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President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Arlington National Cemetery Saturday with a large umbrella to protect himself from the elements

Trump arrived around 2.15pm to observe the activities taking place there for Wreaths Across America, which decorates the graves of fallen troops for Christmas

It came a month after Trump drew heavy criticism for skipping an appearance honoring fallen World War One soldiers at a U

S.military cemetery in France because of the weather.Trump said at the time poor visibility and steady rain had grounded Marine One, and that the Secret Service was unable to make security arrangements for the 55-mile drive to the cemetery

He was also criticized for failing, upon his return from France, to visit Arlington to mark Veterans Day

Trump later explained that he was 'extremely busy on calls for the country' that day, but added, in an interview with Fox News, 'I should have done that

' On Saturday, Trump arrived at Arlington unannounced, and was escorted through part of the cemetery by an official

Trump walked gingerly though the rain-soaked grass and conversed with the female official, as two uniformed soldiers and a Secret Service agent trailed behind

The President was the only one of the small group who had an umbrella.Every December, Wreaths Across America places wreaths on the graves of fallen soldiers at Arlington and other cemeteries

More than 75,000 volunteers placed wreaths at 245,000 Arlington gravesites last year

The Pentagon says that this year the group shipped 1.75 million wreaths to 1,640 locations across the U

S.'They do a great job, a really great job.Thank you,' Trump said during the visit at Arlington

In brief remarks to reporters, he said the government was working to expand Arlington, where more than 400,000 men and women are buried, by purchasing nearby land

'We're working very hard on it.We'll get it done.' After walking through the cemetery and chatting with the official for several minutes, Trump took a question from a reporter on the recent federal court ruling that found Obama's health care plan unconstitutional

'On the assumption that the Supreme Court upholds, we will get great, great health care for our people,' President Donald Trump told reporters

'We'll have to sit down with the Democrats to do it, but I'm sure they want to do it also

' Arlington, on land once owned by a descendant of George Washington, lies directly across the Potomac River from the capital, just a few minutes' drive away

It marked the latest time that Trump appeared in public with his trusty black umbrella, which has been the subject of considerable controversy several times

In January, Trump was accused of abandoning First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron to the elements after he boarded Air Force One under the comfort of the umbrella, but leaving the family members exposed

In October, the President baffled observers by appearing unable or unwilling to collapse the umbrella, leaving it on the rolling stairs to Air Force One to blow in the wind

For more infomation >> Trump makes up for Paris WWI memorial blunder by making surprise visit to Arlington Cemetery - Duration: 5:09.

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Trump-Xi Summit: A Win for Trump or Another Beijing Trick? - Duration: 31:41.

President Trump and Xi Jinping met during the G20 summit.

What surprised the American team the most?

President Xi engaged in a level of detail -- you could even say he was selling this.

Xi backed down from a tough tit-for-tat stance; what is the real reason?

China feels like it's economically breaking down since its economy has been going downward

while the American economy is improving.

The Dow fell 800 points after the summit due to competing accounts from the White House

and Beijing.

Does the American public really believe Chinese media?

When the market moves, it's because investment bankers and financial professionals who are

aligned with the Chinese side of things are unhappy.

Is Trump close to hitting a homerun in the trade war with China?

Welcome to Zooming In, I am Simone Gao.

The Trump-Xi meeting at the G-20 summit last weekend took many people by surprise.

Before the summit, most pundits predicted there would be very little outcome.

Trump would persist on structural changes and Xi would refuse.

Most likely Beijing will revert to its old tactics of agreeing to something but never

really doing it.

They would intend to buy their time in order to come up with new ways to maintain the status

quo.

But this time it felt different.

Xi Jinping kicked off the conversation with a 30-45 minute monologue.

He detailed a substantial concession list from the Chinese side.

It seemed he did everything to prove his commitment before the American hawks.

Does he really want to give up what he absolutely wouldn't before?

If so, why the change of heart?

Let's explore the causes in this episode of Zooming In.

After the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20 summit, accounts from Beijing and the White House

about what the two leaders discussed and agreed on didn't match up.

According to a White House press release, President Trump agreed to leave tariffs at

10 percent on $200 billion dollars' worth of product starting January 1st, 2019.

He will not raise it to 25 percent at this time.

China agreed to purchase a substantial amount of energy, industrial, and other products

from the United States to reduce the trade imbalance between the two countries.

China agreed to start purchasing agricultural products from American farmers immediately.

The White House also said Trump and Xi agreed to immediately begin negotiations on structural

changes with respect to forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection,

non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft, services and agriculture.

Both parties agree that they will try to complete the transfer in the next 90 days.

If they can't reach an agreement within 90 days, percent.

Larry Kudlow, the director of the national economic council, attended the Trump-Xi meeting.

He described what he observed in a teleconference with the media.

I think this is just an enormous, enormous event.

Enormous event.

And I know we've been down this road with China in the past and we've been quite disappointed

with the lack of results and follow-through.

And that includes my own participation, which began with the Beijing trip.

I guess I started out as someone who was rather optimistic, but nothing happened so I turned

somewhat cynical.

This one covers so much ground and so much detail.

We've never seen this before.

And furthermore, we've never seen the hands-on participation by President Xi before.

In fact, that dinner was quite remarkable.

First of all, I -- it's the first time I've seen President Xi up close and personal.

I don't know him at all.

So I saw the chemistry between President Trump and President Xi.

You know, we've been hearing that they're friends and so forth.

I actually saw it.

And I think if you're a cynic and a hardened cynic, you would say, "Well, you know, that

stuff is just -- it doesn't mean anything."

And we'll get to the cold, hard facts in a minute.

But I do think it means something.

I do.

I think personal relationships matter and we'll see how this turns out.

But I will warn you I am cautiously optimistic about this.

And I secondly want to note that President Xi engaged in a level of detail -- you could

even say he was selling this, which was, in my opinion, quite unusual for the head of

state.

Guys like me are supposed to know the details.

He did.

He made the pitch himself.

Vice Premier Liu He, the top economic economics guru, as you know, actually told us -- we

had two private meetings with Liu before the dinner.

Liu kind of flagged it in the second meeting Saturday.

He said, "I'm not going to say anything.

It's going to be President Xi."

And we reported that to President Trump because that's quite unusual.

And he wasn't winging it, he was well prepared.

And so I was impressed with that and I felt that bolstered the Chinese commitment.

I may be wrong, but I believe it did.

According to Kudlow, Xi Jinping actually did the bidding directly.

White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro was also present and echoed

this account.

Peter Navarro: It was extraordinary to have the president of China himself at that dinner

spend the first 30 to 45 minutes laying out the parameters in detail of a deal — that's

never really happened in the history of the U.S.-China relationship.

The way this generally works is that the minions meet and talk about these things.

This was president-to-president, so that's very much different as well.

According to the American team, not only was substantial ground covered in the meeting,

but the Chinese team used an important word: "immediately."

The other point I want to make is, when we met with Vice Premier Liu He, he said several

times -- and I pushed him on this -- that the China changes, with respect to tariffs

and non-tariff barriers and other structural issues that we'll get into in a few moments,

would begin immediately.

I don't think that's come out yet in the press reports.

I did mention that in some of the interviews that I did this morning, "immediately."

