the dictator doesn t like what you re saying and wants to hear from you. i think you have to be firm with this president. and people in congress need to stand ready to make sure this president is held accountable if he were to take any actions like that. i wanted to throw that out there so he knew what the risks would be and i and others would speak very loudly for his removal from office if he were to do that. now, michael mcfaul was an ambassador to the united states. is there any precedent you can think of and relate to us in history that the united states, directed by the president of the united states, actually turned an u.s. ambassador, former u.s. ambassador over to a dictator for questioning on anything? no, reverend, it would be completely unprecedented. and in country, we do have a rule of law. and we have an extradition process where countries where we
a country that does not have a rule of law that that would be a betrayal of an american. we know what would happen if that ambassador was turned over to russia. his life would be at stake and would send a message to any person who serves this country that this president could trade you to the dictator doesn t like what you re saying and wants to hear from you. i think you have to be firm with this president and people in congress need to make sure this president is held accountable if he were to take any actions like that i wanted to throw that out there so he knew what the risk would be and that i and others would speak very loudly for his removal from office if he were to ever do that. now, mr. mcfaul, michael mcfaul was an ambassador from the united states. is there any precedent that you can think of and relate to us in history where the united states directed by the president of the united states actually turned a
deregulation. that s why we are getting all these good economic reports. trade is a drag. we see it in the fed reports where it is limiting some investments. postponing some investments. to this point the rest of the trump agenda is so powerful that the economy seems to be thriving despite this kind of cloud of the trade wars. it is really a question of who can withstand the most pain. it is more economic pain in china. you look at trade that s half their economy, 12% of ours. on the other hand the communist dictator doesn t have his party running for reelection in november as mr. trump does with the congress. it will be an interesting thing to watch over the next few months in terms of the political and economic pain threshold. to that point, china s stock market is in the tank right now. china s stock market has been killed. you look at our stock market it hasn t done much in a couple of months but it hasn t tanked. today we re down 23 points which is insignificant considering all
gallop poll is. i will defer to everything dana vachon said. he is an expert. i m sorry, but it does sound like black mail to me. aid is black mail. the origin of the word for host is latin for hostage hoss tess. in ancient times the son of a king would live at the court of another king as a guest, but could become a hostage like that. they are anciently linked. to our earlier discussion about how the rich tend to be lazy, when you have a dictator, a dictator doesn t have to do the things an elected leader has to do. he can steel a ton of money because he is there by the point of a bay yawn net. the civil regime in egypt hasn t done the things to build a strong civil society, but the muslim brotherhood has. you created a huge vacuum and you are dealing with that and have to get through you it the best you can and hope you don t really, run into chaos in the region.
but it is expected. let me ask you this. i sort of agree with the muslim brotherhood official. what was acceptable is no longer. they just had a change of government. it wasn t like a free election. can i no. you talked the whole segment. i think it should work both ways ways and maybe we should rethink giving a billion dollars a year to a country that doesn t like us. it shouldn t be rethought. it should be instantly revoked. it is the rebt on the the rent on the peace treaty. it is hostage money. right now they literally have have it is not international relations when you step that far over the line. they literally have hostages. and now they are saying if you don t give us what we want, i guess apparently they are going to double dog dare hate israel like more so than they do now which i think is maxed out.