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>> trump has also up-ended foreign policy norms when dealing with china, the other subject we were talking about this week. he renewed his call for talks with chinas leader and the prodemocracy group in hong kong and insists the u.s. has leverage. >> i get along with them very well. i would be willing to bet if he sat down with the protesters, i bet he would work it out in 15 minutes. i think we are having good discussions with china. we had a deal and they decided not to make it. now i think th...

In that potential project, they have already signalled to the u.s. senate that if this deal is going to be reviewed, that if the sanctions, the lifting of the sanctions on rusal are going to be reviewed, if the sanctions on deripaska are going to be reviewed, that might be reason for them to pull out of kentucky, thus costing hundreds if not thousands of potential jobs in that region that needs the jobs. that to me already sort of feels like russian leverage over american sddecision-making. >> t...

>> can you give us an example? what is economic coercion? and how does russia use to it get the things that it wants from other countries? >> absolutely. we think of company as theyre private and deals as if theyre purely commercial. in the kremlin ecosystem, a lot of the russian companies basically have to, and the oligarchs that back them, they need to keep the kremlin, putin, the russian government happy. so they do that to secure deals that will be in its interest. so it is often things that...

Very mindful of that. i think it is important that we understand the ways in which these different kinds of deals often operate in this kind of gray zone. i know you talked about this last night, rachel. that a lot of these tactics that the kremlin uses are not necessarily illegal. they look for places they see vulnerabilities, where we dont respond with forceful i dont mean military force but in terms of a forcible pushback. they look for places where they see soft edges. when they see that, th...

Here, rusal, has put out requests to a number of other states seeking these very same kind of deals. i think that thats exactly the kind of thing that, frankly, i would expect if i were using the russian playbook. and when we see this happening in other countries, there is a lot of really interesting work thats been done by some of my colleagues looking at actually thresholds where you can actually get to a point of what they call state capture, where a government, a certain threshold of the eco...

>> shannon: i know jason i dont doubt anything youre telling me. if you could, the bacon balls for chris stirewalt and i will take a couple fried oreos. deal? >> im not sure i can get that through a tsa checkpoint but i will do my best. >> shannon: thank you, have fun. be safe. this is a fox news alert. north korea firing to short-range missiles into the easy tonight. south korea converting convenil security session pyongyang says it wont talk with the south again until the drills are done. the ...

Be very mindful of that. i think its also really important that we understand the ways in which these different kinds of deals often operate in this kind of gray zone. i know you talked about this last night, rachel. that a lot of these tactics that the kremlin uses arent necessarily illegal. they dont violate laws. but they look for places where they see vulnerabilities. they look for places where we dont respond with force. i dont mean military force, but in terms of a forcible pushback. they ...

See, you know, not just weak security structures like, say, not taking any actions to harden your elections ahead of a planned russian attack on your next presidential campaign, or, you know, increased political and social turmoil not like we know anything about that in this country, hello, day that ends in "y." but in addition to those things, theyre saying the other big thing to watch for here, the other big signpost that russia is basically softening you up so they can leverage what they want...

Kremlin-connected oligarch who used mitch mcconnell to get his nose under the tent and rescue himself from punishment of the election attack, and ennis lent future sanctions against him for anything he might do in the future, that same firm owned by that same kremlin connected oligarch in the wake of what they have done in kentucky, the same guy who signed paul manafort up to a $10 million a year contract to help the putin government around the world including in the united states, the same comp...

Could the president be successful here in saying, hey. xi jinping im not going to get involved with this and on the other side i need you to hook me up on trade because we know a month ago the f.t. reported that is kind of what the president was looking to do. >> you know, stephanie, this is consistent with this presidents attitudes or indifference to human rights whether were talking about his praise of north korea or his praise of saudi leaders. >> thats no surprise. he always -- we always kne...