we have a special line as well for postal workers. (202) 748-8003. i want to come back to the package delivery that the postal service does. it is up from $3.7 billion just five years earlier. is this a place where the post office is making money? it is hard to tell. you'd think it would be easy to figure out. revenue money cost equals whether or not you have a profit. the postal service is a massive enterprise. figuring out how to attribute a bridge -- a particular cost to whether it is paper mail versus complicatedmore than you would expect. especially in a time of rapid growth. the number of parcels they have -- they are carrying has quintupled in years. host: what is the biggest expense for the postal service? in 2017,did they make 60 $9.6 billion it is expensive. of.3 billion with a net loss 2.7 billion. what do you attribute that lost to? guest: certainly it is revenue stagnant. it is hard for any business to --y profitable when you are when your main line of business has not grown. mail volume has actually fallen by close to 30% in the past dec

we have a special line for postal workers. 202-748-8003 is that number. i want to come back to the package delivery that the postal service does. 5.7 billion pieces in 2017. that's up from 3.7 billion pieces just five years earlier. is this a place where the post office is making money? >> well, it's hard to tell. and you would think, why shouldn't it be easy to figure out, you know? revenue minus cost equals whether or not you have a profit. the postal service is a massive enterprise. figuring out how you attribute a particular cost is way more complicated than you might expect, especially in a time of rapid growth. the number of parcels they're carrying has quintupled in ten years. >> i want to talk about the biggest expense for the post service. show viewers how much the post service made in fiscal year 2017. $69.6 billion. its expenses, though, $72.3 billion with a net loss of $2.7 billion. what do you attribute that loss to? >> well, certainly it's revenue stagnant. it's hard for any business to stay profitable when your main line of business has not

(justine) being a postal worker can be "ruff" for those who are attacked by dogs on the job.device that workers are carrying could help limit those scary moments. device helps postal carriers identify - and avoid - dogs. avoid - dogs. (jr stone) that was alexis dominguez reporting. (justine) taking a live look outside....(jr stone) meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez has our forecast. . (mabrisa rodriguez)as a short-wave ridge builds in over the region, look for warmer weather monday with temperatures in the 70s to lower 80s. this trend will be short-lived however as a weak mid/upper level trough sweeps through the region on tuesday. while widespread precipitation is not likely, light rain/rain showers will be possible over the northern half of the region ahead of a weak frontal boundary. at this time, it appears the best chances for measurable rainfall will be from the santa cruz mountains northward. the boundary washes out as it pushes south of the san francisco bay area tuesday afternoon/evening with little to no rainfall expected for much of the central coast. quick on the he

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have these demonstrations all across france at the moment you have students you have post then postal workers but especially you have the railroad workers who are fighting to keep their decades old privileges and since my call is somebody who's trying to change those laws many here see him as a capitalist who's trying to take away everything that they fought for in the past there's a lot of anger on the streets we've already had a big police presence tear gas you name it so this is this is very palpable in a very different i imagine atmosphere for what's yours. unsing in berlin right now max the french president has been on this a year long drive to reform the euro zone if he hits a wall now or he has to water down some of the reforms that he wants to see implemented does that hurt the image he's trying to project as a person who can get stuff done. it might a little bit i mean he's been very much trying to uphold that image for example in syria saying this is a red line if you cross it then we'll do something militarily that's what he did on the national or the domestic front right here he's

the others are an x postal worker who killed a former worker and six employees. that was in 2006 pick up a former tribal council chair woman who killed her brother and three others during an eviction hearing. >>> we are also hearing from the shooter's brother who spoke yesterday to our sister station in san diego. he says the family worried she might act on a grudge she had against you too. the family alerted police in mount view before the shooting. >> she had a problem with youtube. we called again and told him she might, there is a reason she went all the way from san diego to there. she might do something. i didn't know she had a gun. i thought maybe she was going there. >> make sure you stay right here with us on "mornings on 2" for continuing coverage of the youtube headquarters shooting. we will have life reports on the condition of the shooting victims and the latest on the investigation in san bruno. we will have updates for you on twitter, facebook and at ktvu.com. >>> it took 15 hours but a standup of between an apparently suicidal man and police ended

