million. why can we be the people who decides early like that's the next big thing? it would be that easy. >> jon: if somebody would just call us with one of those tips. have a great weekend. thanks for joining us. >> jenna: "american news hq" starts now. >> dana: fox news alert. president trump is in florida right now to talk education. as we get more information about the classified briefing director comby gave on the russian investigation. hello everyone. the president is in orlando with marco rubio and betsy devos. this comes as new questions about the president's attorney general. democrats say the decision of jeff sessions to recuse himself from the case is another clue that something is amiss. sources tell fox that the briefing on possible ties between the trump campaign and russia was extensive, but democrats accuse director comey of holding back details.

you've been on a whirl wind trip this weekend. can you catch us up? >> reporter: sure. in a staple and series of tweets the president said jeff sessions is an honest man. he did not say anything wrong. he couldn't have said his response more accurately. this whole narrative is a way of saving safe for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they would win. the democrats are overplaying their hand, he wrote. they lost the election and now they have lost their grip on reality. the real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. it's a total witch hunt. speaking to tucker carlson, he laid out new details about the russian ambassador meeting, a meeting the russians apparently requested out of blue. attorney general sessions said it was unremarkable. >> i have professional nonpolitical staffers with me. we discussed some important international issues. i learned something per happens

in that meeting. i usually did. and so that's what happened. people were -- ambassadors were coming by to see me pretty often. >> reporter: but democrats make the case that what senator sessions said during his confirmation hearing is not consistent with what we know now, which is that he met at least twice with the russian ambassador, although he said there was nothing to those meetings, dana. >> dana: curious how washington these days is defining expeditiously when it comes to these investigations and the political divide. expeditiously means something different to people in cable news and twitter than it does to investigators. i'm curious if that is exacerbating the political divide that is deepening over this russia issue. >> reporter: let's start with the political divide. james comey is in the cross hairs after that classified

briefing to the house intelligence committee. republicans characterize that briefing as comprehensive while the senior democrats accuse the fbi director of holding back information about the probe's scope and the number of trump campaign aides under investigations for alleged contacts with russia. >> in order for us to do our investigation and a thorough way, we're going to need the fbi to fully cooperate and be willing to tell us the lent and breadth of any intelligence briefings they are conducting. at this point the director was not will doing that. >> jim comey has done more to update us than has ever been done in the six years that i have been there. clearly we were in two separate rooms this morning. >> dana: they said it was not consistent with claims of broad conspiracy and collusion and they speculated that may be why the democrats were not satisfied with the briefing. in terms of your question ab being expeditious. expeditious in washington in a case like this probably means a

couple of years and may even, it could -- it's definitely gonna take longer because in a case like this, you want to have cooperation with the russians 'cause they're there, but that's obviously not gonna happen here. >> dana: wow. thank you very much. your reporting is amaying. russia is denouncing the controversy. today russia's foreign minister tweeted this strongly resembles a witch hunt or the time of mccarthy-ism which we thought were over in the united states as a civilized country. joining me now is the former adviser to four u.s. ambassadors to the united nations, a good friend. and another good friend mary anne marsh. former senior adviser to john kerry. rick, can i start with you? you've been there behind the scenes. i just wonder if you can walk us through, what does frequent contact with ambassadors and u.s. elected officials mean?

how often would that be? when you are preparing for those, what are you looking for when you brief the principle? i assume you are trying to find the motivation for the country. >> that's a great question. i think the answer is every single country is different. if you're going to have a meeting with the chinese, you're going to know the specific agenda beforehand. they're meticulous about knowing what issues are going to be discussed, sticking to the agenda and going in a specific order. dealing with the russians is different. they like to have meetings just to get to know you. they're evaluating who you are. i set up and attended hundreds of these meetings with ambassadors. i have to say, our politicians in washington need to do more of this. less media photo ops with ambassadors and more private meetings. i want every senator to be doing private meetings with a plethora

of ambassador. i would argue, if they did more of that we probably wouldn't have had the iran deal. >> dana: yesterday, last night, mary anne, president trump said that this is all a smoke screen because democrats are trying to find some fall guy to explain why they lost the election. he also tweeted this. a photograph of chuck shumer and putin. he said we should start an immediate investigation into senate er schumer and his ties to russia and putin. a total hipocrite. what do you make of the russian story and the accusation that there were obama officials feeding the ground. from the democrats perspective do you think that was to save face. the left was frustrated because they didn't do more before the november election? >> i think there are two points here, dana. the comparison between chuck shumer having a donut with vladamir putin and what went on in the 2016 election is night and day.