And I said, "What do you mean, 'immediately'?"

And he said, "Immediately."

I said, "Like Monday?

Get going, Monday?

That would be very persuasive."

And, I said that to his top deputies.

So we'll see.

But, I think, I can tell you I've never heard that "immediately" commitment before.

China's official Xinhua News agency agreed with its counterpart in describing a friendly

and constructive atmosphere.

But in terms of what was actually talked about and agreed upon, it depicts a different picture.

According to Beijing, the U.S. and China agreed to stop adding new tariffs, without mentioning

it's only a temporary cease fire.

The report said the next step is to work to eliminate all tariffs.

There is no mention of the 90 day negotiation period and what happens if the two parties

don't reach an agreement within three months.

Xinhua also said China will further open its market and increase imports based on the needs

of China's reforms and the Chinese market.

The report didn't mention the immediate purchase of large amounts of U.S. agricultural

goods.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's press briefing was strictly in line with the Xinhua

News agency's report.

The two leaders have reached an agreement to stop raising new tariffs on each other.

China expresses its willingness to expand imports according to the needs of its domestic

market and people, including the purchase of marketable goods from the United States,

so as to gradually alleviate the trade imbalance.

In a response to mounting criticism from Chinese citizens that the media concealed important

details of the Trump-Xi meeting, chief editor Hu Xijin of China's Global Times defended

the Chinese government.

He said it is normal for diplomats to highlight information that is beneficial to their country.

He went on to say his media did not hide such information.

The Global Times also criticized the Trump administration for highlighting Beijing's

agreement to purchase $1.2 trillion dollars of American goods while failing to mention

where the U.S. made concessions.

It listed examples, like the U.S. hasn't mentioned Made in China 2025 for a while.

It also seemed to stop attacks on China's state-owned enterprises and related industrial

policies.

The Global Times is in an awkward position.

It still has to attack America even if it wants to somewhat differ from Xinhua.

It is likely this slight difference was also ordered by the regime.

The real question is why did the Chinese Communist Party feel the need to hide the details of

this meeting at all?

Here is my discussion with Chinese political strategist Pokong Chen.

In your opinion, why did the Chinese communist regime hide part of the Trump-Xi meeting from

its people?

The regime orchestrated this, as I had anticipated.

Simply because this is almost the last chance for it to warm up China-U.S. relations and

end confrontation between them.

This is also the last reprieve President Trump and the U.S. have granted him after Xi's

repeated requests.

So, evidently, it was China that made substantial concessions to the U.S.

You may call it caving in, admitting defeat, or a signal of sincerity.

It was flagged as "surrender," in accounts of Russian and Indian media.

That's why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who had been so assertive and high-profile,

was reluctant to publicize the truth.

We remember Xi's previous public remarks, claiming to "fight to the end," "teeth

for teeth," and "never back down a single step."

He even swore to prevent Trump from taking advantage of China like cutting off mutton

from a grown sheep.

So defiantly, so absolutely.

Despite such statements Xi's huge concessions made him unable to face the Chinese people,

which may provoke civilian criticism, political unrest or a power crisis.

As a result Xi Jinping and the Chinese communist regime concealed details of the talk.

Xi started the talk with a lengthy speech, offering great concessions, according to Navarro.

Why did he do so?

How is the Chinese communist regime doing amid the ongoing trade war?

The Chinese regime repeatedly employed a delaying tactic.

Soon after Trump took office they staged a "100-day negotiation," which ended up

in failure due to the CCP's delay.

Later Vice Premier Liu He came to the U.S. for another rounds of talks.

But no good faith had been found on the part of the Chinese regime.

Then the U.S. laid aside the negotiations.

China didn't ask the U.S. to resume the talks until its economy dropped to a dangerous

point with the escalating trade war.

However, Trump declared more than once that he wouldn't restart the negotiations so

soon, saying that China was not ready to reach a deal.

The U.S. didn't agree to launch this meeting until many promises, even from Xi himself,

were made.

So the spotlight of this talk was the fact that Xi spent 30 minutes elaborating his concessions

to the U.S. team at the very start of the summit.

This was done for two reasons.

One, Xi almost lost his reputation for the U.S. part.

Back in 2015, Xi made two promises to then-American President Obama: one, the South China Sea

would never become militarized, but China ate its words later; two, China's cyber

theft targeted at American businesses would be stopped, which turned out to be more alarming

than ever.

Therefore, Xi lost (or nearly lost) his credibility in the U.S.

Further, the past two years' interactions with the Xi administration taught the U.S.

counterpart that the barrier to Sino-U.S. talks or ties was no other than Xi himself.

Both Mr. Kudlow, the director of the national economic council, and President Trump showed

that Liu He and others consented to a deal, but finally Xi stood in the way.

So this time, Xi Jinping himself had to stand out and air his own statements and commitments.

Otherwise this meeting would be impossible.

Moreover, this posture unmistakably signaled that Xi has the authority of giving a final

say.

Only by doing so could Xi gain his credibility from the U.S.

Again, the last chance for him.

There are three reasons for his willingness to back down.

First, China is the inflicting party, with the U.S. being the victim, thereby accounting

for Xi's concessions.

Secondly, compared with American democracy, Xi's domination in a party state like China

paved his way to concessions, whose authority can stifle dissent either from the CCP or

from the Chinese society.

Thirdly, China feels like it's economically breaking down since its economy has been going

downward while the American economy is improving.

If market transfers and manufacturing collapse occurs, China's whole economy will be shaken.

As a result, Xi Jinping had to offer sweeping concessions.

Just now you mentioned that China feels like it's breaking down economically.

Then, how serious is that situation?

Primarily because China's economic pattern is heavily dependent on foreign exchange,

capital, and trade.

China is the largest foreign trading country in the world.

Its income mainly comes from this source, which also makes up its largest portion of

foreign exchange reserve.

However, since the trade war the U.S. levied tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent

on Chinese imports worth $253 billion, which has made Chinese goods less competitive.

Currently, markets are transferring; goods from southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Indonesia,

Thailand, and the Philippines, are rushing into the U.S. foreign capital.

We also note that it is rushing into southeast Asia and other regions.

So communist China is less competitive in the world.

Moreover, China's economy mainly consists of manufacturing, which takes up 40 or 50

percent.

In the past four decades, China has established its status as a manufacturing power, whose

collapse will cripple China's economy, too.

Now China uses very plausible, mild or misleading terms to describe its economy: "slowed economic

growth," or "economic slowdown."

The reality is this: downward, or zero growth or even negative growth.

So with this background, if the trade war drags on, especially when the tariffs on Chinese

imports worth $200 billion rise to 25 percent and those on the remaining $267 billion, again,

increase to 25 percent, China's economy will face the risk of being fundamentally

shaken, as in the manufacturing sector.

Even worse, the Chinese regime's unfair or illegal means will no longer work in terms

of intellectual property and market access.

I believe its economy will be hit hard as a whole.

Mind you, the legitimacy of the Chinese communist regime (or its superficial legitimacy) in

the past decades has rested in nothing but its economic growth.

Once an economic downturn occurs to private enterprises or ordinary people, I judge that

trend may politically shake the CCP's authority and even Xi's own authority.

I also asked Greg Autry his opinion on the summit.