. >>> a texas postal worker was dancing like no one was watching, but lucky for us, someone was watchingley decided to get his groove on in texas. he said he was determined to put a smile on the homeowner's face before dropping off her mail. >> there was some shimmying. even threw in a few leg kicks. he really put himself out there. turns out, mission accomplished. the performance made her day. >> he forgot to drop off the mail, but his moves were great. >> just a technicality. >>> coming up, the annual fashion show otherwise known at nfl draft. >> we'll show who wore it best. >>> and j. lo drops a hint on stage for a-rod, and she probably isn't referring to his world series ring. "world news now." ♪ my dbut now, i take used tometamucil every day.sh it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. >>> troy aikman, quarterback, ucla. >>> troy aikman, quarterback, ucla. >> and so, it is now officially official, if you will. troy aikman is a member of the dallas cowboys. >> look how young he looked back then. >>

north and west are mainly black, the south end east, mainly white and in the affluent suburbs, postal workers levine has written extensively about the racial divide here. milwaukee, in terms of the level of segregation in the town, is precisely the same as it was 50 years ago. a black household making $100,000 a year has a 20 times greater possibility of living in a concentrated poverty neighbourhood than a white family. and it's notjust in housing that america remains a land divided, half a century after dr king had a dream. 50 years ago, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. in 2017, 7.5%. still roughly twice the rate of whites. and 50 years ago, just over 40% of black people owned homes, about the same rate as today, yet 70% of whites are home owners. now they're taking everything we had but we are not afraid of them, no more. housing has always been a racial faultline america. black people have sought and been denied the right to live where they want or refused loans for homes. in 1967, thousands marched for fairness in milwaukee. these people were some of the protestors. demonstrating on this

in the affluent suburbs, postal workers are the most frequent black visitors.. milwaukee, in terms of the level of segregation in the town, is precisely the same as it was 50 years ago. a black household making $100,000 a year has about a 20 times greater possibility of living in a concentrated poverty neighbourhood than a white family. and it's notjust in housing that america remains a land divided, half a century after dr king had a dream. 50 years ago, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. in 2017, 7.5% — still roughly twice the rate of whites. and 50 years ago, just over 40% of black people owned homes, about the same rate as today, yet 70% of whites are home owners. they were taking everything we had but now we're showing them we ain't afraid of them, no more. housing has always been a racial faultline in america. black people have so often been denied the right to live where they want or refused loans for homes. in 1967, thousands marched for fairness in milwaukee. and these people were some of the protestors, demonstrating on this bridge the divide between bla

north and west are mainly black, the south and east, mainly white, and in the affluent suburbs, postal workersevine has written extensively about the racial divide here. milwaukee, in terms of the level of segregation in the town, is precisely the same as it was 50 years ago. a black household making $100,000 a year has a 20 times greater possibility of living in a concentrated poverty neighbourhood than a white family. and it's notjust in housing that america remains a land divided, half a century after dr king had a dream. 50 years ago, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. in 2017, 7.5%. still roughly twice the rate of whites. and 50 years ago, just over 40% of black people owned homes, about the same rate as today, yet 70% of whites are home owners. now they're taking everything we had but we are not afraid of them, no more. housing has always been a racial faultline america. black people have sought and been denied the right to live where they want or refused loans for homes. in 1967, thousands marched for fairness in milwaukee. singing these people were some of the protestors. demonstrating on

in the affluent suburbs, postal workers are the most frequent black visitors. ago. a black household, making $100,000 a year, has about a 20 times greater possibility of living in a concentrated poverty neighbourhood than a white family. and it‘s notjust in housing that america remains a land divided, half a century after dr king had a dream. 50 years ago, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. in 2017, 7.5%, still roughly twice the rate of whites. and 50 years ago, just over 40% of black people owned homes, about the same rate as today, yet 70% of whites are homeowners. they have taken everything that we have a now we‘re showing them we ain‘t afraid of them no more. housing has always been a racial faultline in america. black people have so often been denied the right to live where they want or refused loans for homes. in 1967, thousands marched for fairness in milwaukee. # ain‘t going to let mayor maier turn us around #. and these people were some of the protesters, demonstrating on this bridge, the divide between black and white in the city. # walking up the freedo

