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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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ДОНАЛЬД ТРАМП. БИОГРАФИЯ ТРАМПА - ПРОСТО. (Donald Trump) - Duration: 2:22.

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CHELSEA CLINTON DEFENDS BARRON TRUMP AFTER HE'S ATTACKED BY LIBERAL JOURNALIST - Duration: 16:25.

CHELSEA CLINTON DEFENDS BARRON TRUMP AFTER HE'S ATTACKED BY LIBERAL JOURNALIST

Jonathan Chait, a left-wing writer for New York Magazine, joked that Barron Trump should

be the President's chief of staff, in part because he's not old enough to be tried

as an adult.

The insult prompted a backlash on social media, including a scolding by another famous First

Child: Chelsea Clinton.

Chait responded to an article in which Nick Ayers, chief of staff to Vice President Mike

Pence, turned down the offer of accepting the same role for the President.

The write-up included mention of selling points for Ayers, which Chait then shared and offered

up his own points as to why the job should go to Barron instead.

The columnist couldn't resist the urge to suggest that while the younger Mr. Trump might

commit a crime in the role, he'd still go unscathed due to his age.

First Daughter Chelsea Clinton stands up for Barron

I may not agree with her a good portion of the time, but former First Daughter Chelsea

Clinton was even dismayed by Chait's joke at Barron's expense, and let him know about

it.

Clinton reminded the lefty journalist that Barron, at the age of 12, is still just a

kid and "deserves to be left alone."

Chait responded by going into a lengthy explanation as to why the joke is actually about Donald

Trump.

They say if you have to explain the joke, then it really wasn't all that funny to

begin with.

If you have the time to read his explanation, proceed below.

If you don't have time to read that drivel, you're in luck.

Chait also provided a handy synopsis of why his joke about Barron Trump isn't really

about Barron Trump.

Barron is a perpetual target of the left The left has been unceasingly attacking Barron

Trump, and Chelsea's insistence that they stop isn't going to put an end to it any

time soon.

Some of the attacks have been incredibly vile.

Recall, if you will, actor Peter Fonda threatening to kidnap Barron Trump and "put him in a

cage with pedophiles."

Or Rosie O'Donnell and acclaimed Hollywood director Danny Zuker teaming up on social

media to mock Barron's reaction to Kathy Griffin's beheading gag.

Then there was the time former Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings mocked the First Son for being

upset over Griffin's stunt.

Chait, like the others, will face no repercussions for their comments or jokes.

This is the norm in the era

of Trump.

For more infomation >> CHELSEA CLINTON DEFENDS BARRON TRUMP AFTER HE'S ATTACKED BY LIBERAL JOURNALIST - Duration: 16:25.

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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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Trump Bulldozes Lisa Page and Peter Strozk After Establishment Media Ignores Damning New Evidence - Duration: 4:06.

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Obama Caught Redhanded Trying To Overthrow Trump, Big Mistake - Duration: 7:18.

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Trump 'took drugs' and treated pageant contestants 'like meat' claims TV insider - News Live - Duration: 2:55.

  A former crew member on the US Apprentice has claimed Donald Trump took drugs on the set of the hit show, and treated teenage beauty pageant contestants like "pieces of meat"

  Noel Casler, who worked on Celebrity Apprentice while Donald Trump was host, and also worked on his Miss Teen Universe pageants, claims the President would crush up Adderall, an amphetamine, and snort it

 Casler claims Trump took the drug to calm down, because he has trouble reading and would get nervous following cue cards on the show

 He also claimed Trump acted inappropriately with teenage beauty pageant contestants, inspecting them like they were "pieces of meat", sticking his fingers in their mouths to look at their teeth and inviting them to his penthouse suite

"  Casler, who formerly worked in 'talent logistics' for live shows, recounted the stories during a stand up comedy routine last week

 He claims to have signed a 24-page non-disclosure agreement.  But he told the audience: "I didn't know then he was becoming president

Now, it's 'no way dumbass.' I'm telling you everything I know."  He referred to the US President as a "speed freak," saying he would become nervous when he had to read from cue cards on the set of Celebrity Apprentice

 He said: "So he gets nervous and he crushes up these pills. That's why he's sniffing when you see him in debates, and when you see him reading

 "That's why he's tweeting. He's out of his mind. It makes sense if you think about it

