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Susan this week on newsmakers, steven law joins us, the president of the Senate Leadership fund. We also have the chief Congressional Correspondent with the Washington Examiner, and the chief Congressional Correspondent with the Associated Press. Let me begin with explaining to our viewers, what is your group, how much you plan to spend in the 2020 race, and where do you plan to spend that money. Steven i represent a Senate Leadership fund and one nation, two organizations involved in politics and policy, focused on the senate. In 2018, we raised and spent about 190 million. I think we will get somewhere in that range. The focus will be on holding the majority. Our focus is to make sure our senators come back and pick up the one senate seat, especially in alabama, that we lost in 2017. Greta what states are you focusing on . Steven that is yet to be determined. These races are starting to shape up, but we see contests in colorado, North Carolina, arizona and possibly maine, kentucky, i
Thank you. Announcer french president Emmanuel Macron and his wife were on hand to greet President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they arrived for the opening dinner of the 2019 g7 summit in biarritz, france. News reports say that some Foreign Policy issues could be discussed at the dinner. There was also a formal welcoming ceremony for scheduled for sunday along with meetings by the members of the g7 as well as the traditional g7 family photo. [indiscernible] speaking foreign language] Tropical Storm on news makers. Steven law, the president of the Senate Leadership fund super pac that is working to keep the senate in republican control. In this portion, the former chief of staff for Mitch Mcconnell talks about the mpact of John Hickenlooper announcing a bid for the senate after dropping out of the senate race. I think his entry into the vase not a bad thing for republicans. He ran a disastrous race. He made joe biden look young and spry in that race. I dont see any democrats t
The air force association hosted this onehour event. Gen. Holmes well, good morning. This has to be the best job in the world that somehow i fell into, when i look across the room at our air force family. Its incredible. Believe me, the chinese would not like what we are talking about, what we are doing, getting together here today focused on defending this nation, all of us together. So a special thanks to everyone in the room attending, and of course our sponsors, our Defense Industry partners. When we can put Defense Industry in the same room as our warfight good. Hats also, thanks to the media for being here. You all it criticized sometimes, more than you deserve. If we dont tell the story about the most lethal combat, conventional combat force in the world, were going to miss opportunity to defend this nation. So the medias directly involved here. The good news, this morning we have the leader of the most lethal conventional combat force in the world, general mike holmes. Incredib
With our farmers, because china did not do what they said they were going to do and Prime Minister abe on behalf of japan are going to be buying all of that and thats a very big transaction. So, the deal is done in principle. We probably will be signing at unga, around the date of unga, we all look forward to. We have agreed to every point and now we are papering it and we will be signing at a formal ceremony. And i just want to thank Prime Minister abe and the japanese people. You have been a fantastic friend and we very much appreciate it. This is a tremendous deal for United States, a tremendous deal for our farmers and agricultural ranchers and also other things including as i said, ecommerce. So its very big and we look forward to it and thank you very much. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] with regard to the japanu. S. Trade agreement, a series of terms and negotiations has been conducted with ambassador lighthizer in line with the u. S. Japan joint statement on september