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We buy a lot more from them than they buy from us. but they control their economy and they have a lot of different pieces they can move around and even apart from the actual trade pieces, i'm not sure you want to go into a trade war with somebody that you owe $1.2 trillion to because there's a lot of stuff they could do there. the stuff they could do geo politically. david may want to talk about the south china sea. we're trying to get china to help with north korea. i don't think the nature of the chinese is to confront them and put them in a position where they can't lose face is a dangerous...

The problem is the fatigue. for example, the washington post has done a series of stories not just about, you know, the scott pruitt scandals and embarrassments but about how the trump administration has undermined the basic hidden functis of the government, whether it's the department of agriculture, whether it's the department of health and human services, whether it's making decisions in court, for example, not to defend the pre-existing conditions regulation. all of this really important stuff is going on in terms of what the government is doing that is getting drowned out by the pruitt st...

Who have been put into the government who are people who don't believe in those functions of the government and want to undermine them, whether it's letting the pay day lenders, you know, go back to charging 100% interest a week. it's all that stuff that we're not able to pay attention to. >> my concern is that we're not always telling the big picture story. we're telling lots and lots of hour by hour stories about trump and changes in government. here's what jay rosen wrote about the big picture of what's going on. he's a big trump critic. he said the marginalization of science, contempt for ...