I call the madison avenue you those. You had a time when it was more intuitive command was more principled. Principal and philosophical than what you see today. We see today is techno politics, and it operates on the right and left. It even gets down to people running for office filtering out in the formula voters that dont show up to the polls. You know what, i dont even want to count them because they are not going to have an impact. What i am saying is that you are making an excellent. There is a reality, and i am not defending it. But i am describing it, was sometimes makes it difficult absent a tremendous crisis. I would concede that. We need to understand democracy. Small the ambience two and four year elections. Understand democracy is being much more vibrant. Who we elect office and how we hold them accountable. Grassroots organizing. So whatever has been going on in politics, we saw the ground from. On the ground organizing is taking place which gives me hope. Imagine democrac
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Too mind blowing so you move on. You play past it. Tonight, there is far more from that summit that cannot be brushed aside so easily because it concerns legitimately serious stuff and because of what it says or continues to say about the president. It all came out today in a series of press encounters that saw the president make news on any fronts and explore all of them tonight. First, though, to set the stage when we left you on friday, the president had just departed for france having sent wall street tumbling by leveling new tariff threats against china. Then he suggested he might have regrets about that. Then his staff said no, his only regret was not being tougher. And then this morning he got less tough. Confusion aside on china at least the situation has not devolved in the last few days as far as we can tell. The countries are apparently still talking, though, as you will see the question of who precisely is doing the talking and at what level remains in dispute. Here is the
At the same time, markets will open for the First Time Since the president said he wanted to raise tariffs on china. But right now, futures are up because of this. China called last night our top trade people and said lets get back to the table, so well be getting back to the table and i think they want to do something theyve been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right thing to do and i have Great Respect for them. This is a very positive development for the world. But while wall street appears to be taking the president at his word the g7 saw multiple examples of the president s remarks conflicting with actual events as he and his team gave their own differing views on how the summit unfolded. Multiple World Leaders including the new uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson for example said they disagreed with President Trumps trade war even though the president claimed they supported him on trade. On sunday President Trump said the u. S. And japan had reached a trade deal worth
Products, that company accused of helping get america hooked. Welcome to tthe lead on this monday, im erica hill in for jake tapper. The president on the way back to washington after an often chaotic and confusing and contradictory three days at g7 summit with World Leaders. Speaking with reports today mr. Trump claimed china in a series of highlevel calls indicated it wants to make a deal to stem the rapidlyescalating trade war. The president saying hell only sign on if it is, quote, fair to the United States. He also opened the door to meeting with the iran president under certain circumstances and continued to suggest he may invite Vladimir Putin to next years g7 summit which the u. S. Will host. Likely at a trump property in florida. Cnns abby phillip starts off coverage from the white house. This is a truly successful g7. There was tremendous unit. Reporter President Trump ending this years g7 summit with his rendition of kumbaya during a press conference with the french president