Public citizen talks about conflict of interest among Family Members of politicians. Later, National Journals joins us to discuss the politics of impeachment. Against President Trump. Host President Trump yesterday appeared to widen his appeal to Foreign Governments to investigate his main political rival. This time it was china. The morning and welcome to cspans washington journal for friday, october the fourth, 2019. We will start the program asking about the appropriateness of seeking foreign intervention or assistance. What is appropriate . Republicans, your line is 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. For independents, all others, that is 2027488002. If you are watching or listening outside the u. S. , that line, 2027488003. You can also use that line if you want to text us, 2027488003. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from and on twitter we are cspanwj. Facebook, your thoughts, facebook. Com cspan. We will get to the president s comments, the story about ch
You wrote for the washington post. White house on the brink of its first foreignpolicy crisis, and you write, striking the balance between the threats and offering a radiance a way out is a challenge before the administration now. One possibility might be to propose that the french host a meeting between the parties of their ran nuclear deal with the aim of discussing the Iranian Nuclear program and dangers. How likely is that . Guest i think right now it is probably not that likely. The iranians feel that there policy of maximum pressure on us in response to maximum pressure we are putting on them is working. They dont feel they are isolated internationally. They are paying a price economically, but they are putting a lot of pressure on americas friends and interests in the region. Their expectation is that at some point we will back down. I dont think the administration is likely to back down now. That creates a dangerous situation. It creates the possibility for miscalculation. The
Guest my pleasure. Host lets begin with a piece you wrote for the washington post. White house on the brink of its first foreignpolicy crisis, and you write, striking the balance between the threats and offering a radiance a way out is a challenge before the administration now. One possibility might be to propose that the french host a meeting between the parties of their ran nuclear deal with the aim of discussing the Iranian Nuclear program and dangers. How likely is that . Guest i think right now it is probably not that likely. The iranians feel that there policy of maximum pressure on us in response to maximum pressure we are putting on them is working. They dont feel they are isolated internationally. They are paying a price economically, but they are putting a lot of pressure on americas friends and interests in the region. Their expectation is that at some point we will back down. I dont think the administration is likely to back down now. That creates a dangerous situation. It
Ambitions or the issue of sales by u. S. Suppliers like intel and others to huawei for new products going into the future. They are still prohibited from doing that. This is a limited move. We need to be careful about over interpreting this. There is still a crackdown happening on huawei. The department of commerce added 46 new huawei subsidiaries to its blacklist today, but at least a temporary reprieve for some u. S. Customers and a limited suite of suppliers. That is anid important distinction. Thank you so much. Now lets go to carolyn in frankfurt. We had a report germany will move ahead, the finance ministers and 50 billion euros. What we know about what they are planning . Carolyn just a backup, we heard from the bundesbank earlier that they see the German Economy potentially facing the risk of contracting in the third quarter. , that wouldarters mean we find ourselves in a technical recession. Were are also hearing from sources close to the government that the government is look
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