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. >>> very good morning to you. it's a busy one. i'm jim sciutto. poppy is off today. we begin this hour with what the russian foreign minister calls the, quote, sad state of u.s./russia relations and the worldwide tensions that result from it. secretary of state mike pompeo held talks with his russian counterpart in sochi and is preparing to sit down with vladimir putin. that meeting set for one hour from now, though putin is well known for making his visitors wait. iran, syria, ukraine, all believed to be up for discussion. all issues on which the u.s. and russia under very different circumstances on very opposite sides. let's discuss now with steve hall, retired cia chief of russia operations. i mean, i'm having trouble getting my head around this because the u.s. and russia are on opposite side of so many key national security issues. issues russia shows no interest in changing, in relenting on. so where is the potential for common ground here? >> well, it's not just you, jim. i think everybody can agree, all analysts i have heard, saying look, the united states sh

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jim. >> especially when it's not true. doesn't match the facts. sarah westwood, thanks veryn breaking news. >>> top of the hour here. i am jim sciutto in new york. our breaking news, a bombshell in the making. robert mueller, the special counsel, who has not said a word in public since he took over the russia investigation two years ago this very month, is set to make a public statement, his first public statement one hour from now. this comes amid weeks of negotiations with the house judiciary committee over whether and how he will answer questions on the hill about the report that he submitted in march and will he take questions, will he take them in public? a lot of open questions there about the testimony. but no question now that in one hour, less than an hour, you will hear from that

. >>> a very good thursday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. poppy is off today. >>> at the white house this morning a public pursuit of a very private solution to increasing tensions with iran. a couple of hours president trump is set to host the president of switzerland whose country has represented u.s. interests in iran almost since the fall of the shah. a week ago the white house gave the swiss is phone number and the president publicly urged iranian leaders to call him, though later iran's supreme leader compared that offer to poison. "the new york times" is now reporting that the source of the new perceived threat from iran is a series of photographs showing iranian revolutionary guard troops loading missiles on to boats in the persian gulf. but a separate picture is also emerging, of a white house now divided over whether and how to respond. cnn's abby phillip is there at the white house this morning. abby, tell us about these talks with the swiss and is the president considering using them as an intermediary, as it were, to diffuse the

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brian: does your brother jim remember? david: very much so. rst of all, jim -- both my brother and sister are two of the smartest people i've ever known in my life. and jim has not a photographic memory but a very sharp memory of certain things. he can recite any poem he's ever read, that sort of stuff. but he was traumatized by this period. much more so than i. he and jeanie, my sister, were in school so the five years that followed this event they were bouncing from one school to another as my father was trying to find -- get his life back together. so yeah, jim remembers. he even remembers going to the headquarters of the communist party, the newspaper where my father also was working as an editor, the michigan herald and then the michigan worker. he remembers some of of that, much more so than i do. there's one scene, also, he remembers after -- immediately after my father was called to testify there were stories in the newspapers there and one of his friend's mothers said, you know, jim's dad is a communist and that was sort of trauma -- b

jim, back to you. >> joe johns at the white house, thanks very much. >>> joining me now david gergen, former presidential adviser to four u.s. presidents. david, always good to have you on. >> good to see you, jim. >> all right. so mitch mcconnell in a few moments is going to say that the mueller probe is over, you heard that from lindsey graham, the president is certainly pushing that thought now. tell me what mueller's testimony would mean, to hear directly from the special counsel but also crucially to hear him challenged about his decision on obstruction of justice, for instance, how important would that be? >> i think it's very important politically and not legally and that is, you know, there has been a sense that barr spun the report in such a way as to make it much more favorable to the president than the facts suggested and that's why we have over 600, you know, former justice department people saying at the end of the day were it not for the justice department ruling that a president can't be indicted that this president would be subject to multiple felony charges. we have d

