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Trade adviser and republican senator of south dakota. What should happen to scott pruitt, a hero to conservatives and target for liberals and favorite of President Trumps. Hes done a fantastic job and i think hes a fantastic person. Now with growing scandals, how long can the epa administrator hang on to his job . Saving face. Mark zuckerberg heads to capitol hill for tough questioning over the misuse of facebooks data. My interview with a key player in the facebook drama who says more than 87 Million People could have been impacted. I think it could be higher. Absolutely. My sitdown with christopher wiley. Joining me for insight and analysis of president ial historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and New York Times pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper and charlie cook of the cook political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. President trumps latest motto could be if at first you succeed do it and do it again. When he ran for president mr. Trump sense the countrys mood was changing and adopted more nationalistic themes and time to score the border, china was ripping us up, time to get tough again. Only he could fix it so it was time to make America Great again. Mr. Trump did it his way with a loyal base of supporters now facing challenging poll numbers with the midterms and mueller investigation, rather than trying to broaden his appeal hes hunkering down hugging his base once again to protecting an embattled epa administrator e. Hes delivering what his base wants and once again hes doing things his way. If you have a baby on our land, congratulations, that baby is a United States citizen. President trump is refocusing his attention on the nationalist policies which he campaigned on, attempting to shore up good will among base supporters and conservative media that influences them. On immigration, frustrated only 33 miles of new fencing is funded under the 2018 congressional spending bill, angering some supporters. As i see it right now tonight, the wall is never going to happen. The president announced a surprise plan to work with governors to send up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the border. Until we can have a wall and proper security, were going to be guarding our border with the military. Ill look at it as kind of a show. And return to the unsubstantiated campaign claims he used. Women raped at levels never seen before. On trade the president is threatening another 100 billion in tariffs on goods from china. We cant continue to allow this to happen where hundreds of billions of dollars is taken out of our country. Echoing populist rhetoric he used on the campaign trail. Didnt they say were going to lose the trade war . Were already losing the trade war, folks. The Dow Jones Industrial average touted about my trump as a symbol as success in office has fallen more than 4 since he announced new tariffs on march 1st. Im not saying there wont be a little pain. And the political backlash among republicans on capitol hill has been intense. Senator ben sas called the president s plan the dumbest possible way to do this. And some white house aides have suggested mr. Trumps proposed tariffs shall simply a negotiating tactic. They are carrots and sticks in life but he is ultimately a free trader. Even on his embattled epa administrator scott pruitt, the president is taking cues from the base instead of his own advisers. Pruitt is facing questions about his ties to a lobbyist from whom he rented a capitol hill condo, request for special perks and raises for his aides against the advice of the white house. You didnt know they got large pay raises. I didnt know until yesterday. Many of the white house professional staff led by john kelly have advised the president to fire pruitt, hes a conservative star and allies launched a coordinated campaign to save his job. He has become outside of trump, the single biggest target the american left so far the president has listened and pruitt has his public confidence. Scott has done a fantastic job. I think hes a fantastic person. And joining me now from West Palm Beach florida, President Trumps chief trade adviser dr. Pete er navarro. How are you this morning . Im pretty good. It seems as if the administration wants to have it both ways, telling the chinese were serious about tariffs and these are coming and heres the list but then telling the public, no, no, its a negotiating ploy. Which is it . Its both, mr. Todd, basically what we have here is a situation where every american understands that china is stealing sour intellectual property and forcing transfer of technology when companies go to china and by doing that, they steal jobs from america and factories from america and we run an unprecedented 370 billion a year trade deficit in goods. This is an unsustainable situation. What weve done in a very measured way over the course of many months is develop a plan to make the situation significantly better. That plan is being implemented and includes both tariffs to recover the damages that china inflicts as well as investment restrictions. We are proceeding in a measured way and those tariffs will be imposed in those investment restrictions will be imposed. At the same time, there are discussions that are going on with the chinese with ambassador Robert Lighthiser and secretary mnuchin but we need to understand when we go back to 2003, when we begin to talk about these issues and talk has not been cheap, its been very let me ask you, how do you expect the chinese to take the tariff threat seriously if youre publicly saying its a negotiating tactic and that were not serious about it, per se, we want to talk, but you havent also really made it clear. What specific action do you want from the chinese to prevent these tariffs from being implemented . I dont believe if you played back what i said just a minute ago that i said was