amik recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera i'm setting up again with a check on your world headlines the world health organization is warning the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating and entering a new and dangerous phase globally 150000 new infections were reported on thursday that's the highest number in a single day nearly half of them were in the america. the world is in a new and dangerous phase many people are understandably fed up with being at home countries and understandably good to open up their societies and economies.

but the virus is still spreading flies it is still deadly and most people are just too susceptible. we call on all countries all people to exercise extreme big deal and. the w.h.o. is also drawing attention to the coronavirus crisis in brazil the number of infections there is believed to have passed 1000000 more than 1200 people died on thursday or latin america editor they see a new and says despite this the government is pushing to reopen the economy. but the government doesn't seem to be planning anything new on the contrary president ed balls the novel has been urging the country to open up to open up its business is and to open up its entertainment including football which as you probably know is very very important in a country like brazil and so last night for example the 1st game was made the 1st

state championship was played in rio de janeiro right next to a an emergency tent hospital where the rotavirus patients are being attended and where these 2 people died we understand while they gave the state the place. millions of people across the united states are commemorating what's known as june the anniversary of the announcement of the end of slavery rallies are taking place in new york washington atlanta and many other cities several states observe the day is an official holiday and there is a person declare it a national holiday this year the date significance has grown because of protests against racism and police brutality all the strained relations between canada and china have deteriorated further after a former canadian diplomat and a businessman were charged with spying the canadian prime minister justin trudeau said he was disappointed with china's actions saying they had linked the charges with the arresting canada of a top executive of tech for

a while way. so we will continue to. ask the chinese and put pressure on the chinese generally to cease the arbitrary detention of these canadian citizens who are being held for the reason they are. generally is disappointed with the independent proceedings of the judiciary and we will continue to stand strong in firmly on the return of the 2 like. the final shipments of humanitarian aid have arrived in yemen as the u.n. suffers a funding crisis there more than 40 tons of medical equipment including ventilators and testing kits were flown in to help the country battle coronavirus earlier this month a u.n. appeal for yemen fell $1000000000.00 sorts of what was needed. tens of thousands of people have rallied in mali's capital bamako for the 2nd time this month calling

for president abraham boubacar kates outs or resign the protests are encouraged by the opposition leader mahmoud zico those who oppose kaita accuse him of corruption and failing to contain violent armed groups the west african country has been engaged in civil war since 2012 the u.s. navy says it won't reinstate captain brett cross here after finding fault with his response to a corona virus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier theodore roosevelt's another top officer will also have his his promotion put on hold more than $1200.00 sailors aboard the ship tested positive and one sailor died from the virus the captain was hailed a hero by his crew for writing a letter urging the navy to provide greater protections those are the top stories head to head is next with an interview with a top economic advisor to the u.s. presidents.

not happy here then you can leave there bringing drugs they're bringing crime they're rapists. racism we saw jimmy corruption accusations of collusion and love affairs with dictators donald trump's presidency has been engulfed by tales controversy from day one. many still support the president and say he's doing wonders for the u.s. economy but with many economists predicting a recession potential big trouble for the top economies suffer beginning to wonder if trump is headed for a defeat in next year's election my guest tonight though is stephen moore one of america's most famous conservative voices on the economy and an advisor to the

trump 2020 campaign these argue that the president deserves the nobel prize in economics and whatever trump is doing on the economy it sure is working because we've got these you know tremendous conditions right now and a lifelong champion of free trade more is now defending trump's tariffs arguing that they're all part of the president's grand plan to make america great again i support what the president's doing and china but there's no question this a slowdown the kind of this is short term pain for long term game i made the house and i've come to washington d.c. to go head to head with stephen moore a senior member of the trump 2020 campaign and one of the president's top economic advisors held for the 1st time at george washington university oh ask him whether trumbull omics is really helping ordinary americans and whether a volatile and seemingly unstable trump is even fit to be president of the united states. i'll also be joined by rick. a longtime republican political strategist who's become a leading conservative critic of the president and author of the book everything

trump touches. general is a constitutional lawyer and member of the trump 2020 advisory board and tiffany krause a liberal commentator and co-founder of the national news website the b. please welcome stephen moore. moore is co-author of the book trump a nomics inside the america 1st plan to revive the economy. stephen moore thank you for joining me on head to head 1st to be here is it stephen that you think that u.s. president donald trump of all people deserves to win the nobel prize for economics well we've got

a very strong economy in the united states right now you know it's weakened a little bit from last year when i said that i think on c.n.n. that he should win the nobel prize for economics but it's the strongest economy in the world today. for reviving the economy i think trumpeters serves a lot of credit and maybe a nobel prize you say reviving the economy let's just be clear about what trump promised he promised 4 percent even 5 percent growth he hasn't even managed 3 percent yet he promised to eliminate the national debt in 8 years instead he's increasing it by 4 trillion dollars he said he would save coal coal hasn't be saved he said it would restore manufacturing it's in recession it's just one failed economic pledge after another i see things real differently i mean 1st of all i see them differently the facts right. i mean trump makes grandiose promises exaggerates and sometimes i wish you wouldn't do that. but you know if you compare where the economy is today versus where it was when he entered office it's

