sensitive agreement reached between the united states government, the canadian government and the chinese government, all hinged together under which she would admit to a number of factual statements that comprise part of her defered prosecution of her agreement and the things she said to an unnamed bank for untrue the lead that bank to continue to engage in financial transactions and dollar transactions in the us financial system to benefit huawei and it s partner with respect to their business activities in iran. i can t think of any case quite like this were the us government has entered into a prosecution improvement like this in exchange for the release of two nationals of a foreign country who were just taken captive as part of both look like hostage taking. that is exactly what happened here and i m thankful for their safe return to canada, but does set a bit a dangerous precedent in the future of countries like the united states
sanctions, things like that so that we will adopt and change so we we can serve our clients in the proper way. not set by jp morgan. i m not worried about china like everybody else. if we don t want to buy hauwei, we don t. they can do the same thing. countries have the right to do unilateral things and my guess is we will find a common ground and the america is doing the right thing by the way to reaching out to allies. our biggest weapon is our allies to set global terms of trade and all the issues that you read about, subsidies and stuff like that, i m not as word as other people. america will still be the most prosperous, smaller than china but far more prosperous in 20 years. maria: maybe but xi jinping and colleagues want to overtake the united states as superpower. they use 2020 to gain more
sanctions, things like that so that we will adopt and change so we we can serve our clients in the proper way. not set by jp morgan. i m not worried about china like everybody else. if we don t want to buy hauwei, we don t. they can do the same thing. countries have the right to do unilateral things and my guess is we will find a common ground and the america is doing the right thing by the way to reaching out to allies. our biggest weapon is our allies to set global terms of trade and all the issues that you read about, subsidies and stuff like that, i m not as word as other people. america will still be the most prosperous, smaller than china but far more prosperous in 20 years. maria: maybe but xi jinping and colleagues want to overtake the united states as superpower. they use 2020 to gain more
podesta taking on a new gig and representing hauwei. the trump administration told us that hauwei is a national security risk. what is going to come out of this? tony podesta gets to represent one of our adversarial companies hauwei who has been stealing intellectual property for decades from american companies but hunter biden is okay to sell art. congressman: maybe the chinese will come in and buy the art, that s why they don t want someone to know who is buying the art. don t forget in the same region we have i look at it this way, i was taught that the u.s. military, they are supposed to do 3 basic things, right, win wars, provide deterrence and not get involved in politics. what s happening here? we have al-qaeda growing in afghanistan meanwhile i think it s going to be very difficult for us to even control our embassy in kabul, i m not saying that we need to stay in afghanistan forever but the military ought to be focusing on
much for your leadership on this. you stand tall in the face of really this breaking of laws and ignorance as it relates to the impact here. thanks very much for being here this morning. governor greg abbott in texas. thank you, sir. governor: thank you, maria. maria: quick break, exclusive reporting about hunter biden s laptop. why was he telling the secret services not to follow him through and around china. senator ron johnson joins us as tony podesta takes on lobbying gig, hauwei, right after this.