president at the g7 summit. this morning he has yet another message on the trade war. plus, the new york times jeremy peters will join us with his new reporting entitled trump allies target journalists over coverage deemed hostile to the white house. morning joe is coming right back. well, chairman xi is not an enemy of the country, but you didn t say the same about fed chairman powell. well, i really wanted to comment on president xi. on powell, i think i don t think it was a literal comment that he s an enemy. but again, you know my position on the fed. t a chair. that a handle is just a handle. or. that you can t be both inside and outside. most people haven t driven a lincoln.
office for life. and he s got to resolve this quickly or his 2020 prospects could be doomed and he s been furiously walking back his friday statements throughout the weekend lavishing praise on president xi and the chinese. joe, i think that s basically right. the financial market reaction to his comments which even by trump standards were pretty crazy. i hereby ordered american business to stop business with china, it was kind of a rant. and that doesn t play well with financial markets. here s the challenge for democrats. i think most observers of the u.s./china relationship would agree with the idea that we have let the chinese get away with too much in international trade. that they re stealing our intellectual property as you said a moment ago.
doing is putting forth some arbitrary rules about who gets in to the next round of debates. it doesn t seem to me to serve the interest of democracy or the american people. i have no issue with them trying to narrow the field. that makes sense. historically that s been done by polling averages. that also makes sense. i just think this donor kind of money standard, first of all, isn t who we are as a party. i mean, i m running for president to improve people s lives including so many americans who are struggling. most of these americans can t give money to political candidates. i don t know why. sandra: republicans are going to make the case that the economy is thriving. but, listen, we all know that 50% of the american people can t afford $500 and 40% of the american people can t afford their basic necessities like rent, and utilities and food, i m happy to the unemployment numbers are low and economy good momentum. we all agree that many
major recommendations. their leadership backed away from it. i think even though the chief negotiator agreed with the united states, they didn t want to do it because it looked like they were giving in to the united states. we have got to recognize that world image and domestic image for the communist party running china is a major, major issue. and i think even today that issue is was seen being played out. they unleashed their state owned media, sandra, to come up with this bluster that you were quoting there and also to threaten us. but, president xi isn t doing that. china knows full well that the president has imposed tariffs on them. and but at the end of the day, they don t want this relationship to go away. they desperately need the united states. we are their number one market. and clearly they want a relationship with these two major economies in the world and these two major militaries in the world. and they are trying to, i