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They chanted free our brothers and let s liberate africa in front of the libyan embassy. clashes broke out with protesters lashing rocks at police and police responding with tear gas. that is after cnn film showed migrants sold outside of tra ci. they want congress to exempt puerto rico from the jones act. cancel pruerto rico s debt and help to rebuild that island. this island is still struggling from basic necessities and talking about food and medical supplies and electricity some two months after hurricane maria! so much work to be done there. severe storms tore down trees and homes and power lines in middle tennessee overnight but ....
Expire pretty much blocking foreign ships from bringing any aid to the island? reporter: so this waiver was only designed as a short term fix, to last ten days. there is still a lot of push in congress to permanently exempt puerto rico from the jones act to allow them to continue to benefit from the exemption during recovery. senator john mccain introduced a bill last week or a few weeks ago to permanently exempt the island and he now that the waiver has expired, he s calling on congress do through and pass that. but it s unclear if they will take it up with their long to do list. all right. jacqueline, great to have you with us. a newly revealed e-mail from the russian lawyer at the center of the 2016 meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr. is raising new questions over the nature of the sitdown at the height of the presidential campaign. according to the washington post, the e-mail was written and sent to rob goldstein who helped arrange the meeting. ....
Is? the president is clear that he s been a strong supporter of the second amendment and i don t have anything further at this point. i ll take one more question. fred? thank you, sarah. yeah. a couple of questions. one, on the trip to puerto rico, i wanted to ask about the present bill which would give an exemption to puerto rico from the jones act. would the administration consider either a repeal of the jones act or an exemption for puerto rico? i don t think that s something that s necessary at this time. if we deemed that it was we can have that discussion and it s certainly something that we don t feel like is necessary today. i wouldn t imagine that would be something needed. on the nomination of sorry. there have been some attacks among senators and some in the ....
The 2nd amendment. i don t have any further at this point. couple questions. one, on the trip to puerto rico tomorrow. just want to ask about the bill congressman caine act would give an exemption to puerto rico from the jones act. would the administration consider either a permanent repeal of the jones act or at least something for puerto rico? i don t think that s something necessary at this time. if we deem that it was, we could have that discussion then. certainly we don t feel like something that is necessary today. i wouldn t imagine that would be something needed. there has been some attack among senator, some in the media on her religious beliefs. does the white house have ....
Of getting supplies, food, wate water, having everything ready to go to save people s lives. jon: ben, what do you think about that? saving people s lives as if puerto rico is somehow reggae behind the other states. first of all, no one wants another hurricane katrina. that is absurd. perception is reality and the perception was when donald trump tweeted about the nfl, he did not care. he has done some good things and let s point those out. he waved to the jones act which was absolutely needed to be done. the media, i do have to agree, cnn s of the world, they do enjoy these events to some degree. they use the president can only do what he can do. the overall response to puerto rico on the ground has been okay, it s very difficult, but this whole idea that the ....