found the pet missing in a neighbor's yard under rocks. he talk himself for a walk there. thank you for joining us today. i'll be on "the five" with my cohorts. i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: could president trump's twitter get him in trouble? the special counsel robert mueller new today is reportedly examining certain tweets. and the michael cohen trump tapes. they're more than about the president and the playoff and playmate. the former fixer may have more than 100 recordings. and now we're waiting to see what they reveal. the trump organization's financial chance. he's reportedly just been subpoenaed. meantime, in washington, an act of political theater is about to take a six-week intermission. some republicans made a move to

impeach rod rosenstein who oversees the mueller investigation. lawmakers are leaving town and it has no chance of being voted upon. so what is the real goal? and why, why does the president continually attack the messenger? why was a reporter removed or disinvited from an event at the white house yesterday? a reporter that represented not only her network but all of our networks. and what should we the people do about it? let's get to it. >> good afternoon. a triple threat for president trump. his former fixer may have more recordings. the "washington post" reports it does. his top money man has gotten the subpoena or is getting one. the president's tweets now reportedly going under the

mueller microscope. we'll get to that. the tweets first and word today that they could become evidence against him in special counsel robert mueller's investigation of obstruction of justice and otherwise. that is according to the reporting of "the new york times." its reporters cite three sources that say mueller is looking to the president's twitter post on james comey and the current attorney general jeff sessions. in a separate investigation, the "wall street journal," with which this company shares common ownership, reports the trump organizations financial chief has gotten a subpoena in the michael cohen case. the feds are looking into coc cohen's involvement of paying women to keep quiet before the 2016 election and whether they violated campaign financial laws. mr. cohen said alan wieselberg in the reporting we played here yesterday, the one of president

trump and his former fixer discussing what is a payment involving a former playboy playmate's claim of an affair with the president. president trump denies there was a relationship. the president's lawyers says the payment never happened. here's part of the recording from cnn. >> need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david. going to do that right away. i've spoken to alan about how to set it up. >> so what -- are we going to pay? >> yes. it all the stuff. >> shepard: we're also learning more about the conversation michael cohen recorded about his dealings with president trump. meantime, a live look at granite city, illinois outside st. louis. president trump is expected to speak in this news hour. we see if he has anything to see about the news at hand.

rick leventhal begins live in new york city. rick? >> i called michael cohen this morning but didn't get a chance to ask him about this. he said he was in a meeting with his later. he said he would call me back but hasn't yesterday. his attorney said that cohen had a habit of using his phone to record conversations instead of taking notes claiming that he never intended to make use of the recordings and didn't intend to be deceptive. the government reviewing more than 100 recordings in all. davis says cohen is covering for telling the truth and sees himself alone against the president, rudy guliani and the whole administration. the "wall street journal" says cohen's recordings include a two-hour conversation with chris cuomo that asked cohen if he was recording him and cohen said no even though he was recording him with an iphone in a desk drawer. the journal reports that he told cuomo that he handled the payment to stormy daniels saying

i did it own my own. guliani said the president didn't know about that payment, but did later pay cohen back. meanwhile, there's a lot of speculation about the release of the recording might anger the u.s. attorney's office and could hurt cohen's chances of secure ago plea deal, shep. >> shepard: what do we know about the subpoena involving president trump's organizations financial chief? >> we reached out to the southern district. a spokesperson said since grand jury proceedings are secret, they never comment on whether or not someone was subpoenaed. we don't know for sure. the "wall street journal" is recording that the chief financial officer of the trump organization has been subpoenaed to testify in front of the federal grand jury and the criminal probe. and weiselberg is the most senior person that is not a trump handling his finances. he didn't know about the stormy daniels payment but agreed to pay cohen a $30,000 monthly

retaining after he showed expenditures made on behalf of mr. trump. mr. weiselberg is a considered a witness. >> shepard: a.b. stoddard is here with us from real clear politics and friend of the program. hello. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: your thoughts. >> well, the news about mr. weiselberg, who is an incredibly pivotal figure in the life and business dealings of donald trump makes the allies of president trump a little nervous because beyond hush payments to adult film stars, the concern has always been that the mueller probe or the probe of the southern district of new york could get into the financial dealings of the trump organization and potential financial crimes. that's why we saw president trump say emphatically a year ago to "the new york times" that

