investigation into the political rivals if they wanted the adrian leased. the crux of the republican argument is that this stuff isn t that big of a deal. they claim that the president didn t anxiety with intent because, quote, he had a deep-seed deep-seeded what isn t debatable is how the president s state of mind consistently coincides with russian interests. how other pentagon officials were worried that the president s decision to withhold the aid could further russian aggression. was aid explicitly designed to combat russian aggression. state department official katherine crawford reveals how acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney was actually worried that russia might act negative actively if we gave certain military aid to ukraine, which is exceedingly bizarre. the expressed purpose of the military aid was to have russia
that there are some things that facebook didn t agree to do, there s a reason why that stuff isn t available there. and he tried to make a much different point when he appeared at george oun university here in washington just a few days ago. he was saying that there are competing values between the u.s. and china and so it s important for the u.s. to keep more of a hands-off role when it comes to free speech and it s important for companies to do the same because the opposite of that is what we re seeing with an app like tiktok, for example, a very popular app where i think there are fears that china as proech to censorship has manifested itself in the decisions that app makes abroad. tony romm, thank you so much. you can watch more of lester holt s exclusive interview with mark duck zuckerberg tonight on nightly nunez on your nbc station. we ve got breaking news in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he cannot form a government in parliament after the country s election d
identity politics voters and this kind of stuff isn t going to do it for them. brian: i don t think so. thanks so much, it was good to see you mark steyn. always a pleasure, brian. brian: meanwhile, richard goodstein is a former advisor towa hillary clinton joins us right now. i can t wait to get your take about where we are at right now. first of all, the monmouth poll. i see 400 plus people or at least that in a poll. i don t think a poll means that much. do you? actually saw 298 was the sample size and the plus minus is ridiculouslyhe high. every other poll taken this joe biden beating donald trump month, the fox poll, had joe biden beating donald trump 50 to 38 and there were polls in arizona and north carolina and texas all taken this month that had biden beating trump. those are all states off course the trump won in 2016 so are these gaffes something that joe biden would want to do, that his campaign is going to kind of make something up? of course he would rather not do
identity politics voters in this kind of stuff isn t going to do it for them. brian: i don t think so. thanks so much, it was good to see you mark steyn. meanwhile, richard goodstein is a former advisor to hillary clinton brady joins us right now. i can t wait to get your take about where we are at right now. first of all, the monopole. i see 400 plus people or at least that in a poll. i don t think a poll means that much. do you? actually got to 90 it was the sample size and the plus minus is ridiculously high. every other poll taken this month, the fox poll, had it joe biden beating donald trump 50 to 38 and there were polls in arizona and north carolina and texas all taken this month that had biden beating trump. those are all states of course the trump one in 2016 so are these gaffes something that joe biden would want to do that his campaign is going to kind of make something up? of course he would rather not do
right. i mean, here s the thing. obviously economic cycles change. there are recessions. it happens to republican and democratic presidents. the pickle the white house is in now is that the president has so wrapped himself up in the economy he is taking credit for everything that happened with the stock market going up and the good, you know, growth numbers and jobs numbers they ve had. it is going to be hard to extract himself from anything negative that happens even if it is not his fault. the tariffs are causing a huge amount of concern. the trade war with china keeps dragging on causing a lot of consternation in the republican party and if this stuff isn t resolved soon it is going to be really hard for the white house to reverse the narrative which is why we re hearing all these attacks on the fed. president trump is trying to set up powell as the bogey man. it is unclear if that will work with voters. we won t know for sometime. shannon, isn t it part of the administration s