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That people are being blocked from attending school, including harvard, because they can't get back into the united states. we're in kind of this escalated cold war that no one wanted to get into. >> clint, just given the friendliness that president trump has shown towards vladimir putin, is it surprising at all that a member of the president's party, ron johnson, is one of those being denied admission by the russians? >> yeah, it's one of the more surprising things because you just watched the president here with the g7 basically going to bat for vladimir putin. essentially skipping over all ...

And the president may not like to acknowledge that. but we do. and we've gotten into a scenario where the president's foreign policy strategy, so to speak, of embracing dictators and adver sierras, whether it's north korea or russia, is not working. because as he does that, they continue to feel emboldened to do things like this. and now international travel of elected officials is impacted. and we have no standing to fight back because this president, our president, has actually blocked entry for people. and we've heard reports today that people are being blocked from attending school, includ...

Christmas party there. apparently they are saying they have clearance, barr does, from the doj's ethics officials on this. but still,@pearns there, i imagine, could raise some questions for some folks. >> you know, i was surprised to see senator rubio, who has stood up to the president now and then when he does the wrong thing, i guess he's from florida, and he's supportive of this for miami. but this is another potential -- probably definite violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution that the president took an oath to defend. and he's just -- you know, he's not shy about this. he ...

We were talking earlier. these republican challengers need oxygen. did trump just give them a little bit of it? >> yes. i mean, donald trump is not known for his self-control on these things. the whole hope for a joe walsh, for any of these other potential challengers, for bill weld, is that donald trump pays any attention to them. right? his entire political apparatus has been trying to seal up the nominating process so these guys can't get delegates, so they can't make noise at the convention. he doesn't have to pay attention to them. but as he shows tonight and i think he will show in the f...

The last day that trump didn't attend. that was the subject that had blown him up before. and i think he went out of his way to flatter president trump. everyone was just sort of committed ahead of time that they would not allow anything to explode at the meeting. and that they would smile and go about their business. not expect any big deliverables. and hopefully get out of it unscathed. >> robert, we also mentioned there at the top the condition, the sort of reality for american farmers a year or so into this trade war with china. given the importance of sort of the agricultural rural consti...