Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. No evidence that theyre doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. That was very clear. And they laid out strategies for dealing with it, which are consistent with recommendations
you just used. Is it allgovernment without the president ish Press Briefing symbolic of an allgovernment approach or is it not there yet . You have to have the president on board for an allgovernment approach. It was encouraging. I thought they had a good command of what we need to do. The question is do they have the support from the president. Senator, good to see you as always, thank you. Senator ben cardin of maryland. Todays beefedup White House Briefing comes at the end of a week that was marked by election and Cyber Security headlines. Facebook revealed another campaign on its platform very similar to russias attacks in the 2016 election. Yesterday top Security Experts testified on capitol hill on the failures of the United States government to stop foreign influence. The 9 11 commission characterized the failures that preceded that attack as a failure of imagination. I believe the failure to detect and disrupt the russian governments weaponization of Online Platforms to be a similar failure to imagine, not just by
the government, but also by those who ought to understand these tools best, their creators. That was laura rosenberger. Shell join me later in the hour. First i want to bring in nbcs National Security analyst clint watts. Hes a former fbi Special Agent and the author of messing with the enemy, surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news. Clint, youve been with us through this whole thing, this whole unfolding of the mystery of russian hacking and the tacit and lacking in confidence embraces of this information. What does today feel like to you . Its remarkable that the institutions are essentially moving around the leader, their leader, to execute these policies. These are things that should have been done immediately after 2016. Ive been to many parts of the government since 2016. Ive talked to them. In each of those briefings, i kind of look and i go i hope youve got this. The room is very quiet. I dont doubt that our civil
servants, our Intelligence Community, our military people, want to move the ball forward and do whats right. So what i think you saw today was a Press Briefing where essentially each of the institutions said my duty is to you, the u. S. Citizens, to make sure your election isnt interfered with, that you have confidence in democracy and that no one is going push us around. We didnt get that. We got something that said were trying as hard as we can. Right. Obviously a Press Briefing like that cant happen without the president s tacit approval. And yet to what senator ben cardin just said, why didnt the president do that . Why Doesnt The President come out and say it in that fullthroated manner . It will still fail. This will fail today because its not integrated. Each of those agencies has a different role. Director wray said my influence task force is doing the following, because hes doing what hes allowed to do, but hes not there to police fake news that comes into the United States. Thats not his job. Whose job is that . Whos going to take that on . This has to be put together and it takes leadership. And the leadership has to come
from the top. Its got to come from a person that is called the president of the United States. There should be a strategy thats pushed out by the National Security staff and its pushed down to these agencies. That is not happening. The institutions know whats right to do with the people, theyre just doing at least what they can. Dan coats has used this example, lots of people have, the lights of blinking red the way they were in the summer whether 9 11. Right. And what we didnt do in the summer before 9 11 is figure out whether there should be one person or one entity coordinating all the different Government Branches that youre talking about. Do we even know what that looks like . Is there a position Waiting In The Wings thats like the director of Homeland Security or someone who coordinates fake news, actual physical Cyber Attacks on our infrastructure, all of the Different Things that could happen . When i testified in march of 2017, i tried to address that and say it needs to be a task force set up. Each of these agencies has a different role. One is hacking and defense, thats dhs. National security and cyber command. Fbi should be looking at hacks, investigating and looking for foreign influence in terms of persons. But who is responsible for this middle ground . It should be a task force set up. It should have a twoyear mandate. It should come from the white house. Someone needs to lead this effort and bring these pieces together and the white house refuses to put anyone in charge of that. I think what youre seeing is i think its admirable for each of these leaders because theyre under enormous pressure from the president to keep their mouth shut and not mention russia even in the white house. Theyre moving forward trying to restore confidence for the American People but its not the right way to do it and how our country should be led. Let me just say what the general in charge of the nsa said at the briefing. I wont discuss the specifics except to state that our forces are well trained, ready, and very capable. I have complete confidence in the forces under my command. We will work in