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As long as you didnt break your promise to me, launch whatever you want. no matter if it makes south korea nervous. and this is a time of heightened tension. in between south korea and japan and now north korea testing weapons that could reach as far as japan or go over south korea. and this is all strategic on the part of kim jong-un. hes pushing the envelope and knows that president trump isnt going to get up set about a shorter range missile launch and hes trying to gain leverage ahead of the...

Production jobs we know a whole lot of plants actually closed at the end of july. thats going to be a lot weaker in august, and of course retail continued to decline. thats before the next round of tariffs were seeing that will hit retailers directly. >> romans, lets talk about jobs and the trade war with china that just got a whole lot worse because the president is going to slap these extra tariffs on. we have the head of the u.s.-china business council saying they think this is going to hurt ...

>> so is it small potatoes? >> that was your question. that was a good question. that was a terrible answer. because what he just gave is a green light to north korea to continue these tests. the president is confused. they are nuclear capable short-range missiles. its true, they cant hit us. they can hit troops in south korea, cities in south korea. he is like the glenn close character in fatality attraction. he will not be ignored. his agreement with the u.s., this is his way of getting that l...

Whether they are a mom and pop operator or whether they work for a large company will have a package of benefits very similar, and medicare will set the prices. thats the really best news i think for everybody. right now a lot of people in private insurance plans are paying well more than medicare prices for days in the hospital, for drug costs, for a variety of services. so, setting prices by the federal government, which has the largest leverage of anybody in the health care field will be real...

Him. they want to deal with, what did he say, stiff. >> what is the point of it? >> neil: do you think thats the case? >> china has no elections. what do they care? soybeans are going to rot. what do they care. >> neil: they have a slowing economy. isnt there economy slowing question mexico it is. its pretty rickety and arthritic. whos got leverage? we know manufacturers have been diversifying out of china toward other parts of asia with their production lines. i think there is way too much hyst...

Ripley, whos made 19 trips to north korea. will, whats the latest? what are you learning? >> reporter: well, kim jong-un knows he can get away with this kind kind of thing, wolf. its very similar to the kind of launch we saw just a couple of days ago, assessed as short-range nuclear missiles that some say could deliver a nuclear weapon to south korea or japan. but kim jong-un knows that since president trump says its not a big deal to him that he can continue to push the envelope as he tries to ...

A difficult environment but always in a mission that we can define and that we could can put into a political or diplomatic a context that we have influence and leverage upon well if that european mission is revived mr nick please let us know and please come back to the show wed be happy to talk with you about it andreas nick member of the german parliament and the foreign affairs committee isnt it we appreciate you taking the time and driving in to talk with us tonight thank you thank you canno...

Showing that theyre not willing to resume talks, theyre not happy about the military exercises. these joint exercises, as i understand them, are not even kinetic. theyre computer tests and they would be the first since since singapore when the president said well stop doing exercises well stop doing tests. is he playing us by showing his anger? are we being too eager for this next stage? >> kim jong-un is restarting provocations to try to regain some leverage in the -- his interactions with pres...

Always been the party of free trade for the last generation and trump has really turned that on its ear so politically trump has quite a bit of support in terms of using tariffs as a means of leverage now interesting interesting when you bring up farmers though because farmers are really the sort of the victims in this trade are the ones who are hurting theyre the ones who are hurting and ironically theyre also among trumps biggest political allies so what we could see happen is some sort of may...

Put them on an icbm that can threaten us. the administration has not put together a compelling effective strategy for getting serious negotiations started. >> mike pompeo is on his way to ba bangkok for a previous arranged meeting. north korean officials may well be there. could they jump start again? >> its possible. but the key is bringing chinas pressure to bear. thats probably the only country with real leverage on north korea other than in our ability to affect their calculus. remembering w...