Page 1495 - Leverage News Today

A key component of that success if they are allowed to get that far. is one thing but is the president of china using this kind of influence it has over foreign companies strategically well it depends really on who you ask on china has had kind of a well a rather varied reputation when it comes intellectual property worldwide for a long time its used as economic soft power to get access to european and american patents and intellectual property in many countries and various companies have accuse...

Thats my signature on that tax return, but neither i nor my firm prepared it. which is a very good sign of fraud. im sure diligent prosecutors with subpoenas for documents and testimony are going to find lots of interesting things in the financial records of the trump organization. >> just to follow-up on that. is it possible they could bring wiesel beg in and say, we know you were involved in some of the stuff, or at least you had knowledge of the fact that something wasnt above board and hence...

Remain, the ability to kind of garner support even within their own party, to push for impeachment or push for some type of censure, right now the votes arent there. i will note, wolf, this fights not going anywhere anytime soon. the house is out of session. they may not be coming back until early september. but its been made very clear, these issues are still on the table, they will be used as leverage in the behind-the-scenes negotiations with the justice correspondent, and these conservatives...

So cheap you are, china is our second largest customer. think about that. by the way, this is a major push back against russia. major push back. a major issue, a major point of contention, and then again, learning how to fight against china. this was a huge step towards ultimately, hopefully resulting in all of this. >> sandra: giving us a lot more leverage. i would reach over and fist bump you too, charles. >> bill: laying down the law, saying that they will be required to stand during the nati...

Speaker under that cloud. more practically, if youre a speaker, you have to raise money to keep your majority in space. hes raised $442,000. hes has a caucus a has raised less than $3 million. >> dana: how does that compare to kevin mccarthy who also announced he wants to run for speaker? >> mccarthy said he raised $10 million this week towards the republican election chances. my sense is this is more about getting leverage, saying i control a block of votes in the house freedom caucus. so you h...

House. so what if kevin mccarthy looks like a likely person to replace paul ryan. what is jim jordan in particular trying to do here in terms of leverage? >> well, heres the thing. kevin mccarthy is certainly a friend of president trumps, peter, but hes viewed as being suspect by at least some -- certain members of the far right conservative wing, of which jim jordan is a part. so jim jordans run really is the latest play by conservative members of congress here to really push for more leeway sh...

Policy becomes bad politics." >> wow, okay. joining us this morning to talk about all this, cnn politics senior writer and analyst harry enteron. good morning to you, sir. >> hi, harry. >> good morning. >> the "wall street journal" is one thing, but we have republican senators from iowa, nebraska, wisconsin, harsh criticism of the presidents tariff plan and this welfare, essentially, to farmers. whats the impact? >> well, i think the impact is that this election was going to be fought in the mid...

What they thought was bad trade. i mean, how much leverage does he have? >> i mean, certainly, among the hard-core republican base, he has a lot of leverage, right? theyre going to forgive pretty much anything he does. in fact, if you look at the poll, obviously, republicans are more likely than democrats or inkpents to support -- >> a lot more likely. >> -- to support the tariffs. but at the end of the day, its only 45%. there are still plenty of republicans who are not supporting this or are u...

I cant tell you how encouraged i am by this. i think with our collective leverage brought to bear, maybe ultimately pulling in other g7 countries like the japanese. we have a real possibility of reducing the intellectual property theft, reducing the incidents of joint technology, force technology transfer of state-owned enterprises, dumping things in our economy, precisely the objectives i know the administration has. so do you agree that the united states moving forward has to prioritize a trad...

When you give the russians or turks a four-hour lead time on what your call was about or the europeans for that matter. >> theyve repeatedly played by the russians -- >> the only control of the narrative, you lose your leverage and become weak. i think this is a false start on what the policy is going to be. >> what is to be feared from transparency? >> when youre dealing with adversary nations, what has happened is theres been a read out that doesnt match what we later find out is going on. it ...