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white house because i think the president needs to see these reports for himself. i was concerned about americans' identities being either not masked properly or being unmasked in intelligence reports. >> as you may remember, he said he would share what he saw with the other committee members. he has. our chief national correspondent broke the story. what are you learning? >> tonight, both republican and democratic lawmakers as well as aides who reviewed the same intelligence reports that devin nunes saw say that obama administration's -- the reports that nunes said had improperly requested names of u.s. individuals that had been redacted in the intelligence documents, cnn sources say the lawmakers have seen the same intelligence documents that nunes saw last month and they tell cnn that they see no evidence that the obama administration did anything out of the ordinary or illegal.

one congressional source described these requests as, quote, normal and appropriate. much different than what devin nunes said just in the last couple of weeks, anderson. >> you and jim sciutto, you talked to sources who have seen the documents. what are they telling you about the contents? >> one source says there's actually absolutely no smoking gun in these reports. in fact, this person is urging the white house to declass guy them to make it clear there's nothing alarming in them. a lot of questions have been surrounding the role of susan rice who is president obama's former national security adviser and whether she acted legally in requesting the names of the trump officials who were incidentally collected in the intelligence reports. president trump has said that he believes that she may have broken the law. anderson, those same sources on both sides who reviewed the documents that nunes saw said they do not see what the president sees in that she may have broken the law. these appear to be routine requests.

the president himself has not revealed what intelligence he is relying on to make that assertion that rice broke the law and we're still waiting to hear from the white house why he made that assertion. >> even if the obama administration acted properly, what are the rules for actually masking and granting these unmasking requests? >> the rules were set by the int intelligence committee. certain officials can make these requests. the national security agency can decide whether to grant the requests. typically, the requests of senior officials are rarely denied. despite their judgement that obama officials requests were within the law and regular, normal practice, some members of congress continue to have concerns about the justifications given for some unmasking requests and the standards for the intelligence agencies to grant the requests. expect that to be looked at further by the house and senate intelligence committees. >> nunes temporarily he says

recused himself from the investigation, is being investigated by the house ethics committee because of his handling of the documents. what's the status of that investigation? >> it appears to be moving forward in the aftermath of nunes deciding to recuse himself. democrats and republicans on the panel have agreed on a list of witnesses to interview. there's a division on who they want to interview. the republicans are interested in determining who leaked classified information. the democrats are looking for testimony between any ties that could show any ties whatsoever between russian officials and trump associates. they do plan to interview all of them and expect that one big name on the list to be susan rice. she will have to defend why she did make those requests to reveal the identities of u.s. citizens in the intelligence reports. not only before the house panel but also the senate intelligence committee as well. >> thanks very much. related news tonight in the washington post, the paper is reporting that carter page --

kind of an adviser. unclear how much of an advise he was to candidate trump. he was named as an adviser, was the target of a surveillance warrant. the fbi and justice department convinced the court that there was probable cause to believe page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, namely russia. moments ago, page gave this statement. it reads, quote, there have been various reports about fbi surveillance. but i was happy to hear further confirmation is being revealed. it shows how low the clinton/obama regime went to destroy our democracy and suppress dissidents who did not fully support their failed foreign policy, end quote. it went on to say, it will be interesting to see what comes out when the unjustified basis for those fisa requests are more fully disclosed over time, including potentially the dodgy dossier, a document that is false evidence which could

represent another potential crime. that was carter page tonight. the day was dominated by a number of other stories, including sean spicer apologizing for his controversial comments about hitler and the holocaust. remarks he made as jewish people are celebrating passover. the apologize from the man who speaks for president trump who makes a point of rarely apologizing came hours after mr. spicer said this about bashar al assad. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to the -- to using chemical weapons. you have to, if you are russia, ask yourself is this a country that you and a regime you want to align yourself with? >> reporters in the briefing room were quick to challenge his claim, pointing to the use of poison gas in concentration camps. when asked to clarify, here is what sean spicer said. >> i think when you come to

sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. there was clearly -- i understand. thank you. i appreciate that. there was not -- he brought them into the holocaust center. i understand that. in the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent -- into the middle of towns. >> just be clear, they were death camps, not holocaust centers where millions of jews and gay men were murdered. that clarification was followed by a statement offering a further clarification and final our hours later, an actual apology in "the situation room" with wolf blitzer. >> i was trying to make a point about the heinous acts that assad had made against his own people last week using chemical weapons and gas. frankly, i mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the holocaust for which there is no comparison. for that, i apologize.

