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Business leaders arrested in canada. shes with one of chinas marquee companies. it makes more cell phones than apple. revenues are set to toch boeings. the view amongst some officials is she could be used as leverage with china in trade talks and the expectation is she will be extradited to the united states. out front now is peter navarro, assistant to the president for policy. this threw everything into disarray today. it shocked everybody. what is going on here? >> its pretty simple. two issu...

Sense of how sensitive the truce is. the arrest of this woman, meng wanzhou, her arrest saturday in canada reportedly came at the request of the u.s. with a source telling cnn that some in the administration think her arrest can be used as leverage in trade talks with china. let me go to the form are new york bureau chief for the "new york times." you write saying mengs arrest is the absolute worst timing. explain. >> the timing was just appalling. first of all, it happened just as trump was sit...

Cars with business and so on and so forth and this recent development actually could slow down the introduction of five g. and what about apple i mean i understand apple makes about twenty percent of its revenue in the chinese market could china use that as leverage against the united states. possibly i mean thats what i mean when im saying that we dont know the reaction from china yet so they could take care of repercussions and yeah that could be a hurtful to companies like apple but also in m...

With business and so on and so forth and this recent development actually could slow down the introduction of five g. and what about apple i mean i understand ample makes about twenty percent of its revenue in the chinese market could china use that as leverage against the united states. possibly i mean thats what i mean when im saying that we dont know the reaction from china yet so they could take the repercussions and yeah that could be a hurtful to companies like apple but also in many other...

Business in china is vulnerable because chinese laws are extremely vague. >> yet today, senators applauded the move against the communications giant. >> these chinese companies are state-supported and state control. they may have on paper independence but the chinese government come if they asked him to do something, they have to do it by law. >> we have an absolutely consistent view from the intelligence community about this threat, and my fear is whether the trump administration will crumble o...

Into getting more aggressive kinds of retaliation and every american firm that does business in china is vulnerable because chinese laws are extremely vague. >> reporter: senators applauded the move against the communications giant. >> chinese companys are state-supported and state-controlled. they may have gone paper independent but the chinese government asked them to do something they have to do by law. >> and absolutely consistent view from the intelligence community about this threat and my...

Material information about russian money and how russian sources, as referred to in this filing, is a part of bob muellers investigation. for people who thought six months ago the thing would hinge on whether or not there was election hacking that would involve the trump organization, bob mueller is clearly willing to put everyone on notice this might be business or financial leverage which he is asserting under penalty of perjury is core to his investigation. >> how concerned should donald trum...

Last opportunity, at least easy opportunity for president trump to get that money given the fact that democrats will take over the house next year. as you said, nancy pelosi has been extremely clear that she is not going to play ball when it comes to giving president trump the money that he needs. but maybe well be surprised. we certainly were earlier this year when president trump had that meeting with chuck and nancy, as he likes to call them, and did agree to a deal that ultimately shocked re...

>> i would say no one would be surprised if the southern district of new york, which we call sometimes the sovereign district of new york had a little tension with other prosecutors offices. the likelihood here is cohen may have cooperated differently with the southern district than he did with special counsel. he may have had more sensitivity when it came to his personal financial dealings so they would likely have different assessments of his cooperation. >> they likely had more leverage over ...

Which is only going to make matters worse with china. >> well, i dont know that we should stop enforcement against china, but the real injection of uncertainty is this trade negotiation with china, which is very vague. he came out of the meeting, there was mass confusion. there were competing statements from the two sides. the markets had this little bump and then they freaked out because people were saying, oh, maybe the tariffs come back on. but what people arent talking with about is earn ass...