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many of the ones that are have already announced they re retiring but basically house republicans don t really care. nagt they re probably anxious to have the fight because they re in safe seats anyway, but it is in a different senate which of course where the trial will be held. if the president is impeached. in arizona, he s under water by five points, that s the state where republican martha mcsally will pea running to keep her senate seat next year. in maine, under water by 13 points where susan collins is already among democrats top to flip the senate seat. and in colorado where the president is under water by 15 points. and cory gardener is another vulnerable republican senator up in 2020. those republican senators are facing a very real chance they re going to have to vote to say yes, it was fine the president attempted to use american foreign policy to coerce a foreign power to investigate his political rival. believe me, it s not a vote they want to take.
we have breaking news from hong kong. a big victory for the protesters that have been taking to the streets there for months. the chief executive announced she will fully withdraw that extradition bill that sparked 13 weeks of often violent protests and triggered a political crisis in the territory. a withtrawl is just one of the protesters demands. they wanted carrie lamb to step down. she refused also an investigation into police conduct and more autonomy from the chinese government. james mattis is speaking to cnn for the first time since he resigned from the trump administration. what gives you nightmares? what keeps you up at nagt? his answer next. spending time together, sometimes means doing nothing at all.
often happen when he is with other world leaders. why does he struggle with this? well, i mean, it was so interesting to listen to david recount his recollections of and sam too, recollections of previous g-7s and g-8s one of the ways the meetings were useful to the united states was an opportunity not just for one stop shopping which is a great way to describe it. it was a chance for the united states to exercise leadership over the west. at some point this group was called the steer committee for the west. president trump shows no interest in exercising leadership over the west or really over any group. he is constantly have youing the rest of the world as rivals all the time. in fact if he is close to any country it would be russia and turkey and saudi arabia. niece meetings supposed to bring about consensus and a joint approach to a problem are anagt
the economy may not be such a great talking point anymore. and the thing i m really worried about going forward is who he s going to scapegoat for all of this. he s already been scapegoating the fed. historically the presidents do not talk about the fed at all. instead he s trying to blame them, question their abilities and he s compromising their political independence. and beyond that, you know, they don t have a plan for what to do if things go wrong, and they could go wrong. we have this clown car of economic advisers one who will be on the show later. i m sure he ll appreciate that if he s listening right now. i ve been open there s no economists on record who support his views on trade. but it s not just him, you have a guy who plays an economist on tv, a former hollywood producer. this is not the dream team who will be handling a crisis if we face one. and beyond that, there just aren t that many tools left to deal with a recession if nagt we