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European way of looking at the economy. david: it is. >> they're trying to put fines on american tech companies for the crime of being too successful. >> remember, i'm playing the devil's advocate here, and to extend that further. they say, look, there's got to be some way, if you don't disband google and i don't think that anybody is calling for that, there's got to be some way to at least highlight, at least put the spotlight on what they are doing by trying to keep out the competition. >> well, that's what we're doing here. getting the word out. and with the internet, the word gets out inst...

Called 279 funeral homes, we reached half of them, they told us they reported the funeral directors reported 499 deaths. at a time when the death toll was only 55. since then, multiple media outlets have questioned the death toll and gotten numbers that are higher than what is being reported out of puerto rico, after hurricane maria. >> why wouldn't they acknowledge the actual number of people who were killed. what's the down side to saying hundreds of people were killed in that hurricane as opposed to 60 or 70? >> well, certainly, that's the point that the government brings up, they say, look...

Inaugural run of a new amtrak route between seattle and portland. the national transportation safety board is sending a team to investigate. that investigation only now beginning. we're also following president trump's unveiling of his administration's national security strategy and a discrepancy between the document and the president's speech. let's dig deeper with our correspondents and our specialists. john kirby, let me start with you. because in the document itself, 55 pages, this lengthy document, very detailed, very carefully written, it has this line. russia uses information operations...

Cabinet-level meeting on this issue. >> joining us is ely angle of new york, the ranking member of the committee, and the fact that the president never convened a cabinet-level meeting on russian meddling, what does that tell you? >> it tells me he's not serious about trying to find out what the russians did or didn't do in the election, and also not serious about confronting russia. it just makes me scratch my head. i mean, you don't have to be a scholar to understand the russians interfered with our democracy, and they try it with not only the united states but with our allies in great brita...

Leave them there, then i think that president trump's claim would have more merit, but the fact is he removed him from his position in the investigation, and also, you know, folks who are in law enforcement, fbi agents and others are going to have political opinions. there were two major candidates in last year's presidential election, donald trump and hillary clinton, and so it's safe to say that all of those agents that went out and voted voted either for hillary clinton or donald trump, so it's not a surprise that somebody is going to have a preference. >> the devil's advocate here, and you...