. >> neil: the president is targeting amazon and postal workers. >> he makes money left and right.ire straits. but look at amazon. >> they have a lot of money. >> but pantry is half off what you see in the store and delivered to your doorstep. >> neil: to that point, the president is going after it because personally you are watching. >> losing battle. >> i think it is about not going to the store for paper towels. >> don't pick on amazon. you can tell young people that amazon is harvesting baby steel organs and as long as they get prime prescription do you care? you don't want the leader of the free world. >> neil: it is jumping in there. and the case of a bad day, a man in indiana sending a woman in an itemized invoice after she received it. she has since deleted it. >> i think that is crazy. i went out on dates and it didn't work out and if i were her, i would pay him and if you are that desperate for $40. >> neil: he seems creepy. >> he seems scary. >> and if they went on the first date. thanks for getting the first check and i will get the next and she ghosts him. >> neil: i d

how an alert postal worker case, broke the case. >> i want to be around people that want to do what i want few do. >> over 20,000 people make it out to hippie hill in san francisco to be part of 4/20 history. >> i'm chief mete roorologist. 76. cooler 69. where it reaches 84 degrees tomorrow. this all started back e 1970 )s...with som sgtudents at >>> politically and socially we have come a long way. this all started back in the 1970s with some students at san rafael high school. 420 has turned into an international celebration of marijuana. today, about 20,000 people took over hippie hill inside golden gate park. a lot more people lighting up this year because recreational marijuana is legal. nbc bay area's correspondent is at golden gate park where people traveled from all over the world. and 20,000 people looks like we are done to a few thouz stasande you are, anser? >> the party ended an hour ago. clean-up crews tearing things down. a strong smell in the air if you know what i mean. the highlight was at 4/20 with the historic countdown. at exactly, 4/20 p.m., thousand here at hippi

philadelphia, the soldier home on leave, the off-duty atlanta cabdriver, included on his list, postal workers from richmond, and the sacrifices they made could be there to dr. king's memory. and tolerated every maintaining convenience to make sure streets of atlanta are clogged with mourners. april 9th, this amazing scene in atlanta, lyndon johnson didn't attend the funeral and a lot of people assumes johnson would attend and it is a very interesting story, why johnson made that decision in this memoir, the official reasoning is johnson said the fbi and secret service, too dangerous, violent groups were out to get him in the ku klux klan was out to get him. and knowing that by this point johnson had broken with king publicly and knowing how king was basically despised by this sort of political leader. that was one thing i thought about, why didn't johnson come as an assumption, obviously didn't. tells us something how king was part of at the time of his death. and one thing looking for in the book, events you haven't heard of, one thing i looked at was, white and black people came together to

upon the dangerous that synthetic opioids pose to first responders, law enforcement officials, postal workers, and i think that mr. cintron you mentioned k-9 units who may come into direct contact with the substances in the normal course of duties. has the rice in shipments of synthetic opioids posed a greater risk to cbp officers and postal service workers? and what measures are your agencies taking to protect the workforce and would having advanced electronic data on international mail shipments improve the ability to protect employees? >> well sir speaking on behalf of u.s. customs and border proekts. the risk of accidental exposure is always there whether fentanyl which has more deadly kenss and through the history with narcotic interdiction within with the innocence of opioids we have deployed narcan tlutd tloutd the ports of entry so it's readily available for all ofrtsz as well as for members of the traveling public should they come in through an airport or sea port and have an incident with a narcotics. so we have deployed that. we have special equipment at the mail facilities, expres

the two people that ran against him, a man and woman, a nurse and a retired postal worker, spent between$800. got 38% of the vote and carried 103 of the state's 254 counties. robert francis o'rourke is going to need to spend a lot of money to be competitive in texas, and to run as a very blue democrat in a very republican state. >> dana: i'm trying to figure out the strategy. i understand why people would want to donate to his campaign. they're excited. democrats have long thought that texas one day will be a place where they can be competitive. but this year seems to me there's so many competitive races across the country that if mitch mcconnell says we are looking at a category 3, 4, 5 hurricane in the midterms, why would you put all that money into texas? give you the last word. >> when it comes to texas, we got democrats thinking they've got two big white whales. one is turning texas blue and the other is defeating ted cruz. they're like captain ahab. their dollars would be better spent in places like nevada or arizona, or even tennessee. certainly, the five states that they've got r