Mr. Autry is assistant Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of

Business at the University of Southern California.

He also co-wrote the book "Death by China."

Regarding the Trump-Xi summit, some analysts say Trump was fooled by Xi Jinping.

Xi will not really make substantial concessions.

Instead, they will just trick the U.S. in order to buy some time to come up with new

ways to maintain the status quo, just like what they did with previous administrations.

Do you think Trump will be fooled and manipulated again by Xi Jinping?

I don't think that Donald Trump is easily fooled.

I do think, however, the expectations of the United States' government as a whole and

the financial interests that go beyond the government, and particularly, multinational

corporations and investors want to see some sort of negotiation and agreement, so there

was a great deal of pressure on Trump and the Trump team to at least appear that they

were open to doing so.

So as long as Xi said some of the right things, I think that they were required to give China,

frankly, a little more leash.

And we're just going to have to just wait and find out, of course, that those promises

made by Xi are false, which they always are.

But, unfortunately, I think the president was in a situation where he couldn't look

like that bad guy.

He had to let Xi, one more time, make a false promise.

And I think the fact that Trump set a very tight deadline on it of 90 days before he

upped the tariffs, and that deadline starts, not on January 1st, but it starts right now,

makes it clear to me that they don't intend to mess around with this for very long.

In your recent article in Foreign Policy, you wrote, "Over the last two years, establishment

pundits shifted from spouting nonsense about China's inevitable progress toward capitalism

and democracy to asking whether tariffs are the right way to confront a dangerous regime

we all agree is built on lies and cheating."

So what about that?

Do you think Trump has pinned his success on trade alone, more specifically, are tariffs

the only tool or the best tool at Trump's disposal?

I think that of all of Trump's policies, his trade policy has been the most effective.

U.S. unemployment rate is at a record low.

GDP growth is exceptionally high.

People on the street are happy with economic performance, and just the opposite is happening

in China.

So he's achieved what he wanted, which was leverage over the Chinese leadership in an

economic realm using the tariffs.

That said, that's not the only tool that would be available to the administration if

they wanted to pursue this further.

One of the things they could do would be look at visas for Chinese executives and Chinese

students.

The recent arrest of a Huawei executive says to me that they're looking very seriously

at the actual behavior of individuals involved in the intellectual property theft and transfer

and threats to U.S. national security.

It's also quite reasonable to assume that the U.S. will begin looking at reciprocal

laws.

So if Chinese organizations want to come to the U.S., they'd be forced into joint partnerships

very similar to the way that U.S. companies are forced into joint partnerships often with

Chinese state-owned enterprises in order to do business in the Chinese market.

We could also force Chinese companies to transfer technology in order to have access to our

market the same way that the Chinese government has done.

And if they don't have any technology, perhaps we could charge a market access fee where

they need to essentially pay for us to develop technology if they're going to come into

our market.

The fact that U.S. companies and individuals can't really own property in China, and

yet Chinese companies have been allowed to come into the U.S. and buy up real property

and large swaths of land and mineral resources, which are not available to U.S. firms operating

in China, we should level those rules out and prevent Chinese access to real estate,

to land, and to mineral resources.

Coming up, besides Trump, what else caused Beijing to make concessions?

Leading up to the Trump-Xi summit, the stock market showed confidence until December 4th,

when the Dow Jones Industrial Average suddenly fell nearly 800 points.

Bond yields also plummeted.

The Washington Post attributed the market downturn to the differing U.S. and China accounts

from the G20 summit.

The Post challenged some of Trump's claims, saying they could not be confirmed by officials

from the administration.

It also quoted an anonymous former official criticizing Trump, saying, quote, "You don't

do this with the Chinese.

You don't triumphantly proclaim all their concessions in public.

It's just madness."

MSNBC's headline was more blunt: "Trump's 'incredible deal' with China doesn't

appear to exist."

The slew of reports made me wonder if there were discrepancies in the accounts between

the White House and Chinese state-owned media.

Does the American public believe the Chinese media more?

I asked Mr. Autry whether they do or not.

On December 5, the Dow fell nearly 800 points.

The Washington Post suggested it dropped because of the contradicting reports from China and

the U.S.

My question is this: If there are discrepancies in the description between the two sides,

are the American people really inclined to believe the Chinese side?

Otherwise, why did the stock market fall?

So the Chinese have a much better perception management campaign, the Communist Party has

the best global propaganda system in the world.

And they're very good at making their message be felt.

And, frankly, most American multinational corporations are more aligned with the Chinese

interests.

That's where most of their jobs are and their products are produced.

And most American investment bankers and finance folks that get quoted in the media or make

donations to D.C. think tanks that produce the dominant paradigm that ends up in the

financial media, these folks are all aligned with the Chinese side, and they take their

messaging right from the Communist Party, and they repeat it.

And that's easy to do, and the American public is used to that and comfortable with

that, in fact.

But don't assume that because you see that Dow fall significantly or the bond market

adjust that that's the American public.

Most of the American public are not active traders of equities.

And the ones that are, as individuals, that's a very small amount of the market.

When the market moves, it's because investment bankers and financial professionals who are

aligned with the Chinese side of things are unhappy.

And so I think they've realized that this isn't going to happen.

And so they've pulled back a bit, and that shouldn't be a surprise.

Talking about the U.S. economy, a number of investors, including Goldman Sachs, predicted

a U.S. recession next year.

What do you think?

Well, first of all, we've got to realize we've had a ten-year growth spurt, so having

a recession next year would not be a surprise.

There are certainly a number of indicators that many of the markets, including the real

estate and equity markets, are, as we say, long in the tooth, meaning that they've

grown for so long that a correction is to be expected.

So I don't know that that won't happen.

The yield curve and other indicators suggest that it's entirely possible.

I would hope the Federal Reserve would stop raising interest rates at this point because

that has helped move us to that position.

But we're in a really strong position and, if we underwent any normal recession, it wouldn't

be a significant problem.

The problem with Goldman Sachs and most of the investment banks that control a lot of

the financial media opinions, their interest is only in what happens next quarter and returning

short-term profits because the analysts and traders at those companies retire early, and

the CEOs did help back the multinational corporations.

They're only, on average, a CEO for five years.

So they want short-term results.

They don't care about the long-term interests of the United States, the long-term interests

of workers, our national security, or any of those other things.

And Donald Trump understands that, and I don't think he's going to take their opinions

more seriously than any of the other stakeholders he represents.

That said, do you think a prolonged trade war with China will really hurt the U.S. economy?

Or has it already hurt the U.S. economy?

So far there's no sign that it's hurt the U.S. economy.

And one of the important things is, of course, the people who make money off of the China

trade have been trying to scare American consumers into believing that the prices of their goods

would increase substantially, and that just isn't true.

It's important to understand that any time a tax, a tariff, or additional cost comes

into the supply chain for a product, that that cost is not just deposited on the consumers.

Businesses can't just raise the price by 25 percent and make consumers pay more.

They have to deal with the reality of the economic demand curve that exists: What are

consumers willing to pay and able to pay for certain goods.

And the consumers will pay a small portion of it, but most of it ends up reducing the

margins of the producers and the distributors in the chain.

And we've already seen that the U.S. retailers aren't willing to take that cost, and they've

pushed it right back on the Chinese producers.

