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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his visit to Israel strengthened his sympathy for Israelis reeling from Hamas’ attacks.

The Financial Times proposed that Japan should consider selling Nintendo as an experiment and shock therapy for the Japanese stock market.

Advance income tax (AIT) imposed on subscription to international e-journals: What can we possibly gain from restricting access to scientific knowledge?

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And only time. could this be the last time time we hear from him? >> he has to think about his place in history here as well. >> lets talk more about this with shan wu. so democrats and republicans get to ask mueller questions in public. everyone will see it. what is the most important question they should ask him? >> its hard to choose the top three, but i would say the most important question shimon alluded to would be if donald trump were not the sitting president of the united states, would ...

>> everyone wants to know are they going to finally make progress again towards a trade deal. the president just moments ago said this, quote, plan b with china is taking in billions and billions of dollars with tariffs. actually you know its the taxpayer that pays those, but he also said and doing less and less business with them. his plan beyond china if no trade deal is doing less and less business with them. is that a good idea even when big ceos like fred smith, the ceo of fedex whos a repu...

>> well, that requires a good follow-up question, and i think youre right. hes going to try to avoid answering that question, and then the follow-up has to be explain the quote you just read. why cant you exonerate him and explain to us what the evidence is in your report as to why you cant exonerate him. and having him even if its simply regurgitating the evidence in his report, having him there in front of the american people talking about evidence, talking about why he cant exonerate the pres...

Quote, intellectual exercise you guys are engaging in. how can you make economic progress without any political solution? >> reporte >> right, so as you know, poppy, im not a politician and i respect those comments. but the thing is if i were, you know, the mayor of a town someplace in gaza or west bank then what i would do is go through our plan and look through the hundreds of projects we talked about, for example, taking the power plant from using diesel fuels and natural gas and start to act...

In some of the practices we convince them to the change i think the president is right. but again dont forget the u.s. sells about as much stuff to china as they sell to us. its just if youre going to sell stuff to china they kind of make is in china. the president wants to fix that, and if doesnt get fixed hes right about what hes going to do. >> i hear you those are tariffs the americans pay and then you do less and less business with china and that blows up a lot of the business models of ame...

And billions of dollars to the u.s. in fact u.s. importers and consumers paid for that. was he pressed on that issue at all? >> reporter: he wasnt press odthat the way he would have been pressed had he been asked about it on cnn because the president essentially said he has a very different view of the way tariffs work. and that view, of course, has been disputed again and again by top economists and others who say its the united states, people in the united states who pay in the event of the ta...