conjunction with other elements of our government to ensure we bring the full power of our nation to bear on any foreign power that attempts to interfere in our democratic processes. Thats strong. Thats the message you want to hear from everyone. Im not sure that what we need is what paul nakasones forces are capable of doing. But thats a government official, happened to be in uniform, saying im ready, i know what i need to go after, im going to keep you safe. That wasnt even as certain as dni dan coats could get. And that is a great message. Were playing a Zero Sum Game with russia. Why would they stop doing it . They have met no counterpunch, theyre going to keep doing it. If the nsa goes and does an offensive cyber operation, who does that inflict casualties on inside the u. S. Cyberspace system. I dont mean literal casualties, but cyber infrastructure. Hacking attempts, is the fbi ready or our military ready for the blowback from this. This is cyber war that has to be coordinated from the very top and everybody is going to be on board. I wonder if these leaders are trying to coordinate with each other and, oh, by the way, dont mention it to the white house, we have to protect ourself. Clint watts, former fbi Special Agent. Author of messing with the enemy. Up next, brand new reporting on who Robert Mueller now wants to interview about that Infamous Trump tower meeting. Why he wants to talk to a russian pop star who once featured President Trump in a music video. Youre watching msnbc. Treba® r. Now im doing more to lower my a1c. I take tresiba® once a day. 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The meeting was about the Magnitsky Act, To Lift Sanctions on a list of very wealthy russians. But yeah, so he was and that was the first clue that it was a problem because the Magnitsky Act is something that only affects people basically in putins circle. These are rich russians who have had their assets frozen in the west. Thats right. So he now in theory, hes the answer to a lot of these questions. Why did you set up the meeting, what did you say you were setting it up for. I assume mueller has a lot of that information to start with. Thats right. And his father knows this lawyer. So in that initial email he said his father, one of the richest men in russia, met with veselnitskaya and she wanted a meeting with trump. Emin said his father called him
and told him to call don junior so hes right at the heart of this. What does this get us to . The idea is these guys set up a meeting because this lawyer either promised dirt on Hillary Clinton or wanted to discuss the Magnitsky Act, the idea being that donald trump jr. And Paul Manafort cant say they didnt know what this meeting was about. Thats right and who connected Natalia Veselnitskaya with emin, was it somebody above emins father. And right now what we do know is that the lawyer is in discussions, ongoing discussions with muellers team about this potential interview. Its unclear if mueller can compel emin thats what i was going to ask you. Can he just say no . At this point in the reporting, we dont know. But whats clear is he is a key figure in setting this meeting up, which is central to muellers investigation. Anna schecter, nbcs investigative producer on this particular topic that we are
staying very, very close to. Top intel leaders came together at the white house today to brief and lining up their plan to make sure our elections are secure ahead of the midterms, but does their plan go far enough . Does it even mean something if the president isnt behind it . And is todays announcement actually going to change anything . Well take a closer look when we come back. Know what . No, what . I just switched to geico and got more. More . Got a company i can trust. Thats a heck of a lot more. Over 75 years of great savings and service. You cant argue with more. Why would ya . Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. New laptop with 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes start them off right. With the School Supplies they need at low prices all summer long. Save 200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. In regards to russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the United States. Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. Free and Fair Elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries who seek as the dni just said to sow discord and undermine our way of life. Make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is both broad and deep. Way to go, white house. Everybody says we never say nice things about the white house. Were saying nice things about you. That was the thing to do. The nations top intelligence officials put on a united front today in the wake of concerns about the security of this falls midterm elections. Their joint appearance at the
