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They will threaten to follow through on their own with the tariffs the president's been talking about. but a lot of it is still up in the air. but for now the 5% tariff on american goods is suspended. >> mike, can you tell us about the beef one more time about flying the pride flag since it's pride month? >> yes, it's a controversy now that there were embassies around the world in israel and germany and latvia wanted to flalg the pride flag at the center of the ground, most visible place on the embassy grounds and the state department said no, we're not going to do it. notwithstanding the fact...

Elizabeth warren, who were right from the beginning on this issue. they're free to do. that's what primaries are about. sexually it's a flip in the right direction so we should give him a small amount of credit for that. >> rick, let's listen to exactly how joe biden laid out his new position on the hyde amendment. take a listen to what he said on thursday. >> i can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right. if i believe health care is right as i do, i can no longer support an amendment that makes...

Personally opposed to abortion. you could be morally opposed to a lot of things. i don't want my tax dollars to solitary confinement, the death penalty. but i'm an american and my tax dollars are going to those things. abortion is health care. you can be personally opposed to it. don't have one. but your believes should not dictate of rights of women in this country and that is why the democratic party has this position at this time and joe biden did the right thing here. >> okay. since you guys are both agreeing, i'm just going to call it a day on this saturday. rick and serena, thank you zer...

And germany asked the state department for permission during this, pride month internationally, to fly the pride flag at the embassy on their flagpole. the state department said no, we won't let you do it. you can fly it elsewhere within the embassy grounds. you can take part of festivities and observances of pride month but you cannot fly it from the main flagpole. especially interesting because in the case of germany, the american ambassador there, rick vernal, a close ally of president trump, openly gay individual, most senior openly gay individual in the entire trump administration and lea...

Reasonable mainstream position, including by many in the democratic party. it is no longer seen by many democrats in the base as a reasonable mainstream position. so there was a backlash for that story. two days later he came out with the reframe. there are certain cases abortion is medically necessary but by and large, abortion is not a necessary procedure, and, therefore, putting it, reframing it as health care is a reversal from what his previous position was. that is the hyde amendment disallowed federal funds, people who don't want their money used in the taking of innocent life, he rever...