when the meetings with sessions happened it was during a campaign where russia was openly trying to hack that election in favor of donald trump. donald trump was openly courting russia and asking for their help in finding hillary clinton's e mails. now fast forward and there are still so many questions whablt role russia did play. we're finding out more trump associates have had meetings with russians. it's not something they've admitted. until yesterday afternoon which to me was the most note worthy thing when the white house, for the first time, admitted that jared kushner and michael flynn met with disliac. every other meeting has come from the media. i think what they finally realize is if you are donald trump or an associate of donald trump and you have met with any russian, the intelligence community knows about it, they have evidence of it, and they will let you and everyone else know it. so now maybe they will be more forth coming.

>> dana: rick, let me ask you. put yourself in the russians' shoe since you understand how they think. are they enjoying what they think is sort of chaos? are they surprised by it? or is this what they wanted all along? >> look, i mean, if you look at maria zakarova the foreign ministry spokeswoman in russia, she was very angry about what ambassador kisliak was being accused of. look, i like mary anne very much. i think she makes a great argument on the political side. but i want to try to dial this back from politics. i want to see politicians, especially senators -- we only have 100 u.s. senators. i want to see them doing their homework and meeting privately. not publicly to share a donut, but privately to push ambassadors. we need regulators who are involved in details of foreign policy. i want to see more of that. i don't want to have this kind of innuendo that every time you

talk to a russian, that it's some sort of bad thing. jeff sessions had 25 meetings with a whole bunch of different ambassadors. >> dana: mary anne, do you worry as a strategist that the democrats are overreacting and risk losing out on participation in important public policy debates while they're focused too much on the russia issue? >> i think that's always a risk here. but here's the reality. i think democrats look at the last eight years where republicans opposed barack obama and the democrats on every turn of the way and were rewarded politically. now that's the choice the democrats have made. i think on the matter of russia, unfortunately, i think there's much more to come. and i think, again, going back to sessions. we know how these meetings work. the fact that yesterday afternoon before sessions presser they came out and said there are no notes about this meeting should raise flags with everybody. the fact that he had these meetings when he was head of

national security and foreign affairs team for trump during a time when questions were obviously swirling ab russia's influence on the election says a lot. i think a lot of democrats now are looking back at the obama administration should be and are saying we should have done more. the fact is russia's influence and attempts at influencing this election have been known since the spring of 2015 and the then president obama got his first briefing in 2015. here we are two years later with many people still under investigation. >> one thing. that's called doing your homework. i totally agree. we only have 100 u.s. senators. that's an important job. >> dana: imagine if we had more. thank you both. have a great weekend. the german chancellor will be meeting with president trump at the white house later this month. it will be the first in person sitdown between the two leaders since the election. the two have been highly critical of each other during

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>> dana: the pentagon is facing another set back as the trump administration is pushing back

against jim mattis latest pick to fill a key defense department position. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon with more. jennifer, what do we know about the white house response to what secretary mattis is looking for in the under secretary of defense foreign policy? >> reporter: anne partyson served as the assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs from 2013 to 2017. she would work very closely with brett mcgirth who was asked to stay on. she was ambassador to pakistan from july 2007 to october 2010. but it was her role as ambassador to egypt from 2011 to 2013 that has given some pause in the trump administration. she encouraged the state tkeplt to work with egypt's president whose party you'll remember the muslim brotherhood was

democratically elected after president mubarak fell. she downplayed the protest so the current egyptian president, a military general who took over in a coup, would likely not like her. sources i speak to in the pentagon tell us patterson is by no means soft on terror. she works very well with the military and was a tough advocate for the u.s. military in pakistan. it's not clear where she would stand on placing the muslim brotherhood on the u.s. terror list, something the trump white house would like to do, but something many middle east experts say would be a big mistake. >> dana: there was activity in yemen last night? >> we just had a briefing with a senior u.s. defense official. the pentagon said the intelligence gathered from the navy seal raid on january 29th is potentially actionable. kwoerbt it's definitely helping us understand the network and further develop it out. this official described it as large volumes of information,

