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but doesn't quite keep me up. i'm looking at china because china is the most important country to look at and they're still doing fairly well. >> okay, although that eight-share index is getting hit. from peak to trough, we're at the lows of the session. i'll hand it over to "after the bell." adam: stocks reversing course, losing earlier gains as investors digest new trade concerns between the united states and china. the dow ending the day down 160 points at session lows, the s&p 500 following the dow into the red and the nasdaq plunging with tech shares. hello. i'm adam shapiro in for david asman. melissa: i'm melissa. this is "after the bell." more on market movers, here's what else we're covering in the busy hour ahead. a look at the white house. president trump will depart this hour for fargo, north dakota. the president continuing his week of campaign appearances in tough midterm races, and tonight, he'll attend a rally
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for republican kevin cramer. how the president stands on trade is impacting the race for a key senate seat. it's a major shake-up for the country's highest court. supreme court justice anthony kennedy announcing retirement sending shock waves through our nation's capital and giving president trump a second pick on the court. how the president is responding to the announcement. and national security adviser john bolton, he's in moscow today revealing the commander in chief will sit down with russian president vladimir putin. the latest details on the president's newest summit with another world leader. adam: but back to the markets. the dow ending session lows, had been up 280 points early in the session marking the biggest intra-day swing in almost two months. phil flynn is watching the action in oil from the cme and nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, first to you, what a roller coaster today, get out the pepto-bismol.
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reporter: right? around lunchtime, all ten of the sectors were from the green. 286 points basically and then the concerns really moved back in. not only about trade and tariffs but about foreign investments in u.s. companies and the sell-off began. you can see the dow down 162 points, a loss of three quarters of 1%. the nasdaq down 1.5%. sa i talk about tech, take a look at tech names. facebook, amazon, alphabet google, amazon is down 3.2%. then the financials, the weak spot, this all on the trade concerns, the people running to the safety of government debt. don't forget the stress tests are later this week. people have a keen eye on that, running over the 10-year bond which moves to a june low and flattening of the yield curve which is terrible for banks,
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particularly regional banks. netflix, i know it was down today but will tell you that bank of america saying that it is paying, they put a new price target, 460 bucks and 360 million global subscribers by 2030. don't write off netflix too fast. back to you. melissa: thanks, nicole. phil, oil surging for the second day settling at 3 1/2-year high. wow. >> wow, i'm telling you, amazing day. a lot of talk of course about the trump administration's zero tolerance for any oil coming out of iran, but you really have to look at today's oil inventories, they were astounding. we saw a drawdown of over 9.9 million barrels. that put u.s. crude supply, 4.4% below the five year average. for the first half of this year, for the first time in ten years, u.s. oil inventories have actually fallen. that shows you how the dynamic in the market changed
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dramatically. also u.s. refiners had the best day since 2005. they ran more oil than they had to because gasoline demand is near a record. u.s. exports at a record. now you add into this, melissa, this geopolitical risk factor we could lose oil not only from iran but venezuela and libya. this market is red hot. only thing that cooled it off in the after-market was the stock market, but i'll tell you the tightest market we have seen in many, many years. melissa: all right, phil, very interesting. thanks. so lingering trade fears driving stocks lower today, that after president trump softened approach on chinese trade and investment restrictions. fox business correspondent blake burman live at the white house with the latest on all of this. reporter: hi, there adam, the trump administration saying they would not be putting out specific threats really, specific restrictions as it relates to the chinese and technology investments.
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instead, the trump administration saying they would throw their weight behind firma, new legislation that would strengthen cfius. the process by which the federal government, through the treasury department, steve mnuchin, the president as the ultimate decider can block foreign investments so that in case there is a threat to the national security of the united states, it can fall under cfius, that would block that entire process. larry kudlow had a new phrase to describe exactly what the administration is trying to accomplish. >> what you've got here is, i call it cfius plus, updated modernized version of cfius, not meant to be harder or softer, it's going to be very comprehensive and very effective at protecting our technological family jewels. >> the president continued to rail against harley-davidson today who said they would shift production overseas because of
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the eu's retaliatory tariffs. the president tweeting out harley-davidson should stay 200% in america with the people that got you your success, so much for and you then this. other companies are coming back where they block. we won't forget and neither will your customers or your now very happy competitors. but the president contends his tariffs are not backfiring. >> the steel industry is absolutely doing great. tariffs have been incredible and the steel industry is doing great and our country is doing great. you see the results, the numbers coming out from the companies are far beyond what anybody thought possible. we're doing really good. but we have to have fair trade deals. reporter: the back and forth with harley-davidson will not die down any time soon as president trump is set to head to wisconsin tomorrow. that, by the way, is the headquarters of harley-davidson. back to you. adam: blake, thank you very much.
