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"the new york times" has superb reporting out that suggests that when the chinese side finally translated the document, the trade deal into chinese and circulated it among the leadership, xi jinping, the president of china, found that there was more pushback, there was more opposition to it, and so changed instructions at the last minute. he had essentially said, approve the deal and he vetoed it. that seems like chinese politics at work. is that right? >> well, fareed, here in beijing, i dont g...

Potential of there being a deal around north koreas nuclear weapons. but interesting that you see this sort of play right now. its been a while since the summit and now the north koreans are saying, yeah, we might do all these drastic steps. i mean that seems like it is a push to force the united states to make greater concessions or more forcibly back to the negotiating table. the north koreans were the ones left behind in hanoi. so it seems like a calculated move to saberrattle and get the uni...

People in the republican party, and people really even conservatives. good conservatives that dont like tariffs. i am not liking or not liking. the minimum, the greatest negotiating tool in the history of our country. do you think china would be sending the top representatives over, right now, china is paying 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion worth of technology goods. i was then going to charge them 25 percent on $200 billion. not like 200 million, thats a lot. this is 200 with a b. but i was n...

Bill were voting on tonight, dls d dhs is one piece. there are several other agencies that we havent funded. those bills were negotiated conference. the house and senate came to a bipartisan agreement on this back before the election. we could have had a victory back then. we should have taken -- made the decision to finish our appropriations process before the election. because of the loss of 40 votes, our negotiating position was more difficult. i think my republican colleagues that were invol...

Later tonight. the fact that the senate voted by this i think was 83 or 87 votes, is a good sign this will pass the house in an overwhelming fashion. >> it was 83-16 in the senate. overwhelming support. a lot more than the two-thirds needed to override a presidential veto if he were to veto this legislation. you only need 6$67, two-third majority in the senate. big picture. the president rejected previous deals that would have given him more money for his border wall with mexico. he says republi...

As the president prepares to address the nation tomorrow night hes desperately trying to escape from the corner he painted himself into having mexico pay for the wall. having the government shutdown and tailed, hes vocal about declaring an emergency to appropriate the funds but quietly appears mitch mcconnell nailed that escape hatch shut. "the washington post" reports mcconnell cautioned president trump privately about the consequences declaring a national emergency to build the wall telling th...

Painted himself into having mexico pay for the wall. having the government shutdown and tailed, hes vocal about declaring an emergency to appropriate the funds but quietly appears mitch mcconnell nailed that escape hatch shut. "the washington post" reports mcconnell cautioned president trump privately about the consequences declaring a national emergency to build the wall telling the move it could divide the gop according to two republicans with knowledge to the ex charchg. when the presidents h...

Enforcement mechanism is in different pieces. its a challenge on the american side regardless of what china does. paul: okay, i want to talk about chinas incentives. which i think are actually better than they have been in recent years. and that is because chinas economy is slower to grow, growth is tslowing down. xi jinping needs to maintain rapid growth. you can agree or disagree with the presidents tariff strategy but theres no question that the strategy has got their attention. i mean, when ...

It seems as though the image of the ground stop, all the airlines, that kind of interruption during the shutdown is what may have moved the president. but i dont know, in his mind, that was such a long time ago hes forgotten about it? because hes already now talking about another possible shutdown, you know, if he doesnt get his wall or at least declare a national emergency and this, despite reportedly mitch mcconnell, you know, the senate majority leader apparently cautioning him against someth...

Open to it? >> yes. there are democrats that are willing to put border barrier funding in the package. i think they recognize to get a deal, we have to have that. obviously speaker pelosi is taking a firm line. i dont know if she sees that as the opening negotiating position or not. well find out. to get to an agreement, you have to have something that funds border security. everybody is saying that. everybody in our meeting said were for strong border security. that consists of people, technolo...