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Against the question of the economic decisions that are being made. but look, we have seen the president emboldened by his own bluster. and threats when it comes to the question of tariffs. if this is a win with him with mexico, if he feels his strategy was victorious, then it suggests he wont see a decision to back down from a similarly aggressive posture with china. china is a much larger economy than mexico. its a little bit of a question of is there a superpower competition here, is china go...

To do you need some kind of leverage. a problem we have had been has been ignored for 40 years which is immigration. californias new plan to pay for a certain amount of illegal immigrant healthcare. you see here it is going to cover people ages 19-25, not people generally need a lot of healthcare. this is $100 million a year covering 90,000 illegal immigrants, a real problem with homelessness and a lot of other issues. what do you think of this plan? >> my heart goes out to anybody that needs he...

The american economy of this deal in the greater issue of the president using tariffs as a threat a lot of democrats say this is why our numbers are moving in the wrong direction. we had a weaker than expected jobs report in may. do you think tariffs are a good move to use these as leverage? >> the tariffs with mexico you are talking a 5% tariff, nobody wants tariffs. at the end of the day the middle class, the lower middle class are hit the most by tariffs. this is an effective strategy and in ...

Its symbolic vote. theres some leverage you get from it because no cabinet member wants to be held in contempt. i worked for eric holder who c. the day after he got up and went into work. its meaningless. i think to drop the threat, if they got something in return was a pretty good deal. as you point out thats still a process that will tyke soake so time. that just gets you in a months long process before you see don mcgahn or hope hicks or any of the witnesses show up.

Of accommodation where the white house gives up a little bit and the congress gets a little bit, and maybe in the end they avoid going to court. >> mr. delanian, if the vote passes, then what? will that give congress what they want? >> probably not, stephanie. what this vote is is a point of leverage. it would allow not just jerry nadler but everyone to go and get a civil hearing. not criminal, but civil. those can take years to wind their way through the courts. so its not a surefire weapon at ...

Making demands upon rod rosenstein and the justice department for document production around peter struck, to lisa page, to fbi agents, about the mueller investigation, to the origins of the investigation. and you saw the justice department and congress go back and forth over time. i think youre going to see the same thing play out, which means a long time consuming debate in negotiation were going to be reporting on for the for seeable future. >> as we said its all about power. maya, do you thi...

An issue economically for the united states i think demonstrates a level of tone deafness that will had your him as we move into the sickle here prj, if who dont even support doctor permanent china has so much leverage in fnl whether it comes to the massive imports. same with us. i mean, when you talk about a trade war between the united states and china, we can actually bring up an old term from political science class of the 1980s thats not used much anymore and thats mad, mute that can devast...

Raise issues of conflict of interest. jared kushner has declined to do that, so has donald trump, by the way. and so he has these investments that are open to questions, particularly when theyre undisclosed investments. we dont know much about where this foreign money is coming from, except a million dollars of it is coming from saudi arabia. >> its obviously that the three of us would have trouble getting some information abiliout this. but wouldnt this come into play in jared kushners security...

Deal with the u.s. the president simply threatened tariffs first before accepting the agreement and repackaging it as a negotiating success. mr. trump denies the report and are praising his negotiating skills. >> tariffs are attacks on american consumers and we dont want so see them in place long term. hes using them as leverage and i think he used them in this situation brilliantly. >> the president put a charge on this situation and brought them to the table. the foreign minister from mexico a...

Investigating a seattle crash in april which killed four people. the result of of that inquiry will take months. experts say human error may have played a role there. in 2017, three cranes designed to withstand 95-mile-an-hour winds in south florida collapsed during hurricane irma. >> thank you. president trump declaring victory in his trade battle with mexico. he may have been the only one fighting. "the new york times" writing that mexico agreed months ago to take action on the deal with the u...