trade deals. there are many and we haven t had a chance to talk about the e.u. deals that are surely going to be coming down the pike in 2020. he wants to hammer it out with the chinese. he mentioned something to be coming up with north korea. that perked up my ears and i will keep an eye on that and see what if anything comes from. neil: kevin, thank you very much. china is finding out the hard way that money doesn t solve your problems but sometimes it can make things worse. as margaret thatcher put it, eventually even the riches governments find out they run out of other people s money. it happened to venezuela where oil revenues were big but over-the-top big government spending plans got even bigger. gordon chang says the same thing is happening there. gordon, it s interesting for the chinese to say and admit that their numbers are going down for it we can argue as to whether they are growing at a 6% clip.
years. she has a heart for that and she is sensitive to that. we are not getting much from the other side by way of health care plans. i m still confident about the discussion taking place at these debates and i think the democratic party s positioned itself as the party of health care. neil: that might be so. the one thing that worries me is no one has thought long enough, does everyone really sign up for this medicare for everybody at the expense and junking private health care plans? she has had to adjust. bernie sanders said no, will be very careful about this. the fact of the matter is, say what you will a 150 million americans on private health insurance, griping about exorbitant costs. but they like the security. telling them to abandon that in favor of something government run gets them antsy and i wonder if they thought that through. that s the conversation that we are seeing the democratic party. what you said, the conversation coming from joe biden and
kevin, would you make of the argument that with the great detailed plans, she was obviously a target of some of the other candidates. fleshing it out in more detail and she didn t. absolutely it s a fair question. when you ve risen the way she has, you ve got to expect people to think that you ve got those types of details, especially like gianno said, part of her rise was having a plan for everything. that s a big part of her mantra. the health care debate comes with so many different regarding the estimates of what medicare for all actually end up being because there is different amounts. 3.9 trillion that s been released by some studies. 5 trillion. talking about the difference between trillions. nobody knows how much it will cost but what elizabeth warren understands is that middle-class families are bearing too much of the cost of health care. it has skyrocketed in recent
have a corridor across the northern part of iraq and syria all the way to beirut and lebanon and that s something that would be very, very strategically complicated, if that were to happen. neil: general, do you think turkey should be a member of nato? they are an ally of ours but they don t act like it. i spent four years as the commander of nato forces and nato and turkey was a very important allies certainly the second-biggest land army army in the alliance. i don t know that anybody seriously is thinking about asking turkey to leave or i don t even know if there s a mechanism for that to happen. neil: the role of russia is pretty prominent. in turkey is doing is borrowing a page out of operation provide comfort back
concerns about being pinned do down? that s probably true too. she s trying to position yourself because we know in order to end in 2020 we can t be pulled too to the left more than likely. far left, radical left. she is still capitalist and she doesn t want to put too much of the burden on the wealthy. neil: only in the democratic party can you have this damning indictment to be called s. but that is where we stand. she has said that but she s also very clear that we need to rein in the wealth inequality. i think that s where her and bernie are close and they understand that people, everyone deserves coverage and that something that a majority of americans are behind. neil: we will watch very closely. sorry to jump on you but i ve had enough of you. [laughter] this is what happens when you abandon your friends. your friends start throwing stuff at you on the way out. did you see this?