categorizing all of peoples mistakes and making sure she doesn t make them. like we talked about before, she s turning to the democratic establishment and talking about capitalism in a way that is more attractive to those moderate and independent voters who are complete we put off by bernie sanders. what she has had to do is distance herself from bernie sanders just enough, and i m surprised it has taken this long for the polls to show that they do. i think she s had the lead on momentum for a while now. harris: she also didn t exactly have the same recognition, name wise, as bernie sanders. ran against eloquent and most regionally and was a former vice president. so i think there s a bit of a lag there. what democratic operatives are telling me is that elizabeth warren has hired everybody in iowa. you got bernie sanders in certain states, and trying to scoop up some more staff, do the reset, the restart button. that s going be hard if you don t get the people
united states which has an innovation-based economy. that s our goal. our goal is to get the chinese to stop stealing our intellectual property and it would be a nice thing if they actually honored their trade agreements with this. that s what the goal of this is. charles: another goal was to open up the chinese market so we would have less of a trade imbalance; right? if they could buy 150, 200 billion dollars worth of stuff more from us, including the chips that the american companies want to sell to huawei, isn t that a key part of what the president entered this for? do we forget about that part and focus mostly on the security aspect? well, you know, the president has talked about the trade deficit, and clearly this trade deficit is a reflection of the chinese stealing our ip and also the trade violations. so i think that if you don t focus on the trade deficit, as its goal, but you look at what we should be doing, we re going to be at a much better place. charles: we have to re
riven with divisions divisions within the parties themselves divisions between the . it is particularly between the chancellor s conservatives and their bavarian sister party the c.s.u. and the chancellor herself today as she made to announce a decision that the government has been conveying an image that is absolutely unacceptable and the fact is they have come up with some pretty solid legislative achievements that message has not been getting out so what her decision does is it gives them a chance to press the restart button it basically gives them a chance to separate themselves from the controversial person of the head of the c.d.u. the chancellor herself and also to begin to look toward the future rather than the past and constantly rehash the decision about immigration which is what s been happening over the past six months whether this change really does in a new dynamic depends both on who succeeds her as head of the conservative party and on what the other parties do will we
and significant investigative steps should be taken, quote, when the case is ready, not earlier or later. in other words there s no 60 days. there s no hard rule, but don t be a jerk. use common sense. if the case blossoms and, bang, you have to choice, but otherwise, don t be doing things to poke close to an election. to that point, it s relevant to look back at former attorney general holder, who released identical versions of a memo saying you shouldn t take public steps with the purpose of affecting the outcome of an election. and to your point about mueller s options, one is to just simply pause. go ahead with cases like the manafort trial, other things that are in the system, hit the pause button on everything else, come back after the election. rudy giuliani and the president use it as an issue during the election. if democrats are in charge after the election, then mueller hits the restart button, we live in a very different world. but we ll watch this play out over t
deal. so what is the strategy here that republicans can take that this is a restart button? it s okay to have these skirmishes and move on? you know, i think they re in the same position they have really been in from day one where they recognize that they do in fact have overlapping shared interests on a lot of the domestic agenda where president trump on the affordable care act, on taxes, has largely subcontracted the details to the republican congress. and they also realize that they do need to get things done in order to maintain their majority. and so they re trying their best, i think, and every possible way to look away from all of the aspect of the trump presidency that are troubling to so many republicans. it was underscored this week when george w. bush in a rather remarkable criticism of a successor from the same party essentially accused the president of fomenting racism at home and abandoning american