would be a red line for mueller to go into his business dealings. it has to remain the probe on russia, whether or not there was collusion with the campaign and meddling by the russian federation and the russia government. he does not think it's permissible, appropriate for the special counsel to look into his business. so the idea that both michael cohen is being investigated and part of that -- the feds could be talking or in new york to investigators talking to alan weiselberg is really a new front in how much exposure trump's former business dealings could have. >> shepard: the president has indicated his business dealings were a red line. >> yeah. he does not want any investigation to go beyond the question of whether or not the russian government interfered in our election and/or if they can

prove possible collusion. he continues to say there was no collusion. he did tell "the new york times" a year ago this summer that that would be a red line. he doesn't think any of his business dealings if found in what is a broad mandate of the special counsel on their hunt for evidence of collusion or russian interference, that they come across anything that could tie trump to the russia oligarchs on anyone in the invest combination through his past financial dealings. president trump has said that that is not appropriate. that's made people in the congress concerned that if it ventures into that area, he might want to stop the probe by firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein or mueller himself. >> shepard: we now know, a.b., that a current president has been involved apparently in the pay-out of a former adult film star to silence her on her

claims that she had a sexual relation with the president and that the president worked diligently, it would appear, to cover this fact up from those that would be voting for him. is it your sense that we've reached a place where this is not a disqualifying matter in future elections? >> oh, yeah. if republican voters say this is fine with them, that it wouldn't have changed their minds, that they heard the access hollywood tape in october of 2016 and went ahead and voted for president trump anyway. all of this personal conduct is off the table in few future election. >> shepard: what about the cover-up? if there is one. >> if they broke in laws, it's up to the lawyers. and the pay-offs were deemed in-kind contributions because they were trying to get to stories that were political liabilities for donald trump in

the campaign for the presidency, then there's some laws about that. campaign finance laws. that might be a problem for the president and/or michael cohen. but this general perception that he was paying off girls to sort of get them out of the way and protect his marriage has been really accepted by all of his supporters, if you look at the polls, including he's very strong and devoted evangelical base. >> shepard: thanks, amy. bob bianchi is here. criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor. guy that knows things. legally, where are we? >> this is a big problem. the two most important people in your organization are your attorney and your accountant. they know where the bodies are buried and the federal government is in on each of them. they have cohen on and island by

himself. eventually they'll get to him once they speak to the accountant in my opinion. this investigation is not from the southern district, this is not just about president trump. it's about other people that may have conspired, that have done financial crimes as well. bank fraud, campaign finance fraud. so the idea that there's a bright line maybe with respect to mueller's investigation but not the southern district's investigation and last point, shep, if they tried to interfere with that in any way, expect another obstruction investigation to open up. >> shepard: are we largely talking about campaign finance laws? >> i think we're talking about campaign finance law, wire fraud as well as bank fraud and obstruction charges. >> shepard: how could something like that end? you know, i figure everybody, whether you're all about this president or concerned about this president or something else, there's some degree of curiosity about how this might end. you know, if any of these things

are true, then what? i don't want to speculate about whether they are or not. i wanted to talk about the legality of it all. if you've done a, b and c, what happened? >> the mueller investigation? >> you talked about wire fraud, bank fraud. >> they're going to bring people in, show them what it is that they have. they're going to ask whether they want to cooperate. you can only cooperate if you can move up the chain of command. there's multiple people in my mind that we spoke about this before, shep, you have jared kushner here, the trump children that are here and you have the associates as well as the president himself. >> shepard: right now what we have is michael cohen. he's given every indication that he's here to fight. but the release of this tape, did that make him as i have seen discussed so often a less perfect witness or even disqualify him as a witness or how do you see this revelation?

