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Policymakers? how is a policy maker expected to listen to you? >> we're trying to make and change and get our voices up so they'll listen to us. >> maybe the kids will lead the way. on the ground in new york city. hallie. >> quite literally. you're in dc in our neck of the woods. things are just kind of getting started and picking up over there, right? >> reporter: that's right, hallie. the march here is slated to begin at 11:00 a.m. and you can already see dozens of young people starting to gather. we saw the powerful pictures coming out of australia and berlin, the uk, new york city. here in...

Generated around the world. >> the other day our great hostage negotiator made the statement that trump is the greatest hostage negotiator this country has ever had. you know what kwe? so i put it out. why not? you know, a lot of times if you're not going to brag about it, nobody else is, you might as well do it. >> is there more than that, that this is someone who has won the preside president's favor? is it proof we're going back to an older fashion of the nsc where the national security advisor pulls in everybody's opinion as more of a coordinator, not himself a policy maker. >> robert o'br...

Continually in crisis, where there is no logic, no thought, no system of working collectively with allies, and bolton, you know, he's one i guess the president liked him, he was trying to go along. also at some point, so, we got to and this president i don't think that he's capable of changing to have a? an administration that is able to put together individuals that he will listen to and -- he said it, himself. he is going to just do things on his own. he doesn't really need anybody. that's what he said. >> one republican told -- one republican senator told laura fox my colleague lawmakers cl...

Meeting. you could argue maybe that other democracies, these other leaders are getting more effective at managing trump. that does seem to be what's happening. they are moving forward without him on key issues. >> tell us, michael, you spent a lot of time in europe covering u.s. -- u.s. relationship with its key allies here. tell us the significance of the best result from a meeting of america with its closest allies in europe when the best result is u.s. allies managing the president so as to avoid open and embarassing disagreements? >> good to be with you. it's an unbelievable time right now...

Holding us back. mark zandy joins us live from westchester, pennsylvania. mark, let's set the tweets aside for a second. we now have now a very real, more real prospect of recession. on noneconomic terms, are there pieces on the chess board that the president or any other policy maker can move to prevent that, or are we getting close to the point where the snowball is going down the hill and you just can't stop it? >> yeah, sure, the president could tweet that he had a call with president xi of china and they came to some kind of arrangement and they're going to wind down the trade war. i don'...