a negotiating tactic. Its not. Were listening to the chinese. Were willing to work with them and this government through bush and obama and now the courage and vision of donald trump, were willing to listen to the chinese but were clear eyed about this. Were moving forward on a measured way with tariffs and with investment restrictions and we want from china and what we want from china is very clear. We want fair and reciprocal trade and want them to stop stealing our stuff and guard intellectual property not take it from us. In your monolog at the beginning of this you played a clip from the president. We had already lost the trade war. Well, bush and obama over the course of 16 years bagsically stood by why we lost 70,000 factories and millions of manufacturing jobs and manufacturing base. Whats at stake here, mr. Todd is the industries of the future, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing. Its not just economic pr prosperity it is also National Security. Have profound military implications. I understand all of that and heard the complaints for years from many of these industries but never let me ask this thats what im what specific action, how will we know that china is changing its behavior . What is it that china give me the specific action that maybe the president and xi announced together that will tell the American Public the chinese arent stealing intellectual property anymore . Lets be again clear eyed about this. Its one thing for the chinese to admit publicly to a policy. Its another thing for the chinese to actually implement that policy. And we had a number of years ago with president obama agreements about not stealing our intellectual property through cyber theft. How is that working out . Not very well. For the American People and i think i dont think mr. Todd theres any disagreement between you and i about the fact that china is engaged in these egregious practices, the only debate is how we go about solving them. But every american understands that every day of the week, china comes into our homes and businesses and Government Agencies and the damage is on the order of about a billion dollars a day. When you add to that damage, the billion dollars a day and the trade deficit and goods, we face, this country is losing its strength and wealth even as china has grown its economy from one trillion since 2002 to over 12 trillion today sure. Not many people in the midwest Many Republican lawmakers including one ill have in a minute dont like this tariff policy. Let me put up with ben sas, a republican from nebraska said. Hopefully the president is blowing off steam again. If hes half serious this is nuts. The president has no plan to win right now and threatening to light american agriculture on fire. Thsz the dumbest possible way to do this. What do you say to the criticism youre getting from the midwestern senators and governors of both sides of the aisle who are panicked about the agricultural industry. Let me be very clear about this, when the president announced the additional 100 billion in tariffs, he also announced that he was directing sonny purdue, secretary of agriculture to immediately implement a plan to defend American Farmers does that mean buying soybean crops the chinese wont buy . Its up to them to implement the plan. The details will be rolled out. Let me say this, mr. Todd, how cynical it is for the chinese basically rather than respond graciously and stop doing all of the bad stuff they are doing to attack American Farmers. I think thats going to be a wakeup call for americans about just weve changed now our designation in the National Security strategy of china to a strategic competitor. What does that mean . It means that they are in competition with us over economic pros pesht and National Offense and this is a competition the president takes seriously. I want to ask whats going on in the west wing. Does john kelly have the president s confidence, the story says kelly has threatened to resign on multiple occasions, its sort of a weekly event. His declarations and expressions of moment tri frustration. Have you heard of john kelly threatening to resign, mr. Navarro and can you say the president still has confidence in him . John kelly has gotten up in the morning to serve america. He serves the president , he has the president s ear. He runs the west wing well. Thats all i know, thats all i see. What you dont see about him sometimes is the light and humorous side of him. Hes a funny irish guy sometimes but he has the confidence of the president and getting the job done. When you read stuff in the Washington Post quite frankly, thats fake news most of the time. All right, i think that expression is a pretty unfair thing to say about a major News Organization Washington Post. Thats a cheap shot mr. Todd, that is not a cheap shot because if you look at the newspapers that i read every day across the spectrum, the Washington Post in my judgment tends to attack the president more than any other newspaper in its news stories. You can do anything you want in your editorial but you cannot do that in your news stories. The term fake news is not exactly a way to hold up the first amendment, especially when the russian government just this morning is calling fake using that phrase. I used to deliver the Washington Post in high school and bethesda, chevy chase and that was a good paper back then. Its not right now. Peter navarro, ill leave it there, thanks for sharing your views, i appreciate it. My pleasure. Joining me now republican senator from south dakota mike rounds. Appreciate the opportunity. Before i start i know you wanted to respond to the trade comments but i want to ask you about syria. The state department indicates that there appears to have been a chemical weapons attack by the assad folks and they they say the blame is on the russians for ak quee he issing. Saying this is fake news, this idea there was a chemical weapons attack. Thats