>> it tells me two things. one, he's not on team usa and they're not even in basic negotiations. >> shepard: what does that mean? >> he hasn't spoken to the feds and the feds haven't spoken to the attorney. they would never, never under any circumstances go out publicly, if they were cooperating or intending on cooperating. so why this was done, i don't know. i don't think -- >> shepard: if you hire lanny davis, you hire him because you want somebody fighting for you on television. like the president hired rudy guliani. if he hired him. he's he's lawyer. you don't hire lanny davis to do quiet negotiating behind the scenes. lanny davis is a tv guy. >> i think it came down to this. he's not cooperating with the federal government, so he doesn't have that area -- >> shepard: we don't know in the federal government has asked. who knows if they have something that they might want. >> or whether they want it -- >> shepard: or anything further. they have million plus

documents. >> and the trump administration has abandoned him. so he's the child of no one. i think he's trying to get out there and at least publicly put a face on him that doesn't make him look like a monster. it's as simple as that. >> shepard: what to do. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: some gop lawmakers are threatening to impeach the man overseeing the russia investigation. what is this? this is not republicans believing that he should be impeach at all. this is a small group from the freedom caucus raising the flag. are they just appealing to the base? here's what we know. this isn't coming up for a vote at all. so what is it? that's next. you're headed down the highway

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>> shepard: the top republican in the house of representatives says he does not support the effort of some of his more conservative colleagues to impeach the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. if that is actually their desire. rod rosenstein is overseeing the special counsel's investigation into the russian election meddling and possible collusion with the trump campaign and associates. last night a group of house republicans, a small group from the freedom caucus introduced a resolution to impeach rod rosenstein. they accuse him of withholding documents from congress, failing to comply with congressional subpoenas and abusing the foreign intelligence surveillance act or fisa.

speaker ryan says impeachment is not the way to go. >> i don't think we should be cavalier with this process or this term. number 1. number 2, i don't think that this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. really high standard. >> shepard: the republican congressman of north carolina and jim jordan of ohio are leading the push to impeach rosenstein. congressman meadows thinks it meets the standard. >> i've made over 150 phone calls and texts to doj to try to get the documents. my patience is running thin. it's not important about my patience. it's the american people. >> shepard: a group which calls itself republicans for the rule of law has released a video featuring republicans, well, saying other things about rosenstein. >> rosenstein has earned so much

bipartisan support. >> mr. rosenstein, you have served in the department of justice for a couple decades now. you developed a distinguished career marked by integrity and fairness. >> rod rosenstein, who everybody across the board has unequivocally said this guy is a man of upstanding character and essentially the gold standard at the department of justice. >> he's a man of extraordinary independence and integrity and a reputation in both political parties of great character. rod rosenstein was confirmed by this body by a vote of 94 to 6. that's probably the only trump nomination so far since he's been president that has enjoyed such broad bipartisan support and because of his distinguished record. >> shepard: that video is an ad from bill crystal, the editor of

the conservative weekly standard and others. it does not include any of the republicans supporting the republicans impeaching rosenstein. and i might undermine the musical underbed was not of our making. catherine herridge is live in the washington newsroom. >> i wondered about the music. the articles of impeachment call out the deputy attorney general and say that rod rosenstein has a conflict of interest because he signed off on the final surveillance warrant for renewal in june 2017. the articles of impeachment read his conduct in authorizing the fisa surveillance at issue in the joint congressional investigation makes him a fact witness. this contusions dereliction of duty. this morning a republican part of the freedom caucus that filed the articles of i'm movement

shot back at the speaker. >> with us very frustrating to hear the speaker call our efforts cavalier when i think it's cavalier of the justice department and rod rosenstein to ignore congressional subpoenas. it's cavalier when they tell witnesses not to answer questions. it may be the most cavalier thing of all for rod rosenstein to have signed an application, a renewal to spy on an american based on information at that time that they knew was from someone that lied to them. >> congressman jim jordan with mark meadows are driving the conversation about contempt and i'm movement. here it seems that the timing does matter. jordan announced today that his bid to be speaker is on track, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge, live in washington. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: this is deadline day for the trump administration to reunite thousands of immigrant families that the administration itself separated. officials say they are making progress. but rights activists observe the