>>> a very good thursday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. poppy is off today. we begin this hour with president trump reaching out and pushing back on threats over iran. he's preparing to meet next hour with the president of switzerland. why does that matter? because their country has long been a go between in the absence of formal diplomatic relations between tehran and washington. even those nondiplomatic relations took a sudden turn for the worst two weeks ago, and now we know why. "the new york times" says that u.s. intelligence received photos of iranian forces loading missiles onto small boats on the persian gulf. a forceful u.s. response was driven by hard liners in the white house and the state department, but the president is said to be chafing at the drum beats for war and pushing now for diplomacy. imagine that. cnn's abby phillip joins me now again. is this meeting with the swiss president about establishing perhaps a channel with iran to diffuse the tensions building there now? >> this is apparently about president trump making it very clear to ira

i think it would be very complicated. >> jim, what happens when this whole thing settles? say that maduro is ousted. this is a very rich country, even though it is destitute right now because of mismanagement, mainly in their oil fields, this is tailor-made for china or russia. who step in to help venezuela? they don't have the money to upgrade their oil facilities to start producing oil. how does this play out post maduro if maduro is easted for -- is ousted, for their oil field assets? >> there's two variables here. one is i believe the united states international community would bring a lot of support, and since the country is really very recoverable, i mean, recovery could come very quickly, i think they would be willing to do that. the real question is is what does the government look like? guaido said he would be an interim government so there would have to be an election. if that government is honest and transparent, they are not going to repeat the mistakes of the last regime, and, you know, and essentially singing the tune of the russians and chinese and they will

that's just the reality of this business. >> thank you very much. jim. >> yeah, not just a one-way street. the stuff is going back and forth all the time. it's not that simple. >> the border patrol just apprehended the biggest ever group of migrants in texas, and president trump is using that to make his case for stricter immigration policies. more than 1,000 migrants were taken into custody wednesday in el paso, texas. this is surveillance video of that group crossing into the u.s. joining us from el paso is cnn correspondent polo sandoval. tell us about this group. what more do we know about it and was this a particularly unusual day? >> certainly not unusual according to officials. obviously, the unusual aspect of things here is this is the largest group, according to the department of homeland security, that border patrol agents have apprehended. just over 1,000 people here that were apprehended about 48 hours ago in the city of el paso. federal officials say this is certainly nothing new, that these human smuggling operations have been relying on l

and when rod arrived in 1990 as jim just said, there was this very svelte and dynamic deputy attorney general [laughter] who i'm sure serves as an inspiration. \[laughter] now in those days the deputy job was a lot different. but i will tell you now the , attorney general job was a lot different also. [laughter] you like records. this must be a record of attorney generals being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office. but rod's arrival at maine justice in 1990 was not the true start of his d.o.j. service. as a law student at harvard, rod interned at the u.s. attorney's office in the district of massachusetts and the acting attorney u.s. attorney in that office at the time was none other than bob mueller. and bob then went on to be assistant attorney general for the criminal division where rod was first assigned as an honors program lawyer. little did we know that we would be getting the old band back together again. \[laughter] i spent the intervening years outside the department, but rod hasn't and he has been serving , here as a line attorney, ausa, in theprincipal at

and i actually know jim baker very well. i worked with him when i was in the fbi, and his point is i think what many people inside the justice department believe, and that is, this is an agency that was staring at a set of facts, and their job, again, is to protect the united states from foreign intelligence threats. and when they saw all this smoke, they opened an investigation to get to the bottom of it. and as you mentioned, there was oversight as it related to the surveillance tools, not only the 90-day renewal, but they had to go back to the fisa court and show what they found in order to keep these surveillance techniques going. and so, you had that oversight that was in place. one thing i'll say, and lis hit on it, which was spectacular when she talked about this potentially backfiring. again, if you're the president or you're house republicans, i think careful what you wish for here, because the more you get to the bottom of what the fbi was staring at, it's going to be that constant reminder that for the first time

