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What happens when Trump targets you on Twitter - Duration: 4:22.

What happens when Trump targets you on Twitter

Five Americans named by the president on social media talk about the unexpected fallout in

their real lives.President Donald Trump spent the days before Christmas launching personal

attacks against Andrew McCabe, the embattled outgoing deputy director of the FBI, whom

the president accused of �racing against the clock to retire with full benefits.�It

was a fitting way to end the first year of his presidency, which has been punctuated

by his targeting of individuals � from sports stars to print journalists to television personalities

to Republican lawmakers � on Twitter.

The personal attacks from the leader of the free world, blasted out to his 45 million

followers, have no real precedent in American politics.

They�ve energized the president and his base, outraged his opponents and driven entire

news cycles � but also shocked and traumatized those individuals on the receiving end.

�It was funny, a little surreal,� billionaire Mark Cuban wrote in an email, regarding the

president�s verdict, delivered online last February, that Cuban was �not smart enough

to run for president!� For others, like comedian Kathy Griffin, the impact of a presidential

tweet directed at her was much more devastating, costing her jobs and fans.

POLITICO talked to five people who have been singled out online by the leader of the free

world � whether to be praised or pulverized � about what the surreal experience was

like, on a personal and professional level.

�I was on the set, I was finishing the show, and everybody looked really uncomfortable,�

the �Morning Joe� co-host recalled of the day the president�s infamous �facelift�

tweet reopened a conversation about Trump�s bullying of women and sparked an outcry, and

even a hashtag, #StandWithMika, on her behalf.

�Willie [Geist] showed it to me, he was sitting next to me.

I felt like people were more upset than I was.�

The tweet � referring back just to last December, when Brzezinski and her fianc�

and co-host, Joe Scarborough, were social pals of the president � hit Brzezinski at

the tail end of 24 months of back-to-back personal traumas, blunting its effect, she

said.

�In the past two years, I�ve lost my best friend to pancreatic cancer, I�ve gotten

divorced, my oldest daughter had this harrowing day on her college campus, and we thought

she had been kidnapped.

My father went into the hospital and died, and right after my dad died, my mother had

two heart attacks � and a month later the president tweeted.�

�The level for me of the tweet was below zero,� she added.

�I remember being surprised even in myself.� When Trump launched his Twitter attack, she

said, she was just growing accustomed to strangers stopping her on the street to offer their

condolences about the death of her father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, an elder statesman and

public intellectual who served as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter.

�I was using my line, I�d say, �Thank you so much, yes, he was a great man,��

she said.

�After the tweet, people were running up to me to talk about it, and I was still saying,

�Yes, thank you, he was such a great man.��

If she was feeling numb, other women were outraged on her behalf.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski tweeted at the president: �Stop it!

The presidential platform should be used for more than bringing people down.� Ratings

for �Morning Joe� skyrocketed the next day, surpassing Trump�s preferred wake-up

call, �Fox & Friends.�

But Brzezinski, at the center of the entire controversy, says she wasn�t deeply offended

at the time.

�The ones about the facelift were humorous,� she said.

�I wasn�t on the same page as everyone else.

I feel embarrassed if people think I was embarrassed.

I got Botox.

I�m very open about that stuff.

It didn�t hurt me.�She responded with a photograph of a Cheerios box with the cereal�s

slogan, �Made for little hands,� hoping to get under the president�s thin skin with

a joke aimed at one of his well-known physical insecurities.

�[�Morning Joe� executive producer] Alex Korson saw me pouring my breakfast as

we were all meeting after the show,� she said.

�I was eating.

Everyone else was talking.

He saw the picture on the back and pointed to it.�

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Trump talked tough but hasn't reined in college tuition - Duration: 3:47.

Trump talked tough but hasn�t reined in college tuition

Rather than press universities on affordability, he has sought to tax them and promote alternative

paths for students.On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump railed against elite

universities that he said were �paying more to hedge funds and private equity managers

than they are spending on tuition assistance.� He vowed to �push colleges to cut the skyrocketing

cost of tuition.�

But in the year since, his administration has done little to help low- and middle-income

Americans afford the nation�s best schools, even as data released this year show just

how pervasive economic inequality is on American college campuses.

Many of the nation�s top schools serve more students from the top 1 percent of earners

than the bottom 60 percent combined, according to a study by the Equality of Opportunity

Project.

The Trump administration, instead, has largely sent the message that those four-year universities

aren�t for everyone � a talking point that groups working to expand college access,

especially for low-income students, say threatens to exacerbate the problem.

�I tend to wonder who is the �everyone� � who is in that category and who is not,�

said Michelle Asha Cooper, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a nonpartisan

group focused on promoting access to higher education.

�It�s very important we do not create policies that will further marginalize students

of color and low-income students.�

The administration has built a narrative that four-year degrees have been overemphasized.

Trump has called for more career and technical training.

He has said vocational education is the way of the future.

