trump campaign. christopher steele was a confidential fbi source until the agency dropped him for leaking information to the media that many believe he remained in contact with the fbi through back channel. the gop chair of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham and others have suggested the ig probe will provide evidence of improper conduct by the fbi in the early stages of the investigation and senator graham has already announced that michael horwitz will testify before his committee on december 11th meaning the ig report is imminent. we are standing by. the administration is redoubling efforts to get a new trade agreement ratified by congress to replace the much-maligned after the deal, donald trump blaming nancy pelosi for holding up the us mca. i have pretty good authority that she s using us mca because she doesn t have impeachment vote so she is using us mca to get the impeachment vote. responding as the president will knows the speaker has been working diligently
but it s no doubt being helped by this polling as well. and that is giving impetus and motivation to the democrats to continue with this probe. i think some other numbers in there that you showed that might be concerning to the white house, and to the trump campaign, includes the fact that some republicans are supportive of this as well, as well as independent, and those are folks who will matter, going into a general election, next year, and will matter certainly for the president as he tries to keep his base behind him, despite these controversies. we have been speaking a lot about the impeachment inquiry, we have been speaking a lot about syria, but with all this going on, the trade war with china is still very much an issue. oh, yes. and the white house is dealing with it. and this country as well. and talk to us about some of your new reporting with regards to the trade war. sure. so on friday, the president met with the vice premiere of china, who is in town, after days o
another tariff of 10% on another $300 billion worth of imports. that is a decision reportedly opposed by the treasure secretary, u.s. trade representatives, president s economic advisor and national security advisor. the uncertainty that president trump is capitalizing on, one thing is certain that the new tariff will hurt consumers. it would cover smartphones, clothes, toys. there are 29 days between now and september 1st and there is a chance president trump could strike a deal with china s president at the g7 a week before then. but it is not clear if the president wants the uncertainty to go away, at least before the fed makes their next decision on interest rates in mid-september. joe biden did not get high marks for his debate performance this week. how the crowded 2020 field is inching its way from one debate
he got a deal. but the failure of this deal with north korea, it s not a deal at any price. the fear among some in the administration who have been really restraining the president on a deal, people like bob lighthizer, the trade representatives, don t sign up to something that we don t have any clear means of verifying. the fear with china, always has been, they ll say they re going to do this, make concessions on all of these things and there s no enforcement mechanism. so the president i think doesn t want to find himself in that position where he trumpets a deal and we discovered a year down the road that they have done nothing. so it s helpful. what happened in a way to say look, i want a deal but i don t want a deal so badly that i ll sign up to anything. he said he s prepared to walk away and he said so. neil: and normally something gets heft and importance when
is getting more respect from china so it s a it s a show of good will win even ping if you will be meeting. u.s. trade representatives light ties there and usually the presidents do not meet with the trade representatives the presidents me to each other so also when we had the chinese delegation over and watching us donald trump did not meet them so it s mostly a gesture but then was seeing that the talks are on a good way and that s one of the reasons that the market is trading to the upside we are approaching the aids positive week in a row. a show of good will also from the un s court reporting from wall street thank you very much. for european union has reached a provisional agreement on new rules governing gas pipelines entering the block from a third country now the nord stream to project a pipeline connecting russia to germany will be subject to these new regulations