start of the White House Briefing comes after a series of headlines on Election Security and one day after a Senate Hearing featuring experts and executives from social Media Companies talking about what could be done to prevent further interference. Joining us now to talk about this are two people who could have written their scripts for them. Laura rosenberger the director of the alliance for securing election and former Clinton CampaignForeign Policy advisor and roger mcnamee. Hes an early and current investor in facebook. Laura and roger, listen to the language they use. Christopher wray called it information warfare. Dni coats called it pervasive messaging. Kirstjen nielsen talked about democracy in the crosshairs. That was an amazing press conference. The head of the nsa, laura, spoke about how his forces stand ready to combat infiltration. Okay. Does it mean anything different than when we spoke about this 24 hours ago . Does this have teeth behind it . Because no one has seen the president and no one has seen a tweet from him. So, yes, ali, i think it is incredibly important that this happened today. I think it sends a very clear message. It is important that it happened from the White House Briefing room. It is important that you had the various heads of the agencies that are involved in countering this threat all sending a clear and consistent message about the threat, about the fact it will not be tolerated, about the fact that there will be consequences for such action and that they are willing to take the steps necessary to meet it. One of the things experts had been saying is so important is that there be a consistent message and that we be exposing this activity. I do think that it is important for the American People to hear from the president himself clear and consistently on this issue. I hope that is a followup step to the positive thing that we saw just now and that will come next. Or theyre all going to get fired. Roger mcnamee, chris wray said
something really interesting. He said he drew a really clear distinction between those people who say, well, no votes were changed. We dont know. We dont have evidence whether votes were changed. But we know there was a misinformation campaign, information warfare, and that thats what the problem is. Again, i think it was 24 hours ago, you and i had this conversation. Indeed, ali. I think that we face a couple of challenges. Im 100 with laura in how important this is as the first step. Theres more than one thing going on here and there is the potential for many, many bad actors, not just the russians. That playbook is out there and anybody can do it today. And everyone who does it is a threat to democracy. So this was an essential first step. The piece that they dont talk about and that frankly is the Elephant In The Room is im really worried that the scale of facebook, the scale of google and the scale of twitter today has exceeded the ability of the management teams of those
companies to actually effect the changes we need to protect democracy. It makes me very, very nervous, because we are trusting them with this midterm election. So at least at least everybody seems to be singing from the same hymnal here, but laura, to rogers point, Christopher Wray actually addressed the issue of whose problem this is to solve. Lets listen to what he said. Since january 2017, the president has taken Decisive Action to defend our Election Systems from meddling and interference. The Intelligence Community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming this is also not Christopher Wray unless he just lost all his hair. So im going to tell you what Christopher Wray actually said while whoever whos punking me in the control room sorts out their issues. Christopher wray said we have to be a Public Private partnership with this particular threat and thats why i talked about the three pillars, the Foreign Influence Task force, were
spending much of our effort trying to engage with the social Media Technology companies because theres a very Important Role for them to play in terms of monitoring and policing their own platform. We are sharing with them actionable information. That wasnt happening before. Roger mcnamee, hes saying that wasnt happening before. Laura, who solves it . Fbi gives facebook and twitter and google information. Are they supposed to solve it . Is it fbi supposed to solve it . Who fixes this . Well, this is what we call a whole of society problem. You need the government to play a role, you need the social media platform, the private sector to play a role and you need civil society, outside researchers to play a role of the and everybody here has different pieces of the puzzle that they can help put together to both shine a light to understand whats happening and to eechffectively counter it. Different actors will be playing different roles. Different actors will have different pieces they can bring to the table. What i think is important is i
completely agree as chris wray talked about there are these task forces that have been set up, that there has been progress. Thats good. The problem is its been slow, its relatively ad hoc right now, its not formal and institutionalized in a way, and frankly there are multiple task forces in different parts of the u. S. Government. This is why we need a white house led, National Security council directed, weve proposed a counter foreign interference coordinator to bring together these activities in a streamlined institutionalized manner. There are models from the Cybersecurity World and the counterterrorism world. If were going to take this threat as seriously as it is, we need to put in place the mechanisms that are going to be required to bring the players together to address it. You know, roger, when the president got elected, he liked to say that the biggest problem that our democracy was facing was voter fraud. He even set up a whole commission and there was a lot of hoopla around the whole
