like somebody who is fighting for farmers in iowa, farmers in north carolina and feel good about what the president is doing for them. once he is able to turn his attention to china and get a fair trade deal with them and secure the border and we continue to great economic success, that is a winning formula for next year. shannon: obviously, you have a race too and people talking about the fact you are supporter of the president, maybe not always that way. one website says this, facing primary challenge tom tellis converts to maga and it looks like the campaign on a straightforward strategy and hope the satisfied conservatives will forget about his previous truck transgressions. i don t care about the bloggers and the folks that are trying to divide the party. the fact of the matter is i have a 95% voting record with donald trump. this is a turnaround. president trump is good on
people, we ve got to look at what the election unfolds next year. if you remember and that 80s everybody counted out president reagan and his numbers 15, 20 points behind his opponent and it became a landslide. i think the president runs on his record. he runs on fighting china s unpaired trade practices and good economic numbers and he gets reelected. shannon: from the national journal today the headline why trump isn t likely to win a second term, democrats can lower all they want but a decisive defeat. josh said the weakest political shape of any president since george h.w. bush and to fight the economy, trumps clearest passive victory realizes democrats making a series of self the destructive decisions but to nominate a weak challenger they have a credible chance of unseating trump. thom: i don t buy it. that is pretty election-year rhetoric. i think the president runs on a strong record. i believe the american people
hilton. welcome to you both. hi, shannon. shannon: president taking off for iowa today where he was head-to-head with the vice president. had this to say about the vice president at least before today s position on china. joe biden thought that china was not a competitor of ours. joe biden is a dummy. shannon: steve, what you think is behind the change? well, it s obviously a cleanup operation more than a flip-flop. his handlers gave him a piece of paper to read. he didn t even do a very good job of reading it out. his true position i think was the one revealed by his actions when he was in office, when he was consistently soft on china and we know why, because joe biden is compromised by china. the chinese government has paid bribes to joe biden in the form of billions of dollars of payments to biden family
this might take weeks or even months on a normal day or normal set of debates to get past. they expect this bill to pass as soon next week. so we will continue to follow it as you heard from the protesters we spoke to, many are very concerned that this business friendly city of hong kong may be changed and not for the better, back to you in washington. shannon: connell, tell us about the origins of how this whole thing got sparked and where we ended up with these enormous crowds taking to the streets multiple days in a row? connell: well, there was a young man charged with a crime, actually charge with strangling his girlfriend on a trip to taiwan. that young man traveled back here to hong kong and not able to be extradited back to hong kong. that is what started it. the chief executive ranking political official in hong kong carry lab pushed it forward to include possible extradition to china and that is when the protesters took to the streets. but again so far unsuccessful in
mexico tariff deal. david sponge tracking it all, hello, david. david: breaking the maximum confirmed mexican national guard troops will head to mexico southern border with guatemala tomorrow. this just one of many parts of an agreement signed on friday that stops tariffs on mexico. but china to learn something from mexico. is the agreement it s a very simple agreement. one page, one page of a very long and good agreement for both mexico and the united states. david: part of that agreement calls for mexican officials to send 6,000 troops to the southern border with guatemala while keeping u.s. asylum-seekers in mexico while their claims are processed. without the tariffs, we would have nothing. we have nothing to weeks ago. david: white house sources told fox news mexico agreed to become a safe third country. meaning migrating through mexico would have to claim asylum in