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>> there were two interesting reads yesterday that nancy pelosi handed donald trump a legislative victory. and others say this was a masterful stroke by the house speaker to be able to show she can try to impeach a president and also work of on big bipartisan legislation. >> this was a win for the trump administration. this was a priority for the president. he said he would deliver it. he railed against nafta even if this is just an updating of nafta, it is something to point to as an accomplish...

>> get more of the candidates views on this issue. i personally have heard plenty about health care at this point. i feel like we spent an hour on it last time. it would be nice to see some distinctions on these other issues. foreign policy, i would love to hear some of the candidates talk about that, obviously a lot going on in the world. very few of these candidates have much experience, and whether they can show expertise on foreign affairs would be illumina illuminating, on trade as well. th...

Would hurt democrats chances. ta there seems to be little shift on key trade issues. escalati escalation, a pause or truce, where tariffs stay the same. and a deal that makes tariffs. on friday, dogs are being accepted from tariffs. strau straws will no longer be hit with toariffs. the prewas to prepare for talks. thats getting attention. chinese stock markets declining on news that the chinese

Phone? >> that was your phone. >> thats a president calling you. [laughs] whats interesting about the markets now and you and i have been around for a while covering these, and the old days if it looked like any sort of disruption in the oil supply than markets tanked 300 points. bigger issue for us right now and i think what has markets on edge, and they are clearly on edge because we have wild swings, is traded. what people dont know and come up this is kind of interesting, i cant tell you. an...

>> we think, on the hole, where the u.k. has profited massively in the last 200 years from free trade. and thats what we want to see. were looking to see that. >> reporter: on the whole there, boris johnson, i think, will be able to walk away from that feeling. at least for him right now, in the u.k., with a possibility of a general election coming up, wanting to show the european union he has a good relationship with president trump and the united states. he will have liked what he got out of t...

You know, under obama republicans were screaming about the deficit, about deficit, the whole tea party was about deficits. no one seems to care about that at all and the deficits have exploded and certainly this president doesnt care about that. >> you know, look, the party is clearly a culltive personality. its not a party in any sense as it was before. what is more conservative than to say running up a debt this high and then beating on the fed to lower interest rates is kind of like burning a...

High and then beating on the fed to lower interest rates is kind of like burning all your furniture to heat the house and one day youll run out of furniture. its as if trump wants to absolutely approximately out every stop, burn every piece of furniture to make sure the economy mae is heis heated enou reelection and not only again these financial issues but jewish issues, trade issues. hell say and do anything. i dont know if hes reading polls and going the wrong way but i dont think you have to...

Private equity to big business. i mentioned that op-ed in the journal today, elizabeth warren the vampire slayer. are we setting ourselves up for socialism versus capitalism in 2020? >> well thats certainly, look some of these policies are so off the chart. look im a populist and economic nationalist. wall street has a lot to answer for for the industrialization that the country has gone through particularly the hedge funds and private equity and what happened in china. i know well get to that i...

Problem. a lot of americans have a serious problem. they want to be able to scapegoat some community to make themselves feel bigger. i have talked to white nationalists who are living in poor areas in this country, and they are holding on to the idea that immigrants are the reason why theyre in these communities that are devastated by economic poverty or by trade issues. ive talked to people looking at their neighbors, that black guy moving into my neighborhood, hes the reason gm left, hes the r...

Between the united states and russia. the united states also yesterday imposing new sanctions at russia over the poisoning of that former russian spy in a nerve agent attack that took place in the united kingdom. and all of this comes after the united states, president trump and president putin spoke on wednesday over the phone. questions about whether or not they discussed any of these matters that the president of the united states was preparing to impose both this new round of sanctions over ...