A need to feel. Something yeah what do you how much. Do you. Mean that we could measure the constant next. Welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time out to go to shanghai and speak with dan collins of the china report dan welcome back a max hey dan let me ask you this the Trump Administration First National Defense Strategy elevates china to its number one threat it claims that china practices predatory economics and calls for sending in the marines it sounds like what the frick is going on down. Well yeah i heard i read that and i kind of looked at it you area but i call it economic and then military economically speaking china it is a neo mercantile its the economy we talked about it before theyre going to do bigger than your economic policies theyre going to set up their own Tariff Barriers i mean any try to import here something is twenty five percent duty export the United States its one or two percent so china does towards for its you know does what is it in its own inte
So thats not a very efficient way to run an economy that is for sure and so. Competitively this is you know weve put a. Price ok that was good on chinas not to sort of but yeah because putting a tesla into outer space makes a great extravaganza but those extravaganzas like hyperloop and the private sector is only going to deliver to billionaires like mosque who have no money to blow and sending teslas into outer space here China National you know they have the industrial plans they have five year plans they have they dont want to leave. The entire rural class abandoned because they know they have to include them into their economy to sustain and and maintain their position at the top of the Global Economic infrastructure so they need to include these people in and it costs you no money to bring them in just like western we had to bring in east germany and spend a trillion dollars here china is also mercantilist state just like germany and they have to include all these people america w
E. P. A. Administrator scott pruitt expected to make his remarks in about 15 minutes or so and also tonight hearing from fox news channel, keynote speaker. The fourth and final day tomorrow watch coverage starting at 12 40 p. M. Eastern time. Well hear from budget director Mick Mulvaney discussing the Second Amendment and the chair of the House Intelligence Committee also tomorrow. While we wait for Scott Pruitts remarks tonight well take a look at some of todays washington journal. Host joining us this morning at the Political Action conference is the president and c. E. O. Of the Heartland Institute. Thank you for being with us. Lets begin with what is the Heartland Institute and why did you take this job after leaving congress . Absolutely. Great question. The Heartland Institute is a free market group. Weve been based in chicago the whole time but we operate in every state by working with state legislators, 7,000 plus of those around the country. Though congress is out of session t
Surveillance warrant on some campaign advisor, carter page. Lets bring in wall street journal, monastics and Deputy Editor Dan Hettinger and potomac watch columnist pam strasser who has been followint story from the beginning. Kim, whats the most important thing viewers should know about the nunez nunes memo . We now have confirmed that a document that was paid for by the Clinton Campaign and by the Democratic National committee was used as an essential part, those are the words in the memo of an application to get a warrant to spy on the right president ial campaign, the trumpcampaign. They should also know that the fbi was not straight up with the court in terms of what it did and did not tell it. It did not inform the court, the fbi did not fully, about the political background of the document. Of the steel dossier. Is that the point . Yeah, the point is not only do they use this document but they did not tell the court was being funded by a rival campaign. Some of the Campaign Repo
Looking at these streets in the areas i used to live in an travel to the flooding is incredible. I was thinking i know that you work there and that might be personal for you. I can recognize so much. Around 13 Million People from Corpus Christi to new orleans currently under flood watch and warnings. 13 Million People. Such a slowmoving storm now we will talk about Tropical Storm harvey because it is causing problems in texas. At this point it is stalled over houston causing flooding. 30 inches a rain have fallen since thursday, 15 to 25 more inches expected through friday, the Houston Police chief says authorities have rescued 2000 people from flooding in the city but he says there are 185 more critical rescue requests still pending. President trump will visit houston tomorrow landing in Corpus Christi where harvey made landfall friday as a category 4 hurricane. Doug luzader joining us now from houston where it continues to rain. Reporter the president giving the houston area a wide g