including who's connected to who as part of the information the seals recovered from that operation. i' good information we're told by this official. we were told the navy s.e.a.l.s. collected a computer and ten mobile phones and would be undoubtedly scanning those phones for potential targets. now, this official said al qaeda in the arabian peninsula represents a greater threat to the u.s. home land than isis. top intelligence officials have long been concerned about their ability to build nonmetallic bombs that can slip through airport screening. separately the pentagon said 30 air strikes have been carried out in yemen by the u.s. military over the past two nights. that according to captain jeff davis. u.s. ground forces have not been involved in raids since january 29 lost the election. that raid, both drones and manned aircraft were used in strikes over the last two nights, just to give you an idea

of how many strikes that is. those 30 strikes are the average that the u.s. has been carrying out per year. that's happened in just the last two nights alone. >> dana: thank you, jennifer. washington starting to resemble this tv show? that's from the americans on fx. we'll tell you about the russian ambassador who is at the center of the real intrigue. and remember when secretary of defense donald rumsfeld said this -- >> there are no knowns. there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns. that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. but there are also unknown unknowns. there are things we do not know we don't know. >> dana: i think that was brilliant. i'm gonna ask this guy if the white house press room is starting to sound a little bit

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>> dana: he started his diplomatic career way back in the soviet era. now he's at the center of a political fire storm with democrats fanning the flames. rich edson is live at the state department. where did you learn about this guy? >> reporter: good afternoon, dana. these controversies, especially those dealing with officials who would become the short lived national security adviser to president trump and his attorney general all started with a conversation with the russian ambassador to the u.s. those who know him say he performs his job quite well. that's to get to know the

american government. >> he engages with local leading americans, business, local government, as well as with ordinary folks. just lay people, students. just literally in his personal portfolio, this is a guy who knows how to do the main job of russia's ambassador in washington which the understand what americans are thinking and where they're coming from. >> reporter: the russian embassy said he was born in 1950 in moscow. he played a key role in arms control issues. he's been an employee of the foreign ministry of the russian federation an soviet union since 1977. first posted the united states in 1991 when he worked in new york city. in 2003 he was deputy minister of foreign affairs in moscow. in 2008 he got his current position which is russian ambassador to the united states. shortly after the election he spoke about the u.s./russia relationship at stanford in

which he said i'm frequently asked are we back in the cold war? and in my view, no, because the cold war there >> reporter: ideological differences and the military cultures from both sides that would threaten survival of the other. i hope we are not there. he did add that he believes this is the worst point in u.s./soviet russia relations since the cold war. although he does say there are areas where the u.s. and russia can work together. >> dana: can't forget that. rich, thank you very much. joining me for more on this, ed henry. so way back when, when we knew each other in a previous life. >> which administration? >> dana: you were a reporter. you were at cnn at the time. i was deputy press secretary. then i got promoted. now here we are. i'm trying to remember rich was talking about how white house deals with something like this. you know all of the reporters in town are chasing down a story.

you don't know what you don't know. >> right. to the donald rumsfeld situation about known, unknowns and no knowns. what we know right now is that rush limbaugh and people on the right there are people out to get this president. unknown is, is there a there there? is there something to this russia story that warrants all of this investigation and his tieria? if there's nothing there, this white house should not be worried about it. cooperate with the investigation. you know this. republican and democratic white houses, they don't want to turn over documents. if you do this drip drip where one day we find out turns out jeff session didn't tell the whole truth. he didn't quite perjury. >> dana: it wasn't as wholesome as it koufrb. >> correct. wait. we're not saying there was anything big at the meeting but it's drip drip. another person met with the

russian ambassador. there was more than 20 times that this same russian ambassador visited the obama white house. >> dana: man ab town. >> doesn't mean there was corruption. it just means he's doing his job, to talk to a white house, whether it's republican or democrat. my broader point is this white house seems to be constantly on defense on this story instead of maybe this afternoon they should just put out hey, here's every single time this ambassador met with anyone associated with donald trump. take the list, write all the stories you want, we're going back to jobs. do you know what's happening today? vp pence is in wisconsin talking about the economy. >> dana: and the president is in florida. >> he's at a catholic school talking about education. how much time will that get on the evening news? how much time will russia get on the evening news? i bet i know tans. >> dana: if i could get a list and be confident in that list, i would put it out. the most important thing for the press office is make sure you protect yourself and integrity.