substantially stronger and if you're an american worker and you're looking for a job this is the best labor market for workers so probably in 50 years and the labor market is great they did a 107 just for audience here and it's what your home there have been 107 consecutive months of job growth 76 under obama and 31 under truncheon you say thank you barack obama look obama certainly deserves some credit for getting that unemployment rate down but it continues to slide lower than anybody thought was possible i think that you know if you look at your growth is growing slower in detroit than it doing well barack obama the problem let me say this the problem we have in the american economy today is not a shortage of jobs. you know if we put every unemployed person into a job we'd still have a 1000000 have jobs left over that's a that's a pretty strong economy it is and i'm saying there inherited a pretty strong economy your way trump should be given you say trump should be given a nobel prize for economics when barack obama was president you said americans shouldn't reelect incumbents who quote run up the deficit by

a trillion dollars in the woods this year the trump deficit crossed a trillion dollars it will cost a trillion dollars a year as well so stephen surely for the sake of consistency you will be urging everyone not to re-elect donald trump well no i'm not hands out and go you're a consistent. i've been. i've been very critical of the overspending that's going on in washington and i think both parties are responsible for that the good news is that the economy is growing faster than the debt that's the most important thing make sure that our ability to repay is it that you say that suppose that under obama you didn't say it was a miserable day was that his yes these are your goods because you cannot run up the deficit by $1000000000.00 let me you said you said let me quote you i'm angry because we're borrowing $1000.00 trump is now pouring $22.00 trillion dollars a year angry now and the anger when obama is there is that as a share of g.d.p. in the last 2 years under bush and the years under obama doubled we borrowed more money in bush's last 2 years and obama's 8 years and then all of the share of jack

the according to the congressional budget of one of the making of world war 2 levels under trump do you recognize this book idea you wrote this book called in 2009 how barack obama is bankrupting the u.s. economy tonight do you want to change the name right over and put donald i give you like no no i get your show often enough but you can because there's a lot of $20.00 in because there's a bill on this $1000000.00 deficit a difference we've got you on a minute booming economy i think that's going to be us no the last year that barack obama was president the economy grew by 1.5 percent last year you know very well we got this is going to 1009 as measured by economists not george bush's budget you know it wasn't. numbers i mean also about the chinese trade war donald trump said last year that trade was a good and easy to win you know he didn't say it but he did say that it clearly hasn't been easy to win and in terms of being good don't these trump tariffs on china represent the biggest tax increase on u.s.

consumers in modern time the i am a free trade guy and one of the things i 1st told donald trump when i met him when he asked me to work for him as a senior economist i said mr you know donald i'm a free trade guy he said look i believe in free trade he just but he said i want a level playing field we are in an epic battle with the chinese it's going to last decades don't the trump tariffs on china we can talk about decades long but right now don't they represent the biggest tax increase on u.s. consumers in modern times well now we can for you say no but those are your goods oh wait a minute hold you said trump's idea of a 35 percent tariff on imported goods would represent the biggest tax increase on u.s. consumers in modern times suddenly start working for trump and that's not true i know their average american family has seen about a $1500.00 reduction in their taxes thanks to the to the worst economy that i've had wiped out by these tariffs not still haven't been to new york federal reserve is 800 dollars or how about that you know who's been working on the last of those who you know new federal reserves are awaiting the tax policy that is wrong entirely for the federal budget or a burden of those those tariffs are borne by american consumers look at that if

that's the case then why would china care the fact is anyway before bearing the cost of it just here are some of the i so enjoyed this conversation because you're all going with yourself i'm not the one who said i'm not the one who said every quote or tariff imposed on the u.s. hurts residents of the united states because all restrictions hurt the united states that tariffs have never would always end in an unhappy ending but he also let me explain you know you would you'll see because it's an important point do i think that these these tariffs on china are hurting american consumers absolutely there so why does donald trump not accept this he did look he says the chinese and not any americans are paying the tariff that's a lie you know that's a lie you say that you are saying is the book. of the cost of the terrorists is being borne by the chinese through depreciating their currency for providing increasing subsidies to their companies and when they do that the cost is borne by the chinese not the united states the people who've done the studies on the stephen reading a print i'd love that you don't even know what i found what we're seeing even

reading is that one of the country's top experts on international trade is a professor of economics at princeton. all of the u.s. tariffs to be imports passed absolutely for consumers that's what do you think it's a bit about but about would you are supported having free trade with nazi germany or the japanese search china has not had germany we are in china not i do think we are in a new cold war with china with china now as a german about china nazi germany in 2015 when you said why are we picking an economic weight i don't care about the human rights violations in china i care about about them build i'm wondering when you care about their about a given 2015 you didn't care about them you said do we really want to pick an economic war with china whether or not in 2015 the only consolation i think this is that you said it in the national review article china is our number one import market do we really want to pick an economic war with then i then we should right now is you telling off even more of tony for me after he was well we have to know it was wrong and trouble trouble on the floor of 2019 tells of stephen moore 2050 let's go to our panel who are waiting patiently to come in here and join the discussion rick wilson is

a long time republican political strategist who has worked for george h.w. bush rudy giuliani among others since 2015 he's been a leading i think it's fair to say conservative critic of president trump author of the book everything trump touches dies now there's a title you and stephen have moved in similar right wing circles you've both worked on republican presidential campaigns who better represents conservative economic principles right now you or him well work i'm not an economist by trade or training steve it is but i will say this i still believe with the things that i think stephen believed before which is the primacy of free markets and now we have a president who wants to talk companies what to make where they can make it who engages in state capitalism. sort of crony capitalist things and i think stephen. pryor stephen the now stephen there's a big dichotomy there and it's i don't think it's stephen alone i think there are a lot of republicans who just made that compromise you know so i'm curious like how does it feel to like to flip so fast and so hard resolve that i've always said

