Ukraine intractable, syria, extend the new star treaty for five years thats going to expire in 2021 as a result of these two president s coming together . Yeah. Can they agree for no Nuclear Proliferation and put pressure on north korea and also put pressure on iran . Is that possible . I think so. Paul okay. Lets talk about the domestic politics here because you know to have an effective Foreign Policy, you need domestic support. And the way the president handled that Press Conference has really hurt him in terms of his ability, i think, to maneuver inside congress and have the support he needs. Why did he get such at odds with the Intelligence Community judgment about 2016, when he really didnt need to . Yeah, i mean, listen, monday was a disaster. I think it was a low point of his presidency, to be sure. I dont get it to be frank, paul. I mean, i know that they put a
president . You know, theres a lot of misunderstanding about this. In talking to the people around the president , wh
andy kessler writes the inside view column for the wall street journal and he s founder of the silicon valley hedge fund velocity capital. andy, great to see you. thanks for coming in. what do you make of the eu s fine this week and the charges against google? well, the fine itself is irrelevant. you look at the numbers, 830 billion dollars market cap, 100 billion in cash, 13 billion in profits last year. that s not the problem. it is the concept of they are annoyed about 11 apps they installed including maps and search and assistance trying to say that s anticompetitive. but google, android, it is a platform. it is a platform for others to compete on. lyft versus uber and spotify versus pandora. it is a wonderful competitive environment and they compete against apple. bureaucrats are bureaucrats so they had to do something. paul: they say look, when they go to a handset maker and they say if you want to use android, you have to put these our apps, google maps, youtube,
operating system. andy kessler writes the inside view column for the wall street journal and he s founder of the silicon valley hedge fund velocity capital. andy, great to see you. thanks for coming in. what do you make of the eu s fine this week and the charges against google? well, the fine itself is irrelevant. you look at the numbers, 830 billion dollars market cap, 100 billion in cash, 13 billion in profits last year. that s not the problem. it is the concept of they are annoyed about 11 apps they installed including maps and search and assistance trying to say that s anticompetitive. but google, android, it is a platform. it is a platform for others to compete on. lyft versus uber and spotify versus pandora. it is a wonderful competitive environment and they compete against apple. bureaucrats are bureaucrats so they had to do something. paul: they say look, when they go to a handset maker and they say if you want to use android, you have to put these our apps, google maps,