe university, includes numerous. This photograph edit by bold i compression group, a group that vladamir putin meets with often. The professor told the telegraph, who was upset by the claim about being attributed because they were quote incredible. Also a laughingstock that he had introduced papadopoulos to a female russian national, described as a relative of president vladamir putin. While the most credentialed documentation, he nevertheless was a quick challenge to the official version of the 2016 campaign, laid out by the special counsel. Dana james rosen, thank you. We are learning more about russians campaign on social media. Facebook now says, 126 users may have been posts by russian backed up counts. Also finding more content linked to russia, and Senior Executives from all three companies will testify before a Senate Committee moments from now. Peter doocy is alive on capitol hill. Period, how are lawmakers digesting this information. They are comparing the post to post by terrorists. The senator in charge of the hearing that will start within the next half an hour, lindsey graham, republican from south carolina, his head a statement where he says come the manipulation of social media sites by terrorist organizations and foreign governments is one of the greatest challenges to american democracy, and a significant threat to our National Security and the 21st century. What do you do not . Theres a careful balance of senators that they want to achieve between free speech and regulation, and we are hearing about that from the senior senator from california, dianne feinstein. These companies are going to have to adjust what they do to meet the National Security concerns of this nation. You clearly cannot have the internet used to interfere with an election. That is bipartisan. John kennedy will be asking questions today in the democratic he thinks he knows more about facebook and his wife does, wants to know more info. Dana how has the story changed since election day . It has changed a lot, because were the first things Mark Zuckerbergs said, on the newsd from did not have really impact on the election. He thought people do on their own Life Experiences exclusively when they were picking who to vote for. A little while after that, facebook did side . Decide they would root out fake news and then they admitted, their words 100,000 worth of russian bought facebook ads by a few million people, but they decided, original content by professional propaganda is directed towards 29 million users, potentially seen by 126 million after things were liked and shared. That is 1 out of every 23,000 pieces of content on facebook. Does not sound like a lot, but it is in reach of the equivalent of more than half the people old enough to vote in the United States. That is a lot of questions for the executives today, about how they mixed it. Dana i have to ask him twitter is going to increase everyones character account to 280 characters. I feel very strongly this is a terrible idea. Im not for, i do not like him in a change the start to a heart. I dont think we need any more room on twitter. What is this all about . This i dont think is necessarily to come up at todays hearing. You think about the very powerful people in washington, the president , who uses twitter. This doubles his ability to get something out. Tribute Foreign Policy related, a nod to a senator, who is not helping him. Twice as many letters or numbers to phrase, go after them, needle somebody. Dana i am okay with the president , although i like the rhythm with 140 characters, because we got used to it and to make sense to me. I think theres so much nonsense on twitter that we do not need more. The whole thing about twitter, it was a microblog. Dana it was fun to figure out how to use language to get it into that 140 characters. I do not know what i will be doing. I will never go over 140 characters. Mark me. Self policing, dana perino. Dana the president pushing against the charges in the m ueller pro. Joining me now come in kevin brady, who is chairman of the house ways and means committee, and sir, youre the most popular person in washington, d. C. , right now. Maybe you do not want to be. This is where the rubber meets the road. Give take a grand plan and interests to a simpler tax code. Is that getting harder with every hour . It is, because it is part of it. Only happens once in a generation. It is worth it. I will predict that the tax reform will be more than 140 characters long, as we put it out. This is our chance to lower taxes on everyone, grow jobs and bring we want to see those jobs come back. It is difficult, but everything worth it. Dana do you think everybodys taxes will go down to mccord there will be people in america that will go up as what the president because the biggest tax cut in American History . Architects code is very cap located, so many deductions and loopholes. You can lower taxes in an area, and increase them, because all the mess. That is what we want to clear out. We want to clear out complexity and simplicity. What i do know. We can improve the lives of every american, dana, by lowering their taxes to keep more, simplifying it, and especially increasing pay checks that stagnant, because