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melissa: let's bring in today's market panel, jonathan honic of the capitalistpig hedge fund and todd horowitz of the bubba show, he is the host. jonathan, start with you, tell me about the trade. >> an ugly day, you can't deny it. for months now we've seen more new highs than lose. today you saw 160 new lows, only about 100 new highs, and most worrisome to me are the illiquid names, the junk bonds, leverage loans, the emerging markets. long-term bets seem to be weakening. we should have ended higher on the news from the president. the fact we ended lower gives one caution moving into the weekend and the rest of the week. melissa: todd, your take on that? >> well, i think the markets are weak, the key to watch today was the weakness in the russell and the nasdaq. those were the two indexes that carried us through the rallies the last couple of weeks and they were weak today and when
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the dow is the strongest of all the indexes, that's a negative sign, i think we've got rough times ahead because i don't think to them the tariffs or any of, that i think the markets are about ready to start selling off. if you look at yield curve inverting, there is a sign there is problems out there, and starting to reach the peak of this market. melissa: interesting, all right, guys, go ahead, jonathan. >> i don't think you can discount the president threatening companies on twitter. that moved harley-davidson's stock this morning. >> harley-davidson was moving anyways before this. he should be threatening them. melissa: i mean, it cuts both ways. there are people who say, one of the headlines was they're willing to ride the tiger. they understand how he negotiates and think there's a better outcome, but we won't know until we get there. that's for sure. guys, stand by. we'll see you later on. adam? adam: the supreme court is about to change. justice anthony kennedy known as the pivotal swing vote
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announced his retirement after serving three decades on the nation's highest court. live in washington with the latest details is kristina partsinevelos. kristina? reporter: thank you, adam. served 43 years, 30 years on the supreme court. he said he needs to step down, he's going to retire because he wants to spend more time with his family. he will be 82 by july 31st, that's when he's stepping down or retiring. and controlled key outcomes in major cases which is why he's the swing vote. he said he dislikes that title. let's take a look at marriage cases, 1992 and abortion rights, co-wrote the opinion that reaffirmed women's rights to abort and 2000 with the george w. bush presidency, casted the vote with conservatives on disputed electoral results that cleared the way for george w. bush to become president. and heading to 2015 regarding same-sex marriage, he penned the landmark opinion that
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cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide and in 2015, he wrote the decision to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders. so those are just four examples of major cases he worked on. the nomination or his replacement could transform the supreme court decisions for decades going forward because president trump will have his second opportunity to nominate a justice. this comes after he did nominate neil gorsuch, trump's first nominee and this nomination and there's lots of talk about this over the next little while whether it's going to swing towards the conservatives, 5-4, but right now comes at an ideal time because republicans hold the senate. we know president trump spoke to reporters had, a press conference when he was with the portugal president, and he said he found out about the retirement 30 minutes before we did and that justice kennedy walked into the white house and left and reporters didn't see. listen to what he had to say. >> he will be missed, but he
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will be retiring, and we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court that will begin immediately and hopefully we're going to pick somebody who will be as outstanding. reporter: they have a list of 25 nominees they'll be looking at and expected to make a decision come this fall, probably in september. adam: all right, kristina. as you said, mitch mcconnell said we're going to have the confirmation hearings and the vote this fall. thank you very much. melissa: here to react is john decker, white house correspondent for fox news radio. he's also an attorney. how surprising was this to you? i mean, you know we heard that report about him walking in and out of the white house. was this a big surprise or were there rumblings? >> you know, melissa, there have been rumblings about this for the past two years, i think we were expecting this in the sense that the justices on the
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supreme court right now, it is justice anthony kennedy on the conservative side and ruth bader ginsburg on the liberal side who get mentioned most about the idea of stepping down from the high court. so it wasn't that big of a surprise. i think that some people are expecting this would have perhaps come out a little bit earlier leading up to the announcement that we saw yesterday, which obviously, helped the president. the latest 5-4 decision announced by chief justice roberts. but what we see right now is an opportunity for the president to move the court more solidly in the conservative column. melissa: yeah, and mitch mcconnell made the argument last time around, they weren't going to bring up a vote on merrick garland, they wanted to let the voters decide. here's pretty much the same situation. they're obviously going to move it through quickly, from all indications. how much heat does he face for that or is that politics, it's