 "Methamphetamine was invented by the Nazis to keep the fighter pilots up all night on bombing runs

 "So it makes sense that Trump would use it to hate-tweet in his self-centered rage at 4am on the toilet

"  He went on to describe what he claims was inappropriate behaviour he saw from Trump during his beauty pageant days

 "I worked on a bunch of those beauty pageants he had in the '90s, too. That was a good idea, Miss Teen Universe? Yeah, that's like giving Jeffrey Dahmer a cooking show," he said

 "He would line up the girls on the side of the stage, and he would inspect them

Literally, he would stick his little freaking doll fingers in their mouth and look at their teeth

"  "I'm not kidding, this is true, he would line them up like they were pieces of meat

He'd be like, 'You, you, and you, if you want to win I'm in the penthouse suite, come and see me

'"  Casler's comments were reported in the US by People magazine.  The White House has yet to respond to Casler's claims

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FBI releases part of Russia dossier summary used to brief Trump, Obama - Duration: 5:38.

FBI released for the first time Friday night a two-page summary former FBI

director James Comey used to brief president-elect Donald Trump nearly two

years ago on his so-called dossier about Trump's ties to Russia the version made

public Friday could reignite previous criticism from Republicans and Trump

allies that the FBI was too big in its description of the fact that the dossier

was funded by the campaign of Trump's nemesis in the 2016 presidential

election Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as the Democratic

National Committee called me who was fired by Trump in May 2017 acknowledged

during a book tour earlier this year that he did not inform Trump who paid

for the research the brief passage the FBI left unredacted in the newly

released memo gives some background on two former British intelligence officer

who compiled the dossier Christopher steel although Steele's name

does not actually appear in the newly released version the released portion of

the synopsis says Vega bolts who financed the project referring to it as

sponsored by private clients an FBI source volunteered highly politically

sensitive information on Russian influence efforts aimed at the u.s.

presidential election the memo labeled as annex assess the source is an

executive of a private business intelligence firm and a former employee

of a friendly intelligence service who has been compensated for previous

reporting over the past three years the source maintains and collects

information from a layered network of identified on unidentified sob sources

some of which has been corroborated in the past the source collected this

information on behalf of private clients and was not compensated for it by the

FBI the sources reporting appears to have been acquired by multiple Western

press organizations starting in October the document from January 2017 declares

Comey has said he did not show or give Trump the memo but used it as a

reference when briefing him on the dossier which u-s intelligence officials

feared you might try to use as blackmail

against Trump the synopsis was also used to brief President Barack Obama

officials have said Republicans had previously complained that the FBI

failed to inform a federal court about the dossiers provenance that Steele's

work was commissioned by fusion GPS a research firm that had been hired by the

Clinton campaigns law firm Perkins claimed to dig up information

about Trump's business relationships overseas based in part on the dossiers

information the court granted an FBI application to surveil a former Trump

campaign associate in October 2016 aspects of the FBI's surveillance

application have since been released and revealed that the FBI did inform the

court that still had political animus toward Trump and that it was funded by a

politically motivated backer the document was released Friday in response

to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a reporter and the James

Madison project a pro transparency group in January u-s district court judge

almond made a rule that the FBI was legally justified in refusing to confirm

or deny the existence of any records related to the dossier despite several

tweets from president donald trump that described the document as fake or

discredited however shortly after that ruling Trump Declassified a House

Intelligence Committee memo that included various claims about the FBI's

handling of the dossier in August Meeta said the official release of that

material vitiated the FBI's ability to claim that it had offered no public

confirmation of its role and betting or verifying the dossier a collection of

accurate inaccurate unverified and sometimes salacious claims about ties

between Russia and various figures in Trump's circle it remains no longer

logical nor plausible for the FBI to maintain that it cannot confirm nor deny

the existence of documents related to attempts to verify information in the

dossier mehdi wrote the FBI withheld the remainder of the two-page synopsis on a

variety of grounds including that the material remains classified either

secret or top-secret the law-enforcement agency

also indicated the information is exempt from release because it pertains to

ongoing investigations or court proceedings originated with the

confidential source or describes confidential investigative techniques or

procedures the FBI said Friday it lacked any records indicating final conclusions

about any information in the dossier said Brad loss one of the attorneys

pressing for release of the records after two years of legal games the FBI

today finally confirmed two pieces of speculation about the scandalous

allegations regarding which director Comey briefed President Trump in January

2017 all of those allegations remain part of the ongoing Russian collusion

investigation and the FBI has not rendered final determinations about the

accuracy of any of them Moss said far from being debunked the issues that

raised concerns for the intelligence community in 2017 remain unresolved to

this day Moss said he plans to challenge the FBI's withholdings in the case and

to ask major to order more of the information police

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Trump Showed Up Unannounced Today And Did Something Obama IGNORED For 8 Years - Duration: 2:52.