local businesses cannot compete. We know, getting this economy going is going to help everybody. Dana if marginal rates go up on dividends, capital gains, it really does go against conservative philosophy, you do not want to dis incentivize investment into the economy. Is that a risk . I dont see marginal rates go up. For families, for example, the tax code is like an elevator, and every rate you pick up another tax cut, and as you go up, all of them count. Rates can actually stay where they are at, and you still have tax relief, because of all the changes underneath. I like to say that rates alone do not tell the story. Unlike the reagan reforms, which were focused on rates, they were awfully good. We are making a lot of tax relief underneath as well. Dana how much do you have to wait the senates concern as you work on your bill. You want them to pass it. Does that weigh in on any of your decisions . It does, but the president is very helpful coming up with a unified framework between the house and senate. That is very important. A big moment in this process. We are writing towards that framework. We have slightly different approaches with the senate on how to hit the target . Sure, but that is a healthy thing at the end of the day. We will reconcile the two differences and get it to the president s desk by the end of this year. Dana young senator collins who say, they will not vote for it im curious about the torts coe tax rate. Is it negotiable . It is not in my mind. I am hopeful that for every lawmaker, there is an excuse to vote against. I hope the senate does not kill tax reform like they killed repeal of the Affordable Care act. The truth is, we cannot stay with the status quo. You know this. The terrible tax code that punishes everybody. He is our opportunity, work out these differences, but america families moving again. Dana assault today, both france and denmark and europe, they are ahead of america by lowering their Corporate Tax rate, not lower than 20 , but to a point they feel is that imperative for you since reagans reform was so successful, we have fallen from one of the lead countries o 31st out of 35 major economies. We are nearly dead last, and we still fall. We want to leapfrog america to the lead. We have to. These other countries are leaving us in the dust. That is why jobs in research and manufacturing is going overseas. This is not an option. We have to get this done. Dana President Trump said today he wants and hopes for a sign to ed bill by the Christmas Period move it off by thanks giving all of that. Is tied to getting that going. Dana when read about your diet and the wall street journal. It sounds to me you need a little bit more nutrition at the dinner table, because you have a lot on your plate. Thank you so much, congressman kevin brady. We have too big live events coming up in minutes. Sarah sanders said to briefed reporters at the white house and on capitol hill, three tech giants about spreading fake news during the election. New speculation about former Trump Campaign advisor, George Papadopoulos. Was he wearing a wire, and if so, is the white house worried about that . I think the reaction of the administration and how the system works, everyone is presumed innocent and we will see what goes. Dana went we are minutes away from the start of a critical hearing on capitol hil capitol hill. Top executives from three social media giants. Facebook, google, and twitter are set to testify about russias role in spreading fake news during the president ial election. My next guest says this is nothing new, and washington has been ignoring it for years. A fellow for the mitt romney campaign, you wrote an oped that our concerns should be far past the Technology Companies and the additional oversight and disclosure they need to provide. What you mean by that . The palm, dana, we are focused on facebook, twitter, and google, and they should tell us more about what they will do to prevent this. The bigger issue is this has been happening the russians have been spreading this information, but were doing it in the eastern europe, former soviet republic, and western europe, and policymakers have been ignoring this, particularly during the obama administration, when more could have been done and wasnt done. We were left essentially the senseless only got to the 2016 election. Dana you reference this in politico, the headline, 2014, demonstration got a report of russias intentions to disrupt western democracy including the United States. Are you saying, they should have done more going up to the election . Absolutely. They should have been aware of russias interest. Goes back to a strategy, dana. The russians have a strategy to use this information against other countries. They did it throughout europe, and its predictable. The chief of the general staff in russia. They basically said in 2013, this is our strategy. We are going to come at you with disinformation, and we were not on the ball. We needed to do more, dana, and we need to do more. Dana but practically could they have done . If you want to spread disinformation on facebook, i can do that on twitter, it will give me an extra 140 characters. Part of it, we need to be more aware and what social