right right. quickly respond that i've always said the single most important thing to reduce the national debt in the deficit and i think it's important priority for the united states is to grow the economy to put more people to work to make more american companies you know richer and more profitable rick we have done that in spades stephen you mentioned the economy is greater than ever before more bring in journalist reviews he's a constitutional lawyer member of the trump 20 twentieth's advisory board or author of the book the legal basis for moral constitution genet stephen says talks about this great economy anyone paying attention to the news recently and look at some of the numbers coming out there's a fear of a recession or at least a downturn coming maybe even ahead of of the next election how does a self-inflicted recession someone argue given the trade war how does that fit with the whole make america great again message going into 2020 this could be a problem for him is it not we want to talk about the constitution here not 100 percent of economic factors can be directly attributable to a single president and so if you look at the leadership style of barack obama it's

a great point see when i was going to republicans during the obama program but i think that that's the but we did it and i certainly am and you know congress is also very much responsible and and both sides and how worried are you about recession are well but i think that we are point about self infliction is is also very very consistent with what we're seeing with the mainstream media who are so intact in a stacked against this particular president that they are the ones that are creating a false narrative so i listen to it even once this is like to give him an opportunity will give him over here actually it's no good at all if you're going to let me get going rather than trying to get my question is a shame so much when you say the mainstream media is to blame for the post talking about recession do you include the white house chief of staff. mick mulvaney said there might be a short moderate recession next year is he part of the mainstream media there might be but i think that you're trying to prove tax and isolate these comments and try to spin them into your narrative rather than just going to the white house you know stuff like that tiffany and i we're going to move in but you say you're going to stick it out on this do you come back as one problem tiffany cross is the

co-founder managing editor of the national news outlet the b d c a liberal commentator you're shaking your head you want to come in and respond so i it's really clear that the campaign is in full blown panic mode because he's fallen short on some of the promises that he made in 2016 to help perpetuate this false idea that people voted for him because of economic anxiety and you know given that this administration is kind of faulty relationship with the truth why is it anybody believe what you or any representative of this administration says when most of your economic solutions seem more based on messaging and attacking what then i call the mainstream media and calling facts are untrue. so yeah but that's happening frequently. that i've not reversed course on the debt and i think that that is a huge value album and i think should be related to that were so that it shouldn't be reelected then no i'm saying well you shouldn't 20 others you know saying people

really and i definitely should not here reelected look i think you have to look the whole range of issues and what trump has done on the economy and i think it's been spectacular let's talk about immigration people have called trump's immigration policy dangerous crazy extreme nativist what do you say to them i say that we have to build a wall we have to secure our border i am totally in favor and by the way i'm the i'm made to be the most pro moderation person in this room i've written books and books i've written i've written are you still i'm totally pro-immigration so do you think trump's policy is dangerous crazy extreme let me do you think this dangerous game i saw you question do you think is dangerous crazy an extreme. no i think those are your words look you thought i think trump's policy is a crazy policy with a very extreme nativist position it's a very dangerous thing not that that in 2015 before you went to work now here's what i believe i don't always agree with his positions on immigration but i do believe that until we get the border secure and we get that wall bill once we do

that we can increase our legal immigration and i am for immigrants coming into this country who want to contribute to who's going to. this is an administration has backed legislation to haul of illegal immigration the ones to accept 0 refugees next year they support the bill in 2017 wants to end the visa lottery program and family migration crackdown on thousands of legal or not true let me know how it got helped i helped write it's just not true to me just because i helped write the bill i know more about the bill than you do i have had i'm very central to how to show you aggression not and family immigration what the ad bill does that allows spouses and children to come into this country a preserves the sanctity of our president every one of the presidency and a president go off and chain migration visa that was the whole point is that all illegal immigration pubs not put will hold on here's what we're doing but we're basically saying yes an immediate family member you can bring in a spouse or a child we want you know you can bring in but not your 2nd cousin not your on how

about you and by the way i want you to give littles what about to bring in your in-laws if they're if they're you mean they're really i mean we decide you want to run the 1st lady brought whatever home got here is an option migration just so everyone knows what the policy is because you can decide whether you like the policy or not we want to have more high skilled talented young workers come into this country who will benefit the united states now some people oh that's a racist policy a racist policy that's the power of the germany that's the policy of australia that's the policy of canada why shouldn't we take in pretty sure. you have to internationalise let's take the immigrants who were going to make a contribution to trump and his policies on immigration can be quote compassionate while preserving our sovereignty i think that's true. if you look at the camps at the border is it compassionate to detain 1000 people in a room designed for 40 people where women you know i can't comment because i can't i don't know well i got

a new bleeding closed because of lack of sanitary products children left and i was at the border do office of inspector general i've been in the border in texas and i can't speak for all the camps and so on but the ones that i've seen humane the people are working at the border they are they are doing everything they can to help those people and the idea that somehow somehow our border patrol people this is and also is of inspector general says 88 i don't males held in a cell with a maximum capacity of 41 but i don't support that that's what's happening is that compassionate now we should stop doing that isn't the real reason that donald trump if we could agree. to get some agreement i got a reason but also you know the real reason we have to change our asylum policy because what's going to accept the refugees is what that is what steven miller 10 while i don't agree with steve miller and by the way that's not the trump assertion ok with anyone who has a well founded fear of persecution should be able to come in as a rough minister from syria. here is that well he's closer to the syrian refugees is that compassion that i am not

