Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
a short term hit. any president will want wall street to feel comfortable with the new administration and the reality of how power works in america. anyone will want the financial markets. that s different from wall street. people can, i think if you got bob rubin and larry summers and any of the past treasury secretaries and asked them whether they knew steve mnuchin, thought he was a reassuring signal, monetary policy, i ll pretty sure they would say no. we had these discussions when he was head of the finance committee. he didn t assure anyone then because no one knew him. one of the weaknesses romney had, he never explained how he felt personably what happened to people who lost their jobs or were hurt financially. i really home these guys are pressed by both parties. both are involved in things hurt
accomplished, this shouat she d show what she s doing, that she doesn t understand how power works in america, doesn t really connect with voters, most voters, even republicans, independents say she s been in power, she knows how government works, she s an effective leader, things like this. this idea that hillary clinton might be in over her head if she were president is a very odd tack for republicans to take. back to the conversation about defunding planned parenthood and the possibility of a government shutdown over it, it s easy to talk about, you know, withstanding vetoes, the administration certainly has made it clear that they are not going to sign a budget bill that defunds planned parenthood, which means we ll head to a government shutdown. that s the mood right now. but as we get closer to that d-day for that shutdown to happen, do you expect the obama administration s resolve and the president s resolve to hold firm and the government to shut down over this issue? we re