So not only are Chinese producers seeing less demand, but they're also getting a lot less

margin for their products.

So, so far, it hasn't hurt the U.S. economy.

That said, trade is a great, valuable thing, and we'd love to have more of it, I'm

sure.

But if trade means you get to sell 100 million or even a billion dollars' worth of soybeans,

but you have to look the other way while China steal 400 million dollars' worth of high

technology every year, that is not realistic, and we've got to get over this kind of anecdotal

"look at that, look at this particular loss" in one market and realize that the overall

scope of things has been very, very bad for the last 20 years.

And with the current deficit that we run with China, if we just cut off trade with China

and didn't buy or sell them anything, American GDP would go up by about two-and-a-half percent,

all other things being equal.

And that's pretty incredible.

So we need to be realistic about what the overall effect is and not focus on the trees.

The forest is more important.

Coming up, what's happened since the summit?

On December 1st, the same day President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed

to a trade war truce, Canada arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei

Technologies, Meng Wanzhou.

Meng is the deputy chair of Huawei's board and the daughter of the company's founder,

Ren Zhengfei.

The arrest warrant was issued by the United States a week earlier.

A Canadian justice then issued a warrant on November 30th.

Meng allegedly committed fraud in 2013 by lying to U.S. financial institutions about

Huawei's connection with Hong Kong company SkyCom, which reportedly sold U.S. goods to

Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Huawei is the world's largest maker of telecommunications network equipment.

In 2004, CISCO sued Huawei for using stolen Cisco technology to develop a lineup of routers

and switches sold in competition to the American company.

Cisco later dropped the lawsuit in exchange for a promise from its rival to modify its

product lineup.

On December 4th, 38 Chinese government branches published a united memo laying out an array

of punishments over intellectual property theft.

These measures include establishing a social credit system to target people and entities

who commit severe intellectual property rights violations.

The social credit score could restrict companies' access to borrowing and state-funded support.

On the same day, President Trump tweeted, quote, "Very strong signals being sent by

China once they returned home from their long trip, including stops, from Argentina.

Not to sound naive or anything, but I believe President Xi meant every word of what he said

at our long and hopefully historic meeting.

ALL subjects discussed!"

What does all this say about the U.S.-China trade war and President Trump's attitude

toward China now?

Let's hear form Greg Autry and Pokong Chen again.

On December 1st, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei C.F.O. and daughter of the founder of the company,

was arrested in Canada for extradition to the U.S.

What do you make of her arrest?

Do you think it is related to the U.S.-China trade war?

Absolutely.

It, to some extent, couldn't not be because the focus on the penalties that the U.S. is

putting on China are not necessarily over the specific products on the list, but over

the intellectual property theft and behavior that requires the transfer of intellectual

property.

And Huawei is like the poster child for stealing U.S. intellectual property and as a tool for

the Chinese party to insert network infrastructure and communications infrastructure into Western

countries that it can further use to inflict cyber espionage and industrial espionage on

those countries.

So it's the perfect message to send.

I don't know whether the arrest was intentionally related to that, but Huawei has been a company

that I identified back in 2013 when I testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on

China cyber espionage as the primary target to look at.

So I'm not surprised by that.

So you think this is not a coincidence?

It says something about trump's attitude towards China?

I think it's possible.

And, again, I think you might see that they take action on visas for corporate executives

or maybe even for students or, who knows, because they've got a lot of other tools

in their pocket and they don't intend to let a foreign power continue to steal U.S.

assets.

And I think they're going to be pretty strong about that.

And tariffs are not the only way to do it.

So if they put the tariffs on hold, like I said, they could look at those reciprocal

rules, they could look at all these other issues.

Can America finally get what it demands from China this time?

Let's hear from Pokong Chen.

Will Xi Jinping honor his promises?

Or will the U.S. meet its goals within 90 days?

For Xi and China they face two challenges: one, are they willing to keep their promises?

And two, are they capable of performing their commitments?

For the first, Xi is reluctant to do that.

He tends to cope with Americans by delaying, stealing and tricking.

Lip service is his top option.

As to his ability, that's another question.

Currently, there's little chance for the Chinese regime to try to cheat the Trump administration

again.

The presence of all American hawks declares their assertiveness.

Further, the lead negotiator was Robert Lighthizer, also a hawk, who served as deputy U.S. trade

representative in negotiating with the Japanese 30 years ago, and who is a U.S. Trade Representative

and a barrister.

According to Navarro, Lighthizer will conduct reciprocal negotiations with China under "International

Law" and other laws, chapter by chapter, article by article, until structural reforms.

The deadline given by Trump is only 90 days.

So if no deal is reached then, the trade war will go on and get escalated.

For the CCP, therefore, it certainly wants to break its promises, to escape, and to delay.

But I guess it'll have great difficulty in doing so.

There's little room for Xi.

Considering his breaking promises twice, a third time would bring China-U.S. relations

to the brink of complete confrontation.

It's not just an issue of new Cold War.

An all-out conflict in every fronts, I'm afraid.

The CCP would be most likely to repeat the collapse of the former Nazi Germany, militaristic

Japan and the former Soviet Union.

So right now, the CCP finds itself at a critical crossroad, having to make a hard choice to

where to go.

Before, there was an understanding that communist China and Xi Jinping are unable to make structural

changes because it would change how the Communist Party runs the economy, how it runs the country,

and basically how it stays in power.

So changing these would require political reform of some sort, which has always been

its bottom line that can't be broken.

So by agreeing to these structural changes, will Xi Jinping and the communist regime really

be giving up their bottom line?

It is still hard to believe at this point.

There is only one way to find out: time.

So stay tuned to find out if Trump really will hit a homerun in the U.S.-China trade

war.

Thanks for watching.

I am Simone Gao.

Please like our Facebook page and subscribe to our YouTube channel at Zooming In with

Simone Gao.

See you next time.

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Donald Trump Dancing in Bitch Lasagna l Donald Trump in PewDiePies VS T-Series Diss Track song - Duration: 2:34.

Donald Trump Dancing on Bitch Lasagna

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U.S. in no hurry in negotiations with N. Korea: Trump - Duration: 1:46.

Now moving to denuclearization talks between Pyeongyang and Washington.

Talks between the two appear to have stalled,... but U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday

once again reiterated that the U.S. is in no hurry over negotiations with North Korea,

and also expressed faith in North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a negotiating partner.

Our Kan Hyeong-woo reports.

In his latest tweet that directly mentions Kim Jong-un,...

President Trump said many people have asked him how the U.S. is

doing in its negotiations with North Korea on the denuclearization issue.

His answer is that the U.S. is in no hurry.

He also said that North Korea has "wonderful potential for great economic success" and

that Kim Jong-un sees it better than anyone and will take full advantage of it for his

people.

Trump added that the U.S. and North Korea are doing just fine.

His message can be seen as showing people that the agreements signed at the Singapore

summit in June are still valid and the two sides will continue to work towards carrying

out those promises.

At the same time, Trump could be using the message to call for concrete action from North

Korea.

He said "we are in no hurry" when asked about the negotiations with Pyeongyang.

This could be interpreted as suggesting the U.S. is in no rush as the sanctions put on

North Korea will stay as they are.

But by saying North Korea has great potential for economic success, Trump showed his willingness

to guarantee the security of the current regime.

