this is a government that really won t be able to move on much that they don t have a consensus on. and let s talk about yair lapid, essentially the architect of this coalition. what role will he play, and crucially, how much influence will he continue to hold, to try and hold this coalition together, just basically? well, yair lapid is being sworn in today as the alternate prime minister. this is a very strange construct that we came up with about a year ago. and in about two years, he will automatically become prime minister. the question is if his government that he, yes, helped put together can last for two years. now, his party has only 17 out of 120 seats in the parliament. in other words, to get to the 61 majority that he needs today, he had to make a lot of compromises. and much of that, much of the glue that has brought them together, is on the one hand the compromises he made, but on the other hand, the hatred for
and that s about legitimacy. you have to believe things are free and fair and you have to have an equal voice. there are fundamental issues of democracy that you have to have consensus on. there should be checks and balances in the legislature that cou cou counteract the powers of the executive. they were fundamental to american values. you could argue that they re built in. it s the dna of america. but increasingly what we can see is that that faith in democracy and in the legitimacy of the government has been eroded, and the things you were talking about earlier, the way the former president is pushing back on the idea that this was a legitimate election, again, this has been going on since the november ballots were cast, since the courts went through it and said basically there was no fraud, and yet you get that constant drumbeat in media, and
additional tariffs on each other s goods. chinese consumers will soon be able to afford cars from the u.s. again. beijing is reducing current import duties on u.s. vehicles from forty to fifteen percent tariffs will also disappear for a number of other u.s. products the regulations apply to the first three months of twenty nine nine hundred ninety agricultural products energy automobiles except her are among the items that china in the u.s. have reached consensus on. the new regulations are music to the ears for u.s. soybean farmers storage facilities for the soybeans are bursting at the seams china s been one of the us is most important agricultural customers but during the recent trade dispute china stopped importing u.s. soil farmers held on to their crops now trade is blossoming again since china resumed importing soybeans chinese businesses as well as chinese consumers welcome the move that. soybeans are one of the most important products china
welcome back to the broadcast earlier this evening we spoke with virginia democratic senator mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. and i asked him about donald trump jr. s nine-hour marathon appearance before his committee just yesterday in washington. the interview with donald trump jr. was conducted entirely by staff. we feel like the first interviews, it s better not to have politicians trying to score points but let the staff come in and get all the facts out. but the one thing that there is again i think broad-based consensus on, before we reach any conclusions the vast majority of members, democrat and republican alike want to see donald trump jr. and some of the other principal figures come back and let us ask questions as individual senators. frankly, without our ability to