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A decision by kim. if he makes the strategic decision to give up his most destructive weapons, theres going to be progress. if he doesnt, its going to be up to president trump to use all of the american leverage short of the use of force, but we can do that to make kim realize hes got a choice; keep his weapons, keep power, not both. ed: dont want to lose sight of the fact that there was an important meeting with the chinese president. you follow that just as closely. that, obvious, is about tra...

& p, the first half. on what keeps it going, maybe not to the same degree, but what are you looking at? >> id love to see an actual china deal and agree to change their laws, and not the six months and see what happens with six months. a real deal would be i think a great market situation. >> it has to be a real deal. >> it has to be a real deal. it cant be this fake-- the problem, the way they walked away last time. they didnt want a deal in writing and sign it, they had to make them change the...

Youll kind of see that happen when the markets re-open because people feel the trade spats not going to get worse. long-term, does it give away some leverage that the united states has had? the u.s. has kind of fished around for something to sort of hold in a way to hold chinas feet to the fire, tariffs are one of those, the huawei conflict is another. but the u.s. now is kind of giving that one up and youre hearing in congress perhaps efforts by some legislators to make it law to prevent the sa...

Gave democrats two weeks to come up with a bipartisan bill. >> and they passed a humanitarian bill, but doesnt address asylum reform. leland: joining us from texas, the finances and judiciary committee, sylvia. we appreciate you spending a sunday to us-- a saturday with us, got ahead of myself looking forward to the weekend. lets start with this. you voted against in bill and that was in the words of "the washington post," the most embarrassing defeat for nancy pelosi in six months since democra...

To talk trump and theyre hurting badly because of the sanctions. president trump could be in the white house for another term. can they bear the pressure? im not convinced they can. it might be a moment when theyll say, okay, well talk and maybe what the u.s. needs to do is perhaps spend some of the sanctions. >> how much leverage do the european nations have when they sit down to negotiate with the iranians in vienna just like yesterday? >> they have some, they used to be the biggest trading pa...

Melanie zenona. a reporter for politico. that bill passed after what seemed like breakdown. speaker pelosi thought that she had a deal with the senate minority leader chuck schumer to pass a more liberal bill. what played out there. >> what we saw was a breakdown between not just the democrats but also between the senate and the house democratic leaders. the house democrats really felt like they were thrown under the busby the senate. the senate democrats agreed to pass this bill that the senate...

Because everythings very political its basically about who has the bigger leverage over the world economy and both sides have sent mixed signals about whether they actually want a truce or not and its going to be very complicated to actually talk about that on a very very short time schedule theyre going to have on saturday morning and more remains is that china is playing on a level playing field at all when it comes to global trade but that aside the u.s. and china really stealing the spotligh...

He became president. i would negotiate us back into the agreement and stand with allies and not give unlimited leverage to china and russia which is what he has done. then, finally, i would make sure that if there is any possibility of a conflict and we are having this debate in congress right now, he comes to congress for an authorization of military force. i would do that. this president is literally every single day 10 minutes away from going to war. one tweet away from going to war. i dont t...

A number came out whats statements he one said the democrats dont have spines. she said they gave up all their leverage, but the democrats supporting are pushing back, saying look, the democrats only control half of congress, theres a republican in the white house, they had to cut the best deal they could. ultimately they did. youre sigh this debade unfort i ing about the right strategies to move forward and how democrats not happy with the tack they took. and now members are all leaving. you ca...

Because he did that now we stand alone. were isolated against our allies and iran is pushing towards a nuclear weapon. so we need to find a way to use diplomacy to solve this problem. not the war beat that hes doing. but im not going to stand up on a primary stage and announce im going to unilaterally or de facto go right back into that deal. im going to do everything i can to try to get everything off the negotiating table that i can. again, we need to go into a situation like that with all opt...