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Could this be something potentially that could benefit the u.k., help them through this? clearly, im not saying any sort of deal with the u.k. could replace china and our trade back and forth, but could this be something to look for in these meetings in the days ahead? >> i would expect to hear some of that too. the president, ill tell you, is under a lot of pressure from congress to limit these trade wars to china. they say, look, were going to back you on china, a lot of support in congress fo...

David: steve, let me talk about what deirdre calls the drop the mic moment or grab the mic moment. the president did indeed grab it from powell, but lets go through the sequence of eevents and by the way, investors love conspiracy theories. im going to preface this, this is a conspiracy theory. early on friday you had powell coming out and saying the only thing to get us to lower rates would be more problems with china and then you had the tweets from the president that obviously would create mo...

Comes and says i really basically want to do by letras this is a discreet guide for the g. 7 for mitt because he says i dont care about much letter it isnt i dont care about the 7 i am here the president of the united states and i want to talk to individual people ok money will mccall nonetheless get something done in spite of the bilateral sobig going on led by the u.s. president yes hes very eager hes very focused he has been preparing a lot what he wants to achieve and actually theyve been ne...

Of the trade problems. he did tweet at the president xi yesterday. he tweeted i know president xi of china very well. is he a great leader who very much has respect of his people. is he also a good man in a tough business. i have zero doubt that if president xi wants to quickly and humanely solve the hong kong problem, he can do it. personal meeting? so he is asking to meet face to face? >> the chinese have not responded directly to that tweet and an offer of a meeting face to face. what they ar...

>> neil: all right. i want to go to art laffer. ronald reagan the point man on big tax cuts. we here byron wien saying well see things slowing down and the president and the timing could be tough. what do you think? >> i think byron wien has had the best very view youve had in a long, long time. he was dead on. he said the stock market is the presidents indicator of success. he said -- he doesnt see any reason for this being a big problem and i dont either. i think hes right. my fear, neil and w...

Continued under him after barack obama, are you surprised at that >> well, no. i think our economy, the basis of our economy is strong. we have some major concerns. to me, we have the deficit. we have the fairness in our economy, we have our trade problems that have the strategy the president is using is causing anxiety globally on trade, particularly using national security waiver against our closest allies to impose tariffs, so i think that we have were the strongest economy in the world. we a...

Democratic left is one of the democratic party and they may make themselves unacceptable. it is a simple as that. but the economy is his greatest accomplishment. no question about it. dictionary achievement, if it starts to go south, if the trade problems start to affect farmers, workers in manufacturing, it creates doubt and anxiety in their minds, it could suppress turnout for the president. could make this election a lot tighter than it should be. paul: all right thank you appeared welcome ba...

Democratic party and they may make themselves unacceptable. it is a simple as that. but the economy is his greatest accomplishment. no question about it. dictionary achievement, if it starts to go south, if the trade problems start to affect farmers, workers in manufacturing, it creates doubt and anxiety in their minds, it could suppress turnout for the president. could make this election a lot tighter than it should be. paul: all right thank you appeared welcome back 2020 democratic hopeful, jo...

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Ice on all of these trade problems, dinner in buenos aires. and apparently he didnt even know about it, which is really quite extraordinary, a symptom of perhaps everything thats going on in the administration, one hand not talking to the other. but beyond that, no one seems to really have understood exactly the depths of the crisis that was about to be set off. meng was the daughter of the founder of huawei, and the founder of huawei is one of xi jinpings closest friends and confidant confidant...