a foreign policy expert on this isn't the real reason donald trump fighting this war on immigration is that he's a racist if when the president tells 4 women of color members of congress to quote go back to where they came from even though 4 of them all of them are u.s. citizens and 3 of them were born in the u.s. is that not racist i know donald trump i've spent a lot of time no that is not a race ok he's not a racist is that comment racist people can interpret it. 1 we can you tell us about it is it not a sense of why when you answer it because what's the problem if you have something wrong i don't think donald trump is racist i did not start with some of the telling people to go back to where they came from is it racist to say yes or no question. i don't know i'm not going to and i won't go into well one of the rallies this summer in north carolina when he mentioned representative in the crowd chanted send her back send her back i don't seem to be ok with it i don't like that stuff if you want it you said you love the people from rallies but you stood with them and trying to sound urban i would so and so a lot of people i already went why because i think it's not it's not it's not what

i think that's what you get a lot of them it's not real it's not bringing us together why don't you like is it not because it's racist here's one of the things about donald trump that look i'm a big fan of donald trump's i made that clear but i will say this. that what i wish he would do i wish he would bring us together more and the last devices and i've told them that i think you know i think he's his performance has been spectacular with respect to getting jobs back and so on but he's got to be the president. not races that's your preferred word probably divisive not racist is your preferred word yes he has 2 devices you should be should be the president of all the people he's got to work on that isn't the problem stephen that you're sitting here defending the president's what many would argue are blatantly racist comments when you yourself had to withdraw your nomination for c on the federal reserve earlier this year partly because of misfortune istic remarks you made you say you made 1020 years ago really and partly because the race is coming you made that cause a lot of problems you about the obama's just run years ago that caused a lot problems for you. the comments you made about that almost i mean i had 6 full

time investigative reporters looking into things i wrote 25 years ago this was any years ago i'm talking about you know letters that are what 25 years ago i'm not talking about those yet i'm saying i was in the past 12 years and i'm saying that what's what is so i think anyone who looks at the evidence of what happened believes that i was completely unfairly treated i mean they unseeded to myself or you don't regret saying that the 1st thing donald trump does as president is kick a black family out of public housing it was a joke it was a joke it was funny about that it was a cartoon that was in the in the b. you found it funny it was basically it was a joke it was you know you know you don't apologize or a good day i shouldn't say that but it was a joke. let's go to our panel tiffany the u.s. has always had problems of racism i could do that we could say it started with donald trump how much worse in your view do you think it's becoming the donald trump or is it just a continuation where do you stand on the racism yeah it's just a continuation i mean people like to say that it happened i saw a resurgence of this kind of rhetoric under barack obama as evidence as stephen

morris comments i think instead of spitting in my face and trying to tell me it's raining you and you need to acknowledge that you are right with the racist president when you talk about immigration and you talk about you know that his policies are not racist i think perhaps the only immigrant that donald trump may like is former model birth there who has a college degree and given that she came in this country because she had to find these a i'm curious if you were exam i can answer what was her special talent that she got this special treatment that she got that einstein very very. going to get you asylum policy immigration policy when you see donald trump's justice department go to court to prevent migrant kids in detention centers from getting soap and toothbrushes is that something you would have defended in court on behalf of the d.o.j. that wasn't the substance of that particular loss i don't know what i was and i said yes you know you asked a different question which is trying to isolate that particular fact that's in your favor rather than looking at it i can assure you doing things to her she's going to

do a favor it's basic human rights and that basic right thank you right. right right. across the border by human trafficking and that is what the donald trump administration is making sure the waiting very patiently risk accusation of like cherry picking and facts selection my grandmother had a phrase when you have a turd in the punchbowl you don't have punch anymore you've got water with that term so you can't say that if something they miss is a part of the overall lawsuit we just a lot over that we just ignore that that's part of the that's part of the system of the of the stephen me. what the president steven miller immigration policy they are designing this program in order to cause pain and suffering to children and families ok border general you have to look at the entire scope of the lawsuit and to make sure that you understand and that particular point you know of course i mean i've had a shelter medical facility already at

a major national park that they are trying they are doing everything that they can for the children at the border but what president trump is trying to do is to make sure that they delegate just as you mentioned people rick i want to ask you one question isn't a problem for you and for never trust republicans like yourself is that racism and bigotry long preceded donald trump look i've learned on the road a lot about this in my book you will and i told you a hard just for the record you worked for george h.w. bush who in 1981 a pretty racist out about when he didn't start actually drove bush campaign didn't run that how he was the allies running out a lot with them but the long story short i wrote about this in a lot of my book and i realized something over time you know not every trump supporter is a is a nativist racist but all of the nativist racists right now are trying to supporters everybody ok let's close this area we need to take a break that's a very lively show as you can see we're going to come back and paul 2 and talk about donald trump the mound donald trump the leader we're going to more from our panel and from our very patient audience here at the george washington university in washington d.c. stay tuned join us after the break. methamphetamines

