didn t fly in a military plane like the last lawmakers in a previous congressional visit where you have this images of military aircraft that landed in taipei that infuriated beijing. we saw huge numbers of chinese war planes in the defense identification zone when that happened back in late september, and the war planes came in early october. but it s a time that the u.s. lawmakers really have to be careful here. because, yes, taiwan is one of those rare issues in the united states that unites lawmakers across the aisle, rub cans and democrats seem to be rallying in support of taiwan and shared disdain for china which is becoming an increasingly assertive and aggressive, some might say, competitor and also has had a lot of bad p.r. as of late, and the saga of the tennis star who is believed to have been disappeared and silenced, peng shuai, even though she is paraded around in what are propaganda videos. taiwan is a red line for china,
michael cohen s lies to congress with the house tower project made it into the house republican report. this from their report. cohen attempted to reach out to members of the russian government and attempt to make the project proceed but apparently did not have any direct points of contact. it does not appear cohen ever received a response from anyone affiliated with the russian government. neither president putin nor anyone from the russian government was involved in the project. those were all lies. but the rub cans in congress bought them all, hook, line and sinker. they regurgitated them in unprocessed form as their report about what happened between trump and russia during the campaign. now michael cohen has confessed in open court that those were lies. now, that was just the house republican report on what happened between trump and russia. you might remember the democrats on the intelligence committee, they didn t sign onto that report. they were sort of furious about it when
readers? if we were to money haul the society, we would invest in the public sector. we have under invested. we have a work force, there are five times more people under the age of 60 than the age of of 30. there is a thing going on with technology in the government. you can t run an organization. what is the democrat response? everything is so polarized. rub cans get defensive, democrats go yeah. the government doesn t sell itself. it is forbidden from selling itself with the exception of nasa and the military. we need somebody to explain to the citizens what this enterprise does, the commerce department, the agricultural department. make them appreciate what it does so there is political support for what it does. when some bozo comes along and says he wants to be president, what are you going to do with this instead of giving him a
what is the democrat response? everything is so polarized. rub cans get defensive, democrats go yeah. the government doesn t sell itself. it is forbidden from selling itself with the exception of nasa and the military. we need somebody to explain to the citizens what this enterprise does, the commerce department, the agricultural department. make them appreciate what it does so there is political support for what it does. when some bozo comes along and says he wants to be president, what are you going to do with this instead of giving him a pass. this is an invaluable look at the way the government works. michael lewis. the fifth risk. thank you. we really appreciate t. thank you for having me. when we come back, there are 28 days to the election, which means there are 29 days to what could be a big set of changes in the trump administration after the election.
in on that, our friend steve schmidt. steve, your thoughts. well, nicolle, i think there is a very unfortunate where strength is an important policy in a democracy, particularly in a country where the politics are closely divided. and the reality is you have donald trump lost the popular vote by 3 million. he won by 78,000 votes across three states. and the rub cans control all three branches of government. the legislative and by republican nominees on the supreme court. so, we have a minority that is ruling the majority of the country who are opposed to this president, and that is extremely unhealthy in a democracy. as you know in the white house, i ran the robertson/alito confirmations. i was supportive of president