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Way, in a way that makes sense. >> structured way. >> right, in a very thoughtful manner. the one key point that tim and i were talking about earlier, we have no leverage over the taliban. with the taliban, you cant sanction them. >> its not a sovereign nation. >> exactly. >> last question to you, and thats about congress role here. you look at the criticism from senator graham and its again what weve seen time and time again. the president is going around congress, circumventing congress. >> th...

All they are doing is making china pay money into this one require for the first time. we never received a nickel from china. the "wall street journal" reported $60 billion plus dollars coming into the economy on tariffs. judge jeanine: what makes you think china is going to bend? what leverage do we have if we pull back on the tariffs until december. >> we are still tariffing their goods coming into this country right now. but our economy is soaring. its the best its ever been. the rest of the ...

Billions of dollars we gift israel. >> your take on that. american members of congress pass and determine that money going to israel. two of them got blocked. >> so i remember interviewing bernie sanders several years ago when he first floated the idea of making u.s. aid conditional on behavior, which it really should be. the u.s. gives. its congress really who gives it. and two members of congress are being blocked. ilhan omar said we should use aid as leverage, to stop building illegal settlem...

Think youre tired of trump, annoyed by the tweets, dissatisfied with some of what hes doing. but if the economys good and the democrats look like they might ruin it, trump said this himself, hes not stupid when he says if i can just make them terrified of electing a democrat and make myself identified with general economic wellbeing, i have a chance to overcome all these problems. if the democrats are not terrifying, a, and, b, if theres not general economic wellbeing, that strategy goes out the...

Also insisting the u.s. has leverage over china when it comes to a trade deal. >> i get along with him very well, president xi. and i said i would be willing to bet if he sat down with the protesters, a group of representative protesters, i bet hed work it out in 15 minutes. i think were having very good discussions with china, well see what happens. we had a deal and they decided not to make it. now i think they would have liked to have had that opportunity again. >> for more we are joined toni...

The latest round of short range ballistic missile tests seen as an effort to build leverage ahead of nuclear negotiations with donald trump. also on the foreign policy front donald trump is expected to host a meeting with top national security officials on afghanistan. sources say the meeting will focus on us peace negotiations with taliban and. the state departments afghan born special envoy is back in the us after a number of meetings. police officers responsible chaotic shooting in philadelph...

Democratic principles, is new territory even for him. trump has also up ended foreign policy norms when dealing with china, the other subject weve been talking about this week. today he renewed talks while also insisting the u.s. has leverage over china when it comes to a trade deal. >> i get along with him very well, president xi. and i said i would be willing to bet if he sat down with the protesters, a group of representative protesters, i bet hed work it out in 15 minutes. i think were havin...

Attack our democracies. >> can you give us an example, even a hypothetical example of how that works? how does russia use it to the things it wants from other countries? >> absolutely. i think one of the things we need to understand is we often think about companies that theyre private and deals are purely commercial. but in the kremlin ecosystem a lot of the russian companies basically -- and the oligarchs that back them, they need to keep the kremlin, putin, the russian government sort of happ...

People are disgusted by donald trump, donald trumps performance in the last few weeks. and then you add to that the economic uncertainty. all the economic analysts who are all of a sudden talking about the possibility of a recession, all the uncertainty on the trade war. you know, in a funny way the master negotiator, donald trump, has managed to give enormous leverage to xi jinping, the leader of china, because he desperately needs a china trade deal and now xi holds all the cards and he can --...

The russian company has already put out requests to a number of other states seeking these same deals. i think thats exactly the kind of thing that frankly i would expect if i were using the russian play book. when we see this happening in other countries, there is interesting work by my colleagues looking at thresholds. you can get to where they call it state capture. a certain threshold to the economy becomes so dependen on russian investment that the state actually becomes captured. in the u....