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Incredible because thats a whole big untapped market of .5 billion people. many of the specifics of the deal are still unclear. secretary mnuchin says he expects u.s. and china to release more details soon. white house had says it agreed to scrap tariffs on about 160 billion dollars in chinese imports that were scheduled to begin tomorrow on items coming into the u.s. from china like smart phone and other electronics. the u.s. also agreed to cut rates on some existing tariffs. and maintain tarif...

I just want to be like, theyre not. >> no one is persuading anyone here. yet, it is a human level. it really did feel to me, you kept on talking and not that you thought people were looking in the camera. if you went five more minutes, you can get them. >> it is true. maybe we are exaggerating. >> we love our country. we love our democracy. the idea that has we have folks that are protecting this president who abused his power and cheat in the election used hundreds of millions of dollars taxpay...

Endorsement of another candidate, or is this too early for you to decide? >> i think its too early to decide. i do. so i think well be keeping our powder dry for now, and unfortunately all of us will be here in d.c., so we will miss the debate. >> all right. congresswoman karen bass, thank you for being with us. for a quick analysis on the impeachment, lets bring in two political strategists, republican rina shah and democrat felipe rein. as were looking at the impeachment, one of the strikes th...

Her moderate members needed this usmca. every republican senator whos publicly talked about this feels as if pelosi ate the administrations lunch, including plesy, i think senator corner said that, you thought that. why do you think the administration thought pelosi had more leverage than they did? >> i dont have an explanation for that, chuck. but in the end, theres no question, its a complete capitulation to pelosi and by extension -- >> is it possible he agreed more with trump than pelosi? >>...

Also write in the book, theres no fewer than about seven sources that we know of who substantiated that claim. so chris and his colleagues had quite a robust discussion about whether to include it. he is a former intelligence professional decided that, you know, if there was existing compromate that could be used as leverage. >> theres a kind of who cares aspect of this which is, thats not really the core of what chris reporting was. the core of chris reporting was the kremlin was conspiring to ...

Election. >> isnt it also at stake, congresswoman, that if theres no accountability here, that we have set a precedent that will go forward in history that a president can, in fact, use leverage to try and get a foreign power to impact an american or united states election and that is allowable and not impeachable or even accountable? >> well, i think thats absolutely right. one thing weve known about this president from the very beginning is that he has no respect for the rule of law. and so in...

Theyre going to see that in the judiciary committee and hopefully in the senate, but this is what our framers spoke about when they spoke about articles of impeachment. the constitution is the supreme law of the land. so violations of the constitution is a crime. its a constitutional crime. >> why not say bribery? >> because this is much worse. abuse of power is worse and it includes bribery and a range of other activities, using the power of your office to advance your own political or personal...

After a week, not the kind of history you hope to make when you go to congress but here we are nonetheless. the outrage from your colleagues on the right, i would often read on your face that you were picking up some it have as fained, like you were looking on like where is this coming from. do you believe some of their outrage of the process and outrage of how this was going was pretend? >> look, theres no question that they were talking about process for most of the evening because they really...

Accused president bill clinton of sexual misconduct, they didnt want to let him bring those women into the booth. so he has been frustrated and aggrieved with this commission for a long time. i would expect that and my sources within the trump world sort of expect he is going to complain, he is going to whine, hes going to push to get as favorable standards as possible. by the end of the day he will probably end up debating and this is a little bit more of a strategic move to gain leverage with ...

>> there is no higher crime than abuse of power. that includes a whole range of activities, including bribery, potentially. theyre going to see that in the judiciary committee and hopefully in the senate, but this is what our framers spoke about when they spoke about articles of impeachment. the constitution is the supreme law of the land. so violations of the constitution is a crime. its a constitutional crime. >> why not say bribery? >> because this is much worse. abuse of power is worse and i...