>> it's everything. >> dana: if you find out wait, there was one more meeting, even if it's totally innocent, then it becomes an appearance problem. >> look at these news organizations that have doubled or tripled the amount of correspondents covering this president. there is more hunger for coverage. fine. this president embraces that kind of coverage. he loves the attention. he loves mixing it up. think back to that news conference a week or two ago. however, given the hunger, you're going to get what the facts are. >> dana: i remember right before 2009, we couldn't get anyone to cover that including you. >> i know. i'm sorry. >> dana: thank you, ed. always good to see you. millenials get all the press. do you remember generation x? they're now in charge even in the trump administration. generation x reimagining the republican party? plus there's a new sheriff in town at the interior department.

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>> dana: the new secretary of

the interior talking to his staff this morning, laying out his vision and reports. ryan zinke congressman from montana, is on the job after being confirmed and sworn in this week. the interior department manages our country's federal land. that's more than half billion acres for 1/5 of all the land in the united states including national parks and other public lands. the interior tkep brings in more than 9d billion from leasing land and other activities. budget is just over $13 billion which the trump administration has reportedly asked the agency to cut by just 10%. secretary zinke joins me. such an honor to have you here. mr. secretary, if i could start. you are the first montanan to ever serve in a presidential cabinet. this morning when you talked about your vision, you talked about a former president of ours. who is that? >> certainly teddy roosevelt. i guess my vision comes from the

teddy roosevelt park that says for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. i think interior needs to realize that our public lands are for the benefit and enjoyment of all. >> dana: lot of people in the west, i was born in wyoming myself, do feel like washington sort of forgets them sometimes and forgets the purpose of our public land. >> you're exactly right. as you go further west, there is a gap in trust. one of the biggest jobs that i have is to restore trust and make sure our infrastructure. some of it is cutting the regulation and red tape even to get at our infrastructure. people forget our parks have bridges and roads, and a lot of it is making sure that the regulation allows us to repair our bridges and roads. >> dana: and yesterday you rescinded a last minute sort of obama administration rule. can you tell us about that and if there's more in store? >> well, one of them was a ban on lead ammunition. and if you're a hunter and

fisherman, certainly your rounds are going to be lead and your fish hooks are going to be lead. i think it was as a push back on what i would say traditional use of our land, which is hunting and fishing. that's incredibly important for those that use our public land. and there will be more. i'm gonna -- my charter is to look at every regulation and make sure it's appropriate. make sure we protect public access. make sure we protect the multiple use aspect of much of our public land. >> dana: will you be able to live with a 10% cut that the administration will propose? >> you know, we're going back and forth. i certainly support the president's vision of we need to be held accountable in how we use our taxpayer dollars. a lot of it is making sure we don't leave any stone unturned. so i do support the president's vision of making sure we're held

accountable. making sure that what we do is in the best interest of taxpayers. the nice thing about the intpaoi interi interior, we have a lot of hollings. >> dana: people forget the interior department brings revenue into the government. it's not just spending. switching gears. you had a very interesting experience with the commander in chief, president trump, when he went to dover to receive the body of ryan owens. as a navy seal yourself and watching the president deal with the most awesome responsibility of his duty, could you describe what was that was like from your perspective? >> i had the opportunity and honor of going with the president. also scott taylor, a former seal, who is a congressman representing virginia. we both went to dover with the president to receive the body. i can tell you at that moment what i saw is the creation of

the commander in chief. he clearly understood the gravity of his actions. it was a very solemn moment to be with the body as it comes home. and be with the family. and i saw a distinct change in our president. from before, from after, the next day was a prayer breakfast. i looked at the president. i knew at that moment that he would be a great commander in chief based on a single experience. >> dana: of course, he paid tribute, led the nation in paying tribute to his widow. it was an amazing moment. >> i thought it was absolutely appropriate. it was a record, again. but if we can learn from a death of a hero is our nation should be understand that the sacrifices that our special operations and military are making. >> dana: very interesting

introduction as you decided to go to the interior department in solidarity with the u.s. park police mounted on one -- a horse. is this horse yours? >> it was not. it's part of the park police. the president gave a nod in the state of the union to our law enforcement. i thought it was appropriate to follow his lead and pay tribute to our mounted police. they do a great job. as an montanan, i think it was a pointed where i kid that it's teddy roosevelt the rough riders interior. i thought it was an appropriate beginning. >> dana: well, i loved it. it was great. i don't know if you know this. big fan of the interior department. i used to work in interior quality. in inauguration day we were all asked to give our advice to president trump. i wanted to have you listen to my advice and tell me what you think of it. please take a listen. i would pick a few of the national parks that he hasn't visited before and take his family and go and experience