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Clinton versus Trump on Mexican immigration - Duration: 1:24.

all Americans not only in the state's most heavily affected but in every place

in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens

entering our country the jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or

legal immigrants the public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers

that's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more

by hiring a record number of new border guards by deporting twice as many

criminal aliens as ever before by cracking down on illegal hiring by

borrowing welfare benefits to Lille aliens in the budget I will present to

you we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are

arrested for crimes to better identify illegal aliens in the work face as

recommended by the Commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan we

are a nation of immigrants but we are also a nation of laws it is wrong and

ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of

abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more

to stop

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Ryan Zinke out as President Trump's Interior Secretary - Duration: 2:46.

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Rep. Andy Biggs: Congress Should Pass $25 billion for Trump's Wall Next Week - Duration: 3:47.

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Trump's human weaknesses are political virtues - Duration: 3:41.

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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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PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOCKS NATION WITH MASSIVE NUKE DROPPED ON ROBERT MUE - Duration: 10:09.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOCKS NATION WITH MASSIVE NUKE DROPPED ON ROBERT MUELLER

President Trump, responding to new allegations that former National Security Adviser Michael

Flynn was coerced into forgoing a lawyer during an interview with the FBI, claims "he didn't

lie" and it was Special Counsel Robert Mueller who pushed the claim.

"Well, the FBI said Michael Flynn, a general and a great person, they said he didn't

lie," Trump said at a White House meeting with governors-elect.

"And Mueller said: 'Well, maybe he did,'" he continued.

"And now they're all having a big dispute, so I think it's a great thing that the judge

is looking into that situation.

It's an honor for a lot of terrific people."

It is the strongest defense of Flynn coming from the President since new court filings

have forced people to look at the handling of the case with fresh eyes.

Trump stated last year that he had to fire Flynn for lying to the FBI, but new revelations

suggest the general wasn't afforded a right to counsel and wasn't aware that he was

being officially interviewed.

The President also noted special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended no prison time for

Flynn, suggesting this was a sign they couldn't recommend jail after the way they treated

him – or that he didn't really commit any crimes.

Flynn didn't lie to the FBI – according to the FBI

President Trump seems to be hearkening back to a report issued by the House Intelligence

Committee in which then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified that agents who interviewed

Flynn "didn't think he was lying."

Officials, though, later stated they thought his statements were "inconsistent," according

to McCabe.

Additionally, according to agents, former FBI Director James Comey said Flynn "discerned

no physical indications of deception" and he saw "nothing that indicated to them that

he knew he was lying to them."

Comey would alter that description, saying that while agents saw "none of the common

indicia of lying — physical manifestations, changes in tone, changes in pace," the FBI

still "concluded he was lying."

The question is – how did they travel in their thought process from 'not lying'

to 'he was lying?'

The interview would eventually lead to Flynn admitting to a guilty plea on one count of

making false statements.

Court filing says Flynn was trapped The other portion of President Trump's statement

referring to a judge's review are based on a court filing by Flynn's lawyers, who

argue that the FBI went well out of their way to create a perjury trap for their victim.

According to the filing, Flynn wasn't told that he could have a lawyer present, was given

no warning that his statements were part of an official review, and officials discussed

they "would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because

they

wanted

Flynn

to be relaxed."

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Trump Finally Starting To Realize That His Staff Hates Him - Duration: 4:01.

According to a report earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump may

have finally realized that everyone on his staff actually hates him. Now, according to

this report, Donald Trump right now is actually concerned about several things. First and

foremost, the fact that staff morale is low. Well, you know, if you were a good boss, you

would always be concerned about staff morale. That is something even major corporations

try to work on. Some of them even have departments that specifically only work on doing things

to make their employees happier. The second thing you're worried about is in terms of

the low morale, is that they're disloyal now, right there you lost any goodwill you may

have had about worrying about their morale and worried about your employees not liking

their jobs because you're not worried about them not liking their jobs because, oh, there's

a human being suffering. No, you're worried about how it affects you and the future of

your White House.

