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Together. they want to have the votes to get the democrats on board. it becomes, the chuck schumer shutdown because he can't deliver. >> the issue for the republican house, here in the waning weeks of the republican house. if you're not sending you are receiving. you better be sending for you and your inbox will be filling up. house republicans come up they can pass something then they can maybe not have the whip. they could be in a position where they have more negotiating leverage. on the other hand, if they can't pass anything, this $5 billion thing, it will be spread out over five years. i...

Consumers. that being said there is an argument the president is trying to negotiate from a position of strength and show the chinese he is not afraid to have tariffs on. and so perhaps he has more negotiating leverage and strength than any other president has had and maybe he will drive a better bargain. if the result is lower tariffs. the president said that's what he is fofrment and more free trade. i'm be happy it happened. if it devolves into a trade war i'm saying we shouldn't have done this. that's where i am at this point. >> sandra: very interesting. as far as russian tensions, they c...

Russia off the hook for now until we've seen in the past him seem to go side with russia and the ukraine crisis, seeming to side with putin, yet there will be huge pressure from his own national security establishment to call out russia on this. >> and, of course, it's ahead of the g20 summit. >> you're talking about closely following the president comments when it comes to that, but you're watching it when it comes to china and tariffs, as well. so you've been doing some digging on that. >> that's right. we saw that "wall street journal" interview that the president the had. you read between ...

Because of worries about more. so china is clearly worried about this. trump has negotiating leverage. the danger is he may overplay his hand and generate an angry backlash from china. >> here's the problem. on one hand, the entire world would have backed the united states if we were addressing the real concern about china, mostly of around intellectual property rights. the president went a different way and decided to start a trade war with all sorts of people. china has other tools it can use. but america is china's best customer and china holds a lot of american currency in bonds. so the to...

President can help him. all of those details will come out. i would say this in terms of negotiating leverage for cohen, i don't think this is part of it -- we don't know what's on the recording -- if the point of the leak is to reveal that the president knew about it. i don't think you will do that much political harm to trump. this is priced in. this is assumed. as much with the case of trump and the sex worker stormy daniels. it's not that it's fine. it's priced in. i don't know this has the shock value there. the question is there legal exposure. >> if you read the text of the story what t...