Addon advantage. Discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. Only when you book with expedia. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, critical mass. Thought our politics were explosive before . Try replacing the swing vote on the Supreme Court. Well talk about the wild conjecture and whats actually about to happen. At the same time, democrats take stock after a top member of leadership is upset in new york. Rising stars ben jealous and jason candor join me live to talk about what their party should do next. And later i travel to utah
to talk with mitt romney on the campaign trail. Hes set to become the republican senator in the age of trump. Plus, do not congratulate. Russia stuns spain at the world cup. But first the interviews, the Lobbying Effort and even the ads are underway to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. The president is back home after spending the weekend at Bedmin
leaders need to talk about, national security, the environment, iran, for example. the focus, because of this fixation trump has on his trade war with china will certainly be on trade. he has a lot of issues with europe as well. he runs the disk here of fighting a trade war on two fronts. he wants to talk to the french about an internet tax they have. he has threatened a wine tariff on france. europe, he has hung car tariffs over their heads if they don t open up their markets more. japan, he s also mentioned the possibility of tariffs on japanese cars. he s not showing any signs of backing down from this trade rhetoric even as, back home this trade war with china continues to escalate and there s more and more concern from economists, investors that the u.s. is going to be thrown into a recession as the president is facing re-election. shannon, what did you make of what we saw a few moments ago.
my statement of bottom line of the report was clearly accurate. the attorney general says he has no exception speaking, a popular speaking to the hill. bob mueller and bill barr have known each other for 30 years. this moment, bill barr tells me he considers bob mueller to be a friend. bret: bill, thanks. two big stories out of the white house today. president trump says he hopes the u.s. is not on a path to war with iran. iran boasted its military power and missile range. the president is defending his national security advisor and secretary of state against what he calls fake news that he s upset with them. instead, movement on trade for president trump announcing a deal with canada and mexico to lift the steel and aluminum tariffs, a delay in auto tariffs, all while china turns up the tough trade rhetoric.
the market is telling you that. if you look at flow of funds data and you look at the last six months of market activity, the stock market was up roughly 2.5% for the first six months. that s the worst half of a year since 2010 when we ve had a very great period of robust growth and low monetary policy. so, the market is getting in a defensive position and girding itself. and what i don t like about what s going on is the president set the tempo for american ceos, business leaders large and small. america is open for business, let s invest in the country. let s repatriate capital back from overseas. the trade rhetoric is slowing people down and he s a very, very smart guy. he s an entrepreneur. he adapted on the child separation policy. i figure he can adapt here quickly where we can leave the economy growing and still address the trade issue. i think he s right on the trade issue, but i think he s wrong to go at both sides as aggressively as he s going. now, a lot of people will b
so, the market is getting in a defensive position and girding itself. and what i don t like about what s going on is the president set the tempo for american ceos, business leaders large and small. america is open for business, let s invest in the country. let s repatriate capital back from overseas. the trade rhetoric is slowing people down and he s a very, very smart guy. he s an entrepreneur. he adapted on the child separation policy. i figure he can adapt here quickly where we can leave the economy growing and still address the trade issue. i think he s right on the trade issue, but i think he s wrong to go at both sides as aggressively as he s going. now, a lot of people will be criticizing me for saying that. that s fine. i think it is very, very important that we have smart people sitting in the room and offering different advice, which may or may not be inside the consensus. speaking of people sitting inside the room, there s been a lot of chatter. this comes up from time t