position in the world. shannon: it will be domestic or international, his next opportunity to step up to the plate and make a change? he goes to a nato summit meeting this thursday. that will be one sign on afghanistan in particular. i think the main course for him in the next couple months is domestic as we see whether we ll gets the bush tax cuts extends and get this excessive government spending and regulation down. that will be a test whether he can move to the center. thank you for your time today. thank you. shannon: senate minority leader michigan mcconnell walked out on the senate floor and called for a moratorium on earmarks. the pet projects lawmakers add on to spending bills. we ll have more on that sortly. there has been speculation he
have had these conversations a long time ago. which is the donald trump style, holding each side, including his own country, responsible for, for instance, the annexation of crimea. he calls russia a competitor, a good competitor and he means it as a compliment. the real question also, apart from what he s just done about the interference in the election is what are the allies going to think now? because they were hoping that at least the hippocratic oath would prevail and that you wouldn t see a weakening of this western front but this is a weakening. not only that, it comes literally within days and hours of the annual nato summit meeting at which there was a very strong lly worded statemen by nato essentially restating the western position on ukraine and these associated issues. it reinforces once and for all that president trump doesn t support the policy of his own foreign policy team, he doesn t support the policy of his allies, and he takes a view that
president trump plans to sign two executive orders to reduce america s trillion dollars trade deficit just one week before china s president visits the u.s. he says the meeting next week will china will be a difficult one. american companies must be prepared to look at all othothe alternatives. good morning, will, president trump says this meeting next week will be difficult. is that how the chinese see it? reporter: absolutely, christine and really digging in their heels on this because they feel donald trump s accusation