why i brought up that phrase just now our adversaries are using the exact phrase. You supported an air strike the last time syria did this would you support another one . Do you think the president needs to respond in the same way he did a year ago . He was a new sheriff in town and needed to set the agenda making it clear if we draw a we had line in the sand were going to honor that red line. So what youve got right now today is hes an office for more than a year and hes got to send a message once again that what he said he meant. I think we wait until the secretary of defense puts together his proposals. He lays them in front of the president and the president needs to have the good advice and what his options are and then i think he should act decisively and i think hell hold not just syria but make it clear that he believes russia is also responsible sf. What are the consequences of not acting with the same toughness he did a year ago. If he lets this go, what message does that send to putin and assad . Thats the problem we have right now. We have to be consistent. I dont care whether youre talking trade policy or our policy in the middle east, you have to be consistent. So he started out with the right policy. He was telling people look, youre going to be held accountable for what you do. It was appropriate a year ago and it would be appropriate today but lets get all of our facts together and be prepared and do our strategic planning, lets allow the military to be in a position to where we can be effective in the way we respond. Dont get pushed into doing it based on putins terms but on our terms. So lets get everything put together first and then act zee s decisively. The tariffs will be economically very tough on south dakota agriculture. That im aware of and i understand thats the possible youre coming from there. Were you reassured from what you heard from Peter Navarro just now. Former governor purdue ive known him for 15 years now, hes going to do everything he can. He understands how critical it is to have a good Foreign Policy but also one that allows force us to continue to expand our exports particularly in ag, one of the bright spots when it comes to the export challenges weve got in this country. He has limited tools available to him in a case like this. Were talking about a lot of money that goes down on the speculation of having a tariff m put in place. In south dakota, small state, its our second largest crop. We produce enough soybeans to where if you drop the price by ten cents based on the speculation of having china put a tariff on, a ten cent reduction per bushel is about 24 million a year for a ten cent reduction in the price of soybeans. Thats happening right now. Theres a lot of people that want to hold china accountable for the intellectual issue. This is a constant in the Technology Theft and these issues. How would you propose going about it . What are tools to be used if negotiation hasnt worked. And i think you hit it on the head. In this particular case we have options available to us. Lets quit fighting with mexico and canada. They are our allies, weve actually got a pretty Good Relationship with nafta. Rather than going nafta and starting there, tpp, the Trans Pacific partnership, we had 11 other countries in the pacific rim area who would rather do business with us than china. We stopped that negotiation a year ago. Do you think that was the biggest mistake, we wouldnt be in the same place we are today . I think the president thinks we can get a better deeg if we do it individually. Lets get those done. If we have 500 million that like to trade with us, they are around china. Do you think china doesnt fear the possibility of having the United States having relations with all of those countries right around the area that they are trying to expand once again into . They are one road or one road within belt approach, which is trying to take care and control all of the sea lanes and shipping lanes in the south pacific. They are putting in military bases to do that. If we have trade relationships and military relationships with those other countries, that stops china in their efforts. I want to ask you about a similar sort of framing of a question i asked about syria. What are the consequences if the president threatens tariffs and doesnt . Does the world see the president as a bluffer . Hopefully it doesnt come to that. Most certainly we dont want to see the president put in a position where he doesnt have to exercise a tariff if he xnt have to. Hes correct in that china clearly has been cheating when it comes to how they are doing business with the rest of the world. Were not the only ones, i have no objections with what the prtd long term trying to fix the relationships with china and holding them accountable. Intellectual property in particular, they are stealing from us. So but lets be clear, strategically, number one, we need other trading part anywheranywhereners to help pick up the slack and this is important. He needs to explain to the American People what his end game is and where does he want to go and whats the final goal. What does winning this tariff fight look like . Final question, scott pruitt a lot in the news. I can put up some of the allegations that come out against him as far as how hes conducted himself in office with lafrish security detail, first class flights, things like that. Do you think he should still be epa administrator . I do. Why . Because hes following through with policies that the president said he wanted to implement what does ethics matter . Tom price did less an was fired. The reason why all of the emphasis is on mr. Pruitt is because he is executing these policies and they are not popular policies with a lot of people but he is executing the policies this president said he would put in place. Does that justify this behavior . Any time you start taking a look at all of the different activities an i dont know how much