his father, a postal worker, died when john was 2 years old leaving his mother a waitress, as the souling. my mom worked very hard living hand to mouth, lived on tips. she had two mouths to feed. and she did whatever she had to. >> a self-described class clown, goodman found the stage early on. >> the heels didn't fit, but coming down the stairs it was tough. but i really liked it. >> he went on to study acting as southwest missouri state university before moving to new york where he found steady work in officicommercials. >> thank, i needed that. >> reporter: goodman began a long relationship with the famed cohen brothers film making team when he appear ed in the 1987 classic "raising arizona." >> where did we leave him? ahh! >> it was around that same time goodman auditioned with roseanne barre for a new sitcom. >> they called me in for this audition. i knew she was tr a pizza commercial. >> how about we send for pan pizza and you eat at the salad bar. >> bejust hit it off. i walked out of the place knowing i had the job. >> she felt the same way. >> wow. thanks, honey. >> are you ev

lar has a whistle of truth, but true.actually so no, the postal service did not have to fund 75 years worth benefits for d unborn postala workersement act did require the postal service to prefund urrent employees, future retirement benefits, the same way it prefunds pensions. was a good concept because this aimed to protect postal sure they got e their full benefits and make sure taxpayer dids not have to service, butpostal the service, but the execution was terrible and that is on congress because it wrote a very aggressive 10-year nt schedule, a payment schedule that the postal service couldn't make after paying into the health benefits fund for three years, the postal service defaulted, haven't put a nickel in since then. from wind mills, why did the postal service need it is rofitable, when mandated in the constitution? guest: it is not mandated in the constitution. thing in the constitution, congress is give power article 1, section 8, to post roads and post offices, but doesn't say we have that e a postal service, is why, if you go back to days of ben franklin, you might be a lot of to find out the post offices of the da

he was a postal worker but founded the new york society for the suppression of a voice. vice. at some point, he famously bragged he confiscated 160,000 pounds of books, 95,000 articles , implements for immoral purposes. his words. the comstock law makes it a crime to mail contraceptives to, information about them, more information on how to find out about contraceptives. that is the comstock law. >> this is 1873. we are talking about a case from 1961. were comstock laws on the books in a lot of states at this point? >> about 24 states. some states came in later. more than half at the time. connecticut goes on the book in 1879. fascinatingly, the state representative pt barnum. yes, barnum and bailey circus. by the time the case comes around, really only connecticut and massachusetts have these laws on the books. the federal law was concerned with mailing. connecticut's law is concerned with people who use them and concern with people who aid and abet them. that's would be the medical authorities. that would be the medical authorities. >> in about 10 minutes, we will go to your

. >>> a texas postal worker was dancing like no one was watching, but lucky for us, someone was watching get his groove on in texas. he said he was determined to put a smile on the homeowner's face before dropping off her mail. >> there was some shimmying. even threw in a few leg kicks. he really put himself out there. turns out, mission accomplished. the performance made her day. >> he forgot to drop off the mail, but his moves were great. >> just a technicality. >>> coming up, the annual fashion show otherwise known at nfl draft. >> we'll show who wore it best. >>> and j. lo drops a hint on stage for a-rod, and she probably isn't referring to his world series ring. "world news now." ♪ my dbut now, i take used tometamucil every day.sh it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. >>> troy aikman, quarterback, ucla. >>> troy aikman, quarterback, ucla. >> and so, it is now officially official, if you will. troy aikman is a member of the dallas cowboys. >> look how young he looked back then. >> ah, troy. >>

it's named after anthony comstock who is a postal worker, but also founds the new york society for the suppression of vice. at some point he famously brags that he has confiscated 160,000 pounds of books, 95,000 articles and 60,000 implements of rubber for immoral purposes, not my quote, his. but he lobbies congress for the comstock law which makes it a crime to mail obscene materials, contraceptives being an obscene material, to mail them to mail information about them, to mail information about how to find out about how to find out about contraceptives. that's the comstock law. >> this is 1873 when the comstock laws were passed. we're talking about a case from 1960, '61. >> right. >> was it -- were comstock laws on the books at a lot of states? >> almost half the states, around 24 states, considering some states came in later so more than half at the time. i think connecticut's goes on the books in about 1879. fascinatingly the state representative is p.t. barnum, yes, of barnum and bailey circus. that law stays on the books through to the time of this case. by the time this case com

upon the dangers that synthetic opioids pose to first responders, law enforcement officials, postal workers and i think that you mentioned canine units. who may come into direct contact with these substances in the normal course of their duties. has the rise in shipments of synthetic opioids posed a greater risk to officers and postal service work spers what measures are your agencies to taking to protect the workforce and would having advanced electronic data improve your ability to protect your employees? sir. >> sir, yes. the risk has been there. whether it is fentanyl or throughout the history and narcotics and addiction. with the increase, we have deployed narcan throughout our ports of entry so readily i available for officers and the traveling public if they are coming through an airport or aia port and narcotics. we have special equipment to allow us to safely inspect the packages. soi so i think as an agency, we put a lot of emphasis on safe protocols. >> over 600,000 employees in the organization. so it relates to keeping them safe. we do suspicious package training our focus is o

