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In a situation like this when this hashtag takes off when there isn t support for it, there might be something nefarious. if it s propaganda, is it falling short? reporter: i haven t seen russian propaganda flail around like this. this has been a complete fail ire from an opposition standpoint. they tried not bought and troll farms they tried to get people to rally in the west. it hasn t worked so far. what have they did not and other social media sites? a big thing happening now, you need to identify these things quicker and faster before they go bananas. in these anti-vax groups, ....
Banks set up last minute i have family working in the federal government who were victims of this government shutdown i ve also been a reporter in real america one thing i don t think a lot of people realize is there were people directly impacted by this federal government shutdown in places that voted for trump. those were people who said i am not going to vote for this president again, because he s campaigning on promises kept, and it looks like he s not keeping his promises never mind he said that mexico would pay for the wall when you can t feed your own kids because of a decision a leader has made that isn t support bid data or research and causes you more harm than help, you find yourself asking is this the first i want to lead the country as we move forward let s talk about the way the president wanted to or wanted to try to end the how he tried to negotiate. you re good of the art of the deal in fact how the president approaches these things we re learning the role jared ku ....
Exchange, especially with our own jim acosta there and stephen miller, deputy there at the white house and then of course followed by a number of topics with sarah huckabee sanders, a lot of questions on this russia sanctions bill, also imposing sanctions on north korea and iran. but before we get to that, i think we should start with this immigration policy, this proposal from the white house today that would essentially make the immigration policy, they re hoping to reduce legal immigration by 50%, proposing this merit-based or skill-based workers program. so let me begin with margaret, who is a white house correspondent, and beginning with you, this is all about, and also the fact that it was stephen miller delivering the message, you know, playing to the base 100%, but on the face of it, yes, his base supporters would love this and this is a campaign promise, but would this actually get the support necessary from republicans in congress. reporter: brooke, this is, as you know, ....
White house press conference. sarah huckabee sanders taking a few questions after that we re going to talk about. i want to get to the bottom perform what this new proposal was on immigration, but you were just listening to the white house press briefing we re following an extremely busy day of news on multiple fronts this afternoon and much of it was addressed at this briefing. i also want to just remind you we re watching the dow jones industrial average just hanging around that 32,000 mark. right now it is down well, the market is up about 34 points, but we re below the 22,000 mark. we re going to break down what this means to you. if you should buy, sell or hold a little later in the show. meanwhile, in washington, president trump announcing support for legislation that would cut in half the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country while moving toward a merit-based system. factors that would be taken into account include the ability to speak english, education, high ....
Country in disturbing way. tamara, the final word on that. we do get distracted by shiny objects but they re making progress on a controversial agenda when it comes to their crackdown on immigration. yes, they are. john kelly was part of that and now he s in the white house. what stephen miller was able to do here is have a very big platform, you know, broadcast to the nation. talking about legislation that has very little support in congress and has very little likelihood of becoming the law of the land. all right. thank you. we re simply hitting pause here and when we come back, we re going to dive into another glenn thrush exchange in that briefing room yesterday it was on asking tough questions about the white house s role in a brand-new lawsuit. we ll be right back. whatever you want to do. ....