is overblown or accurate. Im not going to call it fake news. In some cases well overblow something. But in this particular case, mr. Pruitt has been doing a good job as a secretary of the epa. Hes moving forward exactly as this president said he would whats the message thats sent that well, you know, ethics matter only when i like the job that youre doing and dont matter if they dont . Thats the problem. Whats the mixed message . Which one of the challenges would you like to start with, he has too big of a security detail . Is that suddenly the reason you fire someone . At what point though does that accumulate look, lets look at houmg dollars the epa can save. Well nit pick little things, has too much people on the security detail. But what about the big picture of how hes taking care of the taxpayers dollars with the epa. What about the regulations that he said hes going to clean up on that he is. What about the response directly back out to allow businesses to grow and expand . This president said we have to have tax policy, weve got it. We said we need regulatory reform, weve got it. Scott pruitt is executing what the president wants him to security. Governor, you were a former governor always a compliment. Never met a former governor who didnt prefer that title. Thats right. Thanks for coming in and sharing views. Welcome back to d. C. Sending the National Guard to the border and threatening a trade war, is it good policy . The panel will discuss that next. Alice is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptorpositive her2 metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. Patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. 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And before i get to that, i just the Washington Post is our competitor and i do appreciate you pushing back on mr. Navarros fake news on the Washington Post because we dont want to see these attacks on our first amendment. On syria, a year ago when this happened, when something similar happened, President Trump and the pentagon reacted very swiftly and it was very much a targeted strike at the airfield from which these the pentagon believed that these chemical weapons had been launched, and i think youre looking, military planners are now again looking at how they can launch in a contained way some sort of retaliation if President Trump decides to go with that. Whether he does or not, i dont know. I think theres going to be a lot of emphasis on him to repeat what he did a year ago, but im not sure yet which way hes going to go. Rich lowery, the president is almost boxed into this having to respond militarily, is he not . This is skeptical of the strike and youre taking responsibility for syria never doing that again. Another version of the red line. More responsibility than the president wants and the Syrian Government knows that hes eager to pull our forces out of syria entirely and now there will be pressure for him to hit again. Charlie, look, these issues all of a sudden that gets in the way of what hes trying to do with this agenda, and gets in the way and we all know theres no theres no quick strike in the middle east. Republicans want the conversation to be about the economy is good, the tax cuts are goosing the economy. Thats the conversation they want to have, and the president s learning that, you know, this you know, syria, the middle east is a lot more complicated than it looked like watching television back home, you know, two years ago, three years ago. This stuffs hard. Right. And there are consequences when you say things and hes paying the rice. Doris, you have a president who just last week said i want to get out of syria and he wants to be, basically his more inwardlooking instincts and isolation, whether its with the border and trade, this is where he wants to go and this complicates it all. I think he is nervous about his own Political Base which is why hes been so focused on the border. Your metaphor of hugging the base is exactly right. Its not just politically that he cares about the base, it seems to be his security blanket. When he spoke about the tax reform, he throws it away and says i dont really care about this. I want to talk about the wall and i want to talk about trade and i want to talk about tariffs, and its as if going back to the base gives him a sense of himself. I think he was happier during the campaign than hes ever been as president because he got the adulation of the people, he made tons of promises and these three are the only ones he keeps coming back to. He promised to be so president ial wed be bored and hed never eat an oreo cookie again and hed drain the swamp and he somehow keeps going back to that to remember those days. Its like being president is much harder and the job is difficult hes not the first president to miss the campaign trail. They miss the adulation. But never as much as him, i think. Is he right . Id forgot about the oreo cookie promise. Is he right to be worried about the base that he should be tending to it more so than any other issue. They need the base to turn out, clearly, thats not all you need in the midterms but it might be the difference between a debacle and just a very bad year. Chuck, he made a lot of promise, over promised in a lot of ways and ive been surprised to how faithful hes been to his coalition, he really wants to deliver on his agenda and its very frustrating when Something Like the wall, his signature promise that he cant get that and he cant get anything from congress substantial and hes sending National Guard troops because he wants to have some deliverable to his voters. It is so interesting. The National Guard deployment is so similar to what president obama and president bush did before him and President Trump holds his whole thing about how little has been done in the past and he is sending 24,000 National Guard troops to the border. Hes barely sending more than president obama did in 2010 and