That china continues to grows an economy in a world such as this, it has made it increasingly tough for American Workers and american manufacturers. So you can imagine there will be a lot on the agenda, certainly from an economic standpoint. North korea as well being a big issue that the president will be looking to get the chineses help on. Other issues like intellectual property being a big sticking concern for the u. S. China effectively stealing a lot of our technology and intellectual property has long been an issue, and, of course, the currency itself, the yuan has not appreciated in ways that the u. S. Would like to see. A number of our treasure secretaries have made that point as well, of course, as President Trump. There they are, theyre getting in the car, the motorcade is going to go off. Rex tillerson seeing them off here as they head to maralago where theyre going to begin these meetings. Hes there, as you just saw with his wife by his side, and theyll be sitting down with President Trump. Theres a lot to discuss as i pointed out. This has been a big issue on the campaign front, and donald trump sort of pointed out that as chinas economy has grown, we have effectively dwindled. Are they eating our lunch . Were going to talk all about that. We have Peter Kiernan, whos going to be joining me, bestselling author and wrote a book very critical of some of chinas policies. So well be talking some more about that. I am joined right now by Ford Oconnell, whos a republican strategist, and i just want to point out, ford, this is a message, Donald Trumps message that was very antichina that definitely resonated on the campaign trail. Now you get him sitting down at the meeting, and, you know, you cant exactly spout off some of the things you said to your supporters out there in the rust belt. What do you anticipate will come of this . What do you anticipate will be the opening line from donald trump . China and the u. S. Need to Work Together to shut down the north korean Weapons Program. Look, the only people that can do this is china, and basically, donald trump has to find out the right sticks and carrots with regard to economic trade, potential sanctions to make sure this happens. Right now north koreas Weapons Program is a clear and present danger not only to the United States but the rest of the world, thats going to be issue number one. Issue number two as you pointed out is trade, and the fact that basically were running a 300 billion trade deficit to china and have to make sure americans can compete in the Global Market and at home to put people back to work here. Trish i want to break this down. Youre talking about north korea. If we are to get chinese cooperation on north korea, doesnt it make it harder for us to sit there and say, listen, you need to do more to appreciate your currency. You need to make it easier for american businesses to be active in china and got to knock it off with the intellectual property stealing. If they want their cooperation on one thing, how do we get them to do what we want on others . This is where trump has to draw on his big selling point. He is the chief negotiator in the art of the deal. There is a lot at play, and north korea, it has to do with patent laws, steel dumping, a lot here, and donald trump is going to have to find a way to make china understand that we can Work Together to improve both countries. You know, one of the other things i want to point out here. One of the reasons why china doesnt want to put pressure on north korea is because theyre concerned about a refugee situation themselves from north korea. So theres a lot going on here. Trish indeed, stay with me, ford. We are joined by Peter Kiernan, he is the author of a book called becoming chinas can i say it . Bitch. You have concerns about our relationship, peter, you voiced them in this book, what do you think needs to happen as we confront the north korean threat and the economic threat. I agree with the commentary this is a very layered and complicated relationship. And most important is for these two men to form some sort of relationship. Right now they dont know each other terribly well, theyre quite a bit alike. Trish really . President x going through tough times, he was one of maos good buddies and fell out of favor, and he went to live on the farm, so to speak, he is completely out, he went from the top of society to the bottom, and tried very hard, applied five times to get in the communist party and only on the fifth try did they let him back. He had to work from the bottom to the top of the organization. Trish he has something in common with donald trump because hes an outsideer . They are business guys, struggle, know how to make a deal. These are people who understand. Just to put it in context, donald trump is make a lot of exciting noise about the trillion dollars he plans to spend on infrastructure over the next ten years. Put that in xi jinping, period for four, five years, in each of those years, he spent over a trillion dollars in each of those years on infrastructure. Trish okay a man after Donald Trumps own heart. He understands how to build his plan for the next 15 years to spend a trillion dollars per annum every year on infrastructure. They have a lot to understand, there are prickly issues between them. Trish you think