way to rothesay their time what are the key objections to this so-called lead candidate mode jim is not very good but spits in candidate system what could the alternative be if that's not like to me more well in my understanding that some kind of dart or league league candidate system is a kind of democracy simulation because the citizens cannot directly choose which candidate is the best option who represents best the people's interests so it's a party issue the parties before hand select their most appropriate what they think is most how to democracy simulation when the people on that actually have a direct say. yeah well they have a direct say only in choosing for a certain party and the party before hand has picked their best candidate which best represents their own interests party interests and this is quite dysfunctional because even in germany we can see that mounted diva as the german kind of lead candidate for the e.p. p. is fighting against german interests just to get votes from for example east european parties when he says that north stream to pipeline should be stopped as it h

>> not very much, jim. don't have much to show is that beyond the initial singapore agreement of sort of general discussion of denuclearization, there's been no specificity since last june. bill clinton got more out of the north koreans in 1994 when they agreed to freeze their production of nuclear material. where president trump is today is that the north koreans are still producing nuclear material. the intelligence community believes they're still producing nuclear weapons. the two things that have improved is they're not doing nuclear tests right now and not doing long-range icbm tests. right now, you have the administration saying don't pay that much attention to these tests you're hearing about because they're all short-range, which they are, so they don't really affect us. thaw don't affect us, but they afeath our allies, south korea and japan, and the american troops. >> treaty allies, no less. something to be concerned about. >> yeah, you know, david, i find it also interesting that in the past few

jim? >> pamela brown, thank you very much. let's bring in cnn's congressional correspondent, phil mattingly, the president's attacks on joe biden are being criticized by a well-known republican. >> we haven't heard from a lot of republicans, and to be fair, it's a holiday weekend, but one republican congressman, adam kinzinger, a former member of the u.s. air force, currently still serves in the air national guard, tweeting, it's memorial day weekend and you're taking a shot at biden while praising a dictator. that's just wrong. so there's two things here. one, the idea that politics stop at the water's edge. clearly the president has said, that doesn't apply to him. an unusual thing in the sense that it might not apply, but there's also the broader north korea picture. i was talking to a number of republicans before they left for the memorial day recess and there's a lot of concern in terms of what is the actual end game here, how he treats kim jong-un. they understand and they've given him a lot of space to try to figure som

served what could or i told her i'm going to i'm going to move on because we can ask one question jim is very well because this thing is we're running out of time you so i need to move on yet you believe in the nation state you know it is one thousand nine hundred three invention to be the answer to the twenty first century challenges do you think that nation states are actually up to the multinationals like apple is a country like ireland for example has to be obliged by the european commission to live in thirteen billion euros in texas never mind microsoft or facebook and all the others i mean that's the world and you know four and national tax revenue service or order of the multinational you can't can you just said they're listening to other people don't you if you if for the big multinationals the national tax revenue service the actual seven have an issue with respect. alex cross you want the knowledge you are the very are a very very good reform issue can i finish my sentence please how do you want to sort of you know i just won the nazi nationals you know national tax revenue service

jim remember it? david maraniss: he does, very much. rst of all, jim, my older brother, both my brother and sister are two of the smartest eople i have ever known in my life. jim has not a photographic memory ut a very sharp of certain things. he can recite any poem that he's read that sort of stuff. but he was traumatized by this period. i.ch more so than i mean, he and jeannie, my school, and so the five years that followed this event, they were bouncing one school to another as my father was trying to find -- get life bag together. he even, jim remembers, remembers going to the eadquarters of the communist party -- the newspaper, where my father was also working as an editor, the michigan herald and the michigan worker, he remembers some of that. much more so than i do. one scene also where he emembers, after -- immediately after my father was called to testify, there were stories in and one ofers there, his friend's mothers said jim is dead as a communist. that, lamb: back off of find and how did he himself in the united states milit