thing. It was a nonsense bogus commission that was dismantled. Wed like to see something along those lines. But i guess my question to you is what does success look like here . Have you thought about what a world looks like where we understand were being bombarded by all sorts of bad actors, whether they are state actors or nonstate actors and yet we can live safely and have access to reliable information . Ali, i think one of the core elements here is to recognize that our voting systems, which are highly distributed and tend to operate at the county level are an artifact of an older time. The world has changed and the vulnerabilities of that highly distributed system now offset all of the benefits. I think that we really need to have a conversation about what is the right way in a democracy to actually execute the voting process. Why tuesday . Why do we limit peoples ability to vote pby mail or in other ways . Why do we have systems out that
there are not auditable. All of those things are deep flaws and the russians in 2016 apparently have exploited many of those and apparently theyre continuing to go after them. Another issue is, obviously, the allocation of funding to do it. Money was raised by congress, none of this as far as i can tell has been spent. The republicans just shut down a second appropriation for Election Security. Weve got to get everybody we dont actually have everybody from the same hymnal. What we had was a performance piece that if its true is really important. And the last piece, and weve talked about this before, is that voters have a huge responsibility in this. The most successful aspects of the 2016 interference was about Voter Suppression. Correct. And the Voter Suppression can be offset if we as citizens recogniti recognize to make sure were registered and actually vote on election day no matter what the obstacles are. The average Voter Turnout is under 40 . Tell all your friends. From your lips to everybody whos listenings ears, people can talk all they want about politics and polls and the other guy, but you actually have to go out and vote. Roger, thank you very much for that. Laura, thank you for your continued work on this front. Laura rosenberger is the director of the alliance for securing democracy and former Clinton CampaignForeign Policy advisor. Roger is a great friend of our show. All right, coming up, the president is chipping away at yet another obama era environmental policy. The argument they are using to roll back Gas Mileage Standards and what it means for you. Youre watching msnbc. A hotel can make or break a trip. And at expedia, we dont think you should be rushed into booking one. Thats why we created expedias addon advantage. Now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. Addon advantage. Discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. Only when you book with expedia. Moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis was intense. My moms pain from i wondered if she could do the stuff she does for us which is kinda, a lot. And if that pain could mean something worse. Joint pain could mean joint damage. Enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop further damage enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. Serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma other cancers, Nervous System and Blood Disorders and allergic reactions have occurred. Tell your doctor if youve been someplace where fungal infections are common. Or if youre prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for Heart Failure or if you have persistent fever, bruising, bleeding or paleness. Dont start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. Since enbrel, my moms back to being my mom. Visit enbrel. Com. And use the joint damage simulator
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traffic administration, which released the official notice, said the proposal would prevent more than 12,700 onroad fatalities and significantly more injuries. Hmm. Earlier press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders tamped down on the seriousness of this announcement clarifying that this is just a notice of proposed rule making. What the epa released yesterday was a notice of proposed rule making, not a final rule. The notice lays out a series of options for how to go forward with Cafe Standards and the notice asks for comments. Were simply opening it up for a Comment Period and well make a final decision at the ending of that. Joining me now is the official who ruled out the Fuel Economy Standards under the Obama Administration, gina mccarthy. Great to see you again, thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me, ali. I want to put aside what i think is a silly argument to public safety. People buy more fuel efficient cars for a variety of reasons. One of them might be epa standards, one of them is the price of gas and people drive a lot and want to pay less so they want a more fuel efficient car and i like to use the ford f150 as an example. They took a big, heavy truck, made it out of aluminum and made a smaller engine but it still makes them feel like theyre driving a big truck. What governs Fuel Efficiency with people the most . I think there are a variety of reasons why people want fuel efficient vehicles, but mostly because it performs well, there are choices in the market that you have for families and for vehicles that need to do workloads. And we all are happier when we have those choices and when we dont have to pay money at the pump, which is why this is a really baffling proposal. Because it really doesnt just weaken the standard, but it does it in a way that makes our auto
