Past week weve heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate weve also heard the words war this is how the u. S. Ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the American Military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. Talking the us around conflict im joined by my guest Mohammad Marandi and to him hes a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do thing
Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the Global Economic order well the answer of course is yes its a matter of degree. Donald trump hits the ground in japan for the g. 20 summit his 3rd as president is the stronger or weaker entering this one were taking a look on this edition of politic. Welcome to politicking im matthew cook in for Larry King Donald trump is in osaka japan along with other World Leaders for the annual g 20 summit on the schedule for mr trump a face to face with chinese president xi jinping over trade and a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin bin solomon against the backdrop of a u. N. Iranian crisis does the president enter this his 3rd g 20 summit stronger or weaker than his previous summits and what does mr trump need to accomplish for this to be considered a success lets talk about that with our 1st guest hes former u. S. Representative chris shays republican from connecticut he served as Senior Member of the finance and Homeland Security committees and
Election with student debt a hot button issue for voters what life is like under the burden of alone. You cant really think about. All these bills because of because a. Lot of people feature. International live from our studio with me welcome to the program. The highly anticipated one to one is underway at the g. 20 summit in the japanese city of president Vladimir Putin and trump are meeting behind closed doors on the sidelines of the gathering is their 1st face to face since the reported trump of collusion with russia in the 2016 president ial campaign joking. Responded to a generous question whether he would warn putin not to meddle in next years election in the us. Really. Were going to win. A gold medal. With. The summit keeping across everything thats going on bring us up to speed whats happening there right now. Again while sometimes it seems that all some u. S. Media organizations want when the see these rare moments of donald trump together with a lot of important for the u. S
There are no you know we have empowered china we have empowered russia. Ironically by the way weve acted and we have weakened europe by our denigrating the e. C. And encouraging people like a country like Great Britain to leave it you couldnt you couldnt imagine that we would have a leader that would do these kinds of things you know one of the things that my biggest heartache though is republican somehow got this feeling that they didnt want government to work because they thought it caused too much damage now we have a government that doesnt work and we have a president who doesnt work its a very sad indictment of our country right now theres nothing great about whats happened and selffulfilling prophecy mr trump and chinese president xi jinping meet on saturday and the trade war with china has hurt American Farmers among. Other industries logically trump needs to fix that going into his 2020 reelection bid so surely the chinese president xi jinping knows this as well so who is bette
World leaders is america still viewed as the leader of the world if not why and which country or leader and well theres no real leadership right now and so theres a huge void created by donald trump if we have treaties that we dont agree to honor we lose our credibility if we decide to have a bar goes against certain countries. And theyve been buying our product and all of a sudden now they cant buy our product theyre not going to buy our products if they cant trust us to honor our agreements our commitments then we cant be the leader of the free world we cant be a leader in the world so who is the leader right now who are his main players on there are no you know we have empowered china we have empowered russia. Ironically by the way weve acted and we have weakened europe by our denigrating the e. C. And encouraging people like a country like Great Britain to leave it you couldnt you couldnt imagine that we would have a leader that would do these kinds of things you know one of the th