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boundaries part of the sense of not always on the love we are the land grabbing the extra mile where are the media going to go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. over. this is all those are armed with a check on your world headlines world health organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is entering a new and dangerous phase more than 150000 cases were reported on thursday the highest number in a single day while many nations are easing restrictions the w.h.o. has urged people to remain vigilant the world is in a new and dangerous phase many people are understandably fed up with being at home countries are understandably good to open up their source ideas and economies

but the virus is still spreading fast it is still deadly and most people are still susceptible. we call on all countries and all people to exercise extreme vigilance. the w.h.o. has also drawn attention to the coronavirus crisis in brazil the number of infections there is believed to have passed 1000000 more than 1200 people died on thursday. 'd the strained relations between canada and china have deteriorated further after a former canadian diplomat and a businessman were charged with spying the canadian prime minister justin trudeau said he was disappointed with china's actions saying they had linked the charges with the arresting canada of a top executive of tech firm while way. millions of people across the united states

are commemorating what's known as juneteenth the anniversary of the announcement of the end of slavery rallies are taking place in new york washington atlanta and many other cities this year the date significance has grown because of protests against racism and police brutality. and the final shipments of humanitarian aid have arrived in yemen as the u.n. suffers a funding crisis there more than 40 tons of medical equipment including ventilators and testing kits were flown in to help the country battle coronavirus earlier this month the u.n. appeal for yemen fell $1000000000.00 sorts of what was needed its for 75 percent of its programs to close or reduce operations in the country you have to say to the headlines it's back to head to head next with mehdi has and then it's the news hour at the top of the hour i'll see you then thanks for watching but i.

welcome back to head to head on al-jazeera english here in washington d.c. in front of an audience at the george washington university for the 1st time my guest tonight is the senior economic advisor to president donald trump he's an all star he's well known conservative commentator and he's an advisor to the trunk 2020 reelection campaign stephen moore thanks for weighing in on stephen a lot of people watching around the world. fascinated by donald trump wherever you go fascinated by this guy on a level i've never seen in any world leader in modern times you know the man personally you've met with him you've invited him i'm sure a lot of people in this hall and at home must be wondering what is it like to advise someone a world leader who knows so little about anything. well like i mean 1st of all one of the things that really struck me about donald trump when i 1st met him 4 years ago you know that look i would say 95 percent of politicians are you know wonderful people in public and jerks in private sometimes trump can be a jerk in public but he's actually a really nice guy in private i mean i like donald trump

a lot of come to admire him i think people underestimate his intelligence i bet his i.q. you're going to laugh at this i think he's probably got about 100 i.q. the guy is amazing his breadth of knowledge about about you know the world affairs and i want to guy who says it like it is sometimes does he stick his point in his mouth yeah i thought we did a comedy like it's not going to agree that people definitely voted for him because they didn't see him as a conventional politician but when you say breadth of knowledge and high i.q. this is a man who thinks wind turbines cause cancer thinks you can stop a hurricane with a nuclear weapon you need id to buy a box of cereal things england in great britain of the same thing well soviet union just rebranded as russia these are things he says every day i don't know i cannot go here to defend the rethink that what you have just you would you know just tell it what is going to hire you in a breadth of knowledge i asked about you sell it to defendant because i think one of the flaws of donald trump anything is waking up. actually would be better to stop talking so much on letters record speak for itself why would you want to stop

talking if you've got such a high i.q. and such a broad big number because he does you no idea i do worry that there is a little bit of trouble for team that people are tired about him where he's good is when he focuses on an issue and he comes up with solutions that work you know you talked about that's why people are impressed when you talk about fatigue is the problem that he seems kind of fatigued people talk about his mental i don't see that he's cognitive decline this is a president and i think the president this is a president who refers to himself as the chosen one as a stable genius he rants and raves on twitter in the middle of the night he recently retreated a supporter who called him the king of israel and the 2nd coming of the lord if you were sitting on a plane stephen and the last thing you heard a pilot say was i'm the 2nd coming of god you would get off the plane with you mr president of the united states saying that you know what a lot of times he's saying these things to tweak people like you and get underneath your skin but by the way i think it's a rather wretch the liberals are now saying you know trump doesn't have the mental acuity to be president and i'm listening to joe biden every day i mean come on

ladies about it all by it's funny unbelievably money and i don't agree with you someone should check out joe biden it's not just liberals it's not just liberals you keeping liberals former white house starts of communications anthony scaramucci republican senator susan collins and bob corker former trump advisor omarosa newman they've all come out and said this guy quote is an obvious mental decline he's unstable everyone knows it. the white house continues to deceive this nation has one former aide on how mentally declined he is he's a liberal to the people who worked with him these are republicans there are a lot of republican number trumpeters out there i don't have a trump and they worked for donald trump called me i never come i mean i worked in the white house when i worked for them too and i'm here to tell you that guy is i've never seen by the way anybody in my whole life he's a freak of nature you were 20 i mean we can agree he's a freak of nature now he works 20 hours a day when he's playing golf and watching t.v. come out i mean this is a guy who i mean come on is it not fact that he plays like your garden that he plays golf i don't have a problem you just say he works 20 hours a day i'm just going on what you're saying what i'm saying is this guy around the

clock is paying attention to what's going on or playing golf states ok so we play some rounds of golf lot of saying is he had his own gratification never seen before but that's what people are questioning the work ethic given he's always playing golf or watching t.v. in your book you write that everyone around him seem to love donald trump that trump treats his people well and yet he has the highest turnover of staff of any modern and in fact i'll let you also why in fact when they resign or when he fires them he then attacks the yeah i don't like that he's a sloppy steve benen dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless bonehead jerome powell these are the people trump treats his people well you wrote how does that work look i don't like that he does that but i do like how does that fit with. your opinion as it has every description the trump treated people don't seem to treat as people i'm saying it's the people who are around him love him you know the liars them and then love the many so you know what prompt us he's a c.e.o. if people. use them and that's what a good c.e.o.