As Trump's comments came at a time when talks between Pyeongyang and Washington do not seem

to be making much progress, it remains to be seen whether they will actually lead to

further talks between the two sides.

Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News

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Mueller Is Furious After Trump Was Proven Innocent - Duration: 3:08.

Robert Mueller is working overtime to take down president Trump at this point

it's his life's work but his work is falling apart after Trump was proven

innocent of a crime Robert Mueller and anti Trump resistance is zeroing in on

President Trump at the start the investigation was into Russia collusion

during the 2016 election but at this point many Democrats don't even believe

that occurred so Mueller is now changing the focus of his investigation to go

after anything he can find to take down the President and anybody close to him

Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is the first major takedown and is facing

three years in prison Cohen is on his way to jail for tax fraud lying to

Congress and campaign finance violations Democrats are ecstatic about the

campaign finance violations the charges stem from a payment made to porn star

stormy Daniels who blackmailed President Trump with allegations of an affair

which he denies Democrats are excited because they think the conviction of

Cohen proves that Trump did something wrong

but they are sorely misinformed while it is true that Cohen is facing jail time

for the payment that doesn't mean he did anything wrong

Cohen chose to take a plea deal and pleaded guilty and helps for a reduced

sentence but if the case went to court he would likely be found innocent the

claim that the payment was required to be disclosed comes from the belief that

because the payment was likely to have an effect on the election the Federal

Election Commission must know about it but as the daily signal points out that

simply doesn't appear to be true Seca 52 u.s.c 30,000 114 b2 specifically says

that campaign related expenses do not include any expenditures used to fulfill

any commitment obligation or expense of a person that would exist he respective

of the candidates election campaign because of trumps status and net worth

the payment was a rather small cost to pay to protect his reputation and brand

the payment likely still have been made if Trump was not

running for president this is the exact argument Trump's current attorney Rudy

Giuliani is making the payment was to resolve a

personal and false allegation in order to protect the president's family and it

would have been done in any event whether he was a candidate or not so

while the left wants to think they have a smoking gun to take down Trump they're

far from it regardless they will try to push this narrative that the payment is

illegal in order to try to harm Trump Cohen is headed to jail for numerous

crimes the least of which is the payment that is likely why Mueller was insistent

to get him to agree to a plea deal it's an easy way to get a win against Trump

in an extremely shady way do you think Mueller will be able to take down Trump

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TRUMP JUST GOT A HUGE WIN AS TREY GOWDY DROPS NUKE ON OBAMA - Duration: 13:13.

TRUMP JUST GOT A HUGE WIN AS TREY GOWDY DROPS NUKE ON OBAMA

Trey Gowdy has turned into a one man wrecking crew.

His latest investigation revealed he was holding a surprise for Barack Obama.

And it turned out to be Obama's worst nightmare.

As chairman of the Benghazi Select Committee, Gowdy has already uncovered Hillary Clinton's

private email server.

And as a leading member of the House Intelligence Committee, his work helped expose the FBI's

abuse of power in spying on the Trump campaign.

Now he just claimed another scalp.

The Department of Justice has agreed to turn over documents relating to the Obama administration's

Fast and Furious scandal.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for stonewalling the

production of these documents.

But thanks to Gowdy, Americans may finally learn the complete truth about the Obama administration

running guns to murderous Mexican drug cartels so they could promote gun control.

The Daily Caller reports:

"THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY IT WOULD HAND OVER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE

OBAMA-ERA FAST AND FURIOUS GUN SCANDAL TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT

REFORM…

… THE ORIGINAL FAST AND FURIOUS OPERATION — CONDUCTED BY THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO,

FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES — SOMEHOW ALLOWED NEARLY 2,000 FIREARMS TO FIND THEIR WAY INTO

THE HANDS OF MEXICAN CARTEL MEMBERS.

FIREARMS CONNECTED TO THE PROGRAM WERE FOUND AT MULTIPLE CRIME SCENES IN BOTH THE UNITED

STATES AND MEXICO, INCLUDING THE MURDER SCENE OF BORDER PATROL AGENT BRIAN TERRY.

"THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNDER MY WATCH IS COMMITTED TO TRANSPARENCY AND THE RULE

OF LAW,"

"THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC FINALLY

RECEIVES ALL THE FACTS RELATED TO OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS."

AMANDA GONZALEZ, GOWDY'S COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, TOLD THE DAILY CALLER THE OVERSIGHT

COMMITTEE "SEEKS ALL RELEVANT FACTS SO WE CAN LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES MADE BY THE JUSTICE

DEPARTMENT."

"WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO UNCOVER WHY THEY WORKED SO HARD TO HIDE THIS INFORMATION

FROM THE COMMITTEE, THE FAMILY OF BRIAN TERRY, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE," SHE ADDED."

When Barack Obama said his administration was scandal free, millions of Americans nearly

spit out their drinks.

His administration was plagued with scandal from day one.

And one of the worst was Operation Fast and Furious.

2,000 firearms were placed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and some were used in

the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

It's about time the American people got the truth and the guilty parties be held accountable.

Don't you agree?

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TRUMP'S MOVE TO THROW HILLARY AND COMEY IN JAIL JUST GOT HINDERED BY MASSIVE OFFENSIVE FROM DEMOCRAT - Duration: 11:02.

TRUMP'S MOVE TO THROW HILLARY AND COMEY IN JAIL JUST GOT HINDERED BY MASSIVE OFFENSIVE

FROM DEMOCRATS

According to new reports, president Donald Trump just took one step every right thinking

American has been waiting for, the prosecution of then democratic presidential candidate

Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey only to be met by massive

offensive from democrats as they are trying their possible best to stop the president's

order from going through.

The report states "White House Counsel by name Don McGhan warned President Trump that

such a move could lead to his impeachment, a former federal prosecutor by name Gene Rossi

also said suggesting such by the President is enough to hold a criminal charge against

him."

In a statement on MSNBC, Rossi said i could draft an indictment against the President

of the United States on two accounts, "One would be his relationship with Micheal Cohen

on the election fraud, and number two, i could draft a scheme in an attempt to obstruct justice

against the President right now and Robert Mueller has the jurisdiction and the authority

unless Matt Whitaker puts a quench over it...".

Brad Moss, a national security lawyer told Law&Crime that any attempt to prosecute Comey

or Clinton could also be considered an "abuse of power".

Seems the democrats are trying everything in their power to prevent Hillary Clinton

and James Comey from being prosecuted and sent to jail for their numerous crimes

against the American people.

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President Trump Names Mick Mulvaney New White House Chief Of Staff - Duration: 2:01.

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GAME'S OVER TRUMP JUST GAVE ROBERT MUELLER WORST NEWS EVER - Duration: 14:18.

