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The challenge for the trump administration is how do you change the dynamics in a way that motivates the chinese without overly aggravating them, because we do need them. china is the economic and diplomatic lifelong for north korea, and you have to change their calculus. >> juan, good to see you. thanks as always for giving us some clarity on this. okay. words matter, the president's words matter a lot. friday will mark 33 years since the joke haerld around the world. here is tom brokaw back in 1984. >> the president was joking his way through an auto chk on august 11 erd. >> and i signed l...

Connection between what's going on in the real economy and what's going on in the stock market. so i don't think it's -- the decline in the market is really a harbinger of weakness in the economy. the exchange rate on august 11 was teeny, and there's been almost no change in the last seven trading days. the r&b has gone back to being rock solid against the dollar. >> nick, thank you very much for being with me. i appreciate your perspective, i really do. thanks. i want to bring if matt phillips, markets and finance editor at quartz. he joins me by phone. good morning to you, sir. >> good morni...

If, in my first term, ferguson had flared up as president of the united states i would have been commenting on what was happening in ferguson. >> michael brown's death was the first in a series of police-involved killings that got national attention to this extent. cnn's sara sidner looks back. >> reporter: the shooting death of michael brown by a ferguson, missouri police officer on august 9, 2014, reignited a worldwide debate about race in america. brown's death also spurred a movement to change the relationship between law enforcement and people of color. the hashtag #blacklivesmatter which...

>> teachers like terry, held class here. >> it's traumatic time for people here. >> yes. >> it still is. >> yes. >> and joining me is the director of the public library. scott, with a welcome to you, you stad open when so many others were gripped by fear in your city. good morning. alex, i have a responsibility to do whatever i can to help them out. every day i would make an assessment whether i was safe to open the library and every day, except for one on august 11, every day the assessment was yes, and so we did. >> you got so much support. financial, emotional. how much money have you guys ...

We have done a large piece of spending reduction. the budget control act of august '11, you remember that, that froze discretionary spending for ten years. that picked up a trillion dollars or so over the ten years. that's not small change. and in addition to that, the various continuing resolutions have cut discretionary spending. so, it's not the problem. the problem is the entitlements and taxes. so, that's what they ought to be talking about. >> what do you think of simpson/bowles revisited this slightly scaled back plan they unveiled yesterday? >> it's the right idea. they are saying exac...