Was released, particularly because it touched on the president s age and memory, two issues that they anticipate Congressional Republicans are going to attack the president on over the course of this mornings hearing. And again, the white house, when they pushed back on this, they took issue with the way that the president was characterized, and the president himself was clearly irritated in a Press Conference that occurred in february, just after its release. Thats thats my memory has gotten worse, mr. President. My memory is not. My memory is fine. My memory. Take a look at what ive done since ive become president. None of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. How did that happen . You know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. Do you fear that this report is only going to fuel further concerns about your age . Only by some of you now, notably casey. Since then, the campaign has released a new ad tackling bidens age head on, where he says and acknowledges that
Beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. Will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corkerlike position on that . Well find out. But right now i doubt it. A standing ovation. I want to bring my panel in. Robert costa, National Political reporter for the Washington Post and bret stephens, an oped columnist for the New York Times and megan murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Business week. Brett, i want to start with you. One trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. What were seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, youre going to see more republicans follow suit. Do you think thats the case . Follow suit in denouncing the president . Yes. Or in renouncing their political ambitions. Fair point. This is the key thing. Theres a law in economics, greshams law, bad money drives out good. In a sense what we have is bad republican politicians driving out good ones who are just removing themselves literally
from circulation. There was this conceit amo
political ads and therefore why is this medium separate. it s a communications medium, it s a broadcast medium, it s a news distribution medium. and i think nobody likes being regulated, i think, in that regard but in this case political ads can be very damaging and very they can make they re confusing to people who are looking at them and they don t know what they are. and so twitter is confusing enough. not giving enough signals that you re looking at an ad versus content, what content is, who s giving the content is really important. will twitter ever get off protecting anonymity? if you think about the trolls that go after you every day. every day. or go after me every day, they never show their name. they never show their face. what argument remains on twitter s behalf why these people s identities should be protected? if we don t grow, we die. that s their argument. it s a business argument. they don t make it explicitly but everything around twitter and facebook is g
with facebook warrant, just another signal this investigation is really focusing don t know what evidence he has for that warrant but to have a warrant you have to persuade a judge there s probable cause of crime being committed. investigation appears to be heating up but lawyers at odds at what to do now. you make important point. any communications medium can be used in crime. pick up phone and do activist a activity and phone is part of it. but wonder if mueller is seeing facebook not as one-off device but something where crimes or conspiracies occurred over long period of time. what light can you shed on that shayne? we don t know, there are a couple of points.
operations center in new york. we got some tweets little bit ago before it even broke, so there is a lot of social media, as usual, as to be expected, streaming and in relation to the shooting. jon: as jenna pointed out, the new communications medium, and in a breaking news situation like this, it can be very useful. ari fleischer very familiar to people as a frequent rest on fox, former spokesman for president bush, bush 43, he now lives in suburban new york and travels quite a bit on a number of business ventures. he is fair at fort lauderdale airport and was one of the first, as you point out, to file a report of the shooting. they are moving people, it would appear. they have several hundred people who fled apparently terminal 2, they are out there on the tarmac. it appears they are getting ready to put them on buses to take them back to the airport and run them all through the scanners again, i am sure.