a former federal prosecutor on this addition to. the politicking on larry king our says he s independent impartial and a defender of the rule of law critics say he s behaving as a political actor serving trump s interests and not those of the people let s start there with former federal prosecutors stephen den haag he served as associate independent counsel for ken starr during the investigation into president bill clinton he is in miami all right what was your assessment stephen of bars testimony yesterday. well i think from a legal marriage didn t really break any new ground i think he tried to say all the right things and looking stand he was very measured i think from a political perspective i think he probably won the day in the sense that the democrats really tried to. beat on him from a political matter and they didn t really pin him down as well as they probably could have this question could have been better with a few exceptions. barnes said he s independent imparti
reaction to that now from our good friend antonio of the hour ago also the former mayor of los angeles let s start right there mayor what what was your reaction to his threat to call in the u.s. troops. unbelievable the language that he used i ve never heard a president talk like that at least the president of united states of america and that some banana republic. even his defense secretary. tried to walk away from those comments and indicated that they weren t considering putting troops in our cities against our people who were constitutional right to protest. and i thought as i said it was unbelievable it was it was actually quite scary. morning i mean to make of the reaction we ve had in america protests riots all of them it doesn t seem to calm down well it doesn t seem to calm down and i think when yesterday for a good part of the day i saw. demonstrations and marches all across the country in fact it is filled me with emotion it did me with emotion that so many people
global investment funds joins us from new york ok neal what do you expect to happen with the president of china and the president of the united states. first of hi larry how are you. i would i would not expect an awful lot in terms of an agreement at this meeting the question i think is going to be whether they come away expressing a willingness to conduct negotiations to try and reach a compromise over the next number of months and if that sort of understanding is reached whether or the president will be willing to the layer or moderate some of his threats to impose more say more more tariffs or higher tariffs on what is already existing is saying a negotiation to negotiate i think that s pretty much the best you re going to expect i don t think the president and i would states and the president of china are going to sit and get into detail negotiations at this go around they may have they may. agree to a nice framework and you know target that some of the issues that the tr
compromises that are beneficial to the united states in terms of trade in terms of access to chinese markets in terms of limiting. the theft of intellectual property in terms of making the landscape equal to investment in china in investment here he may be willing and need to take a harder line as he seems to done so far will he be willing to take the negative consequences that are likely to come in the short intermediate term as a as a different question i mean i think the outcome of the last election may raise concern about what happens in two thousand and twenty and if his prime if his priority is reelection that may adjust his his his approach but if if he feels that it is essential. to. change to change the landscape in a way that balances the playing field the united states he may be willing to really take a hard line and deal with the negative consequences of that what do you think of his trade policies in general. i am not sure how coherent they have been and i m not
access to chinese markets in terms of limiting. the theft of intellectual property in terms of making the landscape equal to investment in china investment here he may be willing and need to take a harder line as he seems to done so far will he be willing to take the negative consequences that are likely to come in the short intermediate term as a as a different question i mean i think the outcome of the last election may raise concern about what happens in two thousand and twenty and if his prime if his priority is reelection that may adjust his his his approach but if if he feels that it is essential. to. change to change the landscape in a way that balances the playing field for united states he may be willing to really take a hard line and deal with the negative consequences of that what do you think of his trade policies in general. i am not sure how coherent they have been and i m not sure in the broader scale. that the way that he pictures them as nearly as successful