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>> shepard: today is the deadline for the trump administration to reunite the immigrant children and parents that it separated at the border. the deadline from a federal judge in the state of california. the feds say they reunited more than 1,000 parents with their children. but activists predict the government will fall short and it appears it will. a big reason as we reported here, the feds say they may have deported hundreds of parents without their children. casey stegall is live with more. casey? >> a growing number of immigration lawyers across the country in fact are claiming that their clients may have been misled by federal officials. we're talking about the people

that in fact were deported that you just reported on and that they were so desperate to get out of the detention centers that they were in, in some instances told by authorities the fastest way to get their kids back was just to sign the paperwork, deport themselves and go back to their home country and try from there. so this has become now a major sticking point, obviously, in that federal court case. >> we're supposed to get a list of all of those parents that supposedly wa lly waived reunif knowingly. for those individuals, the government is not planning on bringing their child to see them. they're planning on deporting the parent based on the government's claim that they knowingly waived their right to be reunified with their child. we believe that is over 200 individuals the government is claiming. >> so the aclu wants to make contact with all of those

individuals, reach of to them to make sure that they knew of their rights and that they were not coerced into signing anything. something the head of dhs says did not happen. >> so these are parents that have made the decision to bring the children with them. >> so more conflicting statements in this very complicated case. something that could just be sorted out further in court action, shep. >> shepard: what happens for those that do get reunited? >> well, many of those parents are facing deportation themselves. you have to keep that in mind. so the same federal judge is also trying to decide how quickly the government should be allowed to start deportation proceedings once the reunion is actually carried out. the aclu wants a seven-day waiting period.

however, doj lawyers have said in court that four days is plenty of time and that is what they'd like to see. this case is i don't know going. >> shepard: thanks, casey. the latest white house reaction after trump officials didn't invited a reporter from a press event. the fallout and what it means for freedom of the press. a homemade bomb has gone off outside an american embassy. details ahead.

>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines. officials in arizona shot two troopers, one in training. public safety officials say they got called about someone throwing things at cars on a

highway last night. when the trooper as arrived, they struggled with the suspect who got ahold of one of their guns. a third trooper got hurt during the fight. the suspect in custody. in china a man blowing up a homemade bomb outside the u.s. embassy in beijing. the spokesperson said he only hurt himself. no word on motive. a man in massachusetts got into a tug of war with a shark over a fish. the man was fishing off of cape cod when it happened. the shark believed to be a great white, took a few bites and swam away. the news continues with shep after this.

>> shepard: the white house calling for civility after stopping a correspondent from attending an open event with president trump. sarah sanders says the reporter shouted questions and refused to leave despite repeatedly being

asked. here's what happened. >> did michael cohen betray you, mr. president? >> thank you, everybody. >> mr. president, did michael cohen betray you? >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> mr. president, are you worried about what michael w woe -- cohen will say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the tapes? >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? >> thank you, everybody. >> come on. let's go. thank you. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation, mr. president? >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> shepard: the reporter you heard was katelyn collins, white house reporter for cnn. she was the pool reporter at the time meaning on that day in that setting, she represented all of the television networks,

including this one. a few hours later, she said white house officials told her the questions were inappropriate and she was not allowed to attend the president's joint news conference in the rose garden. the president of this statement superintendent out a support of collins and journalism quoting -- >> the president of the white house correspondent's association issued a statement. it reads in part -- >> this type of retailation is wholly inappropriate, wrong-headed and weak. it cannot stand. this morning reporters tried to get a response from bill shine. he's the white house deputy chief of staff for

communications. bill shine, full disclosure, is my personal friend. he was a producer, senior executive in this network and in that capacity, he was my boss. he said he took issue with the white house banning collins. >> did you ban her? what would you say, bill? what world would you use? >> when you asked her if we used the word ban, then i -- you asked her -- focus now. you asked her if we ever used the word ban. >> shepard: focusing. this is a difference without a distinction. collins report shine and the press secretary sarah sanders disinvited her from a rose garden event. kellyanne conway shows the whole thing the media needs to change

its approach. >> that incident aside, i'm speaking more broadly, civility that you call for sometimes in your broadcast, should start here at the white house and show more respect. >> civility. cnn maintains the correspondence association agrees and we at fox news observed that collins was civil. that she asked relevant and timely questions of a president that often answers questions under identical circumstances and in the same setting. one of our journalists might have done the same. for a perspective a couple days ago, president trump said this to a group of veterans about the news media. >> don't believe the crap you see from these people. the fake news. >> during that same speech, the president told the crowd in attendance, what you're seeing and what your reading is not what is happening. president trump has been calling

