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Place in scotland so they can expend some federal taxpayer money to make him feel theres pocket money being made in the white house. your thoughts. >> well, you know, again, this is a priz danes that distorts the priorities that the president should be focusing on. i mean, weve got the series of flash points around the world. what are we going to do with iran? weve got iran now basically enriching nuclear fuel. afghanistan, a failed effort at trying to work out a deal with the taliban. north kor...

Have been happy with the way trump has cozied up vladimir putin, denigrated nato, has tried to bring russia back to the g7. im not sure a trade war with china is in the vision of somebody like john bolton. there were many flash points for this to break down. >> we should point out our colleague "washington post" robert costa saying bolton just communicated to him that he resigned and was not fired. so, you have even a disagreement over what happened here. lindsey graham has reacted, one of the p...

Appropriations now that we have a budget deal. it is time for to us do our appropriations and not just do a stop gap as the democrats are wanting to do. i think we can make some real improvements there. rob: that was ranking house judiciary committee member doug collins. with a preview of what lawmakers priorities could look like this fall as congress heads back to work tomorrow to face an array of issues, domestic spending, trade policy, immigration, all potential flashpoints. with added pressu...

2016. it seems like 2007 might obviously on the surface appear relatively recently within the decade. but in reality in technology terms, it almost seems like a lifetime ago because the technology has changed so much. how has russia adopted and adapted new technologies, whether its social media and others to target our elections and those of other countries? >> sure. what we saw in 2016 of course was, you know, using twitter and using facebook, using ad bias that targeted specific demographics o...

Into a scenario, japan and south korea are having a friday despite and separate income a meaningful way. we have a lot of flash points around the world in which we might start to see competitive currency devaluation that could reek havoc in global financial markets if china were to rapidly develop currency and in retaliation of moves. that could cause problems that are difficult for the federal reserve to deal with. >> mike was there. there was some suspension whether the president was going to ...

Meaningful way. we have a lot of flash points around the world in which we might start to see competitive currency devaluation that could reek havoc in global financial markets if china were to rapidly develop currency and in retaliation of moves. that could cause problems that are difficult for the federal reserve to deal with. >> mike was there. there was some suspension whether the president was going to talk to the press i think sometimes for late night exits from the white house thats not a...

Represent a threat to our country is something that we shouldnt be hearing from the president. look, we live in a dangerous world. i think its more dangerous than ever today. its not only the threat from china and rash. its the threat from isis. its the threat from iran, from those conducting cyber-attacks again our own country. there are a lot of flash points in the world that ought to frankly keep this president awake and concerned. >> you mentioned russia, russia seems to be receiving welcome...

Motivations were but this seemed like an example of reaching for cultural flash points and hot button issues so that we look there and instead of what else is going on in the country. >> it is hard to get into the presidents head. despite the financial warnings from the stock market he does seem to, you know, talk about that he is the guy to believe in for the economy. lets listen to a comment he made this beweek. >> you have no choice to vote for me, 401(k), everything will be down the tubes. w...

Slowdown and possibly even a recession. and i think that terrifies the trump administration and it terrifies the trump re-election campaign because of all of the things that you can sort of look at thats happened over the last 2 1/2, 3 years. the one pretty steady thing for president trump has been the economy, which has been pretty steadily improving in the united states. and so i think the fear is for the president if that turns south and people start seeing an economy where the stock market i...

In a sports complex just miles away from hong kong. and what did the president of the united states say about this latest show of force from china? he tweeted, "everyone should be calm and safe." yeah, they should. he also tweeted, "i have zero doubt that if president xi wants to quickly and humanely solve the hong kong problem, he can do it. personal meeting?" wilbur ross whos the personification of the ignorance in hong kong are quote an internal matter" and no interest to the united states go...