should do year i'm president i'm pretty sure it is somebody who is able and don't want to go and get rid of 3 and call them a nickname or a dog i'll look that's a different issue how me saying there's an issue if what's the issue is that i agree with you he shouldn't call these people names but i am i do think that if they're not provided you know what i'm asking what he does i don't know i mean i guess i don't know what i say visit to his mental decline. is it to do with racism no is it to why did he do this why does he call a woman a dog why does he call his own former advisor dumb as a rock his former secular state he praised rex tillerson why do you do that i'm ask you can you know him we don't i wish he wouldn't do it that's why i'm asking why does he do i don't know i don't know why he does it and i wish he would do and i think it gets him into trouble i think if donald trump didn't do those kinds of things you're talking about he did not have a 40 percent approval rating you know 70 percent i'm honestly why he doesn't you can't tell me even though you're telling me he's the smartest guy in the i mean i don't like a lot of the personality i don't most latin races but which part of what i'm saying is what americans care about is suppress performance is results not what he says

the how he acts ok and isn't it the case stephen moore that if you did if you did have a falling out would trump if you did kind of turn on trump or criticize him publicly in any strong way he'd come off to you too when he when i was going so you would be so i steve tomorrow morning that's why i'm not going across i'm like i mean i mean i mean that's let's bring in our policy wilson is here wilson long time republican political strategist worked for george h.w. bush rudy giuliani never trump i think it's fair to say rick a lot of people on in your camp would say the people don't cross him because they're afraid of double they are there's no question about this i've talked to members of congress members of the senate who despise this man who think he is the worst president they've ever dealt with in terms of being consistent honest direct and having having any sort of connection with with with ethical boundaries these people are terrified of him this is not how a government would normally be would seem to work but the fact is trump has

a gigantic threat it's that hammer of his social media that he's willing to use against his own allies almost as much as he is against any and hone it rick you know this you're a pollster donald trump's approval rating among republicans is what $85.00 or 90 percent it's trump's party now and you know what if if if republicans come out against him they're going to lose their primaries because he's so popular with as well the guy who got the big. stephen it is and it is no party there is not a party right now dedicated to limited government and as fiscal responsibility to the economic growth there is not according to the limited government fiscal responsibility and the old tenets of conservatism it is now donald trump's party it is a man of his mob it is not a political party with a consistent i don't want let me bring in let me bring in journalist rivers is a constitutional lawyer member of the trump 2020 advisory board rick says your policy is no just trying to do in response yes of course because you know what i think what i think stephen is saying as far as this president donald trump being the most conservative we can measure him not by our own personal opinions but i

think full articles to accuracy to the u.s. constitution and that is really the metric of any president and if you look at not only the economy the lower unemployment rate but also the $150.00 judicial appointments in 2 thing including 2 supreme court justices that are faithful originalists this is the promise that donald trump has for america and so like him as a person or not i'm not looking for someone that i want to go have a beer with i am looking for a leader and i'm one who will stay faithfully within the margins of the u.s. constitution the whole idea of make america great again is actually working ok tiffany cross is the co-founder managing editor of the b.b.c. national news outlet liberal commentator tiffany isn't the problem for a lot of liberals and people don't i don't have a trumpet as a you can pile up old examples of things he does that seem unhinged. and yet it stephen points out the vast majority of support his supporters millions of your fellow americans still love the dog it beggars belief but you see because you're

trying to have a logical conversation with the illogical she just said that he was faithful to the constitution except for birthright citizenship except for the a monument clause this is ridiculous that's why we kind of i mean i thank everybody very much part of the problem and listen i said look it's really not like you know trying to get applause lines i mean listen my people who built this country ok. i love this country and it just says something to me that after all that america has done so my ancestors i can stand here today and be a bigger patriot than you or you because this president is an existential threat to america he has lost it preys on foreign adversaries like vladimir putin he waxes poetic about love letters he writes with kim jong un and he invited the taliban to camp david a week before 911 and what world do we exist that we don't feel like we're living on a saturday night live sketch 24 hours a day that reasonable seemingly reasonable people become

a musical but unfortunately you're trying to say that we are not patriots simply because we disagree with you and that is absolutely not an ok statement to make we haven't been out of logical thinking that we can have a logical extreme and not to any disagreement or to no evidence as known as they are such as how i'm going to take any additional i'm going to respond probably no you're not going to agree with your that i'm going to treat thing within the margin of the constitution simply because you claim that somebody does not constitute little does not mean that it is and stephen was going to ask you this question you're listening to discover they should be but at what stage do you go this is just not normal saying tweeting a very stable genius thanks look if trump's policies were not working then i'd be with you all i'd say you don't get rid of the guy but guess what they are worth it's funny because you did say get rid of the guy before you went to work for the guy let's go to our audience to be very waiting very patiently at the g. w. university here in washington d.c. if you have a question for stephen moore raise your hands the story here gentlemen the front row wait for my friend to come to you. my question for you stephen is there are