some of the wonders of america that he might not have seen before like glaser national park or yellowstone. i'm a big fan of the parks. i hope you can get the president to go out with you. >> remember a great president was also from new york, teddy roosevelt. i would encourage the president to follow your exact advice. follow the foot prints of teddy roosevelt. go out, get on a horse and visit some of our finest treasures. >> dana: you might not know this yet but your park service has one of the best social media programs on instagram, facebook and twitter. you can maybe give them a boost. don't cut them. >> i look forward to it. we have a great team. >> dana: you do. >> it's a great responsibility to be the steward of what i think are the greatest lands and the majesty of our country. >> dana: mr. secretary, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> dana: police investigating vandalism at a jewish cemetery. questions now about whether it could be a hate crime. and an arrest in the

investigation into threats against jewish centers. but authorities say there's much more to this case.

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>> president trump going after the democratic senate minority leader chuck shumer on twitter in response to the controversy over the trump team's contact with russian officials. now senator schumer is firing back in a big way. plus more on the deadly counter terror raid that targeted al qaeda fighters in yemen. now we get word that the operation provided intelligence that is potentially actionable. we'll speak about that with a former cia military analyst. coming up at the top of the hour on shepherd smith reporting. >> dana: a disgraced journalist arrested for allegedly making threats against jewish facilities anywaying wide. he is due in federal court soon. investigators believe there are more suspects out there. trace gallagher is live with more on that.

trace? >> reporter: police are investigating 100 incidents across the country including bomb threats monday they vac waited jewish community centers in maryland and virginia. now, they don't believe the suspect juan thompson is behind all of those crimes. in fact, thompson was arrested in st. louis very near a cemetery that was vandalized. juan thompson is a former journalist who was fired from an investigative journalism website for fabricating quotes and other deceptive practices. but police say the anti-semetic threats are in connection to a harassment campaign that thompson was waging against a former girlfriend. court documents say when the relationship ended, the su spebgt began sending defamatory e-mails and faxes to the woman's work. making false reports that she was involved in criminal activity and was making false threats against jewish centers. investigators say thompson even made some of the threats in his own name in an effort to make it

appear as if his ex-girlfriend was trying to frame him. thompson then tweeted quoting here, know any good lawyers? need to stop this nasty racist white girl i dated who sent a bomb threat in my name and wants me to be raped in jail. when police began searching the home of thompson's mom, his stepfather addressed the media. watch. >> you do what you want to do. come on now. i told you whatever you wanted to know. >> when was the last time he was here? >> he hasn't been here. >> in how long? >> couple months now. >> according to his twitter account, juan thompson does not like president trump. then again, he doesn't like clinton either. this week the president condemned the threats and vandalism against jewish centers and cemeteries. dana? >> dana: thank you, trace. we have new comments from vice president pence who addressed

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>> dana: vp pence up his visit to wisconsin with a quick stop at an irish pub. there he addressed the e-mail issues now facing him.

>> and i'm very confident that our e-mail practices full compliance with all of indiana's laws. and my services. there's no comparison whatsoever between hillary clinton's practice, having a private server, mishandling classified information, destroying e-mails when they were requested by the congress and by officials. we have fully complied with all indiana's laws. we had outside counsel review all of my private e-mail records to identify any e-mails that ever referenced or mentioned state business related activities. as indiana law requires, we transferred all of those to the state of indiana subject to the public access laws. >> dana: that was vice president pence.

he's in the home town of speaker paul ryan. there to talk ab the economy. as ed henry said, it gets difficult to get your message out on the policy you're trying to push when you to deal with story likes that one. you have the words right there from vice president pence himself. we're going to move on, too, because we have more important things to talk about. there's one generation that seems to have been forgotten. they're everywhere. especially inside the white house. we've got a great panel to discuss it. let's bring in publisher of cat catalina magazine and sapb tkra smith national chairman of the college republican national committee. nationals there. thank you very much for joining me. alex -- i can call you alex. we talked about this during the campaign which i was fascinated that there were so many different generations that were all voting at once. how it was difficult for a candidate to talk to the silent generation, or the greatest generation, baby boomer,

