outlandish thing that one would do while working for the feds they didn t have to put it in writing? there s nothing we know of in the agreement or legally that would have stopped this. but it s a pretty interesting phenomenona, because there is essentially two people in the world who would control paul manafort s fate. one of them was mueller who, if he thought manafort had cooperated a lot, could go to a judge and ask for a more lenient sentence. the other person is donald trump, who has the power to pardon him or commute his sentence. and the question is, why was it that manafort was not telling the truth to mueller s investigators? was this a simple disagreement of facts? i saw something one way, you saw it another? or was there something else going on here. michael, i have one more for you and then we have a couple of ravenous journalists and at least one former fed waiting to get on the air. and that is how does it fit into the timeline of known outbursts
the chinese economy sent our stock market into a correction, down 10% from the high. it led to the fed waiting to raise interest rates and caused all sorts of problems for commodities. will china recover nest year or will it slow down further? oil and stocks are tied at the hip right now. will oil fall even further? yes, it s great for consumers that we have lower gas prices in this country but investors are worried about the impact on the economy. job losses out west, the spillover effect into the credit market. those are a few concerns that folks here have about next year. i should have lessened to ron when he told me watch the markets, watch china. so sarah eisen saying a lot of the themes of 2015 will. up next, the stop stories that will drive the foreign policy debate in the new year.