fears of recession that emanate from whether it's trade wars whether it's the misuse spend deficit which was spent on tax cuts for the wealthy rather than on spreading the wealth as needed to be done so how could you doubt donald trump as a great economic president when what we've actually seen is that he's really pushed the economy into a decline well look i mean we did not inherit a strong economy if if americans have felt good about where the economy was circa 2016 hillary clinton would be president i mean it's just no question clear 3000000 people did vote for hillary clinton the no not yet but look. that's not the problem the reason that trump won those states like michigan and iowa and wisconsin and ohio and pennsylvania and west virginia i went to those states and you know what when i'd asked people in those states people in places like your repulsive pena and charleston west virginia and flint michigan i'd say to them how is that obama

recovery going for you i'm a donald trump since he was elected we have created 1400000 mining construction manufacturing jobs those jobs were declining under barack obama he's brought back middle class jobs shipped out of the with the whole trade war going on obviously there are a lot of objectives president trump has in mind if there is one particular objective that he should be striving for if you could bring one thing home what should be in your name with respect to china with respect to china so i think the biggest problem i have which i think trump would probably agree i mean there's 2 actually there that they have never opened up their markets to us the way we've been open up our markets they have terrorists that are 3 times higher than ours are we can't live with that all we want is a level playing field by the way everything that will trump is asking for from the chinese is reasonable there's nothing that donald trump is asking the chinese to do that they shouldn't that they shouldn't do ok on the other one by the way which may be more important is they 'd are stealing 300. 1000000000 dollars

a year of our intellectual property if other countries are stealing that you're not going to have a job i want to go to the gentleman the front and then the lady behind next good evening everyone and immigrant from. most of the executive director of the senate is a vote an immigrant the executive director are you a senator yes i am a citizen and i am the executive director of the central american research center here in d.c. president cancel temporary protective status is a program which. is just to be clear you're talking about the program that people came into the country could the children could remain this is a program a humanitarian program protection when there is there is a crisis in the country of origin either man money or natural disasters so most of the recipients from from that are either from central america are hyper concentrated. because of trade in the construction trade or 200000 people who have

200000 kids right is it a good policy to terminate that that program going is going to create a negative impact on local economies you know it's a good question sir i confess to you i don't know enough about that program but you make a strong case for it and if these if these people in the country who have come from central america if they do have a well founded case that why they shouldn't go back then absolutely should allow them to stay as long as they don't you know is that there are productive citizens this country yeah paper that why does it matter if he's a citizen and i just was wondering at. the reason i ask you. because you know the reason i ask that question is i love america america's immigrant heritage it's what makes us a special place on the globe i love it when people become naturalized citizens want to become americans they just have to come into the country legally and abide by our was ok ladies awaiting the. question is down term has been

well documented making thousands of misleading and flat out false statements throughout the course of his presidency does his aversion for truth telling undermine his ability to lead and unite the country i think when 21 trump says things that are false that does undermine his his presidential authority and i wish he wouldn't do it he should stop saying things that are untrue but he does say things that are untrue you know you don't so he's a liar. i mean ever going to say that i think trump is an exaggerator and i think it gets him exaggerate to you does he example exaggerate like when you said oh we said we were going to 5 percent growth we knew we were going to get up to the no that's an exaggeration but when he says my dad was born in germany even though he's born in new york that's an exaggeration is it. when he says melania got to know kim jong un she's never met kim jong il that's not an exaggeration there's an exaggeration there's allies ok let's go back to the audience let's go to this lady here in 2nd row. i'm a freelance reporter focused on the extremism. is

a freelance reporter focused on extremism extremism yet my question has to do with white nationalism and the trumpet ministration isn't it impossible to deny that the trumpet ministration has done more to mainstream white supremacist hate than any president i think to i think donald trump is. he is not a he is not a white supremacist himself and i think i can't speak for him but i think i'm speaking from because i know how i feel i hate weights or promise e i think you know every model there king said it best a man should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. when the hi thank you i do a lot of work with tears for the heartland talking about the impact of the tariffs on the u.s. economy from farmers to services to retailers are already being harmed by this july alone the us going to $6800000000.00 from u.s. companies not from china but from u.s. companies we've seen manufacturing take a hit exports taking a hit farmers taking

a hit at what point is enough enough i know we all agree we all agree china has been a bad actor but we don't think terms of the right approach to get there i think there are other ways we can put forces on china to make changes but the tariffs are going to really have an impact on the economy going to 2021 here more folks are very concerned about where we're going with the economy it's a great question and you know so i'm happy to sit down with you and you can tell if somebody in this room can tell me a better policy that will change china's behavior than tariffs i'm open ears when don't say go take i'm doing world trade organization and all i know when you hear someone like christopher gibbs is ohio soybean farmer he says i was a truck voter but he hasn't come through he's lost on trade i won't be voting for the president. look you can quote some farmers but i can tell you there's a pretty good talk a lot of farmers who fully support what i'm a little sad about the up and we know we're taking a hit here but we won't because we think donald trump is going to bring very briefly right if this is a great policy that china is paying for why are we subs. farmers out of the tune of at least $32000000000.00 because of the damage they're taking economic outlook i