not as many as president bush did in 2006. Charlie, the whole base issue with the president , we put scott pruitt in that bucket because you could make an argument, its pretty clear, if pruitt werent popular with the base hed probably be gone. I think thats true. The president number one, identifies with pruitt. The press is going after pruitt. The press is going after me, so i think he identifies with him on the one side, but i think the other side is that put put behavior and the judgment that pruitt has used. This guy has arguably accomplished more of what President Trump is trying to do than any other person in the entire administration. So this is behavior worth firing, but hes advancing the president s agenda whether you like that agenda or not. Heres ted liu, dear donald trump, please dont fire epa scott pruitt and hes such a great symbol of fraud and waste and abuse in your administration. The story of pruitt is a story that we can all understand and it becomes a big thing we can talk about. What the epa is doing really deserves a discussion. We need to understand whats happening in all these agencies. What is the impact of this deregulation . This dismantling . Thats the harder story to tell and i think thats the story the journalists have to go after. At the turn of the 20th century when there were big policy issues and standard oil monopolizing things and the railroads corrupt, food and drug and patents all over the place and they wrote story that mobilized people to get the laws passed. Now we need to understand whats happening in the epa and the department. Instead were caught up with breaking news day after day. You just captured whats going on with the president about how to cover the shiny object of President Trump. Rich, can scott pruitt get himself what would it take for him to lose the confidence of the president . The president is fairly dug in. The support from capitol hill is very strong. I like him. I think hes very smart and very effective but to doris point it goes to human nature. Hes going to what was most convenient to him, and i would have a cheap apartment and i think it would help him even though the president doesnt like apologies do a mea culpa. I understand how this looks and ill tighten up and pull back and hope its detracted by something else. Guys, im going to pause it here. Coming up, its two days before Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg testifies before congress. Up next, my interview with the man who told the world how the data of millions was collected for political purposes in 2016. Christopher wylie next. I think that there is a genuine a genuine risk that this data has been accessed by quite a few people and it can be stored in various parts of the world. Like using glucerna to replace one meal or snack a day. Only glucerna has carbsteady. Unique blends of slowrelease carbs to help manage blood sugar. Every meal. Every craving. Its the choices you make when managing blood sugar that are the real victories. Glucerna. Everyday progress. 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I spoke to wylie and he explained how he came into contact with bannon and became the donor behind Cambridge Analytica and both were interested in weaponizing social data. I will say it was quite clear early on that steve bannon absolutely wanted to use it for republican candidates and the early projects that, you know, we started to apply the research to were, indeed, altright candidates in the United States, and it was after, you know, starting to meet some of the candidates and meet some of the clients that Robert Mercer and steve bannon, you know, wanted to support that a lot of people, including myself, started to feel quite uncomfortable with what we were doing. Let me be clear, did you leave the company over politics, and is that what you would say or did you leave it over their Business Practices . I there are lots of reasons. You know, Alexander Nicks was extremely difficult to work for. Steve bannon is extremely difficult to work for. The companys internal culture became quite toxic and in term was an actual Workplace Environment it was difficult to work in. Ultimately, a lot of people including myself had to make a call which is, you know, as the early Founding Team of the company do we want to spend the next ten years doing this and for a lot of us the answer was no. I want to go to something which facebook announced this week when they announced new protocols with advertising and they also fessed up to even more data brief, and i wouldnt call it data breach, but more data was released than even what you had indicated and you had indicated 50 million facebook and 87 million profiles were actually accessed and then you tweeted this, mr. Wylie, yep, it was actually 87 million facebook profiles, could be more, to be honest. Media couldnt publish full number before because of legal threat. So when you a originally gave your first interview on this you knew it was 87 million, but you could legally only say 50 million . The New York Times and the guardian said 50 million and it was the thing that they had the most amount of evidence to show. When i met with the british authorities earlier in the year, one of the things that i said was that actually the number is substantially more than that. You know, from my recollection, and that also data was harvested in many more countries than the United States, but when youre working with the New York Times and the guardian they will make sure that anything they publish is the most conservative estimate to play it safe and thats what happened. Do you believe the number 87 million is the high end or do you think thats still possible that number is much higher . I think that it could be higher. Absolutely. I want to play something that Sheryl Sandberg, the coo of facebook, told my colleague Savannah Guthrie last week and i want you to respond. We thought the data had been deleted. Thats why. But that