debates. i would be surprised if he gets through the debate without taking a swipe at joe biden. person attacks another. gains. you shoot at other guy, you pay for being nasty and the person hit gets hurt and somebody else benefits. i love the ricochets. that s what is fascinating and we waited with baited breath to know who will ob each night. the first night is not necessarily going to be tame. elizabeth warren will try to create a stately type of persona. i don t think she will throw a lot of swings. she will look presidential and policy focused. i think the second night is going to be pretty wild. to put it mildly. pete buttigieg will appear on stage and here s what mayor pete said about franken in our hardball town hall last week.
delania. i want to start with you, this ricochets around certain elements of the social media world starting with the president, right? he loves that the court said no collusion. bottom line is that he was indicted and convicted on other charges, and they submitted a memo. . the judge said that is a non-secuator. that is true, but i m brace it as a victory and today was a
a lot of the recent diplomatic to ing and fro ing of the rest of the way chief financial officer. should we see that as being linked to the president s power in the china trade policy i think that this is a been a big reversal of u.s. policy trade policy and foreign policy because you know this president has been much more aggressive about really putting punitive trade barriers on. to try to rebalance the trade relationship with china and that s having or ricochets throughout the international system we see it with the rest of this official in canada for example we see it even today here in germany with the economic minister s decision to have this industrial policy which also is squarely aimed at china so the decision of this president to be much more let s say aggressive tough about china s breaking of rules for example on intellectual property about theft about cyber security industrial espionage that is actually starting to be adopted
attacks can undermine him and thing that frustrates the gop so much. he ll send out one tweet and ricochets back to what he is thinking about which is the pressure on him. doesn t deal well with grace under pressure. we understand focus more attention on our house because it s more in play for the democrats or at least thwarting any trump agenda in the democrats take one chamber of conference. the senate is interesting. jake tapper will talk to ben sasser of nebraska who had an exchange i think about becoming an independent instead people talk about. if a republican left, see how that plays out. priceless, nick mulvaney, the president s budget director at a fund-raiser said this to the new york times. how likeable is a candidate? that still counts.
what s the end game? what s trump s end game? if it s regime collapse in iran which it might be because if the economy tanks further, there could be more citizen unrest and so forth but if our goal is regime collapse and i think bolton said the goal was regime change, the message to kim jong-un and north korea is oops, if your family has been devoted for 70 years for regime survival and now you just saw the deal signed by iran not only be blown up but then the administration that signed it with others call for regime change, why would kim be motivated to do anything? so this ricochets across the globe and both china and russia are no longer supporting our actions in iran. they may end up continuing to trade with iran. that will be an interesting movie. so i don t see what the end is and the danger of miscalculation on both sides is huge.