closed doors. the world i expects, i believe, china and the united states to play key roles in addressing global challenges from climate changes to food insecurity and for us to be able to work together. the united states stands ready to do just that, work with you, if that s what you desire. so president xi, i look forward to our continuing and ongoing open and honest dialogue we ve always had, and i thank you for the opportunity. joining us now from bali is the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and, jonathan, from the chinese leader, a lot of talk about the relationship being at a cross roads, what are they trying to get to here? yeah, the relationship between the u.s. and china at its lowest point in decades, mika, and there s a rising tension between beijing and washington, providing the back
through beijing, and so if you want to negotiate, if you want to put controls economically, if you want to figure out a way to pull back on him a little bit, you have to work with the chinese. coming up on the 16th of october, the 20th party congress, that will solidify president xi, and it would put xi in a position, i think, a stronger position, and hopefully he can put restraints on his little cousin across the sea. oh, my. all right. former nato supreme allied commander, admiral james stavridis, thank you very much for being on with us this morning. thanks, mika. still ahead, republican congress a woman liz cheney goes to arizona and urges all voters not to vote for arizona s republican nominees for governor and secretary of state. we ll play for you what she had to say. also ahead, we ll unveil the second annual forbes know your value, 50 over 50 list, which is
you can, you know, you can go back to what mika was saying about shooting somebody, donald trump saying he could shoot somebody and the access hollywood tapes. it s that the voters themselves are tolerating so much more. it s that pact that donald trump made with evangelicals, i will deliver conservative judges to you, i will deliver a supreme court which is in line with what you want, the overturning of roe v. wade, which is what you want, he s done t and that s exactly the calculation being made around herschel walker right now. if we can get the senate, we can get more conservative judges, more conservative policies that we like, and we ll overlook the rest of it, and it doesn t seem to be making any difference. here s my question, why are there two standards, jonathan lemire, you look, democrats have had to deal with kyrsten sinema
having trouble. we ve had islands back to the houses and see if they have any of their momentos left. to see how their house is. you have the president or the governor there. and if they re good at what they re doing, everything clears for you. this is a good thing for people who have really taken a horrible storm, maybe the worst storm in florida in decades, and mika, it s a good thing that joe biden and ron desantis were there and that they were cooperative and working together, and i hope that everybody can look at that and celebrate it, just like we tried to celebrate when their bipartisan bills that are passed through congress, despite all
discussion this morning about inflation, they re rightly nervous about it because they don t see anyone in washington who has a damn clue of what to do about it. they don t understand how to help them in their businesses navigate through this as steve rattner pointed out, giving some of these externalities like mbs and his slap at the biden administration, pushing opec to increased production. all of this is going to play politically going into this fall and into next year and we re not going to be any better off from it. and you know, the real problem, mika, if you re like me and you re concerned about deficits, concerned about the federal debt, concerned about the fact, as steve said, that over 200 years, we accumulated $4 trillion in debt, and over the past 20 years, we ve accumulated another 20, 25,