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event marking the 70th anniversary of the nato military alliance. president trump and a lot of world leaders here in this city right now. earlier today. he met with the nato secretary general yawn saltenberg. yes, the press time was free willing domestic politics dealt with he blasted the democrats and the impeachment hearings. he did turn to foreign affairs. he said a china trade deal might be delayed and he kept the pressure on both nato and the eu, the european union for not playing fair on funding or trade, take a listen. and i m changing that and i m changing it fairly rapidly. but it s not it s not right to be taken advantage of on nato and also then to be taken advantage of on trade. that s what happens. we re talking to the european union and we re talking to various countries about nato. we are talking about the european union about trade. and they have to shape up, otherwise, things are going
ainsley: if they had just looked at this phone call and said we have a problem with it. impeach. quid pro quo that s one thing. they have been saying impeach since day one. even before he took the oath. brian: blew up the put when he was at the u.n. meetings with suck stanive bilaterals and say we are going to have impeachment inquiry and they did it again at nato. the president is going to move forward. meanwhile one of the topics brought up at 4:30 eastern time in the morning. i don t blame you if you were not up. we were. one of the questions was btz trade deal. president courageous. he wants this deal done. it means a lot to the economy the farmers and manufacturers. sees the possibility of these hong kong protesters getting steam rolled without our support. answered went and signed ton bipartisan legislation supporting the hong kong protesters. the chinese didn t like that. instead of the president even addressing that he ignored it and said when it comes to the chinese trade deal
do i want to make it? because we re doing very well with china right now and we can do even better with the flick of a pen. and china is paying for it. we will see what happens. we are doing very well right now. i have no deadline, no. in some ways, i like the used of waiting until after the election for the china deal. but they want to make a deal now. and we will see whether or not the deal is going to be right. it s gout to be right. look, china has been ripping off the united states for many, many years. ainsley: don t you think it s so obvious he is negotiating? i doubt he is going to wait a year for that but, if you watch the markets as he was making that announcement. all of the arrows were down, down, down. the mankts dropped when he made that announcement. steve: keep in mind less than a year for now he is up for a general re-election. he needs a china deal. he doesn t want to wait until afterwards. stuart varney says the president right there wassing iniating and yosingwasn.
that this was a witch hunt, and i will focus on the big things in america wants me to stay focused on. that was the right tone. he does not need to be the principal communicator on this, let trey gowdy or somebody else be the principal communicator. he is the press of should be spending his time, his energy, and his public profile with the big things than america is concerned about like the chinese trade deal, that will be the best contrast. dana: the last word about minnesota, the president going for a rally, the trump campaign thinks that that is a state that they could flip in 2020. strategically a good move? when you run for reelection, you have to keep building the board off of what you had last time around. if you take a look at it, this is the state ranked by the closeness of the outcome, red state trumps state, blue state, hillary state. it s the second closest most narrow victory of hillary clinton, in 2012 it was the 11th closest, this time