i view it differently. i view it as a man, perhaps he wants to get attention, and perhaps not. who knows? it doesn t matter. who knows? it doesn t matter. you know what? the president of the united states should know, and that does matter. and if the president doesn t know, he should take his fingers off the twitter machine and maybe pick up a briefing book and do something that we all know he rarely does, which is read. the president still acts like he s a perilous real estate developer in new york lying about building height and who he s dating and calling up gossip columnists using pretend names. the president is acting like a bystander who everything is going on. who knows what s going on? believe any, me, it doesn t mat. on the one hand, you might say this is one of the president s vocal ticks, like we ll see what happens. but keeping em honest, what if this is really what he believes? what if in what he s saying and
negotiations, but you re exactly right. horrible human rights violations. they ve moved in the wrong direction on human rights over the last ten years in beijing. in terms of the big economic picture, what i focus on, poppy, getting a deal with china. if we can get this done the american economy and the global economy will explode. the what s at stake here is really huge for the economy. not just for the next couple of years but potentially for decades. i would love to see an arrangement where both country agree to lower tariff it s, fs.e free trade is go for the world. i like what president trump has said the last couple years. i didn t start the trade war with china. they started it with us ten years ago when we finally have a president calling them out on it. yeah. sort of like kids in kindergarten. doesn t mat here started it. who s going to stop it? we ll see. stephen moore, thank you. thank you, poppy. the new york attorney general is investigating a huge
repeal. what they are saying to the american people, maybe we lost the presidential election, maybe we lost seats in the senate and the who us this is sanders talking, it doesn t mat, we can bring the government to a shutdown, throw some 800,000 hard working americans out on the street, we re going to get our way no matter what. this is exactly what they accuse the republicans of doing in 2013. there is absolutely no reason to have to insert a daca discussion, immigration discussion into the funding bill today. how much should people expect yes. can you expand upon that? sure. a couple of different things. omb is responsible for sort of managing the lapse, the shutdown. the military will still go to work. they will not get paid. the border will still be patrolled. they will not get paid. fire folks will be fighting the fires out west, they will not get paid. the parks will be open, people won t get paid. you see the whole list, a bunch of different things, you see in
will be paying more in the big states that have high taxes. doesn t matter. but gabby, by why should the president even risk adding fuel to the fire? look, liz makes an interesting point here that is that oftentimes this president seems to create controversies in order to distract from what he s not going to get fair coverage of. that s what he did this morning when he sent out the tweet attacking one of the fathers of the ucla basketball players. neil: that doesn t make sense. the kids themselves did thank the president and the father for whatever reasons. your getting in the sandbox a guy you don t need to be doesn t mat or if it makes sense in his eyes. it s what he wants the narrative to be about. neil: i believe you. you re right. but that s what i think he s going to be to his detriment. that distraction is going to get in the way. judy, play that out. how does this go if the president gets off topic here?
white house. that is really what this is about to a certain extent. so as long as they can get those savings, whether it s called repeal, whether it s not called repeal, whether it s a narrow party line vote doesn t mat as finding the savings to get on to the next big thing. you find the savings but, julian, the democrats have said there have been some democrats who have said, look. we know that obamacare isn t perfect. we know there are changes that need to be made to it. what has been the obstacle that has taken republicans so long to try to craft a bill that work? well, it seems that the crafting of the bill was not carefully done. the proposal they have now floated when they have united government in front of them is so punitive to so many americans that it s hard to sell that. so they are not selling a bill that stabilizes health care markets or lowers premiums.