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That we are at record levels. were certainly not at an emergency level if you look over at the last two decades or even the last administration of border numbers. i think thats the number one thing people should keep in mind. but these numbers have risen since trump came into office, and that is something hes going to try to bring up over and over again of the reason why. and we need to be looking at the reasons as we go along, and really what were hearing most of the time is that its because of...

Really in order to save women and children who are coming across the border that we need to build a wall, but i think we really have to kind of fact check the logic around that. when you build barriers, it is known that those deterrents force people through more remote and desolate and dangerous areas when theyre trying to cross. we saw this in the 90s when bill clinton began to build barriers around cities like san diego. more people went to more remote areas and there were more deaths in the d...

Theres no reason for us to have emergency level interest rates if gdp is 4%, if you annualize this most recent quarter. if youre going to be somewhere even north of 3%, why would money be free. why would we want artificial stimulus. so thats been a process playing out for two years now. the fed has been gradually raising rates. its entirely in keeping with what the feds been saying and doing for ten years. which is using the data to justify why it should do something in any given meeting. >> so ...

Correlater. you didnt get as much attention. you explained how they were trying to dog you. isnt there a lot of evidence that this is having, at least a bigger initial impact. >> ari, theres no doubt that whoever wrote this and put it in the "new york times" knew that they were going to get a lot of play. theres also no doubt that i was an ambassador. i was one of "x." i was not that close to the president. and youre 100% right that i wouldnt get anywhere near the attention that somebody who sit...

This and in fact that has happened today with your city. talk to me about the emergency management preparation that you took and what people were planning to do today. today. >> our emergency level was elevated to a level two in preparation for the storm to come through. and we have continued to maintain that. we have all of our crews and everyone has been dispatched and they were at the emergency service center in preparation. you know, we did have some electrical lines blown down because of th...

What is a complicated rescue situation is now more difficult because there is a dangerous fuel, 500,000 gallons of fuel if the ship moves too much the environment minister is talking of a "state of emergency," but it is not emergency level just yet. what is clear the ship was way too close to the island and the company running it says that, they defended the captain said it was the normal route and they say there was serious human error and the captain is behind bars. he has not been officially ...

President bush and president clinton, to release that oil into the market, what it did, it reduced prices significantly and immediately, 33 percent in the case of the first president bush, 19 percent with the second bush, and 9 percent with president clinton. so it helps to arrest the speculative premium that were paying at the pump and is hammering the middle class and our small businesses. jenna: and gas prices when the oil prices came down around this time, we did see a trickle down effect to...

In or out of the city. cell phones down, so as you can imagine, were struggling to get information about whats actually going on down there. and the -- our government here has activated a civil defense center in the capital. thus raising the emergency level to a level three, which is the biggest level for a regional disaster of this kind. so just to -- just to sort of describe to you the magnitude of this and just how significant that is. that is a very high alert level. our prime minister, he h...

That was a 7.1 quake. but already, were seeing television reports and were getting reports here in our newsroom of some serious damage to the city. buildings collapsing, people trapped in buildings, and many injuries. were also getting reports of multiple fatalities that we cant say at this stage, just a number of people who have died in this quake. whats going on in terms of the city itself, the airport is closed, so no ones able to get in or out of the city. cell phones down, so as you can ima...

And the -- our government here has activated a civil defense center in the capital. thus raising the emergency level to a level three, which is the biggest level for a regional disaster of this kind. so just to -- just to sort of describe to you the magnitude of this and just how significant that is. that is a very high alert level. our prime minister, he has -- he is actually on his way to christchurch. he will be making his way. he might find it difficult, but he will be there to see the situa...