That's what you're concerned about. You're concerned. People are disloyal and third,

according to Wall Street Journal, he's also upset about the fact that all of the coverage

of him in the press is negative. Listen, body, nobody in this country is entitled to positive

press. If you want good reports on you, go do good things. Maybe stop using the military

as a political prop, maybe stopped pushing for a multibillion dollar wall that will do

nothing to solve our immigration issues. Maybe just hear me out on this one. Stopped taking

the sides of dictators who say that climate change isn't real and start listening to scientists.

That's another thing you did this. Week two, you took the side of a a Putin and Mohammed

bin Salman who also signed on and said, no, we don't agree with the harsh language in

this climate report. You took their side over the side of scientists you more on, but yeah,

I understand why you're worried about low staff morale.

First and foremost, you don't have enough staff to properly do your job and that's basically

been the case since day one. The number of staffers in the White House is inadequate

because they have not been able to find enough people, even low level people, and I don't

mean that offensively to go and just work there to do things, to keep the day to day

functions going. Now you're losing your chief of staff and you can't find anybody to replace

him and can you blame them? Really? Who would want to walk into this? You know, let's even

look at the best case scenario at this point for you. Not for the country obviously, but

let's say you actually didn't do anything wrong. You did not break any laws. Let's say

the Mueller report comes out and says, your squeaky clean. You've never done anything

illegal in your life. Michael Cohen line about you being individual one and you're free to

go.

Even if that were the case. What person hates themselves enough to come in as your chief

of staff while you're sitting there screaming, witch hunt, screaming at Democrats, insulting

people on twitter, insulting people in real life. Working with two of the biggest liars

in DC included that Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, who wants to jump into

that fray, not to mention you got the mustachioed John Bolton in your ear saying, war, war,

war, war, war. Nobody wants to do that, so can you blame them? Even some of the most

horrible people you could think of like Mnuchin or Mulvaney, they don't even want that job

because you're uncontrollable. You're irrational, and more importantly, they understand that

that best case scenario I just described that has basically a zero percent chance of happening.

Things in your White House are going to get so much worse over the coming months and there

is nobody who wants to volunteer to captain that ship as it's going down.

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Trump's Most Hardcore Supporters Are FINALLY Starting To Crack - Duration: 4:58.

Two reports have come out this week saying that some members of Donald Trump's hardcore

MAGA hat wearing base are starting to not believe his cries of witch hunt.

The two reports, one from axios in one from CNN say that some of the most ardent Donald

Trump's supporters in this country are starting to believe that these investigations are bad

news for the president and not because it's giving him bad publicity, but because they're

starting to think that he may have actually committed the crimes that they're saying he

committed.

As I said a few seconds ago, they don't believe his cries of witch hunt any more.

Now, here's the thing, and this is why we have to take these kinds of reports with a

grain of salt.

It is possible that Axios and CNN and whoever else is reporting this.

They went out there and they managed to find the two or three hardcore Trump supporters

who are starting to say, you know what?

Maybe there is something to these investigations so they could have cherry picked their people.

That's always a possibility.

What is also a possibility is that cracks are starting to surface in the facade of Donald

Trump's base.

I believe that is happening here.

I believe we're starting to see some of that.

It's not going to be on a large scale, but if you start with one or two people and they

start telling their hardcore, Donald Trump supporting friends.

You know what though?

You know what though?

There's something to this, that law suit up in New York that investigation up in New York

that has nothing to do with the Russians.

That's the big one and that's actually what a lot of these Donald Trump's supporters are

out there saying right now.

They're worried about that one.

They're worried about Mueller now too, but they're more worried about what's happening

in New York and the fact that Donald Trump is very clearly individual one.

It's getting harder and harder for the president to convince people that he did not break the

law, especially with regards to the campaign finance violations that are at this point

crystal clear from the testimony of Michael Cohen, the tapes from Michael Cohen and everything

else that has been uncovered in that particular investigation.

Now whether or not they believe that that warrants removal from office is another animal

entirely, and that's not necessarily something that these other reports we're talking to

these people about, and to be honest, it's not even time to start having those conversations

just yet.

That is still the thing we have got to be very patient on.