companies not competitive. It does it in a way that cedes jobs and growth to foreign markets and significantly increases the amount of oil that this country will have to consume, which means more greenhouse gases, so it just makes no sense. Oil prices was actually the problem. Yes. The reason that the hondas and toyotas and nissans came into america is americans were looking for fuel efficient cars they werent able to get from their own automaker, so i dont get who wins from this. The only one that wins from this are foreign markets because theyll be getting all of the fuel efficient vehicles that our Car Companies will be producing, because theyre demanding it, and the oil and gas company because we are going to be consuming over a million additional barrels of Oil Every Day as a result of taking away the National Program we have now that Everybody Knows is working and instead insert this in. This is just another part of our
make America Great thats about looking in our Rearview Mirror instead of going forward. Let me try and articulate the reasoning that the government is giving on this. Theyre saying to make these cars more fuel efficient on an ongoing basis as you had done in the Obama Administration makes cars cost more. If we take this out, cars wont cost more so people will buy new cars for less money more frequently and theyre safer. Well, they do think that consumers only look at the sticker price. As we know, the costs of all of these different improvements that keep going down every year, so were not talking about a big change in sticker price. Theyre ignoring the fact that consumers actually benefit tremendously in terms of money in their pocketbooks if they actually drive those vehicles for a year or so. So we know that this is good for consumers. But theyre also arguing, ali, which is really weird, theyre
not only arguing that people will hang on to these old vehicles an not buy new ones and therefore old vehicles will be unsafe compared to the new ones and then argue that people who can afford it will buy the new vehicles but theyll also be unsafe because theyll drive them around more. It is the most ridiculous argument imaginable because nobody is suggesting that Fuel Efficiency is anything but safe to be brought into the market today. If it were, nobody would have proposed this. This is about ignoring science, ignoring the law, ignoring the facts, giving a boone to the Fossil Fuel Industry and Everybody Else loses, most notably the automobile manufacturers. They werent asking for this. This creates a world of uncertainty that will put them at significant disadvantage against those really Smart Companies from other places that know we like fuel efficient vehicles. California said its going to
sue and as a result an automaker doesnt know what rules will be operating for a little while. Gina mccarthy, my mother always said dont make serious plan on an empty stomach. Someone made a plan on an empty stomach here. Thats not the only obama air ya regulation he is targeting. Four cities, chicago, columbus, cincinnati and baltimore filed a lawsuit accusing the president of violating his constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. This morning i spoke with the Baltimore Mayor and asked her why her city is participating in the lawsuit. Now that we sort of kind of slowed it down, were not promoting it, were not advertising it, were not enforcing it and now were driving up the costs and people cannot afford the costs that are being driven up by the acts of the Trump Administration. The lawyer involved in the case tells nbc news the suit
will rely on tweets in which the president called obamacare a mess and said he would let the law implode. President trump is looking to up the ante and raise tariffs on even more chinese goods. How the growing trade war could bump up the price of electronics, Medical Equipment and more and why hundreds of thousands of jobs could be at stake. Youre watching msnbc. But allstate actually helps you drive safely. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . China is urging the United States to, quote, correct its attitude attitude after President Trump escalated his efforts to get china to negotiate a new trade deal. Lets talk about this. A lot of numbers here. Stay with me. The president originally proposed imposing a 10 tariff on an additional 200 billion in chinese goods. He now wants to raise that to 25 . The proposed tariffs target products such as aircraft parts, diesel trucks, Medical Equipment, Flat Panel Tv Screens and much more. Now, china retaliated to the first set of u. S. Tariffs by imposing sweeping duties on its own range of american goods, including soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco and whiskey which is why all of that stuff we now have surpluses of. With the increased cost of goods, companies could be forced to cut costs and potentially layoff employees, according to the trade partnership. The tariffs and retaliatory
measures could result in a loss of more than 450,000 u. S. Jobsz. Now the white house has approved 12 billion in Emergency Relief for farmers who are caught up in the trade war. But if it provided similar assistance to others affected in different industries, the cost would balloon to 39 billion. So thats just one particular cost of this trade war. Joining us now to take a closer look at this is economist at Oxford University fellow linda yu, author of the book the great economists, how their ideas can help us today. Linda, great to see you. Thanks for being with us. Whats the immediate implication of a higher tariff on more chinese goods . The immediate implication is going to be a cost increase. If youre going from a 10 tax to 25 tax on about half of Everything America imports from china, then the cost of those goods, some of them, are likely to go up. But i think, ali, one of the
