Enough view of what our responsibility is and that was a huge mistake. It was my mistake. Sandra were live in los angeles with an update on all of us. Things quickly changing on this front and two big hearings coming up. Thats right. Changing by the day, sandra. Like you said, the social media giant has a lot of explaining to do as they say. Word late yesterday that many more people than were previously thought were exposed in this Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Up to 87 Million People had their private data accessed by the trumpaffiliated Data Mining Firm by way of an app to try to influence the election. Mark zuckerberg acknowledged in a phone call with reporters yesterday he made a huge mistake in failing to recognize facebooks full responsibility in all of this. Its not enough to give people tools. We have to ensure all those developers protect peoples information, too. And its not enough to have rules requiring they protect the information and not enough to believe them when
Troops to defend our border with mexico. In a moment the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee ron johnson to talk about that. Benjamin hall following the fears of a trade war. We start with Allison Barber live on the north lawn on what is a very busy white house this friday. Good morning. Good morning. Senior Administration Officials say the department of treasury is sanctioning more than 30 individuals among them seven oligarchs and the 12 companies that they own. 17 senior russian government officials as well as a stateowned russian trading company. Officials say these sanctions have been in the works and been planning them for months. When asked when they started to plan them they wouldnt get into details. A senior Administration Officials told reporters it isnt a single issue but the response of russias brazen pattern of maligned activity, invasion of crimea, support for the assad regime in syria as well as russias cyber activity. Russia has denied many of these accus
More short conversations that occur over the next few days as the president makes his final decision. But that he has wrapped up the formal interview process interviewing six judges monday and tuesday of this week. He spoke with one of them twice which accounts for the seven conversations that the white house was talking about earlier in the week. It was throwing us off a little bit. We didnt know if he had seven candidates or conversations. He had six candidates and seven conversations. Im told that judge Raymond Kethledges stock is rising, an appellate judge appointed by president bush in 2000 , 51 years old. He could sit on the bench for three decades, a district constitutionalist. Got his law degree at the university of michigan. Not the typical harvard or yale pedigree. Im told by some there is a bit of concern his judicial record is a little light but he does appear to be a reliable conservative judge. Also still in the running is Bret Kavanaugh from the d. C. Circuit court of ap
Went into effect today and china immediately hits back. President trump talked about trade at length yesterday in montana seeming to try and convince supporters to just stick with him on this. Chinas retaliatory tar ifs target things like poultry, soybeans, pork. Critics on both sides of the aisle warn a trade war could hurt American Consumers and the global economy. President trump talked to his supporters about that in montana. Take a listen. President trump they say we are going to do something about it and ill get calls from some politicians, its terrible. I said you dont understand. I respect china and i respect president xi but theyve been killing us, 507 billion in trade deficits last year. 507. Who the hell can lose well win the war because we have all the cards. Sandra will President Trump be talking to any Supreme Court candidates while he is in new jersey this weekend . Thats the other big thing on everyones mind here. He does not plan to. Reporters asked him that exact ques
Baghdad, but the state department is urging u. S. Citizens to leave iraq immediately. Sandra meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo giving me reaction on fox news earlier this morning, saying soleimani force the president s hand. President trump made the decision, a serious decision, which was necessary. There was an imminent attack. It dont like the orchestrator was Qassem Soleimani. What was sitting before us was in his travels thereof region an effort to make a significant strike against americans. There would have been many muslims killed, as well. Iraqis, people in other countries come as well. It was a strike aimed at both disrupting that plot, deterring further aggression. We hope setting the conditions for distillation. Sandra congressman Michael Waltz a standby direction. With a closer look at who soleimani was. True youngsters reporting live from amman, jordan. Trey good morning, major escalation overnight as the United States assassinated the Top Commander in the iranian