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That is. it does seem xi jinping has learned from france's emanuel macron, knowing donald trump likes a show. this is a case of flatter the ego and win the heart? >> yeah, i think we need to keep in mind, though, john, unlike russia, china under xi jinping has a real interest in the united states maintaining political stability and international strength. i think there are probably many opportunities for xi jinping during the last year to bake president trump, to try to get him to do something he might regret that might cause the united states to lose face or suffer some soft power hits intern...

Problem. donald trump is a president who deals one on one in a transactional manner with countries. he doesn't work well in groups. >> he's not a collaborator. someone who knows how to build consensus. >> doesn't play well with others. >> he campaigned on the guy to be isolationist, to get us out of wars. now he's throwing threats all over the place. that's the challenge when you're donald trump is alienating your allies, whether nato allies, canada, mexico, you name it. he's cozying up to dictators like vladimir putin. there are massive global issues like north korea that need to be tackled t...

Have torn this country apart. >> so john, that's it, it's all going to be friendly and nice from now on, no more gutter politics we've seen the last year or so. >> who would have thought this guy would think his election was the pivotal moment in american politics that changed the direction of the country? they have a screwy system where they have term limits, you can only serve one four-year term. the democrat incumbent is popular, his lieutenant governor ran and was leaked. i don't see this change is the course of american politics. i will say this, that the white people with college degrees...

Like china look at themselves in the mirror, if you will, and continue to support a regime that brutally starves its own people that puts them in forced labor camps that tortures political prisoners. how can you continue to support that regime, not only from a political security standpoint but from a moral argument standpoint? whether that lands here in china, whether that changes things at all, that's to be seen, it probably won't. but that gives maybe a glimpse into donald trump's thinking, what is he going to argue, how is he going to try to change xi jinping's mind and get china to use eco...

For, republicans won 4 of 4 house seats, with the economy doing record numbers we will continue to win even bigger than before. this is second time in the past few months the president has backed a losing candidate. what is the impact of this loss for a president who's already badly weakened? >> president trump is still trying to get some of his agenda through congress. and if he gets a win there, all of this goes away. you have these little wins and little losses along the way. the bottom line is if his agenda moves forward, if he's able to for example get the tax legislation through, i think...