terms of centuries and here we have donald trump who thinks about his twitter feed every 15 minutes. it just sends a terrible message and a weak message to our trade adversaries. yeah. a couple things i wanted to ask lanhee a question. john heilemann was talking about, the president is clearly confusing pollution with climate change. climate change is something global and systematic so the europeans and others watching that say would say, wow, the president of the united states simply does not understand what climate change is. that s simply one takeaway. two, on china. right, all over the place. the president had a revealing moment in the press conference where he said that s my negotiating style. he s all over the place. i guess the question is, others come up against it like a china, does that put them on the heels, does that make them feel like they have to be careful around this guy or for someone like a
can win any trade war. america has less to lose than its trade adversaries here. christine romans, appreciate the by the book numbers there. the president does believe the economy is roaring, we can get through this. the question s he hasn t listened to republican members of congress. he hasn t listened to business interests. will he listen to farmers? or is the president s view, check in a year and a half, don t worry about the next several months? i wonder if he needs a bad midterm to listen. somewhere like iowa. i m sure members in iowa you have already zbljodi ernst, chu grassley. a couple house seats in place. and down south where a lot of those car companies are based. i m sure he ll start hearing from them too. maybe he needs results to see this is maybe a bad call for people. the best scenario he can hope for is things end up fairly
this president. he was elected with 53% of the vote the first time. and they plotted against him, the night that he took office. we have been in a crisis since 2008. and i think the world is just waking up to it, there are some people that will not accept legitimacy of this presidency. goldie, i think that the republicans are given our adversaries, even though they lend us money, our trade adversaries in a big way, an opportunity to weaken our country. the republicans caused this. they are the ones that decided to shut down the government, that threatened not paying the bills, that hurt us internationally. how does how does president obama deal with this? how do the honest brokers in the congress deal with people like this who are idea logs and will do anything to push their gain? you know, first ed, i certainly believe in this country and i believe in the strength of this democracy, is it strong and elastic enough to