GAME'S OVER TRUMP JUST GAVE ROBERT MUELLER WORST NEWS EVER

President Trump claims he has personally finished answering Special Counsel Robert Muller's

questions it didn't take very long to film and they were my answers

I don't need lawyers to do that

now you need lawyers for submittedMlawyers to go over some of the answers at an oval

office bill signing the president also says he's hearing the

Muller investigation will end soon I'm sure it'll be just fine and you know why it's gonna

be just fine because there was no collusion again describing the

special counsels investigation as a witch-hunt the president tweeted of Muller and his team

quote they are screaming and shouting at people

horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want they are a disgrace

to our nation and don't care how many lives they ruin when asked this

afternoon what specifically prompted that outburst the president says it's just the

continuation of the Muller investigation which he says should have

never happened acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker now oversees that probe before taking

that job he was critical of the special counsel some congressional Republicans are

pushing the White House to soon submit an attorney general you

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THIS IS THE END,TRUMP JUST GAVE THE FINAL ORDER THAT WILL HAVE OBAMA CRY LIKE A BABY - Duration: 11:15.

THIS IS THE END,TRUMP JUST GAVE THE FINAL ORDER

THAT WILL HAVE OBAMA CRY LIKE A BABY

It sure is a really bad week for former president of the United States Barack Obama as president

Trump goes in full on making sure he pays for his numerous crimes against America.

Earlier, Trump endorsed calls for criminal charges against Obama and requested trials

for Obama's treasonous acts against America.

After which Trump then drops Supreme Court surprise on every

transgender troops which obviously Obama has his name written all over it.

According to The Hill "Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court to take up the president's

transgender military ban.

Stating that they (Transgenders) posed too great a risk to military's effectiveness and

lethality."

It is a well known fact that transgender soldiers are demanding taxpayers fund their transgender

surgeries which costs a whooping $100,000 and above.

As such, it has come to final conclusion that Americans who do not identify as the sex they

were born with are both liabilities and an added cost not just to the military but

also civilians.

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Trump Admin Paid Private Contractor $14 Million To Hire TWO Border Agents - Duration: 4:22.

Donald Trump ran for president telling us that he is an expert negotiator.

He is the best at making deals.

Just look how successful all of his businesses has been, uh, as long as you don't look at

all of the businesses that he's run that have filed for bankruptcy and disappeared off the

face of the earth.

And as president, we have seen some prime examples of this expert negotiating skill

that the president allegedly has.

And we got another one of those stories this week.

Uh, there was a group called Accenture Federal Services.

They have been hired by the US Department of Homeland Security under a $297 million

dollar federal contract.

That's our tax dollars, paying them a to recruit people to work as US Customs and border patrol

agents.

Two hundred $97, million dollars to grow up, go out and recruit people.

And so far this group, Accenture has been paid nearly $14,000,000 and they've hired

two people, $14,000,000.

And they hired two new border patrol agents.

They admit that they still have, you know, roughly 7,000 more people to hire, but they

just haven't gotten to it yet.

So go ahead and make your next payment on that contract because you're $14 million,

hasn't gone too far.

And the reason we know this has happened is because of the inspector general for the Department

of Homeland Security recently released a scathing report going after Accenture because of the

fact that they're scamming the government.

They have hired two people.

They've been paid $14,000,000.

They've had 10 months since the contract was approved and began and they've hired two people.

Now, don't get me wrong, I do not think we need to be spending more money to go out there

and recruit people to become ice agents that are going to tear gas children hundred percent

against it, but I am also 100 percent against the federal government getting swindled by

yet another greedy government contractor.

Because honestly, that's what they all are at this point.

The amount of fraud that takes place at the hands of these people who get our tax dollars

to the tune of several hundred million dollars per contract is unbelievable, and what's even

worse is that this is a practice that has been going on in the United States since long

before the civil war even started.

In fact, it was during the civil war that this really became an issue that people started

learning about.

Contractors back then were ripping off the federal government for things like shotty

boots, old donkeys that were not up to par, even though their contract was to provide

the government with donkeys and mules.

That was back then.

Now they don't even provide them with shoddy work or crappy work.

They just don't do what they're hired to do.

We saw that with Halliburton, Kellogg Brown root.

Their contracts in Iraq contracted to do everything from security to laundry, and they just simply

weren't doing it.

They were getting their checks.

They were putting those in the bank and then they just didn't do it.

So here's my message today for anyone who is working at this Accenture federal services,

the group that's been hired to do this, I just want you all to be aware of the fact

that under a key Tam law here in the United States, if you witness fraud taking place

in your organization against the federal government and you report it to the government and help

them with their lawsuit, you get a cut of what is recovered.

So if they get $3,300, million dollars back from this company, you could easily walk out

the door with $30, million or $20 million.

So a lot of money and all you've got to do is tell the government if this company you're

working for is ripping off American taxpayers, sounds like a win win to me.

And I think every federal contractor needs to be aware of the fact that you can.

This shouldn't be your only motivation, but if it is, then so be it.

You can get a lot of money by stopping these federal contractors from ripping off the federal

government.

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Trump Wasted $210 Million On His Midterm Border Stunt - Duration: 3:34.

Well, according to filings from the Pentagon this week, the numbers are in and Donald Trump's

little military at the border stunt to stop the caravan ahead of the midterms has cost

American taxpayers $210,000,000 in the days following the 2018 midterm election.

Donald Trump did not say a word about the alleged migrant caravan headed towards our

border.

In fact, I think it was close to two weeks after the midterms when he finally started

talking about it again.

It's almost as if he forgot that it was a problem, and before the election, that was

the most pressing problem ever that the United States has faced because according to the

president and his administration, this was a caravan that was filled with criminals,

was killed, filled with MS-13 gang members, possibly even members of Isis.

They suggested we didn't know it was just this caravan of criminals headed towards the

border.

Military had to go there and national guard had to go there.

Everybody had to be ready to stop this caravan and then nothing, no word, no talking about

it.

Everybody realized it was 100 percent a political stunt and it's a political stunt that actually

likely save Ted Cruz his job in the Senate because it did what it was supposed to do.

Donald Trump did energize the Republican base.

There were voters in Minnesota that were interviewed that said they were worried about the caravan

making its way to Minnesota and buying up the lake front property so that minnesotans

couldn't buy it anymore.

That is literally what one woman said, trust me.

There is nobody coming from any part of the planet that says, you know what?

Let's walk a thousand miles and go to Minnesota.

No offense, Minnesota, but there's better places.

If you're going to walk 8,000 miles, 500 miles, you could probably pick a place a little bit

warmer and nicer.

Nonetheless.

We know this was a political stunt by the president.

It's a political stunt that paid off for him with the Senate votes, but it didn't stop

him from losing 40 seats in the House of Representatives, but more importantly, it wasted our money.

It wasted our time.

It wasted our resources.

It wasted our military and our national guard because at the end of the day, few hundred

people showed up at the border, women children and we tear gas them and that's what happened.

That's the end of that story so far.

We are abusing human rights and as I pointed out at the time, which is still true and people

wanted to argue, but look up the Geneva protocols and you'll see firing tear gas at people,

especially from our border into another country is 100 percent a war crime by the way.

That is by definition, that's a war crime tear gas not allowing a warfare yet we used

it to shoot from our border over into another country and that is a war crime.

So $210,000,000, couple of war crimes committed by US soldiers and fearful Republicans taking

back more seats in the US Senate.

Was it worth it?

The average American would say, absolutely hell no, but to Donald Trump, $210,000,000

to energize his base was well, well worth it.

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TRUMP CALLS FOR IMPRISONMENT OF DEPUTY OBAMA, A G ROSENSTEIN - Duration: 13:03.

