aleve. all day strong. it s my favorite part of the show time, money, power politics. markets opened up. the dow down about 45 points. as the president meets with world leaders and argentina at the g-20 summit. he is signing what some call nafta 2.0 where the u.s. canada and mexico. for china, this thing looms large. president trump and xi jinping are expected to discuss trade ahead of additional tariffs on chinese goods set to take effect in january. ron insana. and my panel back with me. okay, ron, when it comes to our trade war with china what kind of progress can we expect? president trump is unpredictable. and many people say that s sort of the magic of it all.
every one paid it back. you can argue whether or not they should have gotten it but every one who got it, paid it back. prosecutors are in federal court to schedule a sentencing date for ex-trump campaign chairman paul manafort. he s not expected to be there. we re hoping to hear more details on why mueller tossed out manafort s plea deal after accusing him of lying to investigators. i want to bring back my panel from earlier. this whole week started with manafort and his plea deal falling apart and originally thought this is devastating for manafort or is it? if manafort was back channelling the whole way to trump and trump floats to the new york post a pardon isn t out of question then is today s sentencing that big of a deal? sure it s a big deal because manafort has to hope that trump
they want to be friendly with the united states. wouldn t it be nice if we get along with somebody? there s a reason why candidates typically reveal their tax returns and opt for complete transparency. it is so the american people know they re not under any influence of a company or a country. the fact that trump was pursuing a real estate project in russia while denying it to the public and publicly calling for warmer relationships with russia. remember, we have massive sanctions on russia because of the annexation of crimea. the fact that president trump was so warm on russia while talking about a business deal obviously raises questions about a conflict of interest. it is not clear how any of this would have impacted trump s campaign. there s one thing for sure. in february of 2016, the republican primary got under way. trump was one of a ton of republican candidates. by may, he had knocked out every single one and become the
felix sater and others to determine what does this tell us about their truthfulness. as the president signs a trade deal with mexico and meets to talk about another deal with china. a meeting that the world is watching and certainly markets are to see where the global economy is headed. we ve got to begin this morning with one thing. the president in argentina with a big g-to meeting should be the top of mind but instead president trump spent a lot of time doing damage control. attacking robert mueller on twitters and defending the moscow project he spent years flat out denying. first, i want to set the stage for what we know right now. the stakes are huge. it could be key to the stock market soaring or tanking for the rest of the year. any distractions could be a problem. boy does the president have a big one right this moment. we know that yesterday his
the russian deal, the president he misled the american people but he wasn t under oath. doesn t matter. the article one was not about nixon being under oath. article one was about nixon misleading the country. what is the right thing for our country in terms of impeachment? the other is criminal. he was misleading the country, number one. number two, if it s true about the buzz feed article, that they offered a $50 million bribe to putin, hello, foreign corrupt practices act. it can be an illegal deal. depending on what shakes out about the $50 million bribe. so cynthia s point, sounds awful. but none of it actually came through fruition or president trump and his team said these things while he was on the campaign trail, not president. trump says he can do anything while a candidate.