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Open liberal international order. >> no, it certainly doesnt bode well. and i think, you know, the hope will certainly be that, you know, other actors in the united states are going to step in and that president trump looks at this, as evan suggested. hes appealing to his base. these are the people, the steel workers are one of his core constituencies. these tariffs will have enormous and negative impacts within the american economy as well. i think were going to have a lot of other actors step ...

Write the rules of the game but also to construct the playground on which the games are played. he has a very ambitious vision for chinas role and its centrality in the global system five, ten years out. >> and all this, evan, bumps up against the existing superpower, and youre beginning to see the tensions. you already saw them in the south china seas under the obama administration. now you have a new front, which is going to be trade. the trump administration is clearly getting tough on trade,...

Lets keep talking about china with two terrific guests. evan, let me start with you. why now? why do you think the chinese government, xi jinping, decided to make this move now? >> hes sort of got tactical reasons and strategic reasons. the tactical reason is it removes the question of succession from conversation. otherwise, its going to loom over him for the next five years. the strategic reason, and this is one thats more worrisome, perhaps, is that it also. indicates that hes prepared to do ...

Economies in the world enter into some kind of trade war, liz. that doesnt bode well for the open liberal international order. >> no, it certainly doesnt bode well. and i think, you know, the hope will certainly be that, you know, other actors in the united states are going to step in and that president trump looks at this, as evan suggested. hes appealing to his base. these are the people, the steel workers are one of his core constituencies. these tariffs will have enormous and negative impact...

Whim, you dont do that as a businessman if youre announcing a business deal. donald trump is not being well served by himself. republicans understand that. what i dont get politically is why he would impose these tariffs when were already facing strong headwinds in 2018 and the economy is pretty good, but with these headwinds youre going to actually destroy it and make it harder. why are we making it harder for ourselves to win in 2018? >> because he said at rallies he would do it. like the wall...

Gave a stark warning a member of the presidents family was targeted by a chinese influence operation. in the same article, evan and adam reported jared kushner had basically been blowing off the national security propowe calwph meetings including meeting alone on at least one occasion from the chinese ambassador. further reported on u.s. intelligence intercepts that turned up some worrying discussions about kushners dealings with the chinese. quote, u.s. intelligence agencies aggressively target...

Three u.s. military personnel, all exhibiting silts of burning hands and face. one person had a nosebleed follow the arrival of what is clearly being described as suspicious letter. well get more information and update our viewers. theres other breaking news. shocking new details about a florida high school shooting. evan? >> this shooting as terrible as it was, it could have been a lot worse. were learning that the shoot her about 180 rounds in ammunition left on him when he dropped the weapon ...

Never had any direct contacts with wikileaks. thats not what julian assange says. cam britabridge analytica is se from brad parscale. evan has more. >> reporter: it is a bit of a tangled web. here is the long and short of it. cambridge analytica, a british company, one thing they do is they say that they can do some kind of psychological profiling of voters to try to help campaigns better target them and get better results, right. so they were working for the trump campaign, initially working fo...

>> and a seat during the trump campaign. what does it mean for the trump campaign? manafort knows everything. if you read these two indictments, one that was handed down yesterday, you learn a lot about this scheme, this alleged scheme certainly that manafort was involved in. he knows a lot. the key question, as evan has said, what does the special counsel, what does the fbi, what do prosecutors that are assigned to special counsel, what exactly do they want from them? yes, cooperation against m...

Has been a lot of focus from the fbi, from the investigators on manafort. theres every indication that he has information and that they need, they want the information that he has. if you look at how theyve been chipping away gaining cooperation, this now the third person associated to the presidents campaign that has pleaded guilty and is cooperating. you have george papadopoulos, former campaign adviser, michael flynn, former national security adviser and now rick gates. three people who had a...