about china and the stumlues spends has not performed all that well. You heard of the ghost cities, cities in china that they built with Infrastructure Spending funds from the state and no one lives there. Thats the fear, right . When you allow government to spend that much, do you run that risk that none of this even gets used or its not the appropriate allocation of capital . Heres the appropriate allocation of capital is the exact right question, trish, because what hes decided is im going to wager all in on china. So they are in the process of building 70 airports right now. Do they need 70 airports . Probably not. But the reason theyre building the ghost cities as a perfect example is 15 Million People a year are moving from the provinces, from the farms to the city. So imagine, thats in new york, chicago, l. A. Being created every single year. Theyre building in advance of this. Why . The whole country is betting on one thing. Of the g7 or the g20, china wants to be g1. Trish this is where it gets tricky because we have held that spot for a good long time, and now were in jeopardy of losing it to china. Anyway, im going to see you again in a bit. More china to talk about. Thank you so much, Peter Kiernan, ford. Stay with me, the other big story is the Senate Leader triggering the Nuclear Option political showdown on capitol hill as the left aims to undermine our democracy. But whats it going to cost them . Our own adam shapiro in washington. Reporter the vote to confirm neil gorsuch as next justice on the Supreme Court will most likely take place between 5 00 and 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow friday. It invoked what many people call the Nuclear Option. This is just simply a parliamentary procedure that lowered the threshold to end debate on a Supreme Court nominee and prevent filibusters on Supreme Court nominees like the one democrats were using to prevent a vote on judge gorsuch. Marity leader Mitch Mcconnell said democrats actually forced the issue. Our democratic colleagues have done something that is unprecedented in the history of the senate. Unfortunately, it has brought us to this point. We need to restore the norms and traditions of the senate and get past this unprecedented partisan filibuster. Reporter well, the old threshold required 60 votes to end debate, requires now a simple majority, 51 votes, after invoking the Nuclear Option, the senate voted 55 in favor, 45 against to avoid cloture and filibuster, and moved toward a vote on judge gorsuch, that could happen late tomorrow afternoon or evening. He is expected to be confirmed. The big question now is filibuster remains at a 60vote threshold on legislative issues. They say that will stay intact for now. The future could be in jeopardy as both sides get ready to do battle, trish . Trish all right, were ready for it. Thank you so much, adam shapiro. Joining me now republican strategist Ford Oconnell back with us and radio talk show host ethan berman. Ill tell you one thing, i know this, americans do not like obstruction, if you poll the average american, you know who they hate the most beside the media . Maybe bankers, wall street . They really hate congress, they dont like the fact politicians get to washington and dont get anything done. Let me ask you, given all the hostility to judge gorsuch on the left and the confirmation process, is that going to cost them . Politically . No, i dont think i dont think will, because lets go back t2013or a second, the republicans who filibustered 10 other cabinet level nominees and ended the filibuster on that. I think its good to end the filibuster when the president wants to put people in positions of power, according to our constitution, he needs consent of the senate. Never said he needs 60 votes in the senate. Trish you misunderstood me. But i just wonder, isnt this going to cost democrats here . In other words, democrats that were getting in the way of the process . Their constituencies know that they basically forced republicans into having to use this Nuclear Option, and even if you say hey, its time to use it, the point is these guys forced them to do so. Just like the republicans did 3 1 2 years ago did it hurt the republicans . No, its not going to hurt the democrats, fires up their base. The Republican Base is fired up. The Democratic Base is fired up. I dont think this hurts anybody, i think it moves our country forward and is a good thing in the end. Trish your take on it, ford . I like ethans revised history. Actually the democrats started this under george w. Bush, filibustering his lower Court Nominations and in 2013 harry reid invoked the Nuclear Option. The republicans had no choice because essentially if the democrats werent going to accept gorsuch, who were they going to accept . And what never gets explained on tv, everyone hears about the lower federal courts and what harry reid did. The lower federal courts and the United StatesSupreme Court are interconnected. A lower federal court crafts the case, that outcome has a direct bearing on the United StatesSupreme Court regardless whether you have nine conservatives or nine liberals up there. I think this is a bad day overall, whats going to wind up happening going forward, a shortrun victory for the republicans but well have justices who no longer are