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expected. so there you go. >> it is expected, and we are hearing from democrats who say that mitch mcconnell, the majority leader ought to hold off in terms of pushing this confirmation process forward until the midterm elections have been completed. i don't think he's going to do that. i think he's going to follow what the president spoke about a little earlier in the oval office and move this nomination process as quickly as possible and try to get someone on the high court to fill that vacancy before the midterm elections, melissa? melissa: finally, people are saying this is the biggest thing that happened to the trump administration, and even if you look back at his last supreme court nomination that was a conservative for a conservative, this is somebody who's been the swing vote. is that hyperbole to say this is the biggest thing that's happened in this administration? >> i don't think so, you know, when you look at the successes of this administration, one of the two successes most often mentioned by republicans is the
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idea that the ninth justice to the supreme court, that's neil gorsuch and here's an opportunity for the president to further embolden his legacy on the high court perhaps for decades. one of the names that was a finalist the last go-around is a judge who serves on the 3rd u.s. circuit court of appeals, thomas hardiman, he will certainly be in the mix this time around and also a relatively young person to be possibly serving on the high court of the united states. melissa: john decker, thank you. adam: breaking news, credit reporting agency equifax agreeing to do more to protect consumer data in a new deal with banking regulators from eight states. this comes after a cyberattack that exposed data on more than 140 million people. the company agrees to review its hacking defenses and give its board more responsibility to be able to protect consumers. melissa: a failed attempt on immigration is a resounding
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defeat for the, quote, compromised immigration bill. we're breaking down congress' next move to fix broken systems. adam: democratic shocker, major upset in new york's primary. he a 28-year-old socialist crashed the blue wave and defeated the chairman of the house democratic caucus? melissa: and peter strzok is facing lawmakers on capitol hill. the highly anticipated interview of the fbi agent who vowed to stop donald trump from becoming president coming up. we're going to be joined by a member of the house judiciary committee who questioned strzok behind closed doors today. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip.
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come in with $41 a share, higher than $38 a share bid that disney hat gotten the green light for the d.o.j. for. that could come in cash, stock and cash, we don't have the details just yet but the "wall street journal" this morning wrote a piece that comcast is hunting for cash and partners for the counterbid if it gets up to the $90 billion range, that could include bringing in technology companies in a joint bid or bring in private equity and private equity players for a higher bid, but you know comcast, we're seeing depression on the stock, down from 20%, so people are thinking do they bid with stock, depress the stock price more. there's still a lot of questions. people say it's not over just yet but it is a big step for disney in getting closer to taking on the fox assets. melissa: susan, thank you. adam: it is expected but also shocking news regarding the supreme court. longtime conservative supreme
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court justice anthony kennedy typically called the swing vote, announced his retirement today. and here now to break this down is chad pergram, fox news capitol hill senior producer. chad, talking about justice kennedy. i was watching different analysis of this and how the democrats might respond but the fact is republicans control this and mitch mcconnell said we're going to have hearings and a vote this fall. looks like the president is going to reshape this court? >> absolutely. this started when harry reid, the former senate majority leader opened pandora's box, he executed in the fall of 2013 something called the nuclear option. it lowered the threshold for most confirmations from 60 to 51 but left out of it supreme court. that was the one exception. mitch mcconnell had a problem last spring. he realized there was no way to confirm neil gorsuch and overcome a filibuster. he changed the precedent, now the senate rules change, the senate operates on precedent and changed the senate precedent and therefore that
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precedent will hold forth whoever this nominee may be. i want to look at math for a minute. the senate has been operating since john mccain has been out since december of last year. he hasn't voted since then. all it could take is one republican senator to flip, that could either block a confirmation at that vote level or maybe even a filibuster. there has never been a filibuster of a supreme court nominee, abe fortis, former associate justice had been nominated to be chief justice of the united states, he was already on the court and was filibustered, did not become the chief justice. he just went back tock the associate justice and later resign. narrow margin in the senate, that's what makes this confirmation fight so interesting. adam: very quickly and move onto what happened with the democrats. jeff flake said he would withhold his vote on judicial appointments. would this apply to the supreme
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court as well? he wants them to vote on the tariffs issue. >> it very well could, that's why we're talking about the narrow margin and anybody's ball game at that point. the other thing to keep in mind here is republicans have used the elections, nominations of judges as big get out the vote efforts for elections. the democrats have not done that as successfully. chuck schumer was asked a question about that yesterday and didn't have a good answer. could this be up to the democrats if they energize their base and get people off to the polls even if someone is confirmed, could be a pivoting point in the midterms. adam: seeing a split between progressives and establishment, her name is alexandria ocasio-cortez. she is 28, an identified democratic socialist. medicare for all. she's in favor of a government jobs guarantee and raises the issue, crowley was no spring chicken. 54 years old, nancy pelosi 78,
