they say the woman who played aunt becky on full house, they president trump. today not so much. the markets have been down the paid half a million dollars to afternoon, they had a good morning but then bond get their two daughters into ufc prices went up, interest rates went down and the yield curve by having the teenagers labeled as recruits for the crew team. reverted. if that is yet another sign that neither of them wrote. she and her husband pleaded not a recession may be coming down guilty and each could face up to the road. this is not about the 40 years behind bars if federal reserve. it s about the trade war. convicted on all counts. this was part of that operation the good and easy to win trade war. there is lots of talk about a called, operation varsity blues. deal with china and words have a sting back in march. the feds charge 50 people sent the markets on violent including hollywood stars and swings, but they are just words. the wealthy with paying hundreds there is no ch
slow encroachment of china into the affairs of hong kong and the lessens of freedom within hong kong. the global business community has to be worried about this. hong kong, along with everything else, is the only place in china where there s rule of law. that governs contracts for business and doing business in china. it s critical, very dangerous when that is under threat. shepard: this escalation at the hong kong airport comes on the day that president trump blinked in his easy to win trade war. is that coincidental or is there significance? the president is thinking how do i play this? i don t want to antagonize xi jinping when i m trying to get a trade deal with the chinese, even if it s a fig leaf going to the election season. i need to resolve this situation with china. do i stand up now for the people of china and antagonize xi
there comes to a point where you know about your vulnerability. this is not the end of trouble and he ll get rid of family members and we all know problems to come. it is a soap opera with characters dropping off. matthew leaves and hope hicks leaves but there is going to be more people leaving and more trouble. after starting a trade war yesterday, he just did it yesterday, the president tweeted today, how easy is it to win trade war, did you know that? he wrote. when a country is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good and easy to win. example, when we are down $100 billion with certain country, and they get cute, don t trade anymore, we can win big. it is easy! let s watch him talk. i am not worried of 60 votes.
to focus on in this debate, on this particular question, is the steady degradation of our security posture in the pacific rim. the australian navy engaged in exercises with the chinese and excluded us. a dramatic shift in the australian policy. they re pushing the envelope on issues from taiwan to trade to intellectual property. sit a profound threat. not just to the vitality of our economy and innovation and manufacturing businesses, but also to our safety and security to have widespread counterfeiting of everything from pharmaceuticals to aircraft parts to garments going on in china without our standing up and fighting against that in trade war we re out of time are you saying that china i m sorry, we re going to close out this conversation and move on to student questions. first up, we have a question from a student who brings us the issue of don t ask, don t tell.