doubt that the republicans are in better shape because of it. chris: philippe, you can see the republicans and president pushing this idea. they re dangerous. don t give a match to an arsonist. they re crazy. forget the republican talking point. in your view, do democrats take a risk of being seen as too extreme, the mob? with that conceivably hurt them in the midterms? first, sitting here as a democrat but i am confused because a few weeks ago, i was the snowflake of the party of snowflakes.suddenly we are in a remodel of terrorists. to the point you are asking, it doesn t really matter at this point whether we are as rageful because we been billed as rageful. i would say the notion when we go high, stay high. that should have died on november 8, 2016. the anger among the democratic party is genuine.
doubt that the republicans are in better shape because of it. chris: philippe, you can see the republicans and president pushing this idea. they re dangerous. don t give a match to an arsonist. they re crazy. forget the republican talking point. in your view, do democrats take a risk of being seen as too extreme, the mob? with that conceivably hurt them in the midterms? first, sitting here as a democrat but i am confused because a few weeks ago, i was the snowflake of the party of snowflakes.suddenly we are in a remodel of terrorists. to the point you are asking, it doesn t really matter at this point whether we are as rageful because we been billed as rageful. i would say the notion when we go high, stay high. that should have died on november 8, 2016. the anger among the democratic party is genuine.
republican. this question about what happens if democrats take the house, is a big cloud over this white house. democrats will have subpoena power. they will be launching as they already said, a whole raft of investigations. not just intimate what bob mueller has been looking at. trumps taxes. financial dealings of other people in the administration in the cabinet. this is something that would dominate 2019 for the president. particularly because he hasn t done a good job of laying out what his legislative agenda would be in a divided government. he has ideas on infrastructure and criminal justice reform but there s nothing really proactive that he s pushing. the white house, because they are understaffed, they don t have the infrastructure in place to deal with a lot of democratic investigations. chris: meanwhile, especially
chinese coast. so who is on the offensive, who is on the defensive? this is very clear. arms sales to taiwan, this is a good example of american intervention into chinese internal affairs. chris: let s talk about north korea. does china agree with north korean leader kim that any states he takes toward denuclearization must be matched by u.s. concessions on the other side. how do you respond to allegations, even by president trump that china has relaxed its sanctions against north korea and is allowing goods to flow into north korea? looks china has voted in favor of the un securitycouncil resolutions . we are - - chris: you have not relaxed them? we will implement them. chris: do you think the
mike pompeo in beijing this week in which top chinese officials said they would quote, take all necessary measures to safeguard your country. how far is china prepared to go in terms of standing up to the u.s.? i think it s the legitimate right of ever country to defend its national interests. and china is no exception. but the talks that secretary mike pompeo had in beijing was a very good communication at high level between the two sides and it s very timely. chris: let s unpack some of this and let s start with the allegation of election meddling. vice president mike pence is china is specifically targeting tariffs to hurt republican voters to turn them away from voting for republican candidates and president trump in 2020. he says you re putting propaganda mailers and u.s.