the debt itself by these same fiscally conservative republicans. so this is consistent. they have acquiesced, capitulated some key fundamental principles around the economy. around the issues like trade. around free markets. to the whims and we lls of a president who doesn t deal with the particular issues and the question going into the g7 was what and typically in the past, joe, as you know, has been what s the strategic interests that the president is going to put out on the world stage that supports where america wants to go economically, militarily, et cetera. as this conversation has already indicated we have already been all over the map. and so folks at home, rational people are trying to figure out what to do with this and how do you digest it. republicans are basically saying that s my boy. and that s where we are.
back. similarly with jeremy corbyn. politicians do what politicians do. this relationship goes on. bret: the president is a counterpunch or, as we have said. the brexit vote that was a preamble almost to the donald trump vote that spoke to something else was happening, this populism. there is an uprising that transcends our country invaders. it s happening a lot of places. donald trump is certainly a result of that. to some extent, the cause. more a result. the strain that it causes is reflected. strikingly, set aside by the people that mattered for the purposes of this visit, and that s a good thing. bret: they are talking about trade when the u.s. and u.k. meantime, we have the mexico situation and the possibility of tariffs if mexico or the president doesn t deal with the illegal immigration situation.
who i worked that would lose his cool every time someone told him we lacked evidence or we lacked proof. and his point was always that the cia and the intelligence community more broadly doesn t deal in evidence. we don t deal in proof. we deal in intelligence and analysts make assessments based on those based on that intelligence. it s more art than science often times. to apply this to another case, we heard so much from mike pompeo and president trump that there is allegedly no direct reporting tying the saudi crowned prince to the murder of jamal khashoggi. at the same time, we know through investigative reporting that the cia has a medium to high confidence assessment that the saudi crowned prince was responsible for this. it goes to show that intelligence assessments are not the same as thresholds and to
ongoing let alone renewed and deepened relationship, but that s actually what happened between him and deutsche bank after that stunt. he couldn t pay them back $40 million that he owed them. when they came for it he was like, no, i m suing you for $3 billion. what? and they responded by loaning him a ton more money. and the little twist in that that has always seemed inexplicable is that what deutsche bank did there was they moved trump over from another part of their bank to their private wealth division. that s how they got that $40 million payment that trump wasn t otherwise going to pay them. they got it by letting him borrow it from this other part of their bank. they moved him as a real estate client into this other part of their bank, this private wealth division of their bank, which doesn t deal with real estate at all. it was always really strange. and this is where i point out that a couple of months ago right after thanksgiving, when german police raided deutsche
there? there has been at least a rekindling of some discussion. in fact, it was telling last night, people i talked to close to the white house noticed that sean hannity on fox news, who frankly sometimes acts as an unofficial white house spokesman, floated this very idea on his show last night. the question is was that a float with the president s blessing or is that his attempt to steer the president a certain way, which we know sometimes advisers to donald trump find the best way to advise him is to do so through television. this is something that the president himself was they were considering this deal, remember, last year. a similar structure. and then of course as he said today, the courts stepped in and he sort of turned on it. they re not actively seeking out this deal, but i don t think they have ruled it out entirely just yet. it s going to depend on where else this goes in the next few days and weeks. thank you to congressman joshua gottheimer from new jersey, former