about donald trump and china. i broke the news that january, january of 2020, the reason why trump pulled his punches, didn t want to criticize xi jinping is the u.s. and china were on the brink of signing a trade deal, which trump thought would juice the economy and, in particular, the stock market, which would be that much more helpful for his re-election bid. so he didn t want to criticize beijing and endanger that deal. of course, events with the pandemic spun out of control from there. the deal didn t happen anyway. but that is why he was so rosy with xi jinping for weeks and months in the early stages of this virus. well, joining the conversation, we have former u.s. senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. claire, we are so glad you re back and everybody is okay. i know you had a scare in your family, a health issue, but we are just so blessed to have you back and happy for you. thank you. i just need to tell you that there is one thing that ma
exchanged for whelan. that deal didn t happen. fred pleitgen has more on this brutal spy. reporter: a brutal assassination in the heart of berlin, the killer gunned his victims down by orders from moscow. translator: the court called this state terrorism because judges concluded responsible for this murder. reporter: the strij, a georgian national that fought for the army in the chechen war in the 1990s. the court found cross convalescent shot him from behind and fired rounds from behind. krasikov has a real russian passport but with a fake identity and was sent to russia specifically for the assassination plot. last year the court sentenced him to prison without the chance for parole and wrote, quote, the judges ruled their conviction this was a state ordered
is it here? is it happening? what do you know? i think it is on life support. i think president biden thinks it s a political loser. all the republicans are against it. substantial number of democrats are against it. look even at the substance. if you wanted the move only on non-proliferation and ignore the state sponsor of terrorism and all the other terrible things they do the deal didn t improve. you didn t move back the timelines. iranians have only perfected or nearly perfected a pathway to weapons grade uranium. i m not sure you get any benefits whatsoever from moving forward at this point. bill: it won t make a lot of democrats happy. we ll see if you are right over time. you have this issue. apparently we re paying millions of dollars a month to protect people who serve today or in the past. senator cruz brought this up yesterday. watch here. is it true that the irgc is
much confused about how that came about. in other words, you thought you had a deal, that case was over and the facts of it were done ? no. it s the way it was put out and the way many people saw it, and you just said it, and i think, i think the safest way to put it is i agree with you. now, there s an answer. the trial judge said that this deal didn t meet the standard of something that had to be recognized as formal and operative and ate ing equities
much confused about how that came about. in other words, you thought you had a deal, that case was over and the facts of it were done ? no. it s the way it was put out and the way many people saw it, and you just said it, and i think, i think the safest way to put it is i agree with you. now, there s an answer. the trial judge said that this deal didn t meet the standard of something that had to be recognized as formal and operative and at equities here. you could argue that they never