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For you. recreation marijuana legal in two east coast states today. in massachusetts 21 and over can buy pot at licensed stores. but in vermont marijuana users can only smoke? private places. and fran is the first major u.s. city with $15 minimum wage. voters approving the measure four years ago requiring a $1 increase each year. 142,000 workers including janitors and restaurant employees are expected to benefit from the hike. president trump announcing phase 2 of those tax cuts. >> if you're looking for phase 2 tax plan? >> we're doing a phase 2, probably in october, maybe a little sooner...

Uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. ainsley: time for news by the numbers. first 588,000. that's how many people dropped off the food stamp roles in just one month from december to january. the numbers have been declining since the beginning of the fiscal year in october following the a surge of participants after hurricane harvey and erma. next, two, that is how many extra days procrastinators have to file their taxes this year. tax day is obviously april 15th it fell on a sunday and today is a hollywood...

>> 142,000 people liked the group on facebook that posted this. it's a very popular meme. it means that these people really wanted to believe it. they wanted to suspend disbelief and that's the problem with going after social media outlets. you're up against human nature here. to that extent you will never regulate away fake news. it's about education and not about imposing standards on social media companies. >> brian, question for you about another story in the news this week. i want to flag what attorney general jeff sessions said when he was before congress. there was a question from senat...

L.a., that was $142,000. for a grand total of about $242,000. now, that's a lot of money for basically stopping at the game for about a half an hour, where reporters were told to actually stay, the reporters traveling with the vice president, were told to stay in the van because it was probably going to be a shortstop. so, this is what we're talking about. look, from the vice president's standpoint, his focus folks, people are saying it would have been more expensive for him to fly all the way back to washington, d.c. and back to l.a., but here's the thing. if we're going to play the hypotheti...

Was nearly three and a half hours long. that cost $100,000. he then flew from indianapolis to l.a. and that was five hours and that price tag $142,000. total it all up nearly a quarter of a million dollars and that doesn't include the cost of personnel and secret service and first responders and support on the ground. with me now effraim -- forgive me upon i asked you in commercial break. forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. effraim salam. i wrote it wrong on my sheet. >> forgive me. he was the youngest player to start in the super bowl at just 22 years of age. ephraim, i guess at the end of th...