i think that is the president advocating for the postal service workers who got leaders did not negotiate best deal, they were not aware of how ram john would boom. -- amazon would boom, i think they come to ey a resolution ths goes away. charles: what about the amazon affect. people have talked about this before president trump came into office, it is convent yen, and cheap, they will put people businesses out of. and i worry, you know adam smith line, do we go from a nation of shashopkeepers to a nation of shoppers. >> this is innovation, usually happy news, and sad news, if you were in stage coach industry, you are sad when model t came along, and if you had al -- so whatever innovations we have, some people benefit and some don't. you need a thriving dr growing economy. >> in in case, in year, like all of those going out of business at once, this year, fedex and ups lost 60 billion in market cap in february after amazon said they were doing that business, grocery stores lost 12 million and another 30 billion, these are big industries that you would think otherwise have the muscle, the

a postal worker back in 2006 and a former tribal council chair woman who killed her brother and three day is do you feel that your workplace has enough security measures in place in the event of an active shooter situation? right now 22% say yes. 78% say no. we will keep the question up throughout the morning. let us know what you think by voting on twitter and comment on the ktvu facebook page. >>> today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that martin luther king junior was assassinated. >> locally san jose state university will unveil a new exhibit honoring the explain civil rights leader. jessie gary joins us now with more from the san jose state university campus. good morning, jessie. >> reporter: good morning. ahead of the exhibit opening, there will be a prayer exhibit here at exactly 4:01 p.m. pacific time. that corresponds to 6:01 central time, the exact moment that a sniper's bullet took dr. king's life 50 years ago. that will follow the riping of the bell on campus 50 times. let's take a look at our video. this week comes to a conclusion for a -- of an amazing spring brea

he's accusing the online retailer of scamming the postal service and hurting american workers. kelly o'donnell has the story. kelly? >> reporter: good morning, dara. the president has many different types of twitter adversaries. but this weekend he renewed his fight with a massive e-commerce business that is popular with consumers who are also voters. the president's reasons may be personal. during his motorcade right to the golf course, president trump delivered his own package of tweets, blasting amazon with flawed accusations. this post office scam must stop. amazon must pay real costs. the president scorned for the online giant runs deep, conflating anger at amazon with "the washington post," both owned by jeff bezos but operating separately. along simmering frustration. >> "the washington post," which i call a lobbying tool for amazon, okay, that's a lobbying tool for amazon. >> reporter: but experts say the president's claim that the post office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for amazon cannot be backed up. postal service regulators approved contr

a woman talked about her house a postal worker, we're talking about voter fraud, people voting five timesrt trump yesterday. >> i agree, buy -- brian. to ainsley's point, when you have that emotional, every american woman making that statement, thanking the president, a statement of gratitude, a statement of relief. here we are, this rising tide lifting all boats, that's the positive message. instead this voter fraud thing. you know we had a commission. kris kobach the kansas secretary of state headed this commission, it was formulated with all of this bluster. they didn't find any meaningful voter fraud, certainly not on then you have the caravan, which conjured up up imagines of this brown tide washing over the southern border and, you know, all these people abuseing our immigration laws. we have problems on the southern border but 46-year lows. ainsley: what do you think of nancy pelosi, calling it crumbs, you hear the lady crying, and nancy pelosi if elected in november will do away with tax reform. that is hutting this lady in particular. brian: but the president swamped the message

that's how many jumbo trash bags full of mail police pulled out of a postal workers' shed on long islandpe they are not mine. finally seven. ainsley: i never got my shoes from nordstrom. >> we will find out they are in a shed. that's how old a child would have to be for an adult to be in a car. first time offenders could be slapped with a $700 ticket. every parent in the 1970s could go to jail now if this was retroactive. now over to ainsley. ainsley: when i get in a taxy, the smoke, i think of my grandparents. their car smelled like smoke. brian: car smelled like a sedan. ainsley: easter egg hunt on monday. the white house held that easter egg roll. take a look how jimmy kimmel responded to reading a book by the children. >> never stop exploring because lives would be boring. [laughter] be clever and curious, just like a cat. ask lots of questions about this and that. [laughter] about this and that you realize what this means, you could be first lady of the united states. ainsley: wow, so where is the outrage over jimmy kimmel making fun of melania's accent. plom that wants to be lady f