it was a mistake to do that. >> sean spicer apologizing. the panel is here. there's this yesterday was three times talking about barrel bombs. it does seem when the spokesman isn't supposed to end up being the story. he is supposed to help inform reporters and voice things for the president, not become the story himself. >> to me, there are two things. the fact that he can't get the facts right about syria. basic facts that you just pick up by reading the newspaper every day, about what barrel bombs are, what syria's use of chemical weapons are. historical information about world war ii. putting that aside, just the basic facts are incorrect. what is the larger argument they're trying to make? you are trying to compare assad to hitler? what's that mean? the white house is going to do what? if you are laying the foundation for an argument that assad is the worst monster -- >> worse than hitler i guess is the argument. >> you better have a policy that

flows from that. as far as i can tell, their policy was to toss 59 missiles into an air strip and nothing since then. it doesn't seem to me that they have a policy that recognize s assad as someone as evil as hitler. 11 days ago, spicer was at the podium and he said that it is u.s. policy to accept assad as the president of syria. we have gone in 11 days from assad -- we are accepting assad as president to bombing him to comparing him to hitler. >> i think john kerry maybe compared him to hitler and then barack obama didn't do anything. i think i remember that. it was a fews area. here is the problem with spicer. chris matthews made this mistake in 2013, not that long ago, where he said hitler -- even hitler didn't use chemical weapons. there was a huge scandal around it which sean spicer apparently missed. i think when i heard it, i remembered that scandal. i think part of the problem is, most people who become press

secretaries -- ari fliewas here. he was press secretary for a prominent u.s. senator. he was elizabeth dole's spokesperson on her presidential campaign. i think he was on george h.w. bush's '92 campaign. then i became on the campaign of george w. bush before becoming his press secretary. sean spicer does not have that resume. this is a guy who was at the rnc. don't get mre wroe wrong, it's difficult thrown. he has been thrown into the deep end here. i don't think he was prepared for the daily onslout thaught h faces. >> there's been articles about his audience is an audience of one, president trump, who is watching apparently, according to reporting, makes time to watch these daily briefings. >> yeah. there's a lot of pressure with

that. to be fair, i think a lot of people who haven't worked on the hill and haven't had all those jobs actually know that they wouldn't have said what he said today about hitler and assad, making that comparison. >> comparisons so hitler -- >> this one in particular, saying even hitler didn't -- it's just -- it isn't something you need to have worked in those places to know not to say. 22 hours a day -- 22 hours ago there was a story with the headline, assad is worse than hitler, according to a man who survived chemical attack in syria. i think we know that everyone in the white house looks at news max. this is something they look at. somehow he must have seen this or heard it. >> which i believe actually came from an interview on fox. >> which then just raises questions still of why there isn't move of a historical understanding that this probably

isn't a great analogy and then to bring in the chemical weapons aspect of it. >> it's just so jarring. throughout the entire campaign and up until this chemical gas attack, by assad, trump's policy was essentially to accept assad as a fact on the ground. >> repeated tweets when he was a citizen against president obama. >> to argue that assad is not the real problem. it's isis. we're going to go after isis. if that makes us a tacit ally of assad, so be it. >> i question whether he thought sean spicer would continue on, can he survive this. paul thinks he will be gone by 100 days. ari does not agree with that. he thinks he will survive. >> i think he will survive. look, this -- he may not survive, but it won't be because of this. i don't that this is an

unpardonable sin for donald trump. this wasn't malicious. the timing is horrible with passover. it's a horrific sort of gaff to make. i don't think anyone thinks this was malicious. this was just incompetence. >> i see commentary this suggests anti-semitism on the part of the white house. i think this is just -- >> that would be the firing offense. >> probably not likely to be fired. he is not the only person saying this, per the news max thing. it's probably not -- >> who are they going to replace him with. kellyanne conway could step into the role. i don't flknow how many other people are dieing for that job. >> tlaf >> thanks very much. live to the white house for the news of the spicerr story upstaged. president trump is facing more global flash points than any time since world war ii. think again.

