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ready to fight. they kicked donald trump off the republican primary ballot and the former president says he will fight back. im harris faulkner, you are in "the faulkner focus." colorados highest court claims donald trump violated the 14th amendment by inciting an insurrection. that decision is unprecedented and it just so happens to fall along party lines. its the first time section three of the 14th amendment has ever been used to disqualify the presidential candidate. critics and le...

Semiconductor chips and we cant allow that to happen. to turn to the key, but they sense weakness here. >> john: yeah, well keep following this clearly this is something that will only get worse issue not better. congressman michael mccaul, great state of texas, thank you for being with us. i was talking to general keith kellogg earlier, he is concerned about taiwan thinking china has technology to keep u.s. carries 1300 miles away, otherwise they will get blown out of the water and how do you c...

Byr byron, there has been a lot thats happened since the last time they talked. people saying they never really got rid of anything. what do you make of this next chapter? >> it is a good thing in this sense. the stated goal of the last summit and the whole process, whatever it has been since then, has been north korean denuclearization. it hasnt happened or worked. on the other hand, they havent been testing, the sort of ascent, the intensity that was happening before the summit has really calm...

With japan and china to try to box kim jong un in has been really impressive. now, people forget about the coalition he put together for those targeted syrian air strikes. and the bold steps he has taken throughout the middle east, from his outreach to the saudis to moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i mean, the truth is, we are in the midst of a time of pretty amazing peace and prosperity that we havent seen since i think the 80s. the economic renaissance that we are experiencing at home is ...

I think china as well, the tariffs played a big role here, the threat of. china depends far more on exporting their products to us and us buying them than vice versa. they needed us. now, im not a huge fan of tariffs for economic reasons but i believe the threat in and of itself and trumps unpredictability here which i believe is strategic is really helping us. one final thing, laura. forever we worried that kim jong un, the kim dynasty are rational actors. finally we have other foreign country ...

And this to round things out. yan du shin, a clay pot soup of bean curd-based stock with salted pork belly, tofu ribbons, and bamboo shoots. >> mm. oh, good flavor. this is a socialist country, supposedly. >> yeah. >> a communist country, supposedly. it is in fact, from all the evidence that ive ever seen, the most dynamic capitalist country on earth. what do you think about that? >> i think a lot of my western friends come here thinking china is a posh version of north korea or the party contro...

More and more of that sort of tv accent. is that good or bad? >> i think its good. you know, tv series, especially american tv series are so popular in china. >> what are the most popular american shows? >> right now, "house of cards." >> "house of cards"? >> yeah. so popular. >> "house of cards"? >> yes. >> thats really interesting. what do you think the appeal is here? >> you know, in the show, americans talk about presidents. in china theres no way you can talk about those sensitive topics. s...

>> when i first came to china, it was for business, and one after the other everyone at the table came up and said, ah, mr. bourdain, i would like to do a drink with you. all of it. i didnt know how to politely say no. i cant, i cant. i just kept doing it and doing it. i got super [ muted ] up. i ended up going like to karaoke. i ended up singing a billy idol song. i think i sang "white wedding." shes making it a personal mission to get me seriously drunk. im just wondering how you got out of th...

>> thats the problem, i guess. >> it looks to me, china in general, shanghai in particular, is changing very, very fast. >> very, very fast. >> every time i come its different. in your recent memory, the last ten years, whats the most noticeable change to you? >> food like this is becoming more and more difficult to find. this is handmade. tyou have two options... afyou can stay inside., or get behind the wheel of the jeep grand cherokee with an available best-in-class

No serious enemy. no major wars. >> right. >> so the manufacturing industry really took off. internally, its reform and open-door policy. every country willing to trade with china. >> theres certainly no doubt that at this point we -- our destinies are inextricably bound up, we are hopelessly -- our economies are hopelessly intermingled. if one fails, the effect would be disastrous. >> global impact. >> to say the least. >> its certainly -- >> [ speaking in chinese ] >> this is what i was waitin...