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Nuclear weapon. if he becomes so desperate, while the chinese have been very clear with the russians not to do this. we are working with the chinese, even on ukraine as well. it is a very nuanced relationship. i think they will try to get that summit back on track, the secretary of state visit to beijing. i go back to what i said several minutes ago when i said the u.s. has a bit more leverage on beijing right now due to what happened over the last several days. >> its something that i said earl...

I think, and im sure that obviously the administration has thought of this, how do we exploit this incident to further improve relations with china, and i think this does give us some leverage toward that end. >> heres another perspective, just earlier today, gordon chang, who is a senior fellow at the gatestone institute, had this to say on cnn. >> the chinese are being very blatant about this. they were over at the air force base in montana where we have intercontinental ballistic missiles, th...

Political decision than it should be allowed to enter simply because they felt it was harmless? arthel: i want to give you an opportunity to answer and centers question while youre at if you can tell me, if you believe this was accidental a wayward weather balloon and how should the u.s. respond? >> i do not believe this was accidental this is every bit of intentional. mike is at the beginning of the segment when we had the opportunity with administration knew about this over the waters of alask...

Lost as a result of this actually taking place across the swath of the united states. so that shifts the conversation slightly. what do you say? >> reporter: yeah. it is an issue of leverage, i think, for the united states. this isnt something that the r that is, you know, something that people didnt see that wasnt broadcast, and also it probably wakes up the general american public to this because they were looking up in the sky, and you had average, everyday americans seeing this balloon float...

Afford us some diplomatic l leverage with the chinese. >> what do you think the chinese were up to here because obviously they had to assume we were going to see this thing in the sky. and this was going to be detected. does that tell us a little bit about what their motivations might have been? >> you know, jim, to me, this is the mystery. why exactly they did this and thats why i have a tendency to accept the explanation this was astray. i dont buy what theyre saying was on the way it sensors....

Arent? >> no. i think it is a kind of, you know, they have an extraordinary level of options. profit margins are so huge and i think theyre publicly traded and they saw a cloud cover them to have layoffs, the likes we havent seen since 2002. so they did that to preserve and boost margins and get more leverage for the stock price and earnings reports. i dont think it jives in any way with the 517,000 jobs we saw created in this report. i mean, you could have a self-fulfilling recession where ever...

Point, in order to try to establish leverage over the other. thats whats going on. and at the same time, there was, obviously, this trip that was planned by the secretary of state. i think he was right to cancel it because theres so much attention focused on this balloon it would undermine his ability to have any effective dialog. but also, i guess, we hope that ultimately things will settle down and they will be able to get back to negotiating table. but right now, its a very tense situation be...

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The amount of about 500, 000, a treasurer for the campaign, and again, im not sure which one it is. i will admit ive lost track because there has been a bit of a carousel on those. one of them changed it from personal finds that he longed himself to funds from someone else. there was a different box checked. you are point being, you can actually do that. you can on yourself funds, but you cant loan someone elses money to your campaign. >> but all candidates are subject to strict contribution lim...

The last two times its happened, twice since 1980, its happened to members of congress who have been convicted of bribery — not accused, but convicted of bribery. the standard is much higher. what weve seen is santos, bizarrely through all these stories and lies, has a little bit of leverage here. one, hes a vote thats very important to republicans, they need one more vote if he resigns they lose that vote. also, as hell now go through a criminal process, being an elected member of gives him s...