says and and the reason why this is so important is not for the 34000 euro judgment that the family gets that s that s effectively de minimus and beside the point what s significant about this is that vladimir putin has hated the magnitsky act the the piece of legislation named after sergei magnitsky which freezes assets and bans visa visas he s hated it since it was 1st passed and he s been trying to spread misinformation and lies about sergei magnitsky in order to try to get it repealed and by having this judgement from a unanimous group of international judges it completely ruins the russian government s propaganda campaign you successfully lobbied the u.s. congress to pass the maybe back in 2012 and you and i spoke earlier this year when you were here in berlin lobbying german lawmakers to do the same how are things looking in your efforts to get the european union and germany to get on board.
says and and the reason why this is so important is not for the 34000 euro judgment that the family gets that s that s effectively de minimus and beside the point what s significant about this is that vladimir putin has hated the magnitsky act the the piece of legislation named after sergei magnitsky which freezes assets and bans visa visas he s hated it since it was 1st passed and he s been trying to spread misinformation and lies about sergei magnitsky in order to try to get it repealed and by having this judgement from a unanimous group of international judges it completely ruins the russian government s propaganda campaign you successfully lobbied the u.s. congress to pass the back in 2012 and united spoke earlier this year when you were here in berlin lobbying german lawmakers to do the same how are things looking in
going over to china. my judgment. trump may think he got china to back off on imposing those tariffs. i don t think they were going to impose those service b tariffs anyway because the steel they expart to the united states is de minimus. some say maybe qualcomm gets a deal, they can now purchase a dutch company called nxp. maybe that s partly true. but the main thing, with respect to china you have to be strong, you have got to stand up, you can give in. why in the world we are giving in on zte here, a company that violated the law doesn t make sense. does it seem to be something he is using in regards or in the realm of negotiating with north korea and meeting china. that s a good point. i think it is a mistake to mix illegal actions with foreign policy, with trade policy mixing all three together. when you start doing that you start to back off on areas that need to be significantly
harris county has almost 5 million people here, less than 20,000 law enforcement officers, recently joined by 1,000 federal officers so we re glad to have the help. and i know, kim, that you ve taken a pretty hard line against price gouging and looting. how big a problem has this been so far? given the sheer numbers of people, 5 million people in the greater houston area, or so, it s been de minimus. we ve had about 65 looting cases, many of them by organized crime crews, professional criminals. we ve had about 347 complaints of price gouging go to the attorney general of the state. again, given the scope of this disaster, the bad apples are really pretty few and far between. but we ve also got that extra law enforcement out on the street and we ve got a citizenry that is used to being the eyes and ears for law enforcement, and you know, a few of those citizens are armed.
all told us definitively that the intelligence gathered was not valuable or actionable. at least not yet. that nothing has been determined. now we ve all heard now about this three-page list. it was really an inventory of things that were collected as part of the raid of but our sources are telling us what was achieved was de minimus. at least so far. they haven t finished the valuation. despite the administration s insistence there was actionable and useful intel jep. cynthia mcfadden thanks as always for your hard work. hans, let me come back to you. president trump going to be speaking aboard the uss gerald ford in the next hour. what can we expect from the president. reporter: the president just landed on the deck of this aircraft carrier.