workers. >>> president trump ordering review of u.s. postal service operations and finances.the executive order was signed last night. it comes just weeks after he publicly railed against amazon claiming the online retailer does not pay its fair share of postage. the task force will be led by steve mnuchin and include the attorney general and labor secretary. >>> president trump's allies concerned the fbi may have seized recorded conversations when they raided the home and office of michael cohen. if there are tapes, what could be on those? we dig in, next. as i made this point earlier. you know, if you're making a case, there's lots of spokes here. they could be looking at bank fraud, wire fraud, maybe making a larger case or going after michael cohen because that's where the evidence takes them. prosecutors do bring bank fraud and wire fraud cases. if he claims preposterously, ask any lawyer, whether he paid $130,000 to pay off the porn star so she wouldn't tell about her affair with the candidate who would be president, did he put on his application for the loan that he sa

won't be the last term of workers to put in your goodness but i can give you an example in two thousand and one when reports emerged of postal terrorism in the united states some was mailing envelopes with anthrax do us immediately accuse russia involvement but then they leased agree to talk about it with us after a month or so they concluded that there was no russian trace and didn't even apologize rather it was rogue scientists working in a military lab who were mailing this anthrax but that's in the past no lessons were learned this time around there's a whole set of different questions of that. if you had people in chemical protection suits working at the scenes and thereby pedestrians walking about while police had no protection at all it all seems staged there is still no answer on where this substance was found now they're saying it was in buckwheat it all says that they either can't find the substance or there was no substance that they were poisoned with something else yes and it is for its corporate support and if you follow o.p.c. w. procedures there inspectors must go to sites and collect samples of chemicals the

postal service is being treated like amazon delivery. there's a lot of fact-finding issues. packaged shipping is up 17%. if you go through the usps budget, its pension, health care for the workers, the high cost of labor that is really hurting usps. the stock lost $60 billion in one week. whether it's fair, it does make an investor anxious. oh, is the president and trump administration going to really go down hard? amazon has broken zero tax laws. absolutely zero. there's no accountants out there that said they've missed steps but there are the optics, okay, if the companies in the president's cross hairs, look out. >> dana: up about 100 points. >> it's going to be a rockier path. >> dana: all right, deirdre, thank you for sitting with me. leaders of three allies keeping a very close eye on russia. the baltics, up next. ari fleischer will begin with his reaction to the president's comments. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. introducing scotts turf builder triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. it's ok that everyone ignores it'

postal service. it sounded like a good deal but fixed their costs at a certain level. now that has taken off they have to pay workers have to pay for the shipping. so amazon is getting an amazing deal. the irony is lawmakers put into this whole thing a sort of stipulation where the post office can't be competitive. they can't compete against fed yex or ups and limits what they can do. amazon is piggybacking off that. they'll go out there and create their own fedex and ups after years of piggybacking off the u.s. postal service under the subsidy. >> the u.s. postal service is making money. >> no one knows. they don't break out their earnings. packaging is up but the bottom line is a secret deal. no one is given the details on the deal. many think they're losing money. >> heather: find out what the secret is. >> i'm trying. >> bill: charles in charge. that man knows. thank you. president trump telling republicans go nuclear if necessary and pass tougher immigration laws. will it happen and when? we'll find out. check this out. >> for the win, scores! they win the national championship >> the hail mary right there, huh

workers without subjecting them to background checks, why? president trump raises the stakes in his battle against amazon, the president went after amazon over the weekend and its deal with the u.s. postalrvice again. plus out of orbit, the chinese space station crashed back to earth, find out where some of the debris landed, outrage over google's doodle has risen, why christians say google is snubbing them this easter. steven spielberg's ready player one. >> i found something bigger than just myself. are you willing to fight? maria: films ticket sales outpaced expectation. all coming up. first the top story this half an hour, 44 democrats including debbie wasserman schultz waived background checks on irwan and family members, the pakistani-born server administrators gained unauthorized access to data while working for democrats last year. joining us daily caller luke, luke, thank you so much for joining thus morning. >> good to see you. maria: you say background checks are recommended for this position, why did they push back on the background checks and decide not to have any of these it workers take background, use background checks? >> the house policy actually say that is backgroun