TRUMP CALLS FOR IMPRISONMENT OF DEPUTY OBAMA, A.G. ROSENSTEIN

This came as a shock to all democrats and left minded Americans as President Donald

Trump went on tweeter promoting what should have been done a long time ago.

President Trump on Wednesday morning in a re-tweet, promoted calls for the imprisonment

of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other prominent

Democratic leaders and law enforcement officials.

Funny as it may seem, this is something most Americans have been waiting for to happen

for some time now.

The quote on the meme reads "NOW THAT RUSSIA COLLUSION IS A PROVEN LIE, WHEN DO THE TRIALS

FOR TREASON BEGIN?"

Prominent democrats such as Former president Barack Obama, Former president Bill Clinton,

Huma Abedin, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, fired FBI Director James Comey, Deputy AG

Rod Rosenstein, Eric Holder, James Clapper and Loretta Lynch.

To make things even more interesting, every name listed above and every face you see in

d meme above is without doubt guilty of one crime or the other against the United States

of America.

Feel free to express your thoughts about President Trump's

meme re-tweet in the comment

section below.

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One Week Older, The Trump Shutdown - Duration: 2:05.

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Mick Mulvaney Accepts Job As Trump's Punching Bag - Duration: 6:04.

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Republicans Start Freaking Out As Walls Close In On Trump - Duration: 4:49.

Republicans in Washington DC are actually starting to freak out a little bit because

they realized that there is nothing they can do to help Donald Trump, and they've already

hung him around their neck, so if he goes down there pretty much all going down with

him.

Now, obviously last Friday when we had those court filings that listed Donald Trump as

an unindicted co-conspirator, of course, assuming he is individual one which he 100 percent

is individual one, Republicans had been freaking out ever since all of that because they understand

that the walls are closing in on Donald Trump.

He lost his chief of staff.

That guy's going to be out the door and just a few weeks, nobody else wants to take that

position.

Overall, the White House itself is grossly understaffed and the few people they have

their do not have the talent and the wherewithal to actually do the jobs that they've been

hired to do.

In fact, according to a recent report in the Washington Post, uh, Republicans had been

advising the president to set up basically a war room.

They want them to set up a war room to deal with the Mueller investigation and all the

reports that keep coming out of that as well as all of the other investigations into Donald

Trump.

The emoluments clause lawsuit is moving forward rapidly and that's going to be a huge headache

for the president, as is the lawsuit and investigation in the state of New York with them misusing

their charitable fund money.

He doesn't have a way to deal with this.

He doesn't have a war room as Republicans call it, to sit down, talk about this, strategize

and come up with a plan.

He doesn't even have the staff to have a proper war room of people coming up with responses

and helping the president craft intelligent, well thought out talking points.

Instead, according to this Washington Post piece, Republicans are saying the president

is just trying to wing it.

They have this quote bunker mentality and they're all kind of huddled down.

They're terrified, scared.

Not knowing what's going to happen, but assured that they're going to be able to handle whatever

is thrown at them and they have already proven in the last week that they cannot.

I mean Donald Trump gets on twitter and freaks the hell out anytime any new information comes

out from the special prosecutor's office.

Anytime a new lawsuit is filed against him or anytime a senator says they disagree with

him on something, this man cannot be trusted to properly handle the crises that he is created.

On top of that, the trade wars are wreaking havoc on global markets.

We have Americans losing their jobs.

Job Creation for November was a hell of a lot lower than they thought it would be.

People are losing their jobs.

Uh, bankruptcies among farmers are skyrocketing.

Healthcare costs are skyrocketing with no, uh, nothing on the horizon to indicate are

gonna go down.

Prescription drug prices continue to rise.

There's no wall.

So he led his base down with that, thank God, but nonetheless, this man has no accomplishments

to show for it.

The only thing he has is that massive Republican tax cut that benefited the top one percent.

That's not enough for Republicans right now because they understand within the next six

months we're going to have a very clear idea if not a finalized idea of who is running

for president on the democratic side.

We may also find out that there could be republican challengers to Donald Trump himself, but this

is it folks, and I hate to say it because I hate this horse race BS, but we're already

in the 2020 election here.

People are going to start announcing that they're running within the next few months

here and then come August, September, October, we're going to be having Democratic primary

debates and then in one year, one year and like three, four weeks, we start primaries

and caucuses.

This is not that far away and Republicans know it and as the Donald Trump ship continues

to sink, they know that they're the ones still on it.

This is on them.

They had the opportunity to do something about it.

They could have invoke the 20 Fifth Amendment Hell based on the evidence we have right now.

They could be the ones to impeach him and emerge as the heroes, but they're not going

to do it.

They're going to go down with the ship and then they're going to blame Donald Trump for

being the one that ruins the Republican party completely ignoring the fact that they have

let them do it while saying nothing about this destruction.

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Trump Cancels Christmas... For The Press - Duration: 4:53.

WELCOME TO "THE LATE SHOW."

I'M YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT.

IT IS FRIDAY!

YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK, MY FRIEND.

NOT ONLY IS IT FRIDAY, IT IS TWO FRIDAYS RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

IT IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.

BUT, SADLY, JON, SOME PEOPLE AREN'T HAVING A HOLLY, JOLLY

CHRISTMAS: THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS.

BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP HAS CANCELED THE WHITE HOUSE

CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE PRESS.

( AUDIENCE BOOING ) EXACTLY!

YOU CANCELLED CHRISTMAS?

YOU'RE THE GUY WHO CAMPAIGNED ON THIS:

>> IF I BECOME PRESIDENT, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE SAYING, "MERRY

CHRISTMAS" AGAIN.

>> Stephen (AS TRUMP): "JUST NOT TO YOU, JIM ACOSTA.

( LAUGHTER ) NO, YOU GET A 'MERRY SUCK IT.'"

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY IS A TRADITION THAT HAS GONE BACK FOR

DECADES AT THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE PRESS REALLY LOOKS FORWARD

TO IT.

THE FOX NEWS PEOPLE REALLY LOVED KISSING TRUMP'S ASS UNDER THE

MISTLETOE.

NOW, IN THE PAST, VISITORS GOT TO ROAM THE DECORATED MANSION

WITH A SPOUSE OR OTHER FAMILY MEMBER-- ALTHOUGH, THIS YEAR,

YOU'D RISK GETTING LOST IN THE FOREST OF BLOOD TREES.

STILL, CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRUMPS MIGHT NOT BE THAT FUN, BECAUSE,

APPARENTLY, DONALD TRUMP IS A SERIAL RE-GIFTER.

DON JR. EXPLAINED TO A TV CAMERA:

>> I'M THE NAMESAKE, SO I GOT RE-GIFTED ALL OF THE THINGS THAT

WERE MONOGRAMMED FOR HIM AT TIMES.

>> Stephen: HE GAVE STUFF TO HIS SON BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE

SAME INITIALS?

I WONDER WHO ELSE HE TRIED TO RE-GIFT ON.

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, DANNY TREJO IS SAYING, "I THOUGHT HE MADE

THIS SPECIAL FOR ME!" ( LAUGHTER )

♪ ♪ ♪ THAT'S DANNY'S HAPPY FACE.

AND AS WITH ALL THINGS TRUMP, IT GETS WORSE.