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jim sciutto. he's also the author of a brand-new very important book entitled "the shadow war: inside russia's andhina's secret operations to defeat america." let me tell you what our colleague, maggie haberman, jim, is reporting from "the new york times." she says this. she says, a deal was struck between the senate committee, subpoenaing donald trump jr. for limited appearance, between two to four hours in mid-june. after an intense battle, she said, coming soon on "the new york times. there's a very significant development if the president's son now will appear before the committee for between two to four hours to answer questions. >> wolf, and i can say now that cnn has confirmed this story, as well, that this deal is reached here. it's important, because it's a resolution of a significant standoff. one, between congress and the white house on whether congress, whether a key congressional committee has the ability and the power to, in effect, subpoena who they want to subpoena, to ask hard questions about this investigation. and particularly significant in this case, because, of course, this i

>> it's very unclear at this point, jim. certainly this date is being negotiated right now in congress. democrats want robert mueller up here in front of their committee. they've circled may 15th as the date they're trying to work for, trying to negotiate. it's certainly not set in stone yet at all. certainly president trump's statement over the weekend, he sent out a series of tweets basically throwing cold water on this saying robert mueller should not testify. that's a complete 180 from where he was on friday when he indicated, of course, this would be essentially up to bill barr to decide. certainly right now the best way to characterize it, still very much up in the air. >> okay. also up in the air is whether treasury, sunlen, is going to turn over the president's tax returns, second deadline. any movement? >> a key deadline today. no movement as of now. there's no expectation that the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, will hand over today what the democrats have requested. requesting six years of the president's busin

congratulations, jim, on the book >> thank you very much.t >> what a great accomplishment. >> that's kind of you. >> i will do a dramatic reading from the book. >> fantastic. >> here is the heart of the matter. you say at the core of the repeated errors by administrations of both parties, meaning in the u.s., was a fundamental misreading of russia and chinese goals and intentions colored by hope. ultimately a false one, that russia and china want what the united states wants. why has the u.s. gotten it so wrong? >> i spoke to loads of current and former intelligence and defense officials who served in both administrations and who were self-critical in their analysis of this. they were in charge of the cia, nsa, odni at the time the u.s. was making these mistakes. they fess up saying we looked at them and said welcome to the international order. welcome, china, to the wto. welcome, russia, to a cooperative agreement with nato. over time they will see the light, change, become more democratic. we can work together on things. but russia and chi

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jim, back you. >> very tough day for that school community. darcy spencer.darcy, thank you. >>> well, after days out of the public eye, we now know she is out. breaking owing that news out of baltimore tonight where mayor katherine pugh just z ho leon harris is following the story. why didn't the mayor make the nouncement herself? >> jim, that's a pretty big question at this point. it was katherine pugh's lawyer who actually gave the press conference where he read a very brief statement from the now former mayor announcing her resignation. take a look. >> i am sorryrm for the ha that i have caused the image of the city of baltimore and the credibility of the office of the mayor. baltimore deserves a mayor who can move our great city forward. >> if you blinked, youd misse it. that was about him. the whole thing was over and done with in a matter ofmi utes. the attorney didn't even take questions. pugh is accused of receiving roughly $800,000 from a hospital network and others that did business with the city of baltimore for copies of her healthy holly childr

jim? >> manu raju on capitol hill. thanks. >>> the president's son will testify but it comes with a few strings. after hammering out a deal, very open question as to whether he would. how did they reach an agreement and what exactly is the committee wanting to question him about here? >> jim, that's right. they were at a complete standoff. yesterday as the deadline for the subpoena was nearing, they were able to hammer out this 11th hour deal. he will sit for two hours for testimony and answer questions on five or six different topics. senate intelligence committee wants him to come in and discuss discrepancies in his testimony, that of other witnesses and the findings of the mueller report. two topics that have been the source of a lot of tension are the 2016 meeting in june at trump tower with the russian lawyer and the talks to develop a trump tower project in moscow. a source close to donald trump jr. says he will answer limited follow-up questions on these two topics, but if the committee wants him to answer the same questions, he has already responded to, he will refer them to his prior testimony. there's a great concern

