The Longstanding Alliance goes back decades. Two very different attitudes towards china. Australia wants to get along with china and the United States. The United States and donald trump in particular see china as a rising threat. How you navigate that, what we get in the press conference on china is how the issue of china has affected the relationships the u. S. House with allies in the pacific. David as we saw in the opening remarks in the oval office a short time ago, there was a lot of talk about the longstanding close relationship between the United States and australia. Has the dispute the United States has with china put strain on the relationship between australia and china . It has. Australia has been asked to pick sides. It does not want to pick sides. At the same time, it is navigating its own relationship with china and questioning whether it has gone too far in being too cozy. We have seen some universities in australia question relationships with the Chinese Communist par
By president bush. Have a listen. Always prepared, never haas been a country more prepared. I spent, i spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars. Were spending another 738 billion now. I spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars rebuilding our military. Obviously china is a threat to the world in a sense because theyre building a military faster than anybody. And frankly theyre using u. S. Money. Neil all right. So the president linking these two developments. Keeping an eye on both, iran and china, two very Different Cases to say it mildly, the target of iran is its central bank. Iran is all about black markets. Doesnt deal traditional fashion shipping out money. The central bank, trying to freeze assets coming in and out of there, the flow of funds there, might do that in the sort of the official diplomatic way but the fact of the matter, iran is notorious for finding endruns around that, working with other countries that help them find endruns around that. Well get the sense what this means with former trump
Thank thank you very much. Australia is a fantastic country and a brilliant ally. We just spent a lot of time together with our representatives, and they get along very well and we are doing a lot of deals and we talked military. We talked trade. We talked about everything you can talk about. And we came to the same conclusion i think in every case. But i just want to say an honor having both of you here. Thank you very much. You have a truly great country and i dont think weve ever had a better relationship then we have right now. At tonight were going to have something very special in the rose garden, and based on all of that money we spend on all of that weather predicting equipment, they are safe no chance of rain. Lets see if thats right. If it is we will run right back into this room. But were going at a fantastic evening and first lady, thank you very much. You worked very hard on this, so its not going to rain, its going to be a beautiful evening, and great job. Really great jo
Kennedy hes going to come smack me on the head. The cia through the challenge like saying louisiana narrative that the Central Intelligence agencies make life or death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and collections. Misguided speculation of the president s handling most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day, with the exploitation operation is an accurate. Another problem was cnn reporting is that the extradition was attempted in 2060 under president obama. Mike pompeo was a former head of the cia and he also took time to call shenanigans. Reporting is inaccurate and you should know as a former director i dont talk about things like this very often, its only on occasions whether something that puts people at risk or an enormous risk to the United States that even, in the way i did. The reporting is false. Kennedy what else dont you talk about. Nbc News Catching heat for divulging the address of the spy in the cnn report. The network
Steve joining us on newsmakers is jb poersch. He is the president of the Senate Majority pack. Thank you for joining us. J. B. thank you, steve. Steve let me begin with the Senate Republican leader up for reelection in kentucky. We have not seen him public in the last month because he fractured his shoulder as a result of a fall that took place in louisville at his home. What can we expect when he comes back and sizes up that race against mcgrath . J. B. i think when we come back in the senate, obviously the first focus is going to be this s the legislative session to follow a month of gun violence in several cities around the country. So i expect a serious conversation inside the enate. I think where we are with americans is that theres more of an expectation that somethings going to get done, and i think both caucuses are going to feel some pressure for some, not just overall result, cosmetic results, but they want to see something that goes toward gun violence and gun safety. Steve