>> THERE WAS ONE CHRISTMAS WHERE HE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE GIVEN ME

THE GIFT THAT I GAVE HIM THE YEAR BEFORE, BECAUSE I

MONOGRAMMED IT, AND IT WAS LIKE, "OH, YEAH, HERE."

I'M LIKE, "I KNOW YOU DIDN'T GET THIS."

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?

BECAUSE I GAVE IT TO YOU LAST YEAR.

>> Stephen: IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE HE NEVER THINKS OF ME."

IF YOU'RE TRAVELING TO SEE YOUR HOSTILE RELATIVES THIS YEAR, I

MAY HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOU BECAUSE DELTA IS PROHIBITING

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS ON LONG FLIGHTS.

WHAT?

I NEED AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL TO BOOK A FLIGHT ON

DELTA.

( LAUGHTER ) DELTA SAYS THEY'VE SEEN AN 84%

INCREASE IN INCIDENTS INVOLVING ANIMALS SINCE 2016.

WELL, YOU CAN'T BLAME DELTA.

IT'S NO FUN TO BE STUCK ON A LONG FLIGHT NEXT TO SOMEONE'S

SERVICE BADGER.

DELTA'S NOT THE ONLY ONE CHANGING THEIR POLICIES.

SO IS "THE WASHINGTON POST'S" FACT CHECKER.

IT USED TO BE THAT WHEN A POLITICIAN WOULD LIE, "THE POST"

WOULD JUDGE IT ON A SCALE OF ONE TO FOUR PINOCCHIO HEADS, BASED

ON THE FAMOUS TALE WHERE EVERY TIME PINOCCHIO LIED, HE'D GROW A

NEW HEAD.

BUT TRUMP IS SUCH A PROLIFIC LIAR, THEY'VE HAD TO INTRODUCE A

NEW LEVEL: THE BOTTOMLESS PINOCCHIO.

BOTTOMLESS PINOCCHIO, OF COURSE, IS ALSO WHAT YOU GET WHEN HE

GOES A NUDE BEACH.

HE IS A REAL BOY.

( LAUGHTER ) TO QUALIFY--

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) MAKE NAKED PUPPETS!

NAKED PUPPETS!

THANK YOU.

TO QUALIFY FOR THIS NEW BOTTOMLESS PINOCCHIO RATING,

"THE CLAIMS MUST HAVE RECEIVED THREE OR FOUR PINOCCHIOS FROM

THE FACT CHECKER, AND THEY MUST HAVE BEEN REPEATED AT LEAST 20

TIMES."

BUT SO FAR, THE "POST" HAS NOT IDENTIFIED ANY OTHER CURRENT

ELECTED OFFICIAL WHO MEETS THE STANDARD OTHER THAN TRUMP.

WELL, THAT'S QUITE A DISTINCTION.

FOR DONALD TRUMP, THIED INVENT A NEW SCALE.

JUST LIKE THE ONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE THAT ONLY GOES TO 239

POUNDS.

ACCORDING-- ACCORDING-- ACCORDING TO "THE WASHINGTON

POST," 14 STATEMENTS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY QUALIFY

FOR THE LIST INCLUDE THE UNITED STATES SPENT $7 TRILLION IN THE

MIDDLE EAST-- 36 TIMES.

THE UNITED STATES PAYS FOR MOST OF THE COST OF NATO-- 87 TIMES.

AND THE 37 TIMES TRUMP SAID, "I BOUGHT YOU THIS CHRISTMAS

PRESENT, DON, JR."

For more infomation >> Trump Cancels Christmas... For The Press - Duration: 4:53.

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Trump Administration Allows More Chocolate Milk - Duration: 2:31.

-You guys, the holiday season is here right now.

Are you feeling it right now? -Oh, love it.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-I read that, this year, Americans are expected to

spend about $700 billion.

But keep in mind, half of that

is just President Trump paying his lawyers.

But still...

Speaking of the president, I read that

the Trump administration is easing restrictions

on school lunches to allow more chocolate milk.

I guess after losing Time's Person of the Year,

Trump was trying to win a Kids' Choice Award.

Some more political news.

I heard that Sarah Huckabee Sanders said

that she deals with her workload as White House Press Secretary

by drinking "lots of coffee and a little wine in the evening."

And she didn't stop there.

Then she added, "On occasion, I might have

a tiny bit more wine with that wine."

Then she added, "Then I check the president's Twitter feed

and pour myself a small glass of Scotch."

Then she added, "After that, I watch the news,

and I may finish off four airplane bottles of vodka

I keep in my purse for emergencies."

Then, finally, she added, "When that doesn't work,

I pour a bottle of whiskey into a mixing bowl, drink that,

and finish it off with three shots of NyQuil

just to take the edge off."

The handle on there. Yeah. -Yeah.

-Get this, guys.

I heard about a new toy this year called Yellies.

They're these little robotic spiders

that move faster when you yell at them.

Check out this commercial I saw for them earlier today.

-Yellies, Yellies, Yellies!

-Yell loud, go fast. -[ Screaming ]

-Each sold separately.

-Yeah. Pretty cool.

Well, it's so popular with kids that they've now decided to

start advertising them to adults, as well.

Yeah, check these out.

-And the best thing about Yellies is --

adults can play, too.

-Let's go!

Yellies, let's go!

Hey! Go! Just go! Let's go!

Aaaaah!

-Batteries not included.

-Well, no wonder it doesn't work!

Why didn't you tell me that in the first place?!

-Yeah, interesting.

Guys, listen to this.

There's a new Carnival cruise ship

that will have a roller coaster on its deck.

Yeah, a roller coaster on a Carnival cruise.

The captain was like, "One way or another,

we're gonna make you barf.

So, yeah, don't worry about it. We'll take care of it."

Here's a local story.

To save money, New York City is thinking about

cleaning subways less often.

Apparently, the annual once-over with a Wet-Nap

was just way too expensive.

For more infomation >> Trump Administration Allows More Chocolate Milk - Duration: 2:31.

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President Trump's New Chief Of Staff Once Called Him 'A Terrible Person' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC - Duration: 7:21.

For more infomation >> President Trump's New Chief Of Staff Once Called Him 'A Terrible Person' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC - Duration: 7:21.

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DONALD TRUMP DROPS MASSIVE BOMBSHELL ON HILLARY CLINTON - Duration: 11:00.

DONALD TRUMP DROPS MASSIVE BOMBSHELL ON HILLARY CLINTON

Seems the Clintons and everyone connected to them are all guilty of one crime or the

other and this time, a Clinton top donor, a contractor and a Dubai-based Anham corporation

have been found guilty of lying and defrauding the military in order to get an $8 billion

10-year contract in 2012 to supply food for U.S. troops in

Afghanistan.

Anham corporation which is a prominent Democratic donor has donated over $320,000 since the

1990's to the democratic party and over $13,000 to various Clinton campaign.

According to the Epoch Times, "the massive supply contract required the contractor to

have large warehouse to store food in Afghanistan.

They claimed the process of constructing such warehouse would be done well before the contract

was awarded.

But that was lie, according to the indictment.

The construction had barely started months after the company submitted it's bid to get

the contact, they arranged equipment and machinery to create the false appearance of an active

construction site.

All this happened under the Obama administration.

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