, but they have one suspect, betsy devos. [ laughter and applause ] "what do you mean you have tove to tie it to the dock?" [ light laughter ] england recently hosted its annual world snail racing championship. here's what it looked like. ♪ [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: come on, big snail! former white house aide and "apprentice" contestant, omarosa manigault, announced a surprise book that will be released in august. a surprise book? [ light laughter ] there's literally nothing less surprising than someone getting fired from the white house and then writing a book. [ laughter ] you can read all about it in my new book. [ laughter and applause ] it's a good book. a montana man was awarded his wife's weight in beer over the weekend after he carried her on his back through an obstacle course to win the rocky mountain wife carrying championship. [ laughter ] and the winner of the husband carrying championship, beyoncÉ. [ audience oohs ] [ laughter and applause ] new york's mta gave a presentation this week to attempt to explain the subway systems recent fall in ridership. they s

think this applies to betsy devos too.th of their cases, they into the administration still retaining lucrative portfolios of actively traded or privately held concerns. example, hese, for owned shipping enterprise that had ties to the chinese government. and another company that did transactions with korea.es based in south just given those, it's a reasonable question to ask, can he negotiate any trade deal with or china, influenced wallet?s in his own betsy devos had investments in for-profit ventures, including a debt collection company that from indebtedy students. that stuff should just be gone. think it speaks to the lack of process around this administration. they blew off the office of ethics.nt didn't have a good transition team in place, didn't have people saying, you know, it really bad if wilbur ross or betsy devos has this stuff. it's as much a problem with ethics as it also is a problem in bad management. >> another pair of leaders in trouble, this time in the corporate world. we start with elon musk, where i

let's talk about betsy devos. she's the secretary of education and came out to school in montgomery county to read books to kids. i sat there in a first grade class and read books to kids. i've been with the last three education secretaries, two of them under president obama and one under president trump. we were not going to tell her she cannot come into the state and read to kids. that is as far as the connection goes. the voucher program was not my idea. it was mike bush's idea. he worked it out with the teachers union which passed him was unanimously by democratic legislators. i had a proposal that would give tax incentives to any individual or donation that donates to public or private school. the legislature shot that down and switched it to scholarship programs for needy kids. i signed the bill, but it was not my bill. it is not the hogan-devos voucher program. it is the mike bush-devos bill. moderator: how to close the achievement gap for kids in schools -- what is your plan, sir? gov. hogan: i don't know

this also applies to betsy devos.came into the administration still retaining actively portfolios of traded companies or privately held concerns. he owned aase, shipping enterprise that had ties to the chinese government. there was another company that did steal transactions with companies based in south korea. ask, can hetion to negotiate a trade deal with south korea or china uninfluenced by what is in his own wallet? betsy devos has had investments in for-profit education ventures, including a company that collects money from indebted students, which had a contract with the department of education, which she was overseeing. that stuff should just be gone. there was no transition team whispering that says, this looks -- whispering, this looks really bad. this is a problem with bad management. jason: another pair of leaders in trouble in the corporate world. tesla is in crisis again and again. jd.com.nd the head of jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." jason: welcome back. carol: you can find us online. jason: and

education secretary betsy devos has announced se major roll backs on that front.anya kamanetz watches this for pr, and joins me now. anya, welcome to the newshour. i want to ask you about a couple of specific changes that hd e been propo the education secretary, one about student debt forgiveness. now, previously under t oba administration, if you attended a for-profit school and that school was shut down o penalized for defrauding students, how easy was it to have your loans forgiven, and what is different now? >> so the rulero iced under obama was called "borrower defensto repayment." basically they were clarifying how a student who had gone to o of these colleges who had been defrauded could get their money back. they would have to... they wouldn't automatically get their money back. they would have to go through this process. what's happened under devos is there are still tens of thousands of claims penng from people who went to i.t.t technical institute as well as other colleges tha were sh down. devos has says she's going to grant only partial relief ina man

then betsy devos. you see mike pompeo goes down, steven is 15-1, good for him. come motion is going on because i know who it is. i know the name of the person who wrote this. it's jared, jared kushner, his son-in-law. i thought about it all night last night, i'm totally convinced it's him. let's think it through. first off, could you imagine having donald trump as a father-in-law? [ laughter ] looking at you across the table, that orange puss on all the time? [ laughter ] judging, resenting you for all the disgusting things he knows you're doing to his shiny and beautiful daughter. [ audience moans ] every i day you come to work, your boss has your wife sitting in his lap, it's a lot to swad low. the name of jared kushner's real estate company is cadre. as in a group of activists in a communist or other revolutionary organization. a revolutionary organization? like maybe a member of a secret white house resistance? you know, jared kushner's father, charles kushner, went to prison partly for hiring a prostitute to sa deuce his own brother-in-law. he hired a hooke

i was struck in your book, when you were talking but betsy devos, and her interest in privatizing and deregulating and sort of having the invisible hand of the market and then of course there will always be some failures when you go this route as there would be in business. if you use the business model you'll have failures and i thought, wow, this is an ethical question. do we have a right to play games with our young people so that some of them are sent to schools which will necessarily fail because of certain percentage of schools will fail if you take a market approach? and i mean it just sort of hit me in the face, and so it's made me think a lot about the whole -- the corporate interests in education reform, and just also wondering how much of that is based on the fact that the private sector can make so much more now if -- with the role of technology and stuff like that. and so the idea -- democratizing wouldn't help corporations make money. how much of that is behind their policy. >> so, i have very deliberately did not spend much time looking at for-profit charters. in fact m

final element was fundraising, a favorite of the koch brothers and betsy devos.evos said we admit it, trying to buy influence. one of the guys she bought was mike pence, willingly sold himself to her. combined gods, guns and money. three elements of his strategy to gain office. and he's been quite aggressive about climbing ever higher. >> and very successful. heartbeat away from most powerful office in the world at this particularly fragile time. >> probably vice president most likely to become president in more than a century. >> thank you so much. "mike pence: the shadow president." >>> other issues around the world. amid heightened and heated politics at home, president is monitoring situation in syria. warning basser al-assad not to attack the idlib. if uses chemical weapons u.s. will respond quote swiftly and appropriately. heavy russian air strikes are under way in that province. up to more than 3 million civilians at risk. andrew tabler is author of "the lion's den," joining us from washington. welcome to the program. syria has dropped off the agenda for t

zbliefr >>> in east bay it comes after education secretary betsy devos again suggested arming teachers 7 news reporter leslie brinkley with why the issue is hitting home for many right now. >> last week a 14-year-old freshman fired a gun inside balance boa high school in san francisco. last month 16-year-old was shot and killed near a high school in fairfield. the school was put on lockdown. >> it affects every american in every community and every town in every household. >> reporter: here in oakland a panel of students, educators, and gun violence prevention groups brainstormed what to do about it. >> we have become desensitized to gun violence. it normalizes shootings in our schools. >> the kids are on lockdown because there are guns in the neighborhood. there is nothing good that comes from guns. >> it was announced that the federal government was thinking about using federal education dollars to arm teachers with guns. >> reporter: passionately opposed to arming teachers, groups like sandy hook promise offered alternatives to connect local schools to national programs. things like

and betsy devos, the secretary of education, is a big proponent of choice.and i think that if you can send your kids to a better school than the one i went to and the one that is right now the one that i went to, you have a moral obligation to do so. >> host: and you still based in california. >> guest: i am. >> host: what's it like to be a republican in california these days? [laughter] >> guest: we're an endangered species. right now it's a bigger voting constituent than republicans are almost 3 to 1 in favor of the democrats. there isn't a single republican elected statewide office in california, not governor, not controller, not secretary of state, nothing. not aling single one. and a number of the seats are up, are in play right now, and the democrats are hoping to capture maybe five, six, seven to swing the house to the democrats. i don't think they'll do it, but it's a real possibility. california's now, doesn't have any majority race, it's now, i think, about 40% hispanic, about 40% caucasian and then asian and blacks are the rest of it. so the hispa

they did not have a good transition team, people saying it could look really bad if wilbur ross or betsy devoss stuff. it is much of a problem with ethics as much as bad management. >> another pair of leaders in trouble, this time in the corporate world. wherert with elon musk, tesla is in crisis again and again. >> and the chinese giant, attention on its leader revealing shareholder risks. ♪ "bloombergback to businessweek." here is a shocker. tesla was in the news. elon musk tweeting about customer response times. also the most bullish analyst on wall street downgrading the stock. >> they also lost another high-ranking finance official. some suggesting elon musk needs another pair of hands to help him run the country. boulder solution, elon musk needs a new board. is showing.n there have been stories about ambien use, and the recent podcast. i'm concerned about hope that the company, help running tesla. this is another idea that what neededthere that what is is another pair of safe operational hands to help. >> an adult in the room. we saw that play out with google. >> on paper it is an attra

the court has issued a victory to students suing betsy devos.rt rejected the secretary's defense to delay an obama era regulation, strengthening those protections. general --d attorney attorneys general from 19 states filed suit. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ shery: live from new york. amanda: welcome to bloomberg markets. she here are the top stories we are followingry: -- shery: here are the top stories. tesla is under investigation by the u.s. justice department. fox whohear from liam says prime minister theresa may is doing a great job in difficult circumstances. you will hear from the ceo of one of the u.s.'s largest real estate financing from us -- financing firms. amanda: let's start with a look at the major averages. tensionsontinued trade with china, we see markets shrugging it off, possibly because the u.s. tariffs is less than had been feared. stocks are moving higher for the s&p 500, the b

. >> my hit is to betsy devos for carrying out real social justice on campus.ce the obama administration in 2011 we have seen kangaroo courts adjudicate indicating sexual assault in a way that denies due process and basically the presumption is you are guilty until proven innocent. she's taken that on, acknowledged things aren't working and you hear details about reform this week. it works toward a more equitable system. takes some courage. >> mary? >> this is a hit for the commerce department which announced this week there was a 16% year over year gain in the second quarter in corporate profits. of course, bernie sanders will tell you this is bad because the companies are making more money but let's remember that this means pensions are doing better, there's more investment and there are more jobs. it's a win for everybody. >> kate? >> this is a hit for dr. gottlieb. there is no evidence that coffee causes cancer and this is important because california has been trying to slap skull and crossbones warning on coffee when there's no scientific evidence there's

a federal court ruled it was " arbitrary and capricious" for betsy devos to delay and obama ever ruleo protect students swindled by for-profit colleges. that significant -- this is a significant blow to the trump administration attempt to ease regulation's for an industry. had suedcials secretary devos over her decision to postpone rules. the new york gubernatorial primary is underway and is a race that is closely watched around the nation. one actress is hoping for a big upset against the incumbent governor. she is a high-profile example of an insurgent left-wing candidate trying to defeat an establishment income but. nixon could still appear on a november ballot thanks to third-party nominations. global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. caroline: mark, thank you. hurricane florence threatens to deliver a 13 foot ocean surge and flooding. david is on the ground in north carolina where he is watching for spillage and the result of the heavy rain. we

betsy devos has been a disaster at the department of education. >> laura: how so?led back so many things. i worked at the department of education. >> laura: i did too. a little before you. >> a couple years. rolling back protections for lgbt communities, giving private colleges, letting them run ramshod. there are a lot of things. >> laura: the thing i think that is tough for democrats, i think a lot of it is they don't like trump's personality. he is doing a great job on the economy. african-american, hispanic unemployment, women-owned businesses, confident in the future of this country. right truck, wrong track. there is a 12-year turn-around. right track, wrong track is much better than a few years back. all of that is really positive for the country. i get democrats want more equality. isn't the way to get more equality to have more economic opportunity? that's a big part of it, is it not? >> said those manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. they are coming back under trump. >> you have seen a spike because of the tax cuts. if any objective analysis has shown t

attorney general jeff sessions and education secretary betsy devos says something has to be done.e seeing these disturbing trends on campus and what else the solution. the president of the foundation for individual rights and education. how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. welcome back. let's talk about this. i become worried when the attorney general and education secretary say they are going to handle a free speech crisis on campus. >> as a civil liberties guy i'm always worried about investigation from the top. the good news is partially due to 70-plus successful lawsuits. there are fury deck plus speech codes on public campuses than there were in 2011. we went from 75% of them having red lights to 30%. we are wing on that front, and that's good news. the week i wrote is about why suddenly seemingly overnight the students who used to be the best constituency for free speech have turned on free speech around 2013, 2014. kennedy: why is that? i heard an author matthew hennesey talk about the fear of criticism. critique equals demonization. >>

. >>> advocacy groups are criticizing education secretary betsy devos' new reported rules of how thet and harassment on colleges. and it is to bolster the rights of those accused and narrow the definition of sexual harassment, and the survivors are fearing that this could result in a lesser reporting of attacks. and this are response, we are in the midst of a deliberative are process and any into r nation "the new york times" claims to have is premature and speculative and therefore we have no comment. so joining me is the executive drirector of a rain campus organization jess davidson, and, so let's talk about the definition that is being reported, and we will comment on what is reported despite the d. d.o.e. says that, you know, what is out there is not complete. so it says that, quote, unwelcomed conduct of sexual nature to a higher standard, and that is the old definition. and the new draft defines it as unwelcomed conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies access to an educational program. so by your view, who is severe, and

betsy devos is float changes to title ix rules.y are doing things despite all this internal drama. >> this is true. a lot of conservatives want to see carried out. there's no better example than in the department of justice where attorney general jeff sessions has implemented a very strong pro-law and order immigration crack down of policies that are being carried out on a regular basis and that's being eclipsed by the fact we have this ongoing public war between the president and the attorney general. he's really doing things that will please president trump's base even as he's under attack by the president. >> one other thing i want to put out there, eric trump is getting a lot of heat from something he said on fox and friends. it was beinganti-s anti-semitic. the miami rally right before the election somewhere somebody in the crowd said something very similar to the press. let's first play eric trump and one of these trump supporters. >> you can write some sensational non-sense book. cnn will have you on there. it will mean you

>> stephen: ...betsy devos. ( laughter ) omarosa gives damning behind- the-scenes details of the day gave a commencement speech at a historically black university and was booed mercilessly by the students. let's take a look at that footage. >> dr. jackson, board of trustees, thank you so very, very much for this great honor and privilege. >> audience: boo! >> i am honored to become a wildcat. >> audience: boo! >> stephen: ouch. she got an even, yeah-- ( applause ) oh, that was cold. she got an even worse reception than when stephen miller performed at the latin grammys. ( laughter ) now-- >> jon: i was there. >> stephen: he was pretty good, though, he was pretty good. >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: according to omarosa's book, devos tried to downplay the booing, saying the african-american students "don't get it. they don't have the capacity to understand what we're trying to accomplish." ( audience reacts ) yeah, yeah, that's usually why people boo, because they don't understand what's happening. like when the yankees beat the red sox, everyone at fenway park is just going, "i'm confuuus

the betsy devos clip is a good example of someone who doesn't do a lot of interviews but is making a in the education -- >> we're totally out of time for what to watch for. >> congress back in town, can they avoid a shutdown? >> bob woodward's book comes out next month. >> i am personally watching the kavanaugh hearings that are coming up. that does it for us on "kasie d.c." in a couple of days. that does it for us this week on "kasie dc." we will be back at 7:00 next week. for now, good night from washington. ♪ this sunday a funeral and a rebuke. the country says goodbye to an american hero, john mccain. >> he made us better presidents just as he made the senate better, just as he made this country better. >> with the senator's daughter, among others, taking aim at president trump. >> the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> president trump respond later by tweeting, make america great again. plus, pressure points. president trump claims if

as calm as north korean leader kim jong-un. [ laughter ] that's like bragging you're as smart as betsy devoslaughter and applause ] which you're not. sony announced today it will release a new version of its original console, called the playstation classic, nearly 25 years after its original release. to give you an idea of how long that's been, this the hedgehog looks like now. [ laughter and applause ] today was national talk like a pirate day. okay, arrgh kelly should be in prison. [ laughter ] [ applause ] maybe. [ light laughter ] d.c. comics has put out a new issue titled "batman damned number one," that appears to show bruce wayne's penis exposed. well i just have to say i'm glad his parents aren't alive to see this. [ laughter ] [ audience groans ] [ laughter ] thank god that's not our last joke about batman's penis. [ light laughter ] that's right. d.c. comics has put out a new issue of batman that appears to i'm not saying it was impressive, buis that's right, d.c. comics has put out a new issue of batman, which appears to show bruce wayne's penis exposed. [ light laughter ] said ba

students and educators denounced a suggestion by education secretary betsy devos tha used teachers. >> it got started when it was announced using fed teralheal g education dollars to arm teachers with guns. >> a violence prevention group says it has trained more than 134,000 california students on how to use a phone app to anonymously submit tips to officials about students they think are at risk. >>> tens of thousands of hotel employees will have something to protect them from assault and harassment. >> you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. take a look at this live shot from sutro tower. you can see how compressed the marine layer is. fast, reliable internet is crucial. does it every go down? yes. can't do my job. business grinds to a halt. our gig-speed network not only downloads files up to 20 times faster, we go beyond fast with 4g backup for complete reliability. so if the unexpected happens... (snaps fingers) you stay up and running. we lost power... but not to that. i want that. (laughing) for a limited time get fast, reliable internet for a l

it's lot because betsy devos' policies have been here for a lot long they're tonight previous countryeen. >> you have rick snyder in 2010 was extreme austerity, big tax cuts and austerity. and the emergency manager was part of that system. it sounds like what you're calling for is more spending. more investments in public goods. >> listen, we're all paying more. we're paying more to fix our cars. we're paying to buy bottled water. we're paying to hire tutors for our kids. we're paying under republicans. we're just doing it in a way that doesn't fix the problem. i offer a real plan for michigan ganders. where other people come to for opportunity again. that's the great legacy of the state. and today's families deserve no less. >> the economy, it's very interesting to watch the white house try to get traction on the economy, and i understand why they do. every president, right? 3.9% unemployment, pretty robust growth you're, saying look, i did this, i did this. why can't i get credit? do you think the numbers are what they appear or worse? >> well, i think first of all, it's hard to giv

sarah sanders, secretary nielsen run out of restaurants, ivanka trump harassed on an airplane, and betsy devoshased down a street, florida attorney general pam bondi threatened with physical violence just to name a few. one referred to the hearing as being overwhelmed by mob rule, this is what is at stake in 63 days, take a look. >> i have not been in as many confirmations as some of my colleagues, but this is a first confirmation hearing for a supreme court justice that i have seen basically according to mob rule. >> sean: all of this over who is a well-qualified judge with an incredible and impeccable record, and remember that judges must be confirmed based on the ginsberg standard, 1993, ruth bader ginsburg's confirmation making the case that no impartial judge should ever answer how they would rule on any hypothetical case ever. and instead, justices must be confirmed based on their marriage, their background, their experience. sadly that is not going to stop the left's obstruction. remember democrats, all of the things they did to obstruct a guy by the name of robert bork nominated by ron

she's voted no in the past on education secretary betsy devos. the epa scott pruitt and for overturning obamacare. let me clarify one thing. 49 individuals on the senate side who vote with the democrats. those include independents as well. bring in former federal prosecutor and fox news contributor andrew mccarthy, great to see you, thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. liz: what's your take? >> i think we're so far away from what the purpose of this hearing is. i happen to be one of these people who's never been convinced that this thursday thing is going to happen. i never thought that dr. ford wanted to testify. i think at most what they were trying to do is generate video of a bunch of old white guys asking a woman difficult questions so they could run a bunch of ads before the midterm elections. but i actually don't think she's ever wanted to toifshgs and i think these demands that they're making, the latest one is she wants a couple of trauma experts and her polygrapher to testify, are kind of like setting up a climbdown where she can kind

. >> the "washington post" published a board game based on education secretary betsy devos.e only board game based on trump's white house. for example, there's also "chutes and leakers." next there's "uno," in other words that will get you deported. >> press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said yesterday that the white house is not considering conducting lie detector tests to uncover the author of the anonymous op-ed because putting a lie detector test in the white house will be like putting a smoke detector in willie nelson's room. >>> the dow rose more than 100 points as the surge in energy stocks and apple helped ease the effects of trade tensions. the dow and s&p futures now looking higher right now. markets opened, european markets open higher today. tokyo closed lower after strong gains on tuesday. the labor department data says u.s. jobs -- job openings rose in july to a new record in the biggest share of workers since 2001. also the pew research center released data showing that income from middle-class families is just now returning to where it was in 2000. got bac

applause ] i saw that "the washington post" just published a board game based on education secretary betsy devos's not the only board game based on trump's white house. for example, there is also chutes and leakers. [ laughter ] next, there's uno and other words that will get you deported. [ laughter ] then -- then there's total lack of stratego. [ laughter ] and finally, poorly run operation. there you go. very interesting games. [ laughter and applause ] interesting board games. go to your local walmart and pick those up. some sports news. last night on "monday night football," the new york jets beat the lions 48-17! [ cheers and applause ] jets fans were so excited, they took the paper bags off their heads and started breathing in them. i mean, it was unbelievable. [ laughter ] and finally, i heard that south korea has stress cafes where people can go to take a a break from their day or as they are known here in america, bars. we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: hey, everybody. r waeers and applause ] hing. before we start,