It has to be crystal clear.

It has to come from one of these bodies that is investigating the president.

If people in the house try to go too soon, try to move on the president, like he said,

he used to move on people in that access Hollywood tape, but if they move on them too soon, they're

going to blow it.

You're not going to get a second opportunity for this.

Wait for the information, wait for it all to come in, wait for that base to crumble

a little bit more.

That's what's really important here too, because if Democrats are sitting in DC and they're

working on policy instead of investigations, letting the independent bodies out there do

the investigations for them as they already are, then the Democrats can finally come back

and say, all right, 2020 voters.

Here's the legislation that we put together, the Republicans.

Here's all the list of them who didn't vote for it.

We've been trying to have your back.

We've been trying to make the country better.

Oh, and by the way, have you seen the results of those investigations?

Those look really bad.

Your party said that these weren't actually crimes, but it turns out they are, so now

you have a very clear choice.

You have a party that's cool with criminal sitting in the White House that voted against

all of these policies that you specifically told us you wanted or you can vote for us

because we've got the legislation ready to go today and can probably sign it and have

it in law within the next month or two.

That's the choice that these voters are going to have to make and that is why it is incredibly

important for Democrats to make sure they're working on policy first and investigations

second.

Nothing comes before policy.

We've got Mueller doing investigations, we've Got New York doing investigations and those

alone are doing a good enough job of eroding a little bit of Donald Trump's support, which

is going to be vital for the Democrats to win back the White House in 2020.

And if they put the nail in the coffin by focusing more on policy and selling that policy

to the public than I don't think Trump stands a chance in the 2020 election.

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BREAKING TRUMP MAKES HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT INSTANTLY THE MEDIA GETS HYSTERICAL - Duration: 10:17.

BREAKING: TRUMP MAKES HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT INSTANTLY THE MEDIA GETS HYSTERICAL

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving his post at the end of the year

Trump said Saturday.

"John Kelly will be leaving toward the end of the year," President Trump told the press

pool Saturday as he departed the White House for the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.

Trump added that he will announce a successor within the next week.

The media is acting like John Kelly leaving his post after 17 months of serving as Chief

of Staff means there is chaos in the Trump White House.

John Kelly, a retired General, was brought in as Chief of Staff in July of 2017 to bring

order to the White House following Reince Priebus's resignation on July 27th.

Obama's second Chief of Staff (Rouse) only lasted 104 days, his third (Daley) 379 days,

and his fourth (Lew) 359 days, but the media never went into a tailspin over Obama's

revolving door

of

Chiefs

of Staff.

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Trump Just Went On FOX & EXPOSED EVERYTHING Over Cohen Case & MORE! Massive INDICTMENTS Made(VIDEO)! - Duration: 13:18.

Trump Just Went On FOX & EXPOSED EVERYTHING Over Cohen Case & MORE! Massive INDICTMENTS Made

the New York Times is saying that a tabloid publishers deal to hush money is

now endangering Trump even more I'm paraphrasing a little bit you know as

you look at this what do you want the nation to know about I don't think I

have to go check I don't think they even paid any money to that tabloid okay I

don't think we made a payment to that tabloid I was asking the question let's

I don't think we a we made a payment and then you have the other situation and

every lawyer look Trump didn't violate campaign finance laws and neither did

the president Trump X a so they're saying that wait I interviewed him on my

program the other okay hon of an scoffs key yes there's another one Michael code

pled guilty to something that's not even a crime wait a minute these are campaign