generation x and millenials. do you think that had bearing on the outcome of the election? >> we've been saying for years now the republican national committee that the republican party needs to do a better job with addressing millenials. but the good news for us is that freedom is a timeless principle that can be expressed to many different generations in many different ways. for millenials, it's not about changing their principles. it's just about changing the way that we express them. what i'm particularly interested in in this gen x phenomenon going on, where are the teenagers going to be at in this administration? we saw the teenager, people in the white house and people in power are the people who grew up under reagan. my dad remembers shaking ronald reagan's hand in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. totally influenced the way he thought about politics. then the teens under the bush administration who gave president obama two terms in office. how are the teenagers of today

going to react to president trump an what congressional republican doss is what i'm wondering. >> dana: benny when you look at the leadership, in the house certainly, but also the white house, you see generation x is a really small generation. but the leadership styles, they were considered slackers, but now they're in charge. what do you make of it? >> what young generation isn't considered slackers? >> dana: you know i love the millenials. i might be the only one. >> you love the millenials. you love dogs more than cats. very smart, dana. so i think it's very interesting. i think it's in line with the generation xmantra of fighting the man. right? this is the generation that did fight the man. they brought us the ramones, marty mcfly, nirvana. so you have this generation that really does like to fight authority. what bigger more impressive authority is there than the administrative state, than the federal government, as it sits today? maybe that's why generation xers

in their past politically have decided to take on roles in conservative politics and shrink the federal government. >> dana: we'll see if we can get others to kphepb on this. the other night after the president's joint session the democrats did their response. their choice of a response was former governor basheer. i don't take issue with that because i think i understand what the democrats are trying to do, in terms of appealing to oler white voters. when you looked at that, did you feel like that was not really speaking to the up and coming generations? be them republican or democrat? >> it's hard to say. bernie sanders is definitely not generation x or a millenials. he spoke to many candidates this election cycle. >> dana: good point. >> he did a good job reaching the younger people i think than even trump did. so generation x is quite tricky. but if you notice, they grew up on their own, latch key kids,

now they're running things. paul ryan, congress men and congress women that are generation x. you've got kelly anne conway. that's generation x in power. these are latch key kids. >> dana: i was a latch key kid. >> look at you. >> dana: we came home because my parents both worked. generation x is a small generation where you're trying to take care of the baby boomers and are also raising millenials or dogs. depending on whatever it is you might have. what did you make of the democrats response, alex? >> you know, it was interesting. i saw a lot of criticism of it. i think it was a pretty deft move on their part. >> interesting. >> because you take sort of this older retired governor who doesn't have a whole lot of significance in the party and put him up. i think they were thinking about a lot of the republican responses where we used a lot of our shining stars only to have sort of some foibles and some issues coming up during those responses. >> dana: you know my rule. if they ever call you to do a

response to a presidential address, always say no. okay? you heard it here. three of you. benny, can i ask you about this giraffe? you understand millenials, viral videos. april is going to be giving birth. people watching this obsessively. why? >> well, i think that there's a little bit of anticipation, right? there's also little curiosity. i have never seen a giraffe give birth before. >> dana: do you want to? >> no, i absolutely don't want to. i also didn't think a cat with an under bite is worth $10 million. we now have grumpy cat. >> dana: if we would have only thought of that. >> the internet decides for us what is popular. it's not up to us to decide what's popular. if the internet is telling us this or if the lamas running down the street or the cow that escaped in brooklyn or grumpy cat, if these things are popular and important, then the internet will tell us and we kind of have to pay attention. >> dana: what about you, kathy?

are you going to be tuning in? >> no. this is awful. poor april would like to have some dignity. she's suffering. any woman who has ever given birth would like to have a private moment during that process. >> dana: the internet obviously has been so great. >> i'm not gonna touch that. >> dana: it does allow you to learn about so many things. there's the silly stuff, of course. if you have never seen a giraffe give birth, now's your chance. >> so sad. it's so sad. >> dana: i love the millenials. thank you for joining me. >> we love you, dana. >> dana: bye-bye. >> thanks, dana. >> dana: all right. we'll be right back with a couple closing thoughts. unlike ordinary diapers, pampers stay up to three times drier, so babies can sleep soundly all night. pampers. for over 100 yearsaking like kraft has,al cheese you learn a lot about people's tastes.

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