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sean spicer's passover holocaust foul-up caps a crisis for the white house. charg charges at russia of helping syria cover up. north korea made a nuclear threat and more. jeff zeleny is at the white house. did we get further clarity from the white house as to whether or not they believe russia was, in

fact, complicit in the chemical weapons attack? >> reporter: the white house stopped short of saying russia knew about the chemical attack in advance. knew before it happened last week. but they were very blunt, in fact as blunt as we have heard senior administration officials talk about the fact they believe that russia is involved in a coverup using their words to help the syrian regime mask the fact that they still have chemical weapons on the ground there. in repeated briefings here at the white house as well as the pentagon, the administration still does not believe it has enough intelligence to say that russia knew about the attack. but they were raising the question for the first time on the record here. they're getting more evidence to that effect. they stopped just short of that today. >> is tillerson planning to bring this up during his visit to russia? >> reporter: he has used very harsh language, much harsher than the president has against vladimir putin. so we do expect him to carry that message -- he has been saying the assad regime has to

go here. the message the state department has been saying here, the pentagon has been saying, we do expect him to carry this message. it's an open question still though if he will have a one on one meeting with vladimir putin. it's not on the schedule. it's open to the possibility of that. if they do have that meeting, unknown if he will say it directly to his face. but he does have a relationship with the russian president. tomorrow that meeting so important. all of his meetings so important. we will see exactly what words he uses. >> i understand some of the words he used earlier in italy are raising eyebrows, that he asked why u.s. taxpayers should be interested in what's happening in ukraine. >> reporter: that was really sort of eye popping. this is before he was leaving italy today at a meeting with other european foreign ministers. he apparently asked this question bloomberg news is reporting, why should american taxpayers be interested in this. it sent a shiver and worries

down some other -- some of his our counterparts, because there's a concern about this america first agenda, the u.s. not having as much of an outward influence. simple raising the questions certainly is unsettling to many of his counterparts. we're not sure if he got the answer he was looking for. >> jeff zeleny, thanks. late today i spoke with someone who has seen his share of global crisis and in the case of spicer, self-inflicted. secretary panetta, when tillerson meets with russians tomorrow, what message does he need to deliver to them and with what level of forcefulness in your opinion? >> i think it needs to be a very tough message. we are the ones who have shown that we're willing to back up

our word with actions. so with that targeted attack. secondly, we have the high moral ground in terms of what assad did with these chemical weapons. thirdly, we have the evidence that he was directly involved in the attack with these chemical weapons. and we know that russia had responsibility here. they're the ones to put together the agreement. they were the ones who should have confirmed that syria no longer had chemical weapons. so i think we've got the leverage. my recommendation to the secretary would be to be very tough with the russians in demanding that they do everything possible to make sure that this does not happen again in syria. >> it's interesting. you said that the strike gives the u.s. leverage in their discussions with russia now in a way they didn't have. president trump said in an interview today that the u.s. is

not going to syria but that, quote, what i did should have been done with the obama administration long before i did it. i think syria would be better off than it has been. is he right? >> well, you know, we really don't know the answer to that in terms of would it have made a difference. i thought that president obama should have acted at that time, because we drew a red line and they violated that red line. i think it would be far better for the president to take credit for what he did. he is president of the united states. and i think the less he takes time to attack president obama, i think the better off he will be. >> i was talking to a number of people who were in various administrations. they all said that they believe the greatest threat facing the united states is north korea. that's what concerns them most. i'm wondering, do you agree with that? >> you know, we have got to walk and chew gum at the same time. with regards to a number of

threats we're facing notice world. i have never seen, anderson, this many flash points confronting our country since probably world war ii. >> wow. >> whether it's the middle east, whether it's the failed state like syria, whether it's having to confront isis and defeat them, whether it's iran, whether it's north korea, whether it's russia, whether it's china, whether it's this whole battlefield of the future in cyber. all of these are threats that face the united states. and i don't know that a president and this administration can pick and choose what's more important at this point. i think you gotta be prepared to deal with all of those crises because they can all represent threats to our national security. >> you have spoken about your own red line when it comes to north korea. what is that red line for you? >> i guess my biggest concern -- it's always been my concern when