nobody except for me would be looked at like this nobody what about Congress

would they have a slush fund and millions and millions of dollars is paid

out each year they have a slush fund millions they don't talk about campaign

finance and they think have you ever heard of campaign finance let's have

they listed that on their campaign finance sheets no everyone I've ever the

number one them to dig into this number one they say it's not a campaign

contains violation number two or it's not even under campaign finance number

two if it was it's not even a violation number three it's a civil matter you

know President Obama had a really big one from ten times more money much more

money and you know what he paid a fine I'm the only one that this happens to so

Robert R a former Special Counsel for whitewater Susan any on the program

yesterday what you're saying that that if this happened he said you know he

couldn't see grounds for impeachment over that he couldn't see grounds for

indictment over that that's his opinion but it's it's an informed opinion that

I've seen that there's not subtle law in that it was these like people these are

the people that ran the FEC Federal Elections Commission these people

writing stories that Trump did nothing wrong I did nothing wrong

so mr. president let's get into if we can Michael Cohen he was your attorney

three years he was sentenced yesterday and it may seem like he got a break

because it could have been twice as much but it's still three years in federal

prison five hundred thousand dollars in restitution this was someone who

surreptitiously recorded you terrible is now known as a criminal liar yet this

was someone who was in your inner circle yeah well it happens I mean look it

happens I hire usually good people but it just happened why did you hire

Michael Cohen first of all that was a very low-level work why did you publish

relations and he did law but he did Soviet see him on television he was okay

on television but years ago many years like 12 13 years ago he did me a favor

he was on a committee and he was so responsive and so good and I said he's a

nice guy I should wait a minute wait a minute that was the favor people have

been asking well what is the favor that he did the president he was on a

committee with you was on a committee it was a condominium committee many years

ago and he was a very big supporter of mine on that committee I did a great job

Trump World Tower it's a very tall building right opposite the United

Nations and when you build a building people always get together at the end

and they make a settlement with the owner they say the ceiling wasn't

painted the right color or something you know stuff sometimes serious stuff but

in my case it was a great building and he was on the committee I thought he was

a great guy I thought it was really a nice guy who's very supportive and I

liked him and he was a lawyer and because of that I did it and you know

what in retrospect I made a mistake because what he did was all unrelated to

me except for the to campaign finance charges that are not criminal and

shouldn't have been on there they put that on to embarrass me they put those

two charges on to embarrass me they're not criminal charges number now that's

according Harris that's according to the top and I've interviewed people who've

told me this the progress of what happened is either cone or the

prosecutors in order to embarrass me said listen I'm making this deal for

reduced time and everything else do me a favor put these two charges on they're

not I want to move on they weren't for

President Obama I have one last question Michael Cohen says that he lied in order

to protect you yeah what's your response to that let me tell you I never directed

him to do anything wrong whatever he did he did on his own he's a lawyer

a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing that's

why you pay them a lot of money etc etc he is a lawyer he represents a client I

never directed him to do anything incorrect or wrong and he understands

said look he did some bad things unrelated to me maybe related to his

other clients I wasn't his only client he had other clients he did some bad

things and income tax evasion I heard about taxi cab entire damn at a lot of

things and I'm not reading about any of that stuff because what he did is he

made a deal to embarrass me in order to embarrass me if they cut his turndown

pretty pretty terrible stuff let me tell you the other thing his father was a

very rich guy I hear his father in law I thought was the guy that was the primary

