them. 18 states sell the soybeans. all but two voted for donald trump. the trump administration pledges to protect farmers, but did not provide details. sonny perdue wrote there are tools to protect farmers. that is a tactic the wall street journal editorial board slams. trump wants farmers to bail out hit by his trade war. the former wrestling coach at ohio state coming to the defense of congress member jim jordan. accused of ignoring the allegations of the sexual abuse against the team doctor. russ hellikson says he finds the situation disheartening. adding the coach i respect to the highest possible level are being torn apart by semantics.
iraq and afghanistan. their improvement in their defense spending. and their grave concerns about what president trump might give away to putin in helsinki a week from today. i do think there are things we can do. senator corker and senator flake were on the decision. senator flake was leading it. senator corker has made a strong stand for to us pull back some of the power that the senate should have to review any attempt by the president to impose tariffs, especially on close security allies. i ll remind you last monetary quebec at the g7, president trump picked a whole lot of fights particularly with canada and for us to be facing a trade war with china and at the same time have president trump be picking fights with our key allies in europe and north america, strikes me as just nonsensical and many republican senators feel the same. senator, you just said that you don t think that the senate should even be considering a
moderate judge. we re just four months before an election. and the conversation is about rushing this through. i don t think we should be rushing. i frankly don t think we should be considering this nominee. richard haas. senator, i expect you and a lot of your colleagues disagree with this president on north korea, china, russia, the trade war, 000 handle nato. what can you aldo? do we have the imperial presidency when it comes to foreign policy or do you and your colleagues have any tools that can you bring? richard, as you know i returned from a bipartisan, bi cameraal delegation trip. we visited four countries in northern europe. we visited two vital nato allies. in every meeting they raised those issues. tariffs and divisions between the united states and our key european allies. their sacrifice alongside us in
after the nato summit, looking ahead, and god knows what he ll do with that one-on-one with vladimir putin. how is he ever going to get china in the middle of trade war to tighten up the sanctions again. they can t university to maximum pressure. that s gone. and north korea knows it. reverting to maximum pressure would do exactly what kristen said they would not do which is donald trump would have to prove that he was, in fact, a fool. republicans on the hill don t want to hear it. his people don t want to hear it. and yet this is, again, this is, you know, the diplomatic this is the diplomatic equivalent of declaring bankruptcy. maybe he can scratch and claw his way out of it but it s now this battle is being fought on north korean terms. what they also don t want to hear and andrea referred to it, richard i heard from a well informed source that china is in the middle of this.
pompeo failed. kim jong-un betrayed me and maybe john bolton was right all along. that will be the decision point for this administration. and it s coming. so let s bring in senior adviser and korea chair at cias. what are our options, if any? i bet you re sorry you re not in seoul now, victor. the interesting thing is the natural thing to do now would be to go to china and say to the chinese, look, we tried diplomacy. we need you to put more economic regime to get them to be more come compliant in the negotiations. we can t do that because we re in a trade war with china. you go to nato and say, all of you must keep the sanctions on north korea and we must come with a very strong united