if you ve been vaccinated and taking precautions you can still enjoy time with your family. and this is, i think, the very honest focus but policy rich message that we need to hear. we ll go through a period of a lot of virus but it s going to be very, very quick and put some constraints and some of our resources and that s what i hoped to hear from the president today. as you know, it s going to take a few weeks now to get all these new measures in place in the meantime. people are having a very hard time getting tested. i think there s absolute holiday rush around tests and i think in many areas because we re going to see such a rapid doubling rate of covid that we re going to be constrainted across almost all of our resources and we should expect that from personnel to testing sites to boosters, particularly in new york and parts of the country. so i think that s why the assistance of new testing sites, new free testing sites in new york and places like that and personnel for th
moment they have a weak leader. but if you look at the g7, yeah, it s abe. and japan of course is a little bit constrainted in terms of the role they can play internationally. they are on the tip of the sphere in terms of concerns of their relationship with china. and even though they pretend to have a nice relationship with trump, abe personally really tip-toes around him just as much as the other leaders do. we did get break news tweets from the president. essentially, the retaliation on china is this. everything that was being taxed at 25% tariffs is going to move up to 30. and everything that was being taxed at 10% is going to move up to 15. the 15% moves up to is on september 1st, the increase of 30% on october 1st, let me quickly bring in kristen welker at the white house north lawn quickly. kristen, we see the news here. and these are different from the tariffs that the president
to keep that in mind that there may absolutely be another foreign attack on our election. mike, here s the key point. everyone looking at this chess board understands that 46% is the absolute ceiling for this guy, right? yeah. we all get that. like, 46 is as high as he could possibly get and so the only path is absolute sheer going nuclear, in david s words, and that s why it will be astoundingly ugly and it will be very much a test of how that ugliness is covered, in my humble opinion. no, you re absolutely right. it s going to be a you know what kind of show, probably starting right after his event tonight, as a matter of fact. or during the event, yeah. or during the event. so, yeah, the president s going to use everything in his ammo. to zerlina s point, we should absolutely be prepared for all kinds of interference and all forms of interference going into next year. but we re not prepared. that s the problem. yeah, he has that as an advantage in that he doesn t car
illegal even though mueller found no criminal conspiracy. as an american citizen, we have to keep that in mind that there may absolutely be another foreign attack on our election. mike, here s the key point. everyone looking at this chess board understands that 46% is the absolute ceiling for this guy, right? yeah. we all get that. like, 46 is as high as he could possibly get and so the only path is absolute sheer going nuclear, in david s words, and that s why it will be astoundingly ugly and it will be very much a test of how that ugliness is covered, in my humble opinion. no, you re absolutely right. it s going to be a you know what kind of show, probably starting right after his event tonight, as a matter of fact. or during the event, yeah. or during the event. so, yeah, the president s going to use everything in his ammo. to zerlina s point, we should absolutely be prepared for all kinds of interference and all forms of interference going into next year. but we re no
thrown bombs. he has criticized the mueller investigation. it s quite possible this is really only ever going to be a political argument. if you play this out to its ultimate conclusion, you know, ultimately the president could just plead the fifth here and that it s a political argument whether congress or the american people care and maybe he s helping. good point. in the end the most likely sanction on the president, if there is ever going to be one for his behavior on any of these fronts is much more likely to be political than legal. we do have the office of legal counsel under both nixon and clinton that a sitting president cannot be indicted. it is possible that robert mueller or someone else might decide they want to challenge that. more likely if there is any sanction against the president or any determination that he did something that requires it, it will come through the political process and the issue remains, are republicans in congress willing to support in any way the