[ speaking german ] the author of the myth of america s decline. politics, economics and a half century of false prophesies. i can t wait to here about it. you have known my father 40 years? i first met him in the national security council when both of us stopped the soviet invasion of poland. exactly. he used me as a messenger boy. i spread the word. that stopped the soviets in their tracks. isn t it nice of him to use you? i was proud. how would you describe him? very smart, very polish. uh-huh. with an extra layer of anglo humor. that s pretty good. the myth of america s decline. is it a myth, josef? yes. even my father will say flying back into the united states is like flying back in time. especially when he goes to places like singapore and china. yeah.
you think obstruction has played out before our eyes. today republicans in the intelligence committee announced very abruptly without consulting democrats they re wrapping up their investigation, it s done and it s over and they found no collusion. do you take that at face value? well, first of all they had no real investigation. and who would believe nunes was working in a credible way to find out what took place? as a matter of fact, he was simply a messenger boy for the president running up in the middle of the night trying to prove that obama, for example, had wiretapped the president. and so they can conclude whatever they want. they weren t doing anything to begin with. it was not a credible investigation, so we re not paying attention to that at all. the president s former whitehand man steve bannon went to france. he s been touring around europe, and gave an address, a very hard right anti-immigrant some say
they weren t doing anything to begin with. it was not a credible investigation. laura: that is the democrats take. messenger boy. i don t know if that is nice to say. that will be their take through the midterms and through 2020. the problem in the mid-terms, of course, is that you have marginal races that are in play. so 80% of the districts are either 90% republicans or 90% democrat. there are no real marginal races about 22 laura: we will get into the pennsylvania race in a moment. so this rhetoric won t work. impeachment rhetoric doesn t work in the marginal races. these are people that want to see washington work and the policy-driven debates is what you will see in the marginal districts. laura: yeah. speaking of, on the trade issue. you are a free trader. i hear free trade. i m for trade. i want trade. it s great. $360 billion with china. with japan they have $68.8 billion trade deficit.