more worrying things about all of this is that china will retaliate. Now, thats probably going to increase costs to American Consumers as well, but heres the rub. China doesnt actually import 200 billion worth of goods from america, so theyre going to have to look for other ways to retaliate and this is where i start to get really worried about what happens to investment and what happens to companies. Tell me lets talk a little more about that. What happens next . If they run out of things they can retaliate on in terms of tariffs because we import much more from china than they do from us which is sort of what President Trumps point might have been in the beginning, what else can happen . Well, they can restrict investment. You remember qualcomm and trying to buy a dutch chip maker . The chinese sat on that deal and that deal actually didnt go through. Thats a big m a deal for a huge american tech company. So the chinese could retaliate by restricting or affecting american investment. So, thats really going to hit
corporate Balance Sheets which, of course, will then affect workers because people are employees of these companies. So i think thats the danger when china only imports 160 billion from america. They cant do a tit for tat so theyre going to have to look for other things. And i just worry, the qualcomm deal is the first of many to come, and that excellent explainer that you put up, that showed the cost of this trade war, thats likely to go up if china starts to retaliate in these other ways. So, lets go back to First Principles here. I want to show a tweet that President Trump sent on july 24th. Tariffs are the greatest. Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal or it gets hit with tariffs. Its as simple as that and everybody is talking. The last line is what im interested in. Remember, we are the piggy bank thats being robbed. All will be great. What do you think he means, we are the piggy bank thats being robbed . He has created an impression that we give china or everybody
else lots of money every year and dont seem to get something in return for it. The bottom line is we do get goods in exchange for the things we buy from china. Yeah, we do. I think hes really pointing to the fact that the Chinese Market isnt as open as the u. S. One. So it becomes, i guess, if you think about the u. S. Buying lots of goods from china, its easier for chinese firms to sell than it is for american firms to sell to china, which is true. I think thats probably what hes referring to. The question is what do you do about did . So, tariffs are a tax. Putting a tax on things tends to hurt consumers and it tends to hurt Companies Like weve been discussing. But i think hes probably and this looks like the strategy so far is saying we are going to levy these tariffs after the beginning of september if you dont open up your markets more. So its almost like, you remember Gun Boat Diplomacy where you say im going to fire this at you unless you open up . Thats what it sort of feels like. Now, that is not how trade deals
are normally done. Right. But i suppose if you looked at what President Trump is unhappy with, is that china hasnt opened its markets after a long time, and he thinks a new tactic is needed. But heres the danger. It escalates and it doesnt look like theyre going to come back from the brink and there will be economic damage. And to me that probably is a bigger deal than the ongoing trade negotiations, which must happen between the u. S. And china for sometime to come. Linda, you have made this much more easy to understand. Its a complicated issue. Thank you for joining me. Linda yu is a professor at the London School of business. Well be right back. Nerve pain any longer. So i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions suicidal thoughts or actions. Tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. Common side effects dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs, and feet. Dont drink alcohol while taking lyrica. Dont drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. Those who have had a drug or Alcohol Problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. Now i have less diabetic nerve pain. Ask your doctor about lyrica. Apple made History Today becoming the first publicly traded u. S. Company to hit a market value of a trillion dollars. Take a look at this. Thats just todays trading on apple. I will say there is an expectation that this would happen, so that sometimes helps. The trade goes up because people are expecting it to happen. The stock rose more than 3 , though. Thats a big gain, as you know, for a single stock for a single day, hitting an alltime high of 208. 38. Hovering around 207. 58 at the moment. This, by the way, puts apple up more than 20 just this year. The major indices had fallen earlier in the day as trade worries intensified after the Trump Administration threatened to slap those bigger tariffs on china. Heres where we end the day, though. The dow is just down a little bit. The nasdaq which is the Tech Heavy Index is up a lot more