Media Companies know, this is a problem. We need to know, you look at Companies Like sweden. They have been dealing with this paid what had they done . They have a Government Agency that is focused on identifying disinformation and letting the news media no. They teach kids how to identify disinformation from russia. Other countries focus on russian disinformation. Women slowed to the punch on a government wide. Dana the Trump Administration has resources that they are not using. What is that about . Hello, lanhee chen . I think we may have lost him. That is a bummer, he was saying, there is money at the state department that could be used for this thing, and sweden, that they do to fight back against propagation and disinformation from russia, but is not being deployed. Sorry to lose lanhee. We will take you to Sarah Sanders press conference. And Tech Companies on the hot seat over russian meddling in the 2016 election. We will bring you more on that. Theres Rocket Mortgage by quicken loans. Apply simply. Understand fully. Mortgage confidently. Alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. And help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks ill take that. Yeeeeeah ensure high protein. With 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. Ensure. Always be you. Morning on the beach until. It. Wasnt. Dont let type 2 diabetes get between you and your heart. Because your risk of heart attack or stroke is up to four times greater. But there are steps you can take to lower your cardiovascular risk. 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I read the plea agreement, and that did not yield any information. It is obvious, he was a brash, young volunteer, who was introduced and having candidate trump go to moscow. He was being told, and in the plea agreement by his Campaign Supervisor, to cool it. I think this is a dry hole. Dana also, when it comes to rick gates and manafort, it doesnt show any collusion in activity that predated their involvement in the Trump Campaign. A question for you. If you are special prosecutor, your test with what you have. If you uncover what you know is illegal activity, even if it is not brought forward very often. The are you obligated to indictr should you let that go . Of course, dana. It is important for your viewers to know, he was fully aware of the allegations in this indictment in 2011 and 2012, and obviously made a decision not to initiate the prosecution. The question is, is the prosecution going to judge, discretion, any different in a case of a special counsel. I would volunteer, of course it is. It should not be this way, but perhaps the men to indict is more zealous. It is a week indictment and any respect. Dana you do not think mueller will be successful is prosecution against manafort and gates . I dont think he will be unsuccessful, but theres a lot of weakness in overcharging. It is the biggest indictments i have heard in a long time. Dana do you think there is more to come or they do not have much . That the latter. They do not have much especially on Money Laundering. It is one of the reasons have not had any criminal prosecutions in a long time. It is very much often a matter of opinion, whether it is distributable or not. Money laundering depends back to whether or not what is known as specified unlawful activity, which you need and Money Laundering otherwise it is a financial transaction. It is all tied together. Dana my last question, quickly, do you think tony podesta is looking for possible indictment as well, or that was unrelated . I believe given the way the special counsel, there is good chances sb 23 will be indicted. Another point, it tells me theres no cooperation between stirling, Sergey Mueller , and gates. Because everything happened with papadopoulos. Dana thank you, david rivkin. All eyes around our capital. The White House Briefing start with the senate hearing. Tech companies with russian spreading fake news around social media for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. Just serve classy snacks and bew a gracious host,iday party. No matter who shows up. Do you like nuts . Dana we are moments away from a critical hearing on capitol hill, Top Executive from facebook, google, and twitter are said to testify about russias role in spreading fake news during the president ial election. Back again is lanhee chen, and we have is audio working for thank you for sticking with us. A question for you. These hearings are quite unprecedented for these tech giants. What is the mood like out there on the west coast but the possibility of a Republican Led Congress and administration could actually be looking at possibly regulating these companies . There is concern, because i was the any time washington gets involved in something, there is reason to be concerned. I think the bigger cricket to my question, yes, they should be doing more. They should certainly be telling people about what happened during the election. They need to be taking proactive steps as twitter and facebook have already announced. The bigger issue fundamentally, what are we doing at the government, as a society to ensure we have the proper processes for cyber hacking that the russians, but not just th