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Will without congressional approval. the white house isnt denying this. in response, lindsey walter said its no secret that potus has had frustrations with the unfair imbalance of tariffs that put the u.s. at a disadvantage. hes asked his team to develop ideas to remedy the situation and create incentives for countries to lower their tariffs. the current system goes the u.s. no leverage. the white house stressed this draft bill has not been reviewed and theres not current plans to roll it out. i...

Campaigns. they will pay for a trump nominee. "wall street journal" senior video reporter. cofounder and manager of the beat d.c. democrats are fired up, will it backfire? >> i do not know that it will backfire. democrats do not have any leverage here at the end of the day. >> have you called anybody to tell them that? >> i think they are going to try what they can. whatever they are spending, it is not enough. how great our country is, we do not want to see the republicans have control over eve...

Chambers of congress as well. >> that is a great question to ask. i think to your point about them having a leverage, this massive amount of money that will be spent in all 50 states, the question is about how much could it possibly do? right now, democrats do not have the 50 votes to block president trump and his pick. what they will have to do is get some republicans on board. it is really unclear if they could do that at this point. there is so much speculation right now, but president trump ...

Troops out after what were hard-won victories, the truth is that in four years under a policy initially launched by president obama, embraced by president trump, carried through by him in a sensible way, we had an overwhelming victory against isis. its nearly completed. why trump now wants to lose that leverage is a puzzle that, you know, generals, admirals, all the senior pentagon officials just are struggling to understand. in effect, were in the process of turning the future of syria over to ...

Dont know about this but every country is calling every day saying lets make a deal, lets make a deal. its all going to work out. >> do we think every country is calling every day and saying we feel good about this too, this is all going to work out? >> well -- >> actions might indicate otherwise. >> heres the point. the point is they may not be formally through front channels calling every day and day in and day out, but you can be sure a lot of folks on the diplomatic side of things from all o...

They have. >> so "the washington post" reporting says its estimated 65 warheads. does that sound realistic? >> thats what i think the u.s. thinks. of course, there could be more if theyre hidden. north korea always says it has a lot less. if theyre going to say, oh, we have 30, we have 40, the u.s. is going to know its not negotiating in good faith and it remains to be seen whether a deal can be struck. >> so wheres the leverage? whats next? the ball is in north koreas court. >> the ball is in n...

Guess, all told from the retirement to actually naming a new person. theyve taken about two months to do this in the past. thats about how much time they have before we get to the end of the fiscal year when democrats who have no ability to actually block the supreme court nominee do have the ability to shut down the government if it comes to that. thats their one political leverage, september 30th. you have a calendar thats putting some pressure on this situation. yes, its quick, and this is ki...

Now we see hes actually still expanding their nuclear capabilities after the president already gave up military drills with south korea which were meant as a deterrent to the north. this is something that, you know, the president has already not ruled out the idea that he might recognize crimea as a part of russia because he said the majority of crimeans speak russian, therefore, they should probably be a part of russia and has not ruled out the idea hes going to lift sanctions on russia. hes go...

Either republicans really want, becau their base wants to overturn roe. they want it too. or they just want the issue and that they dont want roe to fall. then youd have 50 civil wars in each of these individual states. >> right. weve seen the republican party care so much about fetuses but not that much about babies. they dont mind putting babies in cages, but they dont want women have the right to choose their own bodies. i know youre further ahead from me. im in season one of the handmaids ta...

In the supreme court. it will eventually get overturned. as we have this conversation, i dont want people to take their eyes off district court judges who have been appointed. its trying to catch confetti. theres so much that happened. the train has left the station. if theres anything that democrats can do, which i dont think there is to hold this vote until after november. mcconnell tried to walk it back and change his mcconnell rule. its not a presidential election year. thats what i meant. i...