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Communist party. so this looks somewhat inevitable. president trump said they hope they're going to work it out. i don't know what he's thinking necessarily. but it doesn't look clear there's a natural sort of accord on the horizon. >> by the way, american companies, western companies many of which have their headquarters in hong kong, some of them are reconsidering that, going to singapore, where they have more predictability about how things are going to go. >> that is what could potentially actually get beijing to maybe even intervene here and say, hey, hong kong, hey, why don't we do this ...

Stifle dissent in hong kong like it does across the mainland. it's why many chose hong kong to host their business meetings. joining us now to take a closer look at this is mark hannah, a senior fellow as the awe raisa group. what is china trying to achieve here? >> china is trying to consolidate its power and move hong kong, a region that came back from british rule in 1997 under the domain of its political power. it's unclear, though, that even -- that this is a directive right from president xi jingping coming out of beijing, the chief executive of hong kong is -- this is being done at her ...

>> look how narrow that is. that is the important thing to see. >> russia says they were forced to act because the boats were illegally in the territorial waters. >> joining us is mark hannah, a research fellow at a nonprofit to focus on u.s. foreign territory. >> can i go first? >> yes, please. >> why is this a big deal? >> russia and ukraine has been battling in the outskirts for four years now and not really been in the news but this represents an escalation or the most kind of conspicuous aggression by russia, russian navy against neighbor ukraine and the united states has a friendship wit...

Fitting for the attorney general to appear there. i've written two letters to senator grassley suggesting that. sessions ought to come back before the judiciary committee. >> senator dianne feinstein suggesting that he should testify before the senate intelligence committee today. democrats agree the investigations into russian hacking election should go forward full steam ahead. they're not on the same page as to who should be in charge and the end game. let's look at the politics of this with lynn smith, ron darling who worked with rand paul on the hill and democratic political analyst mark ...

38% say they are just right. ari, what that shows you is that republicans are still behind him. they are keeping his numbers in that 24% to 38% range. but when you go toe to toe with the former fbi director and if you are going to win you would like the numbers higher than what we're seeing right now. >> what comes across in the numbers you have, mark, is that the credibility issue is a divide but on the what happened, people are largely in polarized corners. stay with me. i want to add john harwood. on the public opinion side, it takes a lot to move people. we know that. it's early yet from t...