i was secretary of defense and cia director -- is that they would use a missile -- an intercontinental ballistic missile and put a miniaturized nuclear weapon on top of that missile. and if we had intelligence to that effect, the problem is they might very well just be testing it. but we don't know the answer to that. they could very well be using that kind of interest continental ballistic missile to conduct an attack. and i think that would represent the kind of red line that would require action on our part. >> before i let you go, i have to ask you about sean spicer's comments today about hitler. this comes -- yesterday he talked about barrel bombs as being also something that the administration might act against. he said that three times. then basically, that was walked back later on. other comments he made today,

mispronouncing bashar al assad, which i think he did as well yesterday. at what point does he cease being a messenger for the white house -- he apologized for the hitler comments -- and become a distraction for the white house? >> anderson, as you know, as chief of staff i used to have a very close relationship with our press secretary mike mccurry. and my advice to mike was when you are doing these briefings, just answer the questions. don't embellish. don't go off and try to do more than you have to do in responding to the questions. because you always wind up getting in trouble when you do that. i think sean spicer is learning that he has to just answer the questions and not make these kinds of side comments that immediately detract from what the white house should be focusing on. and he he's just got to be careful about doing that if he

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the breaking news we have been following, the trump administration accusing russia of covering up the chemical attack. the meeting coming at a crucial moment when tensions rising between the two countries, fuelled by the syria crisis. joining us now is gary casperov, he is a former world chess

champion and author of "winter is coming, why vladimir putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped." also here is steven cohen. gary, today we saw russia's president compare the united states kchemical weapons claims to the u.s. claims about wmds in iraq. what do you think putin is trying to do? >> he doesn't care what he says. everybody knows that he used to lie all the time and maybe later on he will confess that it was wrong information. it's very important for him actually to attack the united states and to step up this confrontation. >> steven, do you agree with that? >> no, i don't. i would have to say what i said earlier today on cnn. i have been doing this, studying american/russian relations as a professor and sometimes inside for 40 years. i think this is the most dangerous moment in our relationship since the cuban missile crisis.

we have got cold war fronts fraught with hot war in the baltics, ukraine and syria. the russians thought because of what candidate trump said that cooperation in syria might be a way of ending this very dangerous cold war. the opposite is happening. russia said today, we have crossed their red line. they mean by red line what we mean by red lines. this is exceedingly dangerous and when tillerson gets to moscow, he is going to get an earful. >> gary, what do you think tillerson, the message he should be bringing to moscow? >> i'm sick and tired listening to this false narrative. cold war and baltics, yes. russia attack republic of georgia, putin is committing war crimes in syria. putin's hand made crisis. he needs confrontation because that's how russia propaganda works. steven can listen in russian. he knows for many years, even during obama years, russian

propaganda made american bias a core element of brainwashing. secretary tillerson should hold his ground and make it very clear that russia was complicit. there's no way that russians on the ground were not aware about this attack. assad's regime was on life support. iranians are responsible for ground operations. everything that happens in the syrian air is conducted under supervision of russians. >> steven, to gary's point about this is basically vladimir putin's fault. going into crimea, the situation in syria. >> well, that's not my view. i'm with ronald reagan when he said of the cold war, it takes two to tango. both sides are complicit. what's interesting about tillerson, if you are interested in that question, anderson, is the russians know him very well. they admire him. he worked with them six or seven years on one of the largest undersea oil deals when he was head of exxonmobile.

they know him to be a very serious, reliable and honorable man or they would not have signed with him billions of dollars worth of investment in russia. he knows putin and he knows laverov personally. but he is coming back now in a very different situation. they have questions. i think they expect him to be candidate with them. the first question is going to be, is american policy toward russia going to be made on narrative for which there are no facts yet? the russians need to know that. the secretary thing is, is the proposal for american russian cooperation military in syria, which trump proposed and which the russians want, is it done because of what's happening in washington? the ultimate question is, did this -- i don't know the answer. but they are going to ask tillerson, did trump unleash 50 tomahawk missiles on a theory