recover not saying that the farmers and manufacturers aren't being hurt by the terrorist they are it doesn't seem like it's very easy to win if what i am saying is that this is you know short term pain for long term gain that china is going to start behaving themselves and i'm going to look at a 1000000000 dollars 32000000000 dollars in subsidies go socialism well wait a minute that's really giving money to them that's the forecast right that would be . ok. this lady and i'm going to gentle he's awaiting the black ship for a while my recent time article stated that the trade with china cannot be considered unwinnable do you agree with this or see any positive outcomes for either side on one of all our recent time article time magazine time magazine that's a good look i mean yeah this is one of the top is going to win this war i hope before the election but i don't know how long this is going to take but he is right it is fighting the right fight the american people are behind him china is a menace we are in an incredibly bad situation with china we cannot live with their

behavior and we better stop it now before you know that rather than 10 years from now when they're bigger than they are today gentlemen and by the way when that trade deal is signed sealed delivered you think the economy is strong right now you can see the big i don't mean it's all right now i'm the advocacy director for a youth climate organization called 0 hour so just on what 0 hour there's increasing evidence of climate crisis in this day stream hurricanes like hurricanes during that just happened if the ministration continues to not only say hurricane hurricane dorian it's just that you're saying that there's no reason for you saying there's never been hurricanes before let me answer that i mean are you saying there is no let him allegedly or should it come out of us is really. we're going to lot of hurricanes before it's even steven. yet then ministration continues not only deny this urgent threat but also roll back climate regulations such as the water of the united states rule. from an economic perspective how can you argue that transitioning to green energy would throw millions into poverty and destroy the

economy when in reality there might not even be an economy to talk about in the near future we don't know how well we're going to have an election in 2020 on this and the dollar if the democrats want to run on getting rid of fossil fuels in america and they want to go to ohio and pennsylvania and west virginia and texas and energy producing states and tell those people that they're going to put millions of people out of jobs so be it by the way we have 2 forms of energy that riyad a clear reduce greenhouse gases you know what those are nuclear power and natural gas and the left as against both do you still believe that climate change is the greatest scam in the last 100 years i think it's i think it's totally overblown and i think what you're still going to grant a scone i think the scam is that somehow people in government are going to change the global temperature they can't even balance the budget they can't they can't solve any problems over struck the world poverty and we expect that the united nations will get change by the way every single country every single country that

that signed the paris climate accord which i bet you're in favor of every single country is cheating on it especially china time for one last one lady in the 2nd room my names are fine on her i'm an immigration attorney i am a citizen i'm asking the question you've got a teen immigration. talked about the dangers of teen immigration that is a lie you could never sponsor your 2nd cousin twice removed your family immigration is always based on immediate family and that and that hasn't changed and then he talks about the whole countries can you just can you speak to that it's very clear to the american public specially people look like me people of color that when you talk about you that president trump is for legal immigration maybe legal immigration the people who are white so we have a we want to put in place a merit system america based immigration system and i guarantee you one of the criteria of that of. marriage has nothing to do with race or gender and it's

basically based on age skills whether you can speak english whether you're you know whether you have the kind of talents that this country needs and that seems to make sense to me by the way there is chain migration you've had many examples of somebody who comes in and they bring 25 or 30 relatives with them as you go through the chain now look i mean look the trumps and the maloney has found that so. but i want to make sure everybody understands this we're not getting rid of the family based immigration system you can bring your you can bring your children you can bring a spouse but the idea that you can bring an elderly parent down now we don't want people who are 78 years old coming into this country unless or young unless unless unless they're the 1st lady's parents just to reiterate this you're bluffing but it's pure hypocrisy and stand raise these out of people who are elderly parents going to come in tribute not people we met on the elsewhere and some not working and contributing i don't know about that we're out of time but in tell us his question is a crowd a lot of young people are students of you know asking questions you're very keen on

the policies you say present from great for the economy but obviously the president is about more than just growth it's important but the president also the leaders in its own leader of the nation had to stay in this country as head of government is donald trump do you think a role model for the young people in this room didn't grow up with god his life has been incredible i mean this is a guy this is a guy who's built credible companies he's becoming the listen again it comes to what is a plus and even if you go about it came i think he is absolutely a role model i mean the guy his his life and story is amazing he built great companies the 1st major american businessman or woman to become president the united states yeah i think most you know i always tell people that a lot of people keep talking about social justice and all these as you want to change the world the single most important thing for the user those are your kids the single most important thing if you want to make the better about the world a better place start a business start a business and quite ok and that's what donald trump is not i don't know if you've grown up on that. stephen moore thank you so much for joining me on head to head and rather to our audience at george washington thank you to our panel of experts

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also looking a rather wet for much of a stright eros where it looks fine and dry perth gets up to around 22 degrees 20 fondant right say into new zealand temperatures from struggling to get into double figures but we're looking at the rain garage moving away from the north island the rain moving away from japan at the moment as well you see a fair amount of cloud in play here they'll still be some showers around as we go on through saturday but by the time we come to sunday school looking fine and dry $25.00 celsius there in tokyo stay outside shots of a shower or it's a central areas of china on the other hand staying rather wet with heavy rain set to continue right through the weekend. only because that's economies job losses increase government debts are headed toward world war 2 levels the nasdaq hit so. divorced from reality plus the

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