doesnt mean that you dont tell users hey, this was stolen from you. Yes. Youre right and we should have done that, as well. It feels like facebook was trying to get away with it. I dont think thats true, but of course, youre right and we should have done it. So lets fast forward to now. So thats Sheryl Sandberg saying they should have told users that their data have been taken. Could it be all over the world by now . I think that there is a genuine, you know, a genuine risk that this data has been accessed by quite a few people and that it could be stored in various parts of the world including russia given the fact that, the professor who was managing the data harvesting was going back and forth between the uk and russia. Is it your understanding that facebook could not verify how many people have this data or could they . Well, once data leaves your system and once data leaves, you know, your database, its a fungible thing, you can make as many copies as possible, so it isnt actually materially possible to verify if if that data has been eliminated from the existence of the universe because another copy could have been made. So it is unfortunately, you know, very difficult to verify. A couple of questions that people have questioned your credibility, first, the acting ceo of Cambridge Analytica said this. The source of allegations against the company is not a whistleblower or a founder of the company. Christopher wylie was a parttime contractor who left in 2014 and has no direct knowledge of our work and practices. Since that date, he was at the company for less than a year and after that he was made the subject of restraining undertaking to restrict the use of the intellectual property while attempting to set up his own rival firm. May i ask this question . Right. Can you say that this facebook data was used by the Trump Campaign . I started working at the group before Cambridge Analytica exists. Hes using a bit of weasely language here because the work that i was doing at the group as Research Director that formed the basis of the intellectual property for Cambridge Analytica. If i was not if i was not the Research Director, if i didnt introduce the firm to data and to targeting and Cambridge Analytica would not exist full stock. In terms of did donald trump use this data . I think thats a good question to ask Cambridge Analytica and the Trump Campaign. What i do know is Alexander Nicks was meeting with Corey Lewandowski in the spring of 2016 which his lawyers confirmed to me before trump had even announced that he was a candidate. So my in fairness, you cannot say definitively that the Trump Campaign used the facebook data. No, i cant, but i havent you know, i think that this is something there is a substantial risk that this data was misused and given what we know about the company and what what the lengths that theyre willing to do for their clients, i think it is it is worth a Serious Investigation and to take this seriously. So no. I didnt work on the Trump Campaign so of course i cant say one way or the other whether trump used it or not but we do know a lot of things about the company that i think a reasonable person knowing these things would want to ask pretty tough questions about what happened to that data. I know youve been contacted by british authorities. Have you been contacted by american authorities like bob mueller, special counsel who is investigating the russian interference . I have been contacted by american authorities, yes. And are you cooperating . I i plan to be. Were just setting out dates that i can actually go down and meet with them. Is it both with congress and mr. Mueller or is it both entities that are doing investigations . Its as i understand it, my lawyer is the one interfacing with them, but it is both congressional investigations and also Law Enforcement and the department of justice. All right. You can see my complete interview with Christopher Wylie on our website meetthepress. Com. Up next, the success of roseanne got us thinking about the shows democrats and republicans watch. What we found out when we come back. It takes a lot of work to run this business. But i really love it. Im on the move all day long. And sometimes, i dont eat the way i should. So, i drink boost to get the nutrition im missing. 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The show was canceled last year and fans are petitioning to bring it back with the success of the roseanne reboot and antiques road show and College Football and nascar do well with republicans because both sports are popular in the republican south. Theres also longstanding reality competition series including survivor and no, im not talking about the President Trump cabinet shuffle, but in terms of overall popularity, our tv viewing habits actually have more in common than you may think. These are the top ten overall most popular shows for democrats, and what do you know . The list looks awfully similar to the list of republicans. In fact, seven of the ten shows are the same including big bang theory, 60 minutes and property brothers. You probably didnt have any idea how much hgtv really brought the country together. Infrastructure, see . Bipartisan love for that. No doubt theres a lot that divides us in this country, but lets not get carried away and always try to find the differences because even with the differences the data here shows you you can find commonalities in the American Experience even in the age of trump and roseanne. When we come back, endgame and what millions of facebook users want to hear this week from Mark Zuckerberg. Coming up, endgame and post game brought to you by boeing, continuing our mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. Hey grandpa. Hey, kid. Really good to see you. You too. You tell grandma you were going fishing again . Maybe. vo the best things in life keep going. Thats why i got a subaru, too. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Hello. Give me an hour in tanning room 3. Cheers thats confident. But its not kayak confident. Kayak searches hundreds of travel sites to help me plan the best trip. So im more than confident. Forgot me goggles. Kayak. Search one and done. 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What should they get from him . What should they get out of zuckerberg and what should he be reassuring congress about . The obama team did a version, not exactly, but a verse of the same thing in 2012 and theyre all hailed as geniuses and it wasnt a national scary. If the interview of Sheryl Sandberg is how this will go, zuckerberg will get roasted. And the issue here is facebook has a tremendous amount of data and there is one man who makes the decision about how its used and that is a. M. Mark zuckerberg. I think that regime one way or the other is ending. Doris, how would t. R. Handle Mark Zuckerberg . You know, i think the real question is, firstful all, he should have apologized right way. They should have made clear as soon as they knew the data had been spread that it had happened. It took them years to really admit that. You cant go back and go over bad conduct. I think now hes got to figure out what am i going to do about this. Its a big question for all these Tech Companies right now. They have to probably be regulated the way the automobile, the radio, television, all the earlier inventions were regulated. The real question underneath it all is privacy. We have to figure out as a community now how much does our privacy matter to us. I would tell my kids or grandchildren now, never write anything in an email you dont want to explode anywhere else. There was an old boss named martin. He said never write when you can speak, never speak when you can nod. So we have to figure out he probably preappropriated that. I feel like the damage is done to facebook and i dont know how they get it back a little bit. There are so many im not saying the world is deactivated from it, but the skepticism i interviewed cara swisher. She said, im not on facebook and i did the same thing. Im not on facebook and i didnt do it either. Thats a bad place to be. It is. At the same time there are millions and millions and millions of people all over the world who are still on facebook and who are who have sort of made the almost the decision that their privacy doesnt matter. Who cares about privacy . They assumed all along that if youre putting something on facebook or once you engage there, youre sort of letting go of so many of these assumptions to begin with. I think doris is right, though, about where were moving as a society because we are at the point now where i dont even feel comfortable making cell phone calls to sources. Forget about texting. I mean, whats app and im at the point now where there are some sources who will only talk to me face to face in person. Were going back to that now. And a barrage parking garage . Parking garage. Were almost at the parking garage. True. Facebook is going to survive this, but theyve lost their innocence. They cant wear a white dress any more. That was the annoying thing. Were all about openness and connectivity. There are profitmaking company and have this massive capitalization. The market for a reason. Theyre counting on us to share all this information. Just your good will, get rid of the political affiliation thing in your profile. Maybe as we said earlier, it would be be thanksgiving dinner every night on your facebook page. I want to move to the teacher protests. Charlie, do you see an impact yet on the midterm s . We dont see an impact there. But when you look at whats going on in oklahoma and arizona, some pretty red places. And you look other than the senate map, which states are up, i cant see anything good for republicans this year, nothing. And whether it only adds to it. Whether its the kids and the gun issue or whether its the teachers and parents that are uprising, theres a lot of bad, bad i mean, if i were a republican, id be nauseous right now. Whats coming up . One of the things i think that put teachers and what their complaint is the most, the biggest Public Servant groups are firefighters and Police Officers and teachers. And the National Average Salary Increases of teachers, Police Officers have gotten a higher Salary Increase since 2000 than teachers. Nationally teachers are a little bit behind here. Look at the state of oklahoma. In this case average Salary Increase since 2000 basically double for police than for teachers. Doris, this is not about whether Police Officers are getting too much. Thats not the issue. Its should teachers as Public Servants be treated basically the same as Police Officers . Without a question. I mean, teachers are now standing up and saying, enough is enough. Just like the me to movement. Theyre not fighting for raises. Theyre fighting for funding for school districts. In oklahoma some of the districts are only open four days a week because they cant afford the heating or lighting the 5th day. They have the parents and kids behind them so its a community thing. I have a son who is a high school teacher. And its the proud est thing that i am, that i walk around town and they say, your kid is changing my life. They should be given the cultural respect. They should be given the salaries they need. Our country needs education as a cornerstone of democracy. Rick, got caught up in Teacher Union fights a long time. Republicans focused on the unions they forgot about the teachers a little bit . Pay increases coupled with teachers and other reforms, in this state they make a good case theyre under paid. Trained teachers would go to texas. Well leave it there. We got through more than i expected on an extraordinarily busy week which we say every week. Meet the press will have a new audio briefing for you every afternoon. Meet the press the lid. Well have polling data, analysis. 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