focus well what did he do did he make a deal to keep his father-in-law out did

you make a deal to keep his wife who supposedly maybe I'm wrong but you can

check it did he keep make a deal to keep his wife out of trouble now how many

people would they say listen if you embarrass the President of the United

States we'll give you a deal your father-in-law your wife will cut you

jail that's all it is it's a terrible system we have it's going on right now

with general Flynn the FBI said he didn't lie I saw your tweet on that

about but Muller said he did lie so they took a man who's a general and a

respected person and a nice man and I don't even know what he said about me

because you know maybe they scared him enough that he'll make up a story but I

have a feeling that maybe he didn't he's a tougher kind of a guy than Cohn but

they took a general that they said didn't lie and they convinced him he did

lie and he made some kind of a deal and now they're recommending no time you

know why because they are embarrassed that they got caught all right let's

move on so you mentioned Ohio so I'm gonna bring up John Kasich and I'm gonna

bring up or Senator Jeff Flake because they say they

may run against you and I hopefully but look at the new Fox polling today which

has your approval rating of 46 percent which is just a couple ticks off of your

highest point in Feb of 70 than Obama what other than Obama what is your

reaction today to getting that number it's still below 50 but 46 percent

approval I think it's amazing because I only get bad news I only get bad stories

you look at the paper it's all nonsense it's campaign contributions that if it

were even a campaign contribution is totally legal if you look at stories one

after another they're all legal the great lawyers that do that stuff they're

saying there's nothing illegal all right well get to the hell no wait a minute I

mean I get such bad news so when you tell me I'm at 48 like Rasmussen I was

at 50 in Rasmussen when you tell me I'm at 50% I say how can I possibly be at

50% when I open up China like I'm doing right now nobody reports it now the wall

street we're talking about it yeah well that's because you know I'm here and

we're talking about it but no it's on the front page now at the Wall Street

unit because there's never nobody's ever seen anything like this but it won't be

a big story on NBC or ABC or CBS and CNN won't even cover it you know that's

total fake news what do you say to these men who think they have a shot in 2020

and you're sitting at 46 and it really hasn't moved all that much and and let's

be honest there have been some bumpy trails along the way and and weathering

that with this type of approval rating what do you say to a can have the

greatest base in the history of politics I have people that I love and that love

me frankly that includes a lot of women I got a tremendous percentage of women

less and remember I wasn't get women I wasn't going to you interviewed some of

the women for Trump yes I get women that they're the greatest and I have

tremendous women's support but if you remember the last election I was worried

I wouldn't get one woman in the whole United States to run and I got

tremendous I mean Hillary wish she had my numbers okay Hillary got trounced

with women and and I'll tell you something the news and the polls are

really fake but I had the greatest base in history because the 46 and 48 percent

those people they never waver in fact it was your poll and frankly Fox has always

given me a bad fall I don't know why that is but because

they've treated me fairer than most but the polls have always been lousy but

there's positive news in this not well the economy is very positive I just saw

the poll the economy was all right look I've done a good job on the economy but

I've done a very good job in for our relations we're respected again as a

nation a full-throated refutation for the President himself who obviously is

feeling very strongly about the fact that this is a man that he paid

handsomely he allowed into his inner circle and he has obviously now flipped

now I mentioned that he's in the president's inner circle very

interesting because yesterday the president told our harris faulkner

apparently that didn't take very much he was on a committee it was a condominium

committee many years ago and he was a very big supporter of mine on that

committee I did a great job Trump World Tower it's a very tall building right

opposite the United Nations I liked him and he was a lawyer and because of that

I did it and you know what in retrospect I made a mistake listen to that for

those who've said the president never admits when he's wrong he said right

there when it came to hiring Cohen I made a mistake very interesting sander

Kevin what do we know about this inaugural committee investigation yeah a

death by a thousand cuts or a thousand lawsuits and investigations that's sort

of how it's being seen here at the White House which is to say this is something

I don't think many people have ever even heard of to say nothing of an actual

federal prosecutor taking a look at it this all goes back to the now famed it

was bigger than it looked inauguration you saw the crowds there

and there is a very strong question now among investigators about whether or not

the Trump inauguration committee miss spent some of the record 107 million

dollars at raise from donations in federal investigation into the

inauguration

that doesn't have anything to do with the President or the first lady the

biggest thing the president did and his engagement in the inauguration was to

come here and raise his hand and take the oath of office the president was

focused on the transition during that time and not on any other place

okay so Sandra this is a fairly lengthy statement I'll try to blast through it

as quickly as I can this is on behalf of the 58 Presidential Inaugural committee

the PSC's finances were fully audited internally and independently and are

fully accounted moreover the inaugurations accounting was provided

both to the Federal Election Commission and the IRS in compliance with all laws

and regulations these funds were raised from private individuals and were then

spent in accordance with the law and the expectations of the donors the names of

donors were provided to the FEC and have been public for nearly two years and

those donors were vetted in accordance with the law and no improprieties have

been found regarding the vetting of those donors so what I think you're

seeing him this is what was said to me by senior staffer this morning she said

sort of like what's happening with the ninth circuit which has been sort of

trying to disrupt the Trump legal agenda out west you're seeing the Manhattan

office the Southern District of New York now apparently targeting the Trump orbit

here in the East but she also said they will remain strong Sanford I'm Kevin the

president is said to be whittling down the candidates for chief of staff where

do you think stand on that this morning oh yeah so it's not airs it's not

Mulvaney it's not you it's not me but that list is now apparently down to five

people listen as I've said I shared with you previously the president will make

this decision on his own this won't be sort of decision by committee still

trying to replace the chief of staff John Kelly is a very important

opportunity for this White House for a couple reasons Sanford number one you

want to make sure you have someone who can make the trains run on time but

number two and this is key you want to make sure that you have someone who can

manage the president as well so yeah this list is fluid with big names coming

and going by the minute we're interviewing people now for chief

five people really good ones terrific people mostly well known but terrific

people terrific people Sandra Smith

thank you Kevin thank you god bless you and God bless america

you

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