very challenging. the director of the fbi at the time, jim comey and the rest of the senior team was very concerned about it. we knew that there was a risk that what we were informing the president elect, president-elect trump about, the salacious allegations in the dossier. we knew that was fraught with peril. we did not want to convey to him that this had any kind of analogy to fbi improper activities in the past in the hoover era in particular. so we were worried about that, and that was very stressful, frankly, to try to figure out how to deal with that. >> i want to play something else barr said. when he was asked about democrats suggesting he lied during his congressional testimony. >> well, i think it is a laughable charge, and i think it's largely being made to try to discredit me partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election. >> is that what you think the accusations are about? he's talking about the review by the attorney in connecticut, i assume, not the inspector general investigation. >> i'm not really sure exactly how to understand t

. >>> a very good tuesday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. poppy has the day off. what happens this morning on the edge of the black sea in the southwest corner of russia could begin to dial back tensions in the persian gulf, 1,000 miles away. that at least is the hope anyway as secretary of state mike pompeo meets with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and prepares to meet with russia's president vladimir putin about two hours from now. iran is believed to be high on the agenda along with ukraine, north korea, many other issues, venezuela as well. going in lavrov called the increasing threats and military moves by the u.s. in the gulf a crisis of the trump administration's own making. we are also following the fallout from the growing u.s. trade war with china, a day after u.s. stock markets racked up their biggest losses in months, a partial rebound appears to be in the works when the opening bell sounds about half an hour from now. we will be watching the markets closely there. you will see those green arrows pointing up. but we begin with a search for

thank you very much. jim baker, i want to start with you. i want to start with something you alerted us to at the very end of the president's executive order. because he is specifically ordering this attorney general to do this, not the attorney general at the department of justice because at the end of this executive order he said the authority of this memorandum will terminate upon a vacancy in the office of attorney general unless expressly extended by the president. first of all, why is it the attorney general that's declassifying this information and making these decisions? >> well, because the president delegated that authority to the attorney general. the president can do that. some people have raised questions about whether there are statutory restrictions on the president's ability to do that. i don't read them that way. so historically it is the president who decides what's classified and it's the president who decides who can declassify something. >> now, there's -- we have a head of dni, director of national intelligence -- >> dr.

. >> jim, new and very important book, the shadow work. you take readers inside russia's election interference here in the united states and you heard mueller today make that point over and over and over again that the russians conspired to try to influence the 2016 presidential election. he said it should be of great concern to all americans. do you think president trump will now fully except that conclusion? >> no. clearly the president feels that accepting that conclusion undermines his victory in 2016. here is a special counsel who has not spoken for two years and using a big portion of his comments to make this point. russia interfered. he makes it clear that russia interfered to damage the chances of one political candidate. that being hillary clinton. that this kind of interference continues. that americans, all americans should be aware of it. i think in those comments it's not just that you and i should be aware of it as americans and american voters but that american leaders have to acknowledge that this is a genuine threat. here

seems like it's even getting better in terms of software versus hardware >> well, jim, we have -- obviously we're very proud of what our team's accomplished this past quarter. we've been on this journey to increase the percentage of our business that comes from software and even implementing subscriptions on top of our cornet working portfolio,s which has gone incredibly well whether you look at our collaboration portfolio, security portfolio or cornet working portfolio we have drastically increased the percentage of software in our business and we've also driven a ton of innovation that obviously our customers are really believing in right now so we're really pleased with what we've been able to do. >> kelly, i also know that the expense control has been incredible and the gross margins continue to go up. 1% expense growth is pretty amazing. how are you spinning off much more cash than i thought at this point? how are you able to do that? >> i think the whole business is focused on driving the bottom line in addition to driving a creative growth and cash-rich businesses everyone's focused on driving

. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. now from senior obama adviser david axelrod. also cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and max boot, author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right." gloria, president trump wants america to believe that speaker pelosi is not getting under his skin, he's not doing a very good job, and in this sense he is completely transparent. he is unable to restrain himself. >> no, he can't. and today was, you know, exhibit a, b and c. this is somebody who is completely reactive. nancy pelosi said, you know, i pray. i pray for the country and i pray for your family and suggest there should be an intervention, and then at an availability on something totally different, he talks about how she is unstable and how she's losing it. and, you know, anderson, i went back and looked at the way he talked about hillary clinton in 2016, and he used some of that same language against her. he said she was unstable. she's going short circuit, and i don't think she's all there, and that is exactly what he said about nancy pelosi today. h

. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. >>> with us democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlon, vice chaire house judiciary committee. before we get to impeachment, i want to ask you something about the house judiciary committee issuing the subpoena to hope hicks, don mcgahn's former aide as well, annie donaldson. you're the vice chair of that committee. do you have any indication they'll actually comply with the subpoena? >> so far we haven't had any of the witnesses tell us they're not willing to comply. it's only been when the president has gotten in the way and instructed people not to comply that we've had a problem. >> where do you stand right now in terms of impeachment? do you think president trump should be impeached? >> i'm not at he should be impeached. but i think it's reached a point where we have to open an impeachment inquiry. >> why open an impeachment inquiry if you don't want it to go all the way to impeachment? >> look, the impeachment inquiry is our opportunity to get the facts out, get the evidence out. the american people have not yet seen what's in the mueller report

thank you very much. jim. >> so china is promising to hit bag, to retaliate after the u.s. raised tariffs on its products, but president trump does not sound too concerned. let's speak to abby phillip. the president is sticking to his belligerent tone this morning. he believes he can browbeat china in effect to an agreement and feels he has the economic upper hand, what, though, is the white house strategy if china does not bend here, which it does not appear to be doing? >> well, jim, things really do not look good for a deal today. and even as talks continue as of this hour, there is still a sense among officials here that the chinese are not in a position to actually make a deal. and officials are also preparing to put the blame on president xi jinping, saying he's come to the table without the ability to make some of the structural changes that he would need to make in order to strike a deal with the united states on trade. and if that is the case, certainly passing the blame is one option there, but the reality is that these tariffs have already gone into place, and as

jim pings china. but the deal itself is going along pretty well i would even say very well we'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks but we're getting close to a very historic monumental deal and if it doesn't happen will be fine too maybe even better. that hint of how the u.s. might be even better off without a deal became a prophecy on the same day trump standing was boosted by strong data showing the economy was powering along. the u.s. economy added two hundred sixty three thousand jobs in april the unemployment rate fell to three point six percent a near fifty year low wages also picked up for a leader who prides himself on mastering the art of the deal these figures gave him the option to pile pressure on china he announced a new round of punitive tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of imports. a classic negotiation tactic and they're feeling the pressure in china shares their plummeted with the blue chip shanghai composite down six percent. there are positive signs china's chief trade negotiator leo who will head to washington after all there were worries he might not go but for n

jim acosta, thank you very much! joining us now, democratic congresswoman ra milla ji pall of washington state, a member of the judiciary committee. congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. always great to be here. >> thank you. your committee has just subpoenaed hope hicks, she's the former white house communications director and annie donaldson. sheefs t she was the chief of staff to the former white house council don mcgahn and her contemporaneous notes, by the way, feature prominently in the mueller report. how important is their testimony on the question of obstruction? >> i think it's very important. annie donaldson's notes might be one of the most important things that is in the report. it is our equivalent of the watergate tapes, in some way. but she actually documents exactly what the president said in numerous instances to don mcgahn. don mcgahn's testimony, obviously, was very important. hope hicks also figures prominently. these are all important individuals who we need to hear fr

business here. >> jim, we will let you go i know you have a big, big show to prepare for tonight thank you verymer. >> thank you, guys. >> don't miss a special "mad money" from san francisco tonight with workday ceