was a good decision. this was made against sound military advice, and i don't think general trump is going to be any better than general obama. i don't think general graham is the answer to this problem. i think those that are in the fight that have been doing it for 17 years, the national security team the president has, they're the experts. mr. president, if you don't like them or trust them, fire them. so what you have done, in my view, is set us back. the chatter out there is pretty disturbing. i talked to general mattis today. it's pretty clear that the ripple effect of this is going to be as bad as we think it will be. to our kurdish partners, i am sorry. i don't support this decision, and i am hoping it will change. president president trump, leads about adjusting, being able to change your mind when circumstances warrant. i'm not saying we need to be in syria forever. i am saying now is not time to leave, and senator shaheen made a very compelling case about the conditions on the ground. so the wi

i can't explain this decision. i'm not going to suggest motivations that are anything other than a frustrated resume, but i can promise this. but if you follow through with this, and everything that happened in iraq is going to happen in serious and it's going to be worse, not better. it's going to make it harder to get the taliban to reconcile. they are undercutting what was done in afghanistan. north korea will see this as a sign of weakness and it's going to be harder to get the russians to heal because this will be seen by the entire world as a decision not based on sound military advice, a decision based on frustration and all of our allies scratching their head right now. i just talked to the british. they don't know where to go. i do know that in this war you will not win it by giving out. this isn't akin to surrendering. we can be successful only if we partner with others. this undercut the effort. we've got two choices to fight this war. in their backyard, our backyard. i says in afghanistan i know for sur

, his decision, the president's. video and b, what was your reaction? >> i was offended. i was almost trembling after i saw it. i don't know if he intended this to be the case. but i wear on my wrist a buddy of mine that i flew with in '08. he was killed in iraq in 2018. his name is captain o'keefe. the president cannot speak for captain o'keefe in terms of whether he wants to continue to prosecute the war against terror or not. when somebody gives their life for the country let's respect them and not drag them into the politics of whether fighting isis is wrong or right. the president has a right to make this decision. i would say he has the right, even if it was president obama. but i have the right and responsibility to say this is poor, this is a bad decision. >> will you and members of the house and the members, like-minded members of the senate pressure him to change his mind? he's changed his mind before. >> yeah. . i've been trying to pressure since this all came out yesterday morning in terms of legislation.

one decision to leave and another is to try to reduce the impact of this decision.what about keeping our air force involved? what about providing the hum humanitarian assistance, and providing the military assistance, and the president himself will not be following this policy after this decision, and the rest of the administrations needs to reduce the negative consequences of this decision that he made yesterday. >> mike mcfaul, ambassador, thank you so much, and gayle eamon, thank you for your reporting from the ground, and general john allen as always, and anne guerin, thank you for this conversation. and set in stone. why is robert mueller asking the house intelligence committee for the testimony of confidant roger stone. - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations, so shark invented duo clean. while deep cleaning carpets, the added soft brush roll picks up large particles, gives floors a polished look, and fearlessly devours piles. duo clean technology, corded and cord-free. and fearlessly devours piles. what does help for heart ♪ the beat goes on.

come on. >> this is not my decision. this is the justice department's decision.hat was the view of the members of congress, the democrats, but not the conclusion of the justice department. >> you did make a decision, pete, this week, to wear that fantastic black hat. i'm pleased you did that. >> i'm honored. >> pete williams. >>> we've got a lot of news this morning. here is something you know was coming. no matter what, there's always good news somewhere and we think good news ruhles. today's story is bittersweet but one of neighborly love. a community. owen williams lives in wales with their 2-year-old daughter, next door neighbor, elderly man named ken, who recently passed away, but ken's memory lives on. following his death, his daughter delivered 14 wrapped gifts over to owen's house. they were from ken, who had always told owen's young daughter that he would live to be 100 years old. ken, he didn't quite make it to 100, but he did make sure she would have a gift to open for him every year until his would-be 100th birthday. now she's going to be opening pres

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was that it was not simply a decision to get out as soon as the mission was over it was a decision to get out before the mission was over what do you make of president reportedly folding turkish president air to one yesterday and shortly after trump's announcement of the troop withdrawal turkey confirmed that it will purchase u.s. peachtree of missiles and not a russian made into a aircraft system. so it's hard to know if there is any explicit quid pro quo coming out of the president's conversations with airto on i think you can look at this in two ways on the one hand it's good news from a perspective of u.s. security that the turks are going to be buying patriot missiles particularly if that gives them an alternative to the s. four hundred russian anti-aircraft rockets that they are waiting delivery of right now on the other hand i think that the u.s. withdrawal from northeast syria makes it far more likely that the turks will mount a significant military operation to go after the syrian kurds particularly the wife p.g. who they view correctly as being linked to the p.k. k. which is

they cannot reach a decision. within the army at all levels, there is an agreement on the principle for the need to pull the front lines back to where they can be more adequately supplied. the army within itself cannot agree on when the pullback should take place and how far back it should go. in may and june 1943, studies concluded that they should pull the line back, but there is simply not enough shipping to pull the front-line units back so they cannot do it now. of course, around this period, the navy is again pulling the front lines back. in the first half of 1943, there is a low in which the army navy cannot reach a decision what they can do next. the japanese are forced by the renewal in the south pacific at the end of june, and to july 1943 plus, they discussed the australians keeping up the pressure right by their throughout the first half of 1943. then, the americans join in and they start the offensive in the solomon islands. the fighting goes on at those places into july then, the military situation d

she has made two major decisions which are very uncharacteristic. 0ne major decisions which are verynuclear energy and the second was the issue. there was the minimum of consultation, which i think was a pretty ticked mistake because if you don't communicate these huge decisions, you really don't ring the public on board. it was that issue, refugees, that would be the... they we re refugees, that would be the... they were made impossible by the speed of events. caught off—guard on television by compelling palestinian teenager, she had appeared wooden, and caring. the issue forced her to ta ke and caring. the issue forced her to take the political plunge, abandoning her customary caution. so it was with a refugee crisis when faced with the necessity of letting in hundreds of thousands of people, she decided to make a political virtue out of it, she embraced the situation using the slogan, we can do this, to try to redefine germany's image in the wider world. she was completely in agreement with the large majority of the germans who wanted to show that they are nice people. at this tim

at the time controversial decision with many, but it proved to be the wisest decision of all. >> you know, andrea, we read a portion of president obama's statement just a short while ago and he noted that he met with our 41st president just tuesday this week in houston. that would make him certainly one of his last visitors. what more can you tell us about that visit and its significance? >> it was certainly an important and very touching tribute to the ailing former president by another former president, one of the youngest, but also it was forged by the presence of obama in houston participating in a 25th anniversary event at rice university at the baker irns institute for james baker and that says something very important about one of his closest allies and longest friend and former secretary of state, treasury secretary in the reagan years and long time campaign manager, so the fact that james baker was part of that -- that visit as well in houston says a great deal. the loyalty of those who worked and were friends, you know, james baker and george bush were young men, tennis par

interesting decision especially in terms of the timing what can you tell us about it. well he is known as mad dog mattis secretary of defense james mattis one of the military men that trump once referred to as my generals according to what we're seeing on twitter he is now out now this comes just after trump announcing that the usa is withdrawing its forces from syria now it's being reported that mattis had argued against that decision saying that the usa should keep some forces in syria in order to combat terrorism he did not agree with it now there has been a letter of resignation that has surfaced and one passage from it contains the phrase because you have a right to a secretary of defense whose views are more aligned with yours now the letter also makes reference to russia and china makes reference to the fight against isis terrorism so it would appear that the secretary of defense mattis is out and also is being reported that he was critical of trump's decision to withdraw u.s. forces from syria it's important to note that the u.s. forces in syria were there with

decision and respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and troops there in syria and we will do whatever we necessary to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations so while the u.s. is our allies are dismayed by the trump decision those with very different views about the future of syria the so-called a stana group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations. more explosions have been reported on the second day of the un brokered cease fire in yemen's port city of who data saudi and you a you backed government forces and who's the fighters blamed each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the warring parties agreed on a ceasefire during talks in sweden last week data is critical for the supply of food and humanitarian aid for millions of yemenis always on the brink of starvation one hour from mohammed jumped to. pictures emerging from predate the on tuesday show a re

give us your analysis of this sudden decision. >> clearly a reckless decision.tly not the time to be rapidly pulling troops out of syria. it is true that isis has been decimated in syria in terms of their territory, where they possess. now is the time to press that advantage forward. remember, our troops are not there to fight isis directly necessarily, but to advise and assist syrian democratic forces. indigenous forces you need for sustainable security. so this is exactly the wrong time to do it. it was a decision recklessly made with very little coordination in the inner agency and looks like no coordination with members of congress or our international allies and partners. we run the coalition of more than 70 nations fighting isis. no coordination done. finally, i think it's a big gift to russia, who would love nothing more than to have us out of there. >> and bashar al assad, as well. you covered the white house, abby, for us. take us behind the scenes. what happened? >> well, it's not entirely surprising this white house would have done something like this

who is going to own this decision? who is willing to step forward and tell the american people or congress here's why we're making this decision, and here is the strategy? someone explain that. the american people deserve to know it. i haven't heard that today. we haven't heard it before. we thought we had the outlines of some strategy here. all that has been taken away. why are we doing this? what is the rationale and what comes next? and what's the plan to keep isis from reemerging? and what's the plan to keep iran from growing its presence in southern syria and threatening israel? and what's the plan to deal with the al qaeda element that already exists in there and what's our role and what role are we going to play in a postisis and postal qaeda syria? and particularly as it relates to whether it can be used as a base of operations against our interests in our men and women in uniform stationed in the region. none of that has been outlined. the -- is anyone in the administration going to own this and explain it bec

but this decision has sparked condemnation.sts say it could threaten populations of whales that have recovered since the ban. it's not just about what japan does, it's now about whether other countries will follow suit, whether other countries will also step outside of the whaling commission, because ifjapan, if you like, gets away with this, other countries might want to do the same thing and then more and more populations could be exposed to whaling. so we are very concerned about the potential for an expansion, again, of whaling outside of any international control. japan says commercial whaling will be restricted to its own territorial waters and economic zones, so its ships will cease whaling in the antarctic ocean. despite the reassurances though, many are calling on the country to reconsider. victoria gill, bbc news. more than 20 people have been injured in italy after an earthquake hit the area around mount etna in sicily. several buildings were damaged by the 4.8 magnitude quake which struck in the early hours of the m

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decision and would respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and troops there in syria and we will do what every necessary to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations so while the u.s. is allies are dismayed by the trunk decision those with very different views about the future of syria the so-called a stana group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations. a russia's president vladimir putin has welcomed the u.s. decision to withdraw troops from syria he was speaking at his annual news conference who says the u.s. military presence in syria is illegitimate yet it his forces have not seen any sign of a withdrawal and yet look assertive like me than the e.u. is for defeating ocelot i generally agree with the president of the united states with the chief some major advances when it comes to defeating the terrorists and we've struck major blows against terrorists in syria there is a danger th

and, some may argue, well the president is makes decisions and he is a strong decision-maker.blem is in an area like this, you have allies and enemies all around the world who have to make call cluecations based on -- call calculations on an event like this. none of the friend in the middle east, in saudi arabia, asia, or europe saw this coming. they have not had a decision about withdrawing from syria. we lost a secretary of defense who had relationships withia all these people and commitments to them. the new secretary of defense will have to go around the world explaining to them, what happened and why, whether policy has changed or not. in that time, all of are going to recalculate their instance. for instance, the kurds, egyptians, whether they should talk to theha russians because e united states isn't going to be anymore. the israelis have to make those kinds of calculations. i think this will reverberate well into 2019 and shake up our alliances all over the world. paul: kim all that being said, i agree with what dan said. i think, i would say anyway, i wonder if you a