members of the media fake and dishonest since he announced he was running for office. in the past few months, the president has adopted a new phase. >> they interviewed ten women on one of the opposing networks, the enemy. the enemy of the people i call them. >> the enemies of the people. i invited bill shine and through him sarah sanders to appear on this program to offer their perspective on this matter. shine declined while thanking me for the opportunity. we also invited our colleague, jordan fabian, white house correspondent for the hill. we asked him because during a white house briefing last week this happened. >> just to follow up on my second question. >> i'm going to move to jordan. >> you told the president -- >> once again, i'm moving to jordan. jordan, go ahead. >> hallie, go ahead. >> thanks -- >> actually, i'm going to take a question from jordan. >> actually, he referred to

hallie jackson of nbc news. she asked her follow up question and sanders answered it. jordan is live on the north lawn. >> what is your take on what's happening now and what we've seen in the past? >> well, shep, i can tell you, i agree with mike colleagues that what happened yesterday with katelyn collins is completely unacceptable. the white house doesn't get to hand pick the reporters here to cover the white house. it's not how it works and ever worked. i hope in the future this doesn't happen again. look, i mean, unfortunately there's been dust-ups in the past. i remember this network was involved in some kind of situation with the obama administration where it wasn't invited to a series of roundtable interviews. >> shepard: and you know what happened? >> that's right. jake tapper of cnn stepped in to back you guys up and said that we wouldn't really attend that round of interviews unless fox news was invited. so in times like this, i think it's good for the press corps to

unite and really rally around one another. i'm seeing that happen again. i think it's for the best. >> shepard: in that case, it happened after a series of disagreements, i guess. in this case the reporter nor the pool, which is the reporter for all of us, was working for us at fox news and you at home at that moment trying to get answers from the president. she reports that she was brought in to a office of bill shine. can you tell us your understanding of that event? >> i wasn't there for the meeting. the fact that this is even a conversation is again not acceptable to any of us in the press corps. the pool is very important. it's for all of news the news media because there's limited space to have eyes and ears what's going on at all times to make sure that we're getting the message from the president or whatever white house official out to the public and for them to take any step to restrict

that is not something that the press is going to stand for. >> the background reason on that is that if a president, any president, is allowed to call on those that have seen -- seemed friendly to him or acceptable to answers that might fly in the face of fact, having a procedure which includes disallowing those that would ask questions of substance and universal curiosity might be against the will of the people. not for the greater good. >> right. like you said, the president is free to not answer those questions. yesterday we saw him on two occasions not answer questions about michael cohen or russia. that's totally prerogative. it's the press' job to ask those questions. any reportner that situation would have asked the same or similar questions to what katelyn answered. so myself and my colleagues push

back that she was not being civil or respecting the office of the president, this happens every day. often the president takes the opportunity to answer if questions, this is part of our job. >> thanks, jordan. thank you. >> you too. >> shepard: for those of you at home, if i may, journalists are not the enemies of the people. it's quite the opposite. our profession is enshrined in the constitution and the fourth estate holds the essential job of being your eyes and often ears and when appropriate, your voice. it's a cornerstone of our republic. over 22 years at this network, it's been my experience that the journalists of fox news and fox business and those of our colleagues at competitors at cnn and msnbc, nbc, abc and cbs, bloomberg and pbs, the "wall street journal," the "new york post," "the washington post," all of them operate in the public interests. we work to discern what is

truth. then to present it to you in context and with perspective. as your representatives in the people's halls, report to you without fear or favor while striving to hold those in power to the same standards. this is the foundation of what we do. it's our reason for being, our purpose. please know this. i acknowledge many thousands of your complaints and protestations and in doing so, i offer this. never have i personally misrepresented the truth thou. our reports are checked and rechecked at the editorial management level of this network. in the event i make a mistake and i tell you and correct it in a timely and appropriate manner. as an aside, when the president attacks journalists, we question his motivation and try to discover the underlying reason for historically those that regularly and as a matter of pattern attack the messenger that degrade and belittle the