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steny hoyer, 79. the democrats might not only be facing a policy problem with the base but also an age problem? >> that's one thing, there is no clear successor to the current leadership team. joe crowley is 20 some odd years younger than nancy pelosi and steny hoyer. i would look at people who could be potential successors to pelosi and hoyer. cedric richmond, the chair of the congressional black caucus. marcia fudge from ohio. this causes turmoil for the democrats, they don't know if nancy pelosi could get the votes to be speaker should she win the majority. steny hoyer is the most suited for all of this. people saw a pathway if democrats got the house back and pelosi didn't have the votes. he might have been the person, his support in the democratic caucus very widespread with the
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subcaucuses, the congressional black caucus, the hispanic caucus. but if you can't win your primary. this is reflective of happening in party politics, shifting to the left, and nancy pelosi, the minority leader said it is shifting to the left in that district. that's not going to win the seats in pennsylvania and colorado and ohio and virginia that democrats are trying to flip. adam: chad, on any other day, immigration and the failed vote would be a big headline. we're out of time. save it for another time. chad pergram, thank you. >> absolutely, thank you. melissa: one historic summit down, another to go. is president trump getting ready to meet with russia's vladimir putin? we have the details for you coming up. plus the supreme court ruling hitting labor unions hard. implications of this major ruling are next.
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unions and handed a victory for government workers. mark janus, the plaintiff in the case, spoke in front of the supreme court after the ruling was announced. >> we now have five million public sector union members, or nonunion members that can make their own choice as to whether they want to be a part of that union. it will not affect the collective bargaining. unions will have the continued right. it's just that the worker now has the ability to make his or her decision, and that's why i brought this case. it's up to the worker to decide what they want for themselves, not some other larger entity. adam: jonathan hoenig and todd horowitz are back to react. jonathan, start with you, this case is important, union membership is expected to faushlg not going to be eliminated. with 28 states are right-to-work states and have public sector unions and teachers have walked out of the job so strikes will still take place, but it gives governments like illinois a chance to
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finally rein in some of the spending unions have forced with pensions, doesn't it? >> right, right, exactly right, adam. union participation has been shrinking for decades except in the public sector, as this case illuminated, employees are compelled to pay dues to the union which turns around and uses that money for political advocacy. this is not only a major win for the workers but also for the municipalities who are having to pay for the pensions of these public sector unions. so this will go a long way toward not only helping workers rights but helping the bottom line of many of the financially stressed municipalities. adam: todd, regarding the stressed municipalities and states and states can't declare bankruptcy, so how do you use this going forward if you're a state like illinois, for instance, to fund your obligations because the contractors in place and owe the money to retirees, changes
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things going forward, doesn't it? >> well, it does change things. the real responsibility is the fiscal responsibility of the state. illinois hasn't funded their teacher's pension since 1999. this is not breaking of the union but bringing the rights back to the employee will go a long way towards bringing money where it's supposed to be rather than where they spend it. that's the big issue and find success and maybe get the pensions refunded and get them back up. if not, there's a major disaster coming forward. adam: and also with jonathan, as we wrap up this, the people saying this will be a death blow to public sector unions, i keep pointing back to the right-to-work states. they exist in the right-to-work states without the fair share obligation, and seen for instance the teachers who walked off the jobs, using their force as a united front, regardless of whether they were part of the union or not, to obtain what they wanted in more funding for education, correct?
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>> yeah, making a very important point. this does not eliminate public sector unions at all. it doesn't compel people to have to support them simply because they work for the government. that's a positive whichever way you look at it. yes, it goes to weaken the public sector union, weaken their strength but ultimately that's a positive thing for the municipalities which essentially used as piggy banks for the unions for far too many years. adam: and the unions have more often than not supported the democratic candidate, that's a whole other issue that will be talked about as we go forward. jonathan and todd, thank you very much. melissa: concluding time on the high court. justice anthony kennedy stepping down after more than 30 years on the supreme court. latest on the search to replace kennedy and what it could mean for the midterm elections. plus, a powerful force in politics. president trump set to stump in north dakota. so can he help sway a key senate race? what we can expect next.