. >>> in the east bay, a debate over safety in schools, it comes after education secretary betsy devos again suggested arming teachers. reporter leslie brinkley tells us why the issue is hitting home for so many right now. >> reporter: last week a 14-year-old freshman fired a gun inside balboa high school in san francisco. last month, a 16-year-old was shot and killed near a high school in fairfield. the school was put on lockdown. >> it affects every american in every community and every town, in every household. >> reporter: here in oakland, a panel of students, educators and gun violence prevention groups brainstormed what to do about it. >> we have become desensitized to gun violence and have normalized shootings in our schools. >> our kids get put on lockdown because there's guns in the neighborhood. there is nothing good that comes from guns. >> tonight got started when it was announced that the federal government was thinking about using federal education dollars to arm teachers with guns. >> reporter: passionately opposed to arming teachers, groups like sandy hook promise offer

for example, the department of education secretary betsy devos has scaled-down civil rights investigations conducted by her department at an alarming rate. when they examined how this administration handles discrimination complaints filed on behalf of students with limited english language proficiency, they found a drop of nearly 20% in the cases found to be valid in comparison to the last administration from 70% to 15%. the same true in cases involving sexual harassment and violence. 31% and harassment from 31%- 21%. these complaints come from parents and concerned citizens and teachers and students who look much like the members of this audience. children look like me and my kids. today latino students make up one in five of all people enrolled in schools. if the future of this country depends on the education of our children, then it is imperative we protect them today. but it is a difficult road ahead. for latino kids who don't finish high school or not enrolled in school is still higher than non-hispanics. this fact is laid against a backdrop of a resegregation problem. research has s

the betsy devos clip is a good example of someone who doesn't do a lot of interviews but is making ation -- >> we're totally out of time for what to watch for. >> congress back in town, can they avoid a shutdown? >> bob woodward's book comes out next month. >> i am personally watching the kavanaugh hearings that are coming up. that does it for us on "kasie d.c." we'll be back next week at 7:00. for now, good night from washington. >>> this is an msnbc special series. cool. just a feeling? or something more? can you touch it or buy it? become it? who gets to decide what's cool and what's not? >> look for the person who's doing something that no one else has done. >> it's -- it's magic. >> every brand wanwants you to believe they have the edge on cool. >> cool spells -- >> they'll do anything to prove it. >> don't just try and sell me something, you have to tell a

while betsy devos believes it means strawberry milk for everyone. [ laughter and applause ] a studentscotland has hired a staff of 12, including a maid, a butler and a chef to help her through her first year of college. wow, well, i guess if you have a maid, a butler, and a chef, one of them will know where to get weed. [ laughter ] hundreds of nude cyclists gathered in philadelphia yesterday to participate in the city's annual ten-mile philly naked bike ride. and weirdly, it still left more to the imagination than bike shorts. [ laughter ] that guy is so proud of himself. [ light laughter ] and finally, applebee's has introduced a new deal that allows customers to purchase a three-course for just $12. the only other place where you can get three courses for $12 is arizona state. [ laughter ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a fantastic show for you tonight. her new film, "the children act" is available now on directv and in theaters this weekend, the one, the only emma thompson is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] how exciting is that? she is starring in the new film, "

betsy devos. andrew wheeler. ryan zinke. john bolton. christopher wray. wasn't me. even the first lady weighing in focusing more on the author's anonymity than on the content of that op-ped. "if a person is bold enough to accuse people of negative actions, they have a responsibility to publicly stand by their words and people have the right to be able to defend themselves. to the writer of the op-ped, you are not protecting this country. you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions." and if that's not enough for you, let's not forget bob woodward's upcoming book, "fear," quoting many members of the president's inner circle including former white house chief economic adviser gary cohn who says he swiped a letter off the oval office desk to prevent trump from signing it and killing a critical trade agreement with south korea. that letter, yes, missing the president's signature, now revealed. so, what about the democrats you might be saying? what are they doing in the midst of all this trump-related turmoil? they're shaking things up. on their own with an extraordi