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Facebook, wed move all of our followers on to it. i dont think that will happen in the short term, but i do think this shipping away at the creditability of the companies is what the companies have to worry about. we talked about a lot on this show about regulation. the threat of regulation is real. more real than these companies are calculating at this moment. but its short-term political damage because you saw what happened to all of us in the media. when half of the country turns against you,...

Hi, welcome, back, everyone. co-founder and ceo of axios jim. what is the one big thing for us this morning? >> were taking a look at how donald trump is trying to do on to google and facebook and twitter what he did to main stream media. turn a large number of conservatives against those platforms and make them feel like theres bias and make them feel like theyre fake. in some ways when you talk to people in the white house sort of fake social or fake search and there is evidence that this is w...

Daughter meghan approached, weeping over the loss of his father. >> mccains casket will depart arizona for washington, d.c. where his body will lie in state at the u.s. capitol starting tomorrow. still ahead, president trump defends his administrations response to the devastation in puerto rico from hurricane maria. >> what he is saying about the dramatic jump in death toll numbers from that storm.

Part of a presidential campaign that was successful and to have the honor to be named counsel to the president of the united states. >> reporter: hes behind the administrations wildly successful effort to get confirmations on the court. among possible successors is a member of his staff, emmet flood, who 20 years ago advised president clinton during his impeachment. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >> joining us, danny cevalas. i think a lot of people are finding surprise in the way the anno...

Obstruction of justice be moved from washington, d.c. to roanoke, virginia. they say don vix of president former campaign manager on fraud charges had a negative impact on pretrial publicity. >> the judge in the trial signalled on tuesday she likely would deny the defenses request on the belief an impartial jury can be found in washington. manaforts lawyers made a bid to move his trial out of alexandria, which they lost. i want to bounce back to don mcgahn and the announcement that he will be ...

Special counsels office, and you dont typically do that unless the special counsel is interested in what you have to say. the second true thing is that donald trump may actually believe that don mcgahn has nothing damaging about him to say. those two things may be true. however, what trump may be ignoring is as an observer and as a lawyer don mcgahn may have seen and heard things that are significant to him but not significant to the president, who doesnt seem to take a tremendous amount of inte...

Senator lindsey graham warned the president needsah to be prepared for what could happen in november. >> if i were the president i would pick somebody that understood theck legislative branch, because if the democrats take overus the house then hes going to be subpoenaed to death and investigated to death. >> all right. switching gears to the race in florida where congressman ron desantis is facing criticism for what some c are calling racist language against his reference. if you havent heard i...

Circle, white house counsel don mcgahn. the president tweeted mcgahn will be leaving in the fall after the confirmation fight for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. nbc correspondent pete williams has the latest. >> reporter: its been an open secret that don mcgahn planned to step down at the senate votes on kavanaugh. but it was a trump tweet that revealed he will be leaving in the fall. later, words of praise. >> don mcgahn is a really good guy. been with me for a long time. >> reporter: a...

Trial will be moved. still, i dont know if necessarily trump is k getting the way,tr but theres a reason why manaforts lawyers dont want it to be in this area. i mean this next phase of the prosecution is really going to hit home on potential ties to russia and this question of collusion. so the manafort folks are hoping to get this moved outside of the district where president trump, lets say,di did not do well in the election. >> meanwhile, theres a question of the other ten counts and what to...