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This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood, Crisis Group’s interim president, and guest host Comfort Ero, our interim vice president and Africa Program director, talk to Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa director, about the fighting in Tigray and its implications for regional politics. Murithi sheds light on the calculations of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, rebel Tigray leaders and Eritrea, which has also sent forces into Tigray. He also talks through the Horn of A...

Guys, the country doesnt want this. every poll you take, i know youre a big poll guy, so i only cite it when i talk to you. >> juan: thank you. >> greg: the polls say the american people want them to get to work. chuck should see what we played in the 90s, we have to do that, this, that, for american people, not for partisan politics. you know whats going to happen? trump is going to win in 2020. he might win bigger than he won last time. and i think theyre going to lose the house over this. rem...

There has been some analysis from china from chinas perspective they know the political pressures on trump to get a deal. they also know that the outcome of the 2020 election is uncertain from their perspective. let it go through the next election. is it possible he is responding to -- >> it is possible this is a negotiating ploy in the near term he wants the chinese to sign on to whatever they have right now. in may they thought they had a deal and the chinese reneged according to the american ...

Government stealing american technology. analysts say chinas announcement suggests that officials are eager to reach a deal. the trade war has damaged chinas economy. tariffs on 156 billion chinese goods are expected on december 15th. two options on the table. one is the president sticks to his guns and we punt this into next year. the other is a slender deal that includes maybe soybean purchases for some promises from the chinese and dropping some tariffs. its anybodys guess what happens next. ...

Next month and lets the current tariffs stand. the source says to defend american workers from chinese aggression. the second option is a mini deal the source called not skinny, but anorexic. soybean purchases from china and more access to chinese financial markets. thats something wall street wants in exchange for what the chinese wants, rolling back september tariffs and canceling new tariffs scheduled for december. now, none of this is the course correction the president sought at the outset....

Next week. compliments, trump says, of china tariffs. trump has falsely said china and its tariffs fund the farmer bailout and in reality american business and consumers pay for the tariffs. theres been a $12 billion to compensate farmers for the lower prices and lost sales because of the trade war. this round of checks will be $16 billion. this is not the grand course correction the president promised at the start of the trade war. theyre looking to find a narrow agreement leaving thorny agreem...

See the blue around the big cities like lexington and even in some areas around coal country where trump did really well in 2016. one year from 2020, the warning light is flashing blue and not red. do you agree? >> yeah, i mean, i think the situation in kentucky is sort of unique. matt bevin is a uniquely unpopular figure in the state. every other republican that won statewide won, so you know, i dont want to extrapolate too much out of kentucky, but the suburbs, those areas that youre talking a...

Warninglight is flashing blue and not red. do you agree? >> yeah, i mean, i think the situation in kentucky is sort of unique. matt bevin is a uniquely unpopular figure in the state. every other republican that won statewide won, so you know, i dont want to extrapolate too much out of kentucky, but the suburbs, those areas that youre talking about absolutely are a flashing warning sign for republicans, not just there but across the country, and its a continuation of what we saw in 2018. when we ...

Comes out of your house like donald trump. they go out to the burbs to get better public schools, thats why they move there. they dont want their kids growing up like donald trump. >> i think that and theyre also issue voters. they also dont want to go in the beginning of september and have to buy bulletproof backpacks. thats what happened in virginia, women actually voted because there was a pro-gun reform agenda -- they came out for yes they dont like the sensibilities of the president and wha...

The last 20 or so years but feel like the president is the victim of the deep state in this impeachment inquiry and might cast a ballot for him this time around. >> its interesting, in your piece you lay out what seem to be legitimate warn signs and the fact that even his most ardent supporters dont feel as if there needs to be some source of course correction. does that strike you at all as odd? >> i think what the white house is trying to point to is some of the results from tuesday they say a...