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Finishing off the paris climate change agreement, where they will look at things like, 0k, how do you actually deliver the next phase of carbon reduction pledges? how do you factor in the international trade in carbon permits as a way of helping countries getting their carbon emissions down? also, how do you start gos auto financing, so you can send funds from the rich world to the less rich world to help those less wealthy countries manage the transition. actually, the outputs from cop are not ...

That can be quite a combustible mix that can be quite a combustible mix that can be quite a combustible mix that can either lead to a bust up for a breakthrough. also the uk has already pre—agreed some side agreements to come out of conversations so it already looks like things are going quite well and to give you a sense of how big it is, its all and to give you a sense of how big it is, its alland i to give you a sense of how big it is, its all and i are at the same event it would take me ab...

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Making sure if the canadians or mexicans violate living up to the agreement. and we are going to see jobs continue to michigan down to mexico. >> requiring any maker to make $16 an hour. >> what happens if this doesnt happen, we cant tiptoe around it. >> better labor standards and it is not in some side agreements. they will sign it. >> why we hearing this from candidates, to be all the way to the left. this is a working town, they see both 5 get together and get something done.

>> here is my understanding of the strategy as articulated by johnson. theres an idea of a no deal brexit. the uk vanishes out of the european union with no sort of side agreements made to figure out a bunch of other things about how trade relations and the passage of people will work and johnson wants to bluff that he is willing to do that in order to get a better deal for how brexit would be managed, is that right? >> yes, thats sort of right. spoiler alert, in politics what people say is not ...

Are they weeping in 10 downing street, where the prime minister lives? i suspect not. they have this strategy. they want to show the people that different from may. he doesnt care if he is defeated. he is going forward. he is marching to the sound of gunfire. let anyone try to step in his way. thats the plan. whether it works or not is another question. >> here is my understanding of the strategy as arctticulated b johnson. theres an idea of a no deal brexit. the uk vanishes out of the european ...

Slowing down or slacking of the economy and perhaps theyll lower interest rates. im not sure. >> neil: the other deal that we have on the table with mexico still stands. are you for nancy pelosi, has indicated enforcement that she doesnt like? if it had to be voted on right now, congressman, how do you think it would go? >> i couldnt support it unless i could see the enforcement standards. thats a widely held view around here in congress. theres some side agreements that might be hashed out as w...

Its an existential threat to the country. >> congressman, a lot of people pushing back on the tariffs are your own republican colleagues in congress and warning of dire economic consequences. i want to show you what republican senator chuck grassley said. he said he supported most of the presidents immigration policies, but not this one. he says, this is a misuse of presidential tariff authority and counters the congressional intent following through on this threat would serious jeopardize passa...

This hearing we wanted to hold, we may not need to do it. we may not need to waste the courts time. we may be able to resolve this thing short of trial. so lets hold the hearing off for another day. >> chuck, if mr. manafort is going to cooperate with prosecutors, which of course would be a really significant development in this presidency, will that necessarily be memorialized in a way we the public can see? if they do a cooperation agreement, could that be an implicit agreement or a sealed agr...