steps here and small steps there, well eventually they can lead to big things. i m not saying that north korea is going to give up its nukes someday. it may never come to that. but you don t have you don t have any more testing. no more missiles are fired. it seems like a red hot situation has been cooled for now. cool for now. i think that s an accomplishment in and of itself. the question ultimately to me is will the administration s own stated policy of complete denuclearization ever come to fruition? have these steps moved us closer to that? i don t think we have a good answer on that. i think the small steps are certainly good at cooling from where that really hot moment was about a year ago. but the nuclear program for north korea is so fundamental to its own conception of itself as a state that it is not going to be easy.
his concern is impeachment not a criminal investigation. the interesting thing about this is impeachment is a political remedy, it is not a legal remedy. the way you have to fight it because you never have an impeachment unless the public so supported it that 2/3 of the senate would support removing someone, right? you have to fight that in the court of public opinion. so there are positions you take when you your concern is impeachment that you would never take in a legal situation because anything you say if your concern is prosecutors, anything you say can get used against you in court. so, you know, if you give a version of events and then down the line new evidence emerges that blows up your version of events, they can use that against you in court. the president is not worried about that. he is worried about impeachment and that means he has got to fight this out in public, not in a courtroom. sandra: there are things you can say and tweet that can get you in trouble. what do y
issues the administration and president is facing. a great story for him to talk about. i was interested as well in the terminology of sustainability. they kept insisting. that s predicting some of the criticism that they may be getting from some outside economic analysts who say this is a boost from good tax cuts but that it may not be sustainable. they re trying to push back against that. sandra: the pre-tariff positioning. buying rushed in here that could have bumped up the number and led to a one-off situation. the white house clearly is trying to say that s not the case, juan. well, all of this is really mid-term election positioning. bill: no question. what you ve seen in the last week is the president go out to illinois, iowa, to say to people being impacted by the tariffs you mentioned, hold on, we know we have some problems here, we re going to offer you some subsidies to the farmers and the like. my policies, and aggressive trade policies will pay off. this morning