confined is the idea that if there is a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that that would somehow break the bonds of trust that the president and kim jong-un developed over those 2 1/2 summits. so there is a lot we likely don t know about the diplomacy behind the scenes. remember, they ve been writing each other either you can call them actual diplomatic letters or the president refers to them as more of love letters, almost the back and forth to each other. and if the president continues to have faith in his ability to do this i suspect the strategy will remain the same. and that is hope for a breakthrough at some summit yet to be announced, yet to be determined. and then you get into the tricky process of verification and how you unwind the maximum pressure campaign that the president initially put in. david? and there is the hope on one hand that he is laying out. the other hand if there is a ballistic missile test, what does that mean? what is the and what? what is th
government to come in and spend yes, the president is down in more money. florida but he s been weighing in on twitter. while president trump and congress have been doing that there is this dissonance that we for the last several years, they ve been spending more and see shaping up here, the president wanting this to happen more money and so there is a lot and wanting witnesses to be of concern. called and the senate majority we already have trillion dollar leader saying hold on a sec, if deficits in this country. how much more money is there to this doesn t happy, as he puts spend, but certainly if we hit a it, that s fine by him. rough patch in 2020 i think one of his strategies whhas congress will step in and take action. been to drag joe biden down. i m going to give you the by just mentioning and implicating him repeatedly, it last word. the minute that we have left hoping to drag down his poll heerks help us understand the numbers. if you look at iowa, pete politics of this.
ground. and not just the key states but even sort of your second tier expand the map aspirational type of states. they are organized. they are running a traditional campaign. meanwhile, as you see we ve got the democrats who don t know who their candidate is who are positioning themselves for a slug match that could go on for months, possibly even to the convention. now we know from history the best organized campaign, the best well financed campaign, the best well run campaign does not always win. you have president trump, you know, ran a plane they were putting together as they were flying and they ll win the presidency. that can happen again on the democratic side. i ll just say right now, there is a well oiled machine of a trump campaign that is ready for whoever emerges as the democratic nominee. last thing you to on that well oiledness of the machine, what counts if people are continuing to give money to it. if they re making so much money, you have people cutting checks and se
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the white house. that s a question that m cos dan, you see him there up at each and every press leaning in, making that point, conference. pounding on the table. how depleted the toolbox is, how significant is this as we what tools are at the disposal look at what the contours of this trial might be? i think there is no prospect of monetary spolicy makers. that biden would halt his cam how much of that is dependent on the economy doing well? the risk of a recession pawni camcampaigning to come back to heading into 2020 has come down washington and be used as a a lot. political prop by president in august it was 50/50. trump and mitch mcconnell and now very few people are try to divert attention to create a circus with every predicting a recession any time soon but the you re right, if we camera in the world watching what joe biden said. and so it not a huge surprise hit a rough patch like we saw that he said that. last summer our tools to be able i think, you know, he is to rus