because he wanted to get kremlin gate off his back? that's what they need to know. in other words, who is making policy in washington. >> you are saying there's no facts. you don't believe defense secretary mattis when they say they have proof that this is a syrian operation, that syria did this? >> anderson, i'm at a disadvantage. i'm a scholar. my reputation based -- my books i wreite on getting the facts right. i have not been shown the facts. the four-page document the white house released today hangs its argument on social media and forensic evidence at the scene which american intelligence itself did not do. somebody else did that forensic investigation. show us the actual facts. then you and i as rational people will make a decision. you don't go to war with russia based on a narrative that has no facts for it. >> gary? >> how many die before you will

be satisfied? from the very first day putin in office, we have dead bodies all over the place, in russia, in chechnya, republic of georgia, ukraine. this coincidence and we hear the same story. it's a classical kremlin line, prove it. prove it and then you have more dead bodies. i believe in coincidence but i also believe in the kgb. >> we have as individuals in our personal lives and our professional lives -- if we're policy makers, we only have facts to guide us. if the facts are wrong, it's going to be a catastrophe. we are talking about two nuclear powers. let me ask you a question, anderson. i don't know the answer. maybe you know. what was the big rush to send the tomahawks with the chinese leader who was deeply humiliated sitting at mar-a-lago? why didn't they wait? why didn't they do what the procedure is? send it to the united nations and let them reach a determination? what was the rush? why did that night they have to

let those missiles fly? something was going on and the russians want to know what it was. >> gary, i want to -- >> the question should be asking what russians knew. it's clear, there's no doubt they were dif not conducting thy knew what syrians were there. they control syrian air. assad's power based on russian support, iranian support. >> we have to leave it there to be continued. i appreciate it. before he took office, president trump complained on twitter about president obama's travel costs. now as he flies back and forth to mar-a-lago, it's on track to cost more in one year than the former president spent in eight years. later, another statement from united airlines over this fiasco. an actual apology this time. will there be any consequences for the airline? maybe not. hey, how's it going?

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the bill for president trump going back and forth to mar-a-lago is $20 million so far. that puts him on track to cost the taxpayers more money in one

year than president obama spent on travel in his entire eight years in office. as is often the case, there are multiple citizen trump tweets that are now germane to the conversation. in december 2011, he tweeted, quote, the vacation of obama is now in hawaii. this is costing taxpayers $4 million plus while there's 20% unemployment. also in january 2012, trump tweeted, president obama's vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. unbelievable. it costs a lot for presidents to travel. they all do it. never has a current president attacked the former president for his costly travel and then gone on to cost taxpayers even more money. sg >> the president plans to spend easter in florida. >> reporter: trump spent 21 days in florida. what he dubbed the southern white house. with an estimated total price tag, a whopping $21.6 million.

that puts the president on pace in his first year to surpass former president obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years. >> presidents always travel. >> reporter: pushing the white house on the defense. >> the president, wherever he goes, he carries the apparatus of the white house with us. that's something that happens. >> reporter: then there's the white house north. while trump has not traveled to new york city, it's melania and their son's primary residence, costing them between 127 and $146,000 a day to protect them according to new york city officials. trump's adult children have pushed the logistical and financial needs even more. from van vufcouver to dubai, th are on the go. vacationing, working for the trump organization and bringing with them their own secret service contingents. such a large family combined with the typical key white house

staff amounts to a doubling of those protected under the trump administration. >> it's unprecedented. >> reporter: the secret service is feeling the strain. is pulling dozens of agents from around the country from their normal criminal investigations to work for two week rotations to protect members of the trump family. in a statement to cnn, the secret service says, regardless of the number of protectees or where the assignment takes us, the secret service remains a law enforcement agency that continues to adapt and evolve based on the mission at hand. on capitol hill last week -- >> i'm concerned the secret service is being stretched to its breaking point. >> reporter: the homeland security secretary admitting the burden. >> they need a lot more agents, not just because of the trump era, if you will. although, that is additional, because he has a lot of children, grandchildren.