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>> shepard: making news. we're watching facebook on wall street. the number to watch for is 176.47. $176.46 and we're below it. that means that if it finishes below that price, every penny of games they made this year is gone. every penny. today alone facebook is off 19.5%. shares have been trading around $220. they plummeted yesterday. the markets are doing well. up 1/2 a percentage point. the reason for this is what was

described as traders as a disastrous earnings report by facebook. the number of new folks signing up is slowly down. the company, facebook, didn't make as much money as investors predicting. $120 billion wiped out in a couple hours. for disclosure, we have a news partnership with facebook. we provide facebook watch news updates each day. they have no control over our content. let's bring in susan lee. she was on the earnings call last night. that must have been quite a thing. >> yeah, stunning when one hoff the world's largest technology companies loses a quarter of his value. pretty dramatic. it happened in a matter of minutes. because facebook is such a big company -- at one point, they lost $150 billion in market value. this is going to be one of the

biggest single day losses in corporate american history. what has the market so concerned? users. flat growth when it comes to users in the u.s. and canada. that means they will bring in less money than expected in the future. when investors heard that, that's when they started dumping the shares. rightly or wrongly, investors thinking there's going to be a long-term impact on the cambridge analytica scandal. facebook is down 20%. mark zuckerberg has lost over $14 billion in personal wealth in one day. he will be fine. in terms of bragging rights, he's been pushed out of the top three in terms of the world's richest people now behind bezos, gates and buffet. and amazon reporting results after the bell. >> shepard: thanks, susan. president trump is about to

speak any moment now we're led to believe. there's the big flag and the president will be in a steel plant outside st. louis. today the talk is on trade. we'll speak with the wall street columnist the president cut with europe. that is next. to be their best, kids need good nutrition. and practice... lots of practice. get them started right with carnation breakfast essentials. it has protein plus vitamins and minerals to help kids be their best. carnation breakfast essentials.

>> shepard: live look now. granite city, outside st. louis. we're expecting to see president trump at me moment. he's set to speak at a steel plant that is reopening after closing two years ago. the ceo there has said it could bring about 800 jobs back to the area. he's crediting the white house tariffs on importing steel. some american companies that use steel say the tariffs are

hurting their businesses. in neighboring iowa, where president trump was earlier, farmers say trade disputes are costing them a pretty penny. the administration has announced a $12 billion plan to help. aaron maller is here from the watt street journal. conservatives like free trade. tell us about what happened yesterday. >> well, what happened is a lesson at the eye. >> shepard: the headline was better than the article. >> the good news is, there's no auto tariffs right away it seems. that's very good. the market was worried about that. would have been very disruptive. they agreed to start negotiating for a triple 0 agreement, zero tariffs, zero subsidies, zero trade barriers.

>> shepard: with europe. >> with the european union, yes. that sounds simple and easy. it's actually going to be very complicated. it will probably take years to negotiate. a good things to be working towards. to say there was a deal with the e.u., there's no deal yet. >> shepard: was that the headline yet as presented to us? >> yeah, the headline is they're not going to have any auto tariffs right now and the e.u. has agreed to buy more soy beans, buy more liquid natural gas, which doesn't make a ton of sense. the e.u. doesn't have the authority to order people or companies in the european union to order more soy beans. china has to authority to do that. the eu doesn't. >> shepard: where are we with china? same place? >> there's no real progress. >> shepard: nothing. >> we're hoping to negotiate a settlement. right now it's at a standstill. >> shepard: right now we're in a tit.

and they would be the tat. depending -- >> uv lost track. >> shepard: i don't know where the egg and the chicken were. at any rate, the next move is the chinese move, is that right? >> the ball is in their court. if i were them, i would be happy to standstill. it's clear that president trump is taking political pain from the farm states right now. >> shepard: oh, yeah. >> and so if i was them, i would be letting the u.s. stew for a bit before doing anything. >> shepard: they don't have to do anything. stewing might serve their purposes. not indefinitely. >> to be clear, they're suffering as well. they're dependent on trade with the united states. politically there's a difference. politically there's not as much pressure on beijing as there is on this administration. china is not a democracy. so you know, it's not as if farmers in china are upset the government gets nervous. >> shepard: they don't care.

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