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farmers. the president tweeting moments ago -- stay tuned to fox business. lou dobbs is going to have special coverage of the president's rally in north dakota starting tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. melissa: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell reacting to the announcement that justice kennedy will retire on july 31st, and the future of the court. listen to this. >> the senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on president trump's nominee to fill this vacancy. we will vote to confirm justice kennedy's successor this fall. melissa: here now to react is
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republican senator steve daines from montana. sir, thank you for joining us, and we are watching there as the president is getting ready to take off. so you take this up immediately, is there any doubt that you can try and get it done before the 2018 midterms? >> well, i think so. if you heard leader mcconnell, he said we'll get this done this fall. i'd expect a hearing from senator grassley who chairs the judiciary committee, take him probably 60 days to move the process forward, but probably one of the most important votes the u.s. senator ever takes, lifetime appointment. a theme going on of late. we've had a lot of 5-4 decisions. i'm grateful for justice kennedy. 30 years on the supreme court, over 40 years on the federal bench. we want to thank him for his service to our country. a vigorous defender of the first amendment and now we need to move forward to find a replacement. this is a very, very important nomination for president trump as well as the senate.
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melissa: you held it up and said it was for the voters to decide in the next election, now you do the opposite thing, how do you respond to them? >> it's completely nonsense, comparing apples to oranges. this is a president who's now in the middle of his first term. what happened with garland is it was the end of barack obama's second term. 7 1/2 years into barack obama's term, we're now 18 months into president trump's term. this is just nonsense coming from the left. melissa: yeah. what kind of judge do you think would, i guess go through the quickest? do you lean towards the conservative side? do you lean towards a more moderate side? and just to try and get things through quickly and try and hold on to as many votes as you possibly can and not potentially have republicans stray, what do you think is the best strategy? >> we need to set politics aside and who will be an outstanding jurist, who understands constitution role,
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the supreme court justice. they are there to call balls and strikes, not to rewrite the rule book. that's the problem with the courts. the jurist believe their job is a legislator. that's not the job. they take a look at the law and determine whether it's constitutional or not. that's the jurist we're looking for. melissa: somebody who is a strict constructionalist. want to let people know what you're seeing on the side of the screen there. there is president trump at joint base andrews, he is getting ready to take off for north dakota, where there will be a big rally tonight, and no doubt he is buoyed by the recent decisions in the supreme court. i'm sure he'll be talking about the fact that the immigration bill failed but also looking ahead to this next opportunity with the supreme court. senator daines, let me just ask you, do you think can you get anything done on immigration as we're watching this play out. that vote came and went and got lost in the news because of the supreme court moving. tell me a little bit about
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immigration, what do you think is going to happen? >> it needs to be dealt with. a problem needs to be resolved. grateful for a president who stands strong for border security, who understands that one of his most important constitutional responsibilities as commander in chief to keep the homeland safe. we need to go about more of a piecemeal approach on immigration, one bite at a time. that's the way we get something done, start with making sure borders are secure. melissa: senator daines, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. melissa: looking at the president waving as he goes inside to take off from joint base andrews. he's going to the rally in north dakota. lot of news happening this week. lot to talk about and no doubt he will hit the highlights when he gets there. adam: he's on a high note. and won north dakota by 63% of the vote. melissa: big number. adam: finding middle ground, national security adviser john bolton laying the groundwork for another historic summit. why he says it is important for president trump and russia's putin to meet?
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think it's a good idea for these guys to sit down? >> this one i'm with john bolton and with president trump. i think it's a good idea. at the same time, we havin to maintain tough posture towards russia, baltic and syria violated pledges not to conduct bombing raids in the south. we know what they did in western countries in the last two or three years with western elections. we know there is a benefit to create balance with the relationship of the leaders and we are in naturally poor state of u.s.-russian relations despite the fact i don't trust vladimir putin and think he's caused almost all of the problems between our two countries. despite that fact, it really shouldn't be a second cold war. stakes are not high enough to justify thamp the transgressions have not been great enough to justify that. even as we push back against
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russia in some ways, keep the relationship afloat and keep cooperating where we can. melissa: you said so many interesting things in there, they would like to ask you about. let me start with the idea of you said we have to re-create some balance. where do you see the imbalance right now? is it an imbalance in strength? where is the imbalance? >> well, the imbalance is that we are seeing conflicts, active conflicts in syria and in ukraine and to some extent in georgia, and these are pretty much the outskirts of american core strategic security zones or interests, and yet this is sort of what's defining the security relationship because russia has caused these problems. russia's profited from the opportunities. it's looking for ways to exploit whatever zones of unrest it can find, and so that becomes the dominant news, that becomes the dominant subject for conversation, but if you think about core american strategic interests around the
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world, these are sort of at the periphery. i'm not saying they are trivial or unimportant but should be the place the two nuclear powers come almost to the brink of a cold war. that's what i mean about imbalance today. melissa: what do you think should be the first thing they talk about? are you concerned about the election meddling or influence in north korea or why then if those things aren't, the first topic, what do you think should be the first topic? >> good question. you mentioned north korea, maybe that's a good first topic because it's a friendly topic. it's an example of one place where in recent times and under both president obama and president trump, we've seen some u.s./russia cooperation. russians help put security council resolutions against north korea last year and previously had done so during the obama administration as well. and that scenario we can sort of celebrate our ability to work together though the job is obviously not yet done.
