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As well. this is the danger with an emboldened china. in biden america lost leverage in the world. we only get it back when our economy is strong again. we stop making china rich. trump gets this. he is very comfortable talking about this. desantis has to be more convincing. his economic team has to be comprised of people who live and breathe these issues. no one from the swampy old gop guard should be given any prominent role. new blood and new ideas and bold thinking. desantis has had a very g...

Theoretically would be willing to uh, campaign for her. yeah i was on my show last sunday, saying that hes worked great with her, right? i think people are still afraid of hurt, alienating her. i think the washington read on this, which i tried to resist doing was okay. whats the strategy or try to parse out like some, you know, unique new strategy. i dont think there is one really dont . i mean, its all the leverage that she had was going to be playing nice with with democrats, so that they may...

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Rhetoric could be overblown. quickly after president xi mentioned that, he said were strategic partners. it was dismissed by john kirby as a marriage of convenience. its true that china wants to back russia in kind of bucking the west and sort of revising the narrative of how this war began, but it also wants the war to end, and while its true, as secretary blinken said, a cease fire would sort of freeze and zap ukrainian momentum on the battlefield, there are also things in chinas plan that rus...

I believe it was then u.s. attorney michael berman, is that right, who donald trump had appointed. >> geoffrey berman, yeah. >> geoffrey berman, im sorry. if they didnt protest that they shouldnt be protesting this. its entirely inconsistent intellectually. >> its consistent to say this was a political prosecution. these are real potential campaign finance violations when youre doing something, and look, lets not -- they say, oh, it was because he was afraid of melania. this happened days before...

To counter that, how to deter china, and how to help the ukrainians defend themselves. >> john: speaking of money coming in, a lot of american money that flows into china as well. trade deficit last year, $382.9 billion. that will build a lot of aircraft carriers, a lot of ammunition in guns as well. it seems to me, general, maybe im wrong about this, the u.s. has a lot of economic leverage over china. that if we just stopped making everything that we sell in this country over there, or most eve...

Now, because his real power is in not letting anybody know what hes going to do yet. thats where he has leverage. >> professor stouffer, do you agree with that? >> i have no problem with that. i have a different take on it. i think xi is much too sophisticated to go all-out and start offering military equipment, lethal equipment, to russia. hong kong and uae, theyre providing high-profile electronics, drones, chips, electronic chips that will be assisting the russians to develop their missiles e...

Putin leaving ukraine. a cease fire put in place right now without the ukrainian perspective even being consulted basically ratifies what russia has done on the ground. it basically freezes their conquest today and legitimatizes that, let alone a cease fire would give russia a chance to rearm, reequip, retrain, and restart operations at a time and place of their choosing. we do not believe thats an acceptable conclusion. >> let me ask you about iran. im curious, the peace deal between saudi arab...

Was to show his people that he will maintain the relationship with the united states. - [speaking russian] - so you have to be seen with the american president. you have to pay a visit. you have to do a phone call. you have to go to the oval office and have a meeting. thats how you demonstrate to your people that you are maintaining the alliances that are most important to ukraine. president trump understood that perfectly well, and he withheld it as political leverage. - first, he delays a call...

Between russia and ukraine. how does that affect his plan? im not sure that it affects the plan very much because the plan is very vague, and it has been dismissed by most western countries, either president zielinski has said he wants to discuss it with president xi jinping and i dont know whether this will give xi jinping any more leverage over president putin to try to get him to come to the negotiating table, we will have to see what they say when the summit is over. we are talking primarily...