Apprenticeships, he�s said, �can be a positive alternative to a four-year degree.�

�So many people go to college, four years, they don�t like it, they�re not necessarily

good at it, but they�re good at other things, like fixing engines and building things,�

Trump said in March, referencing his own experience at the Wharton School of the University of

Pennsylvania.

�When I went to school, I saw it.

I sat next to people that weren�t necessarily good students but they could take an engine

apart blindfolded.�

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hit that point again this month during a commencement address

at the University of Baltimore.

�We must stop suggesting there is only one, conventional path to success,� she said.

�In fact, there are many avenues to gain what individual students need or want: industry-recognized

certificates, stackable credits, credentials and licensures, badges, micro-degrees, apprenticeships,

two-year degrees, four-year degrees, advanced degrees � �

While the administration has thrown its support behind allowing students to keep collecting

Pell Grants � federal aid for low-income students � all year, and has worked to make

applying for federal student aid easier, it is also rewriting Obama-era regulations that

advocates say are key to protecting borrowers.

In addition, Trump�s tax reform package would tax some university endowments, which

schools argue will take money they otherwise might have spent on financial aid and send

it to the federal government.

White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement: �The Trump Administration�s

higher education principles promote reforms that provide students access to more postsecondary

options.

The President believes students deserve the opportunity to choose an education tailored

to their needs.

This policy framework will better prepare students to compete in a globally competitive

economy, modernize an antiquated federal student aid system, and hold higher education institutions

more accountable to students and taxpayers."

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We have tapped into something Impeachment drive builds digital army to take on Trump - Duration: 4:23.

We have tapped into something�: Impeachment drive builds digital army to take on Trump

Tom Steyer's trove of data is fueling speculation about how the Democratic activist might use

his new political power.SAN FRANCISCO � When billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer launched

a digital petition drive to impeach President Donald Trump two months ago, some Democratic

Party leaders dismissed it as an unhelpful vanity project � and even Steyer thought

he�d top out at a million signatures.

But nearly 4 million digital signatures later, the philanthropist and environmental activist�s

unlikely campaign has seized on an issue � impeaching Trump � that could become part of the Democratic

mainstream in 2018. It's placed at his fingertips a potentially powerful tool: an email list

of millions of motivated activists whom he can reach instantly for organizing and fundraising

and that could become the hottest trove of data in Democratic politics since the email

list that Bernie Sanders� insurgent campaign against Hillary Clinton collected in 2016.

Steyer's digital success is fueling intense curiosity about what he�ll do with that

tool in the future � and whether he�ll use it beyond his California base, for a White

House bid of his own. �That�s how you build a grass-roots operations

for a presidential campaign. And if you are that guy who started this, that�s certainly

a leg up in organizing a 50-state strategy,� said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant

in California who is advising former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, in

his gubernatorial campaign. �That�s what he�s building, and it�s probably second

only to Bernie Sanders� list, and may be eclipsing it. Every election cycle has its

own dynamics, and whoever is tapping into the sentiments of their own base usually has

an advantage.� Despite the opposition of party leadership,

Madrid said Steyer has shown �there�s a huge vacuum for somebody like Tom Steyer

to come in and tap into the activist base � and even beyond that � where some are

willing to sign up.� Campaign experts say Steyer�s petition drive

is breaking new ground in digital organizing in the nontraditional political terrain of

the Trump era, though it�s been anchored by an traditional media onslaught � national

television ads that have been running nonstop since Oct. 20. So far, 3.73 million people

have signed on to Steyer�s NeedToImpeach.com drive, which has brought his message into

the living rooms of millions of average Americans. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released

this week showed that 41 percent of Americans now back impeachment hearings � higher than

the percentage that would support Trump in a 2020 election. And in a recent vote, 58

House Democrats backed Rep. Al Green�s call for impeachment � a dramatic shift from

the two who supported impeachment at the start of Steyer�s drive in October.

Steyer himself acknowledged shock at the avalanche of grass-roots support for Trump�s impeachment

in a recent interview, amid clear disapproval from Democratic Party leaders like Nancy Pelosi

and Chuck Schumer, who have suggested that it distracts from the party�s agenda. �We

have tapped into something much larger than we thought,�� Steyer said in a recent

C-SPAN interview. He says he�s upped his original goal of 1 million signatures to 5

million. As one of country�s leading political donors

in 2016, and a major party activist in California on issues like climate change, Steyer has

long been the focus of buzz about a possible 2018 run for governor or the U.S. Senate.

But the impeachment drive has fueled speculation that he could be even eyeing a run for the

White House. Asked about his political intentions in a

C-SPAN "Newsmakers" interview to air this week, Steyer gave some of his most expansive

comments to date. �I haven�t ruled it out, and I�m actually trying to determine

what will have the most positive differential impact,�� Steyer said. �I�m absolutely

ambitious � to try and be part of the group of people who gets America back on a just

and prosperous course.�

While Steyer acknowledged that �I have to make this decision fairly soon,�� he added

that the determining factor will be �what can I do to stand up against what I consider

to be a deep threat to the safety and health of the American people.