to watch the decision unfold. they will be able to establish their land bridge from us and i ran to the mediterranean supporting hezbollah, the shiite militia and there assad regime it's appears not forget we also leaving the russians unchallenged in syria. they will have supremacy in the skies and they will be able to do as they please in syria without so much as a challenge from the united states. on top of that one of the things i think a lot of people have ignored here is that the kurds will be left out to dry. the turks right now, are preparing for an onslaught. it is likely we will see a massive battle in northern syria they've indicated as much. you think about it right now, israelis are nervous, probably the jordanians are nervous. the kurds are nervous. there really is not one ally of the united states is cute pleased with this and certainly all of our enemies. paul: let me push back in this sense. i think the president says look, you leave troops there, what is our national interest? and what is your pla

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we begin this news hour with the fallout from president trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria a move that a surprised just about everyone including some of his own aides within the last hour he has been defending that decision he tweeted does the usa want to be the policeman of the middle east getting nothing but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who in almost all cases do not appreciate what we're doing do we want to be there forever it's time for others to finally fight. well his announcement to withdraw troops came as a shock to allies and some members of his own republican party the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces is warning that the pullout will allow eyesore to regroup the s.d.f. says that will leave syrian stuck between because of hostile parties despite transplant to get out of syria france says its air force and troops will stay at least for now germany has also weighed in saying it's concerned that a u.s. withdrawal could hurt the fight against eisel of syria was a topic of discussion at a meeting between the

the decisions most controversial in marshall's lifetime were the supremacy decision. the one's where the court asserts its supremacy over state court. and there was a series of these fletcher vs. pec. dartmouth v. woodward cohens v. virginia mcculloch v. maryland but the case i want to talk about this morning because of its economic significant was fletcher vs. pec. and this it had to do with a land deal in georgia in the 1790s. georgia was the poorest on it 13 colonies. but it had vast back country that went all the way to the mississippi river. what are now the states of alabama and mississippi. and georgia realized it could sell the land off to pay its debts. it made a deal in 1795 to sell 35 million acres for a penny and a half an acre. every member of the georgia legislature was bribed to make the sale. the going rate was $1,000, one legislator took only $600 and said he wasn't greedy. when word of this got out the people of georgia replaced all of these legislators at the next languaged with a new set and they passed a repeal act. which nullified the sale and al

reports, ao earlier decision on afghanistan was made the same time the decision on syria. supposedly u.s. troops will be halved. that would take troops down to about 7000. all of this at a time when afghan peace talks have been going on and one wonders, if this happens, if the u.s. does half its troops, how much leverage will that give to the taliban in the next round of talks? this will be an issue of concern to nato. nato is reacting this friday morning to the resignation of jim mattis, hailing his contributions to the alliance. one can imagine the jitters in brussels behind these official statements. on one hand, we have news about the attack on the syrian democratic forces in syria. to nato.oncerning nato does not have a mission in syria. in afghanistan, it has a training mission to support and assist and equip afghan security forces. if these reports turn out to be true and if the white house confirms them, that is going to be an issue for nato and afghanistan. >> thank you. presidential elections in the democratic republic of congo have been delayed as fire destroyed

the kind of conflated about decision.n mississippi, if you don't have medicaid, if you don't have no kind of insurance, just to go to the health department for all children, grown-ups, men, women, they have to pay a $25 charge. in mississippi, if you go to help here just for anything like suicide, children are six or go get -- sick or go get medicine, they don't have insurance. the only thing we have is the health department. we do not have planned parenthood, we have the health department and if you don't have insurance, no medicaid or magnolia help, no good cross, you have to pay a $25 charge every time you go. i am listening. host: go ahead, kathleen. you are concerned about the ability to access health care in general? caller: yes, to the health department. we don't have a planned parenthood. host: that is kathleen in mississippi. jeff in west virginia. what do you think about the supreme court's decision yesterday? women: i think the poor should have all the help they control and on youtube there was angel brown expe

or not your decision?ustice kennedy: well, because my religious beliefs, that is one of the reasons i wrote it. it seems to me that i cannot hide. the nature of injustice is that you can't see it in your own time. as we thought about this and i thought about it more and more, it seems to me that just wrong, under the constitution, to say over 100,000 adopted children of gay parents could not have their parents married. i just thought that this was wrong. but it took, and i struggled with it and wrote the case over a weekend. that's the way i came out. but as i said, as you write the reasons, they either compel themselves or not. i tell judges, i tell young judges, old judges, your duty in every case is to ask why are you doing what you are about to do, what are the reasons? and even if you've done it 100 times, you have to ask again and see if they are still valid. that is what you must do. it is introspective. you take an oath that you're going to listen to each side. if you make up your mind in advance,

did they see it as a decisive defeat in their regards like the americans viewed it as a decisive victory? or did not play in the grand scheme of their overall strategy? >> thank you for the question. the navy understood that it was a major defeat. and they did not view it extremely decisively. although it was important but it does not decide the outcome of the war for them. i think for the navy, it means that they lost the offensive. it stops there offensive momentum. as for the army, they are not fully informed of the losses at midway for a wild. don'tmy is really -- they know about the true state of the navy after midway. this goes on through the war. after the philippine sea battle. the navy concealed its losses from the army. tojoafter the fall, thinks japan is still ok because he thinks the navy is stronger than they were current to get he thinks the navy is stronger than they were. to get back to your question, they were not extremely decisive. >> next question will be to your right. gentleman. >> first of all, i would like to that you seriously consider planning a future conferenc

hello again with the fallout from president trance decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria a move that a surprise just about everyone including some of his own aides over the last two hours he has been defending that decision he tweeted doesn't the u.s. a want to be the policeman of the middle east getting nothing but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who in almost all cases do not appreciate what we are doing do we want to be there forever time for others to finally fight his initial announcement to withdraw troops came as a shock to allies some members of his own republican party the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces is warning that the pullout will allow i saw to regroup yes d.f. says that will leave syrians stuck between hostile parties and despite transplant to get out of syria france says its air force and troops will stay for now germany has also weighed in saying it's concerned a u.s. withdrawal could hurt the fight against isis syria was a topic of discussion at a meeting between the leaders of turkey and iran

president trump this morning digging in on his surprise decision to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. this in spite of loud indignant opposition to that move from lawmakers of both parties, even some of the president's closest supporters. even some of his own officials. the president declaring, and i quote, time for others to finally fight, to which gop senator lindsey graham, typically among the president's most ardent supporters responded, when it comes to fighting isis, do i not believe it is wise to outsource the fight to russia, iran, and assad. they do not have america's best interests at heart. the president also lashing out this morning at democrats who he is blaming again for not funding his wall. he appears to be warning that he might not sign a short-term spending bill that needs to be in place by saturday to head off a partial government shutdown. i'll remind you, that's a spending resolution supported by republican senators as well. much more on that in the hour ahead. we begin with the battle over syria, which our abby phillip is watching from the wh

a decision is expected by next summer. this would not be the first time republicans nix the first in the south primary. they did for president reagan in 1984 and again in 2004 for george w. bush. one difference. back then the party paid for primaries. now taxpayers do. >> the difference is the media environment is different from 2004. you would have a massive megaphone. >>> ahead, a black man in ohio went to cash his paycheck. the bank called police. hear from him and what the bank is saying next. ♪ ♪ si passione. the new fragrance. giorgio armani. wait! wait! this is incredible! yeah, it's an incredible deal. last chance to join t-mobile and get the awesome iphone xr, on us. it has an amazing camera. and it comes in all those colors! so when they join t-mobile, give them the iphone xr? it's the holidays, we've gotta go big. it's too much, i can't bear it! tell me you went with the bear head just for the pun. maybe. it's your last chance this holiday season to join t-mobile and get the iphone xr on us. opportunity is every

if you could share a discussion about that decision versus maybe the lack of unanimous decisions in the koran supreme court i would appreciate that and i was wondering -- >> it was all in the deliberate speed which he lifted from an early opinion of oliver wendell holmes. frankfurter agreed on it that it would give the states leeway, but they were both terribly disappointed and one in particular became more and more disappointed that the state didn't submit desegregation and she was very disappointed in that. the unanimous decision that was one of his great contributions i think the supreme court and certainly to brown v. board because it was argued earlier and the court was split with the chief justice presidents who was a very poor chief, good friend of harry truman who appointed the chief justice secretary of treasury and so on, but he was a lousy chief justice and he could not bring the court together and he really didn't have his mind in the ground so with stanley reed of kentucky and tom clark of texas and even robert jackson of new york had concerns about the constitutional under

you determine a lot of decisions. nothing original and distinctive, no one thinks of you as someone distinctive. on the other hand, you could be a median justice because you do have a distinctive view which happens to be in the middle on some particular issues. i think there is no reason to inherently expect that the set of median justice is is particularly distinguished. maybe we can compare this with parliamentary politics where there are going to be some median, small political party that can throw its weight around. are those small political parties the most brilliant politicians or are they just the ones that happened to be necessary for a coalition? i think there's probably not much we can say as a matter of principle about whether this should be a distinguished group area what i found interesting is you brought this back to the discussion earlier in the day about whose legacy is more enduring. one thing i did not really like about the earlier discussion was there was an effort to connect the was more significan

president trump declared a unilateral decision. it's not that the decision was not his to make but there's no process here. people can't rely on the u.s. as a partner the way they have in the past, and the rift with europe is real and significant and ongoing. the idea that france would announce this morning it will continue its military operations in syria, which may or may not be viable without the united states, this is essentially unthinking in any previous version of the alliance. president trump has done enormous damage to the alliance, and meanwhile the only place praising his decision this morning essentially is in moscow where vladimir putin is saying that was a smart decision in his news conference this morning. i think it's a very significant moment where you see trump's foreign policy and the recklessless of going it alone. >> it was eight or nine months ago where trump was at a political rally, and he announced we will be coming out of syria very, very soon. back then his adviser, including, i think, secretary mattis, s

mr trump been defending as well his decision to withdraw all u.s. troops from syria and end the air campaign against eisel the announcement as along both washington's western allies and kurdish fighters in syria who say the move for the group to gain more ground there is time for other countries to step in alan fischer now from washington. u.s. president has declared the war against eisel has been won in syria we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly and he's taken to twitter to reject the idea the decision was unexpected writing getting out of syria was no surprise i've been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i very publicly want to do it i agreed to steal longer the white house is pushing back hard against two stories would have been circulating in washington since the decision was made first of all the president at the one of turkey told donald trump he was about to launch an attack against the kurds in syria a key u.s. ally and the u.s. had to get out of the way not true the sea and that no one in the washington establishment

that decision did rattle nerves in the region.to be interpreted now against the backdrop of the president's visit? >> i do find it fascinating because in the last week we've heard that president trump intends to pull u.s. troops out of syria and there are plans afoot to reduce the number of troops in afghanistan down by half. he's not visiting u.s. troops deployed in those two conflict zones. he's visiting iraq where there is also a u.s. military presence. the u.s. troop presence in these countries has vacillated so much in the past year and a half while u.s. for ttunes have ebbe and flowed. president obama drew that force down and isis emerged in a vacuum and took over the city of mosul and put a real threat to countries in the region and then it drew the u.s. into syria. afghanistan has also seen embassy and flows and there are real voices of alarm, worried about the potential instability of afghanistan, already a war that's not going well. if the u.s. troops presence there is drawn down from some 14,000 and cut in half, the imp

these are decisions for the court to take, and whatever the decision... well, it's not for me...ts activists, like sherry rehman, who said, "aasia bibi is still suffering profoundly, despite her acquittal. imran khan has lost all credibility. he can't make decisions to uphold the rule of law. his politics revolves around religion and u—turns." things really haven't changed very much at all, have they? maybe sherry rehman has not heard about the fact that those who created a law and order situation after that incident — after that decision was taken, who destroyed public property, who issued threatening statements are facing accountability perhaps for the first time in decades in pakistan. maybe this change has not yet been informed to ms sherry rehman. i would strongly suggest that she should go through the newspapers of the last few weeks and she'll find out what is happening is truly unprecedented in the last 30 years of pakistan. let's end with a personal note, if we may, minister. you know that there are countries in the west that have offered safe haven to aasia bibi. would

it's not as if these moderation decisions are easy or new. host: who are the custodians of the internet? tarleton: well, by "custodians"" i meant to draw attention to the people at the platforms who are doing content policy and content moderation, so setting the rules for what can and cannot appear on their platforms, and then making the decision about which things come down and which users get suspended, and which material gets put behind a restriction barrier. i use the term because in some ways they have taken on this role, much of what we do on this internet happens on major platforms. they are keepers of the spaces where we go to find people and information and news. also, by the end of the book, i'm calling for them to take on a more custodial role, not just sweeping up the mess, but actually thinking about how this is they can responsibly make possible both our activity online and a real debate to take something down or take something up. host: our facebook and twitter public companies or -- private companies or public squares? tarleto

he just made a recent decision in his decision of the new joint chief in general millie.'ll continue to make decisions like that to put our best military minds in the right places to keep america safe and secure, and i have confidence in him that he'll make another choice to replace secretary mattis with someone like that. >> but what does it say to you, congressman, that defense secretary mattis, retired u.s. general, has now quit in protest over the president's policies? >> well, clearly it's not -- it hasn't been a secret that secretary mattis has disagreed with the president, the commander in chief certainly in the full pullout in syria but in other places as well. wolf, that's nothing new. every single secretary of defense that's served under president barack obama later wrote about many disagreements that they had and other secretaries of defense have left their position when they felt that they could no longer serve a president or commander in chief, so this is nothing new. secretary mattis has given this country and this presidentp, by the time february comes arou

midterm elections came, no decision, argued, it sounded like the open enrollment, no decision. the decision only came at the end of open enrollment for the majority of states. for most states, it is unlikely to have any effects. i will be looking at the seven states that still have open enrollment going on. we learned last year, as the trump administration, sabotaged what was going on, we had individual strong numbers for enrollment. we might have the old adage proved true, any publicity is good publicity. guest: the fact that the ruling coincided with the last night of open enrollment, traditionally a night of heavy activity on oath , this- health care.gov was really a political decision, and not one that is grounded in legality. host: when it comes to this, you talked about the numbers, centers for medicaid and medicare, 2018. 11.8 million enrolled. 27% are new customers. most chose silver plans. the average premium before tax credit, $621. what do the numbers tell you? guest: one of the important things those numbers show is even though the number should be higher, we might

that's a very different decision. that turns the assessment into an imposed value. >> now, you -- we've talked a little bit about blocking but you use some other terms when you discussion moderation including auto detection. what is that? >> probably the way i was using that is the software that we use as a first line of defense for moderation. my understanding that even at the largest platforms, the software that can try to detect pornography or hate speech is not good enough to be acted upon itself, but it will flag content that has a high chance of being a vie ligse and will fun neal to human reviewers. that balance may be changing. so those tools are very much in play, the question of sort of exactly how they move from detection to desession has been shifting in -- decision in the last few years. >> flagging, what is that? >> one of the early things that the platform set up is a way for users to come plain about content they thought offensive or if they felt attacked or harassed. >> it took them a while. but once

so it's a political decision which is being made by japan it's a political decision which is being mademercial whaling, and the other issue though is that these animals are varied migratory, they move from one country waters to another, and i suspect you'll find other countries quickly saying japan, these are not yours to kill. on the decision that made and the general view around the world, that whale hunting is not something we want to do, why is it we make distinction between them and other marine creatures he happily hunt and consume? it's interesting i was listening to an interview by a islander a few days ago, and he was a describing hunting wales down in the southern ocean off south georgia and the 1960s, and he was describing these enormous wealth coming up and that that moment when they attempt to shoot the whale with a harpoon, and these are enormous animals, it is vary, vary difficult even though they are enormous, because they're partially underwater to kill them humanely with one shot. many, many times these whale were dragged along for long periods of time —— a time in ago