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then maybe work to tougher issues and some of the conversations are philosophical. like you say to vladimir putin, what do you think you're doing in the western countries where your people are putting out fake news and trying to mess around with elections? you know what's your goal? what's your end game? why do you think this is okay? and then there are other places where i would try to start a specific dialogue. for example, i think we need a new understanding about the countries like ukraine and georgia in eastern europe that nato said wants to include in our alliance, i don't think that's a good idea but don't think vladimir putin should get to dominate those countries. and maybe a whole new concept for what we think of when we think of the neutral zone of eastern europe, they can have economics and diplomacy and not join the nato alliance and if vladimir putin will end hostilities against the ukraine and georgia, maybe agree not
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let them into nato. probably can't be resolved. melissa: i'm so sorry. >> the kind of subjects we should be bringing up. melissa: we're up against a hard break. i hope you come back. you have so many great things to say. i'd love to delve deeper into it. come back. >> any time. adam: at this moment, peter strzok is being grilled behind closed doors after sending anti-trump text messages. republican congressman steve king was in the hearing room. we're going to ask him about that after the break. ck. they all got a story about what happened to 'em. man 2: it was raining, there was only one way out. i could feel the barb wire was just digging into the paint. man: two bulls were fighting, (thud) bam hit the truck. try explaining that to your insurance company. woman: another ding, another scratch. it'll just be another chapter in the story. every scar tells a story, and you can tell a lot more stories when your truck is a chevy silverado. the most dependable, longest-lasting, full-size pickups on the road.
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. adam: the house judiciary committee is still grilling fbi officer peter strzok behind closed doors, following the release of several anti-trump text messages. here now a member of the committee, republican congressman steve king from
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iowa. thank you for joining us. i know there's been new information but let's get to the heart of the matter, when he texted whatever word you want to use, lisa page, we're going to stop trump, what did he mean? did he explain that? >> well, most of what goes on in there needs to remain confidential. i'll speak generally about the sense they have, and i know it's already been -- some of it put out in the press. it's this that the contention that these personal messages were personal and there's no implication in there that showed a bias, and if so, he would have been professionally separated from such a bias and never would have changed it the way he made decisions in the investigations. that's actually what we're being asked to believe. adam: do you? >> i have a hard time getting my mind around that. i know a lot of biased people that are very biased and i think any of us are going to be honest. if we have a deep bias within
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it, we can't avoid it affecting our management decisions. we can't just divorce ourselves from that. and bias deep enough that at least imply that he would want to stop donald trump from becoming president. that tells thought selection of the priorities on the part of peter strzok had to have been reflected in his -- that had to reflect the bias he carries within him and lisa page carries within her. adam: quickly, one of your colleagues said it would be one thing to say as they did, that they can't stand donald trump, another thing to say we will stop him. doesn't seem that there's a true explanation to that and this what has been told to the press, this was an intimate conversation, doesn't seem to pass muster, does it? doesn't sound like you are convinced. >> the question you asked pointed to whether there is a gap in this. if they were going to stop it, what was the action they may have taken or intended to take.
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adam: was that question asked? >> you know, i'm not sure if it was asked definitively enough that we got a definitive answer, that's why i asked do we have a transcript of this, because i want to go back and study the transcript in detail. i think we need to do that. there's a lot of little nuances, a lot of small questions. a lot of short answers and qualified answers, it's very difficult to pull out of it just exactly what was said and stand here of course in the public. adam: congressman, i'm afraid we're out of time. appreciate you're being with us. we're going to be right back. >> okay, thanks. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what's next?
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