bipartisan who are going to be far more ideological, every United States senate seat up for grabs is a referendum on the Supreme Court. Trish in this case, the Nuclear Option the conservatives favor, because they have donald trump there for the next nearly four years. If we have Justice Ginsburg or Justice Breyer get off there. This could wind up affecting the legislative filibuster, that could be good for republicans right now but bad for america in the long run. What looks good today does not look good tomorrow, and the democrats will get back there anyhow. Trish ethan, you are shaking your head, why. I dont agree. The legislative filibuster is in place, i disagree with ford, that were going to have political judges . This is an utterly misrepresented by so many people, including people who should know better, former attorneys general coming on tv and talking about this. There is a fundamental split among the legal community, among professors, lawyers, judges, about how to interpret the constitution. We make it political because thats how we like to talk about it, but its about how you interpret the constitution. There is a split, and some people like it one way, some like it the other. As weve seen with many Supreme Court justices, they change over time too. Trish im out of time. Got leave it there. To your point, yes, there are different ways of interpreting it. I think it should be pretty straightforward, you just need to uphold the law, dont need to make the law, dont need to be look at the constitution in a way that can remake the world in your eyes. Just read the law, uphold the law, thats all that is asked of you. I want to take a quick market check. Up 60 points on the dow in positive territory. If we can show you an intraday chart, i can show you what happened as paul ryan came forward and said it looks Like Health Care will get done that. Is front and center on the agenda, and the market was really struggling as we began the day, but it was a reversal, and we are just off the highs of the session right now at 20,708. President trump says normer National Security adviser susan rice may have committed a crime by unmasking the identities of Trump Associates who were swept up in surveillance of foreign officials. 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Trish breaking today everyone, representative devin nunes is stepping aside from the russian probe after the left cries foul saying he is nothing but a distraction from the whole investigation. All of this as President Trump tells the New York Times that he believes susan rice may have committed a crime when she unmasked the identities for Trump Officials. Take a look here, front page of the New York Times, guess what . No mention of this story. You have to go all the way to page 15 where they just bury it altogether, and check out this headline, i want to show you, turning to page 15, it says trump offering no evidence suggests rights committed a crime. Joining me Jordan Sekulow and fred weiss, justice security fellow. We know where the media is coming from when it comes to donald trump. The New York Times had this, they had this quote from him and didnt seem toanto run it. They didnt nt him saying that she may have committed a crime. When they ran the headline, they said offering no evidence, he says, that she might have committed a crime and buried it on page 15. Okay, so we know theyre biased. Let me ask you about the truth, however. Could she have committed a crime . Jordan, first to you. Yeah, absolutely. And theres a number of provisions. One if she was under the color of law, using fisa surveillance to do something improper. Thats a crime. Five years in prison. If the surveillance wasnt legitimate. That wasnt done for foreign reasons, foreign surveillance, wasnt done for National Security reasons, that could be a crime itself, and sharing it with people that are unauthorized that shouldnt get the info. A separate crime. Then the espionage act, the leaking part. If shes tied to the leaking, thats a 10year. Yes, there are definitely potential for criminal conduct here. Thats why there should be a grand jury impanelled to look at people like susan rice, loretta lynch, remember the executive order signed the final 17 days of the Obama Administration, signed a new executive order for, when, the new administration that expands the raw intelligence thats shared with intelligence agencies from one agency, the nsa to 16 other intelligence agencies. What . They did that for donald trump . I dont think so. Trish if she did this for the political gain, she could be facing real problems. Fred, let me ask you, because youre from the intelligence community. If something was that serious, if you were really concerned about an individual in the Trump Campaign, wouldnt it be that the cia or the nsa or someone in an official nonpolitical arm of our government would actually come forward with this . Why would it be up to why would it be up to her to reveal the name . First of all, if susan rice had a problem about someone in the Trump Campaign committing a crime, she should have informed the justice department. Concerning Donald Trumps tweet that she may have committed a crime. Were talking about the demasking of names from nsa reports. Lot of people think that must be a crime because apparently multiple