>> reporter: forcing him to request additional funding from congress soon. >> we need a larger secret service because we need to get some of these people a little bit of time at home with their families. >> reporter: in the category of unusual security setup in this new administration, education secretary betsy devos is receiving u.s. marshal service protection that's costing taxpayers $34,000 a day. that's over a million dollars a month. officials say this is due to an existing threat. they would not detail the nature of that threat to cnn. devos did get added protection the days after protesters blocked her from entering a middle school in d.c. in february. other cabinet officials do not have this level of security. as of now, hers will last until at least september. anderson? >> thanks very much. coming up, a new statement from united airlines about this incident of a passenger being dragged off a plane. we will look at what rights you have when you buy a ticket. spoiler alert, you are not going

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giving a master class in why. let's review what's happened. a man violently dragged off a flight ends up bloody and screaming after the video goes viral, the airline issues a public statement apologizing for having to, quote, re-accommodate the customer. then internal e-mail, the eco says employees followed established procedures and basically blamed the passenger for being beling rent. today the ceo put out another statement promising a review of quote oversold situations. the new statement also says in part, quote, the truly horrific event on the flight elicited many responses from all of us, outrage, anger, disappointment. he said one above all, my deepest apologies for what happened. like you, i continue to be distushled by what happened in the flight eni deeply apl apologize to the customer forcefully removed and all the customers aboard. that is certainly a big change

from his earlier response. there it is. the ultimate travel nightmare a pr disaster complete with a too little too late apology and as much as you way want to quote, unquote reaccommodate united airlines in the face of when, there might not be long-term consequences and why people don't like airlines and do whatever they want to you and you have very little recourse. earlier i spoke with richard quest and cnn aviation editor john ostrour. >> richard, two days in and i can't get over the video. it's how much they can and do get away with. nine times out of ten the customer loses. >> and i think that's very much what we're seeing as a result. you're seeing an outpouring of resentment, of anger, of just sheer -- we have had enough. we're mad as hell and won't take it anymore at the way people are treated by air carriers,

overcrowding, delays, fees, whether it's just simply poor service and i think that is one of the reasons this is hitting a cord much greater and although i mean, tonight, oscar munoz ceo said the video is truly horrific, an understatement by any definition. >> and also a little bit late. the earlier, you know, statements both internally and public statements, you know, only made it worse. >> absolutely. and that i think is one of the things united will clearly have to look at as to that initial 24-hour response. but remember, munoz trying to do numerous things at that particular point. trying to still show solidarity with the staff where morale is a problem at the same time deal somehow with this escalating crisis and not -- you know, try to work out what happened in the process, i suspect he fell between all the stalls and the mess, the unbridled mess,

anderson, this is gone around the world and back over the last 24 hours. it's really quite extraordinary. >> yeah. i mean, john, what kind of rights do passengers have in these kind of scenarios? >> well, breaking it down, really two categories. you have the voluntary bump and the involuntary bump. this particular situation got to an involuntary bump. the maximum passenger is entitled to is $1,350. on the voluntary side of it, it can escalate up depending on really kind of a negotiation process with the gate agent obviously that also entails a bit of supervisor approval based on how high it goes but passenger perspective, that contract of carriage is there to protect the airline and protect you as far as being a traveler goes. >> yeah. richard, i mean, think about the economic hit united has taken from this compared to what, you know, they could have offered the passengers to kind of avoid this whole situation. the fact of the matter, though,

richard, flying in today's world, most of the big airlines merged so if you need to get from point "a" to point "b," a lot of times they hold the power. >> i will be blunt here. this is going to have very little if any neglible affect on united. a lot of people have made a lot of fuss online but the reality is you've got distribution systems. you've got frequent flier programs. and you've got the ability to cut prices to stimulate demand if things look a bit iffy. long term, this has no effect. where it could have a damaging effect is if, for example, china decides to use this as a geo-strategic punishment or at least threat against the u.s. because, remember, united is vast between the u.s. and chi in. >> we should point out, richard,

that the -- according to some of the passengers, the man who was violently removed -- >> right. >> -- said he was being targeted because he was of chinese descent. >> this is the hash tag was followed and tweeted more than 100 million times. so, in the u.s., i promise you this. this has no affect. you saw it in the stock market. the stock down 4% and closed down 1%. >> john, thank you. richard quest, thanks, as well. we'll be right back. nager is to always keep track of your employees. micromanage them. make sure they're producing. woo! employee of the month! you really shouldn't leave their side. vita coco coconut water, hydration comes naturally. ♪ it's big screen entertainment, right in your hadnds.

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