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Barriers. this agreement would hit the pause button on further escalation in the trade war between the two countries. trump said he will delay raising tariffs on chinese goods that already are subject to 10% tariffs, but the president threatened to raise it to 25% as soon as january 1st. trump is saying he will no longer do that now. in exchange, china agreed to increase its purchases and the trade imbalance. take a listen to what he had to say about the agreement about aboard air force one last...

President trump and president xi are both signaling optimism that they could hit the pause button on escalating their trade war further. trump is saying hell delay raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods. those are already subject to 10% tariffs, but the president wont be raising those to 25% come january 1st because he wants to give some breathing room for his administration to keep negotiating with china, and in exchange, xi has said china will continue to increase its purchase ...

Military. we need to do everything we can to become more energy independent and dominant, to use that energy, and i think we need natos involvement as well. angela merkel ought to stop the nordstream 2 pipeline because shes addicted to russian energy. >> the president said he was going to send notice that he wants to cancel nafta. hes negotiated a new agreement. obviously thats an attempt to pressure you guys in the house and the senate to get nafta approved. are you okay with that tactic or do ...

Many aides said look at the foreign economy and the election in the midwest. its time to hit the pause button. this was the president just yesterday saying we have an idea to get out of this, but im not sure i want to do it. >> i think we are very close to doing something with china and i dont know that i want to do it because what we have right now is billions and billions of dollars coming into the united states in the form of tariffs or taxes. i really dont know. i think china wants to make a...

Away from the senate. it is this idea that they didnt have any involvement. they have with a high degree of certainty concluded he directed this mur. they dont want to have senators hear from her. that is what her and her team assess. this seems to have made it worse. in terms of going up to the senate being kind of smirky and jerky in that press conference and really dismissing the role that these senators have. >> and phil, secretary pompeo was he hoped his coming up would convince the senate ...

Partisan divide? i will tell you how, shut the [bleep] up. [laughter] ed: thats one way to approach it. pete: i like your approach that these family gatherings are a moment to talk. the viewpoint of a whoopi here and bill maher is, no, we do the talking about politics. you guys, you rabble out there, you stop talking about it because the temperature is a little high. us elites do it right. ed: so happens they are all anti-trump. pete: stop talking. i thought the midterm was supposed to make them...

Issues. >> harris: those tragic events have taken away hope on a whole different level for us as americans so of course they have to hit the pause button. i do want to ask this, though. under the best kind of guessing of how long a caravan could make it north, i havent seen anybody who says its going to be less than months. im wondering, and now some of that 7,000 even though they picked up people along the way which is kind of a mystery maker there. some of its starting to dissipate and experts...

Other side didnt like it. they stormed and vandalized our capitol. its not the way we should be approaching our political differences. we ought to try to find areas of agreement. charles, heres the good news. on the big issue, the overall goal, we want a safe and secure america. we are concerned about each other. if we were as political figures, able to concentrate on the goals, we could do better in terms of ramping down the rhetoric and providing greater civility. >> charles: certainly feels t...

Are never going to understand technology at the rate in which it develops. i would like to hear from someone from apple about what this watch is capable of doing because -- they probably have all sorts of equipment inside every embassy. >> i want to get to this really quickly because its our first opportunity to see secretary of state mike pompeo leaving to meet the saudi king on a trip hes taking in that region. at the heart of the politics of this that i was alluding to, is that arms deal that...

The senate, do you expect to want to see more of the background information, the communications between the white house counsels office and chris wray or rosenstein we know jeff flake was on the phone with, that dramatic moment when he had the pause button pressed so you all could learn more about the incidents in question? are you interested in investigating this? are you suspicious enough to want to understand what happened behind the scenes? >> of course, i want to know. this was a critical d...