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Table to try and get leverage from the european union in negotiations seen as potentially economically catastrophic for both sides of the english channel. were already seeing ministers threaten to resign including the uks finance minister over the weekend says if boris johnson is the next prime minister, hes going to submit his resignation. take a listen. >> assuming that boris johnson becomes the next prime minister, i understand that his conditions for serving in his government would include a...

They just convey a threat that theyre going to do things like this, pick up civilian tankers. sometimes tankers have nothing to do with irans conflict with the west. that will be enough. you dont have to close the strait, just stop the use of the strait. >> western powers have ramped up resources in that region. if you consider the number of bases surrounding iran, how much leverage does the u.s. have, to put pressure on iran, beyond the sanctions already in place. >> the u.s. sanctions as you p...

Weakening as well. they do feel a certain amount of pressure to begin the process of negotiations while they still have some upper hand may not be the right way to put it. but at least they have some kind of leverage. thats what irans behavior has been. creating leverage. they want to come to the negotiating table with some bargaining chips. so a few weeks ago, they began to enrich the uranium again past the levels that were agreed to in 2015. that is one form of leverage. and the sort of blackm...

Paul: that was democratic presidential hopeful joe biden rolling out his health care plan in iowa this week the former vice president promising to finish the job over obamacare and rejecting calls for medicare for all. its an effort to distinguish himself from some of his 2020 rivals, including vermont center bernie sanders. he took aim at biden this week accusing the democratic front-runner of sounding like donald trump on the issue but were back with him and stossel, kate odell and kyle peters...

With increasing leverage as much as possible. there is a possibility for negotiations. well see. >> in its current form, do you think this deal can hold on and for how much longer? >> no, i dont and the reason for that is the iranians, when it comes to europe, they want economic sanctions and europe just cant deliver on that. the trading system they set up is focussed on humanitarian trade and its not really functioning that much. at the owned of the day european financial institutions are afrai...

Abdicated from the deal but hiss goal was focussed on that. so in his mind is to increase his leverage as much as possible in order for ultimate negotiations. something interesting im sure you noticesed is the song that the administration has been singing has changed a little bit in that pompeo said they need come to the negauche yaotiating. and we know iranians said they wouldnt do it without restrictions being removed first. and we did this is onces there its an agreement to pursue negauche ya...

Pressure internationally. to keep pushing againthe envelo see -- this is not the first act against a tanker. there were attacks on several tankers a few weeks ago. they were firing rockets at oil installs in saudi arabia. this is part of a pattern of behavior. at the same time, remember, that last week when the iranian foreign minister was in new york, he brought up the idea of negotiations and so the irani s iranians, the regime is feeling pressure. the economic sanctions are working. the irani...

Paul: that was democratic presidential hopeful joe biden rolling out his health care plan in iowa this week the former vice president promising to finish the job over obamacare and rejecting calls for medicare for all. its an effort to distinguish himself from some of his 2020 rivals, including vermont center bernie sanders. he took aim at biden this week accusing the democratic front-runner of sounding like donald trump on the issue but were back with him and stossel, kate odell and kyle peters...

Trumps bigotry. david, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this reaches back decades. i first want your response what the president tweeted out, when you saw this tweet addressing the four congresswomen did you think this was an off-the-cuff remark or a search to be strategy, to be part of a pattern? >> i think it was a little bit of both. one thing that we found is that trump has a long history dividing the world into racial ethnic tweets. he uses it that way. but hes also discovered over ...

He has tremendous support from the african-american community in this country. >> all right. joe, why is he in trouble, first of all, in sweden, for people who might not know? what kind of leverage does the president have in this case? >> you know, i think in terms of leverage, of course the president of the united states, no matter whos in the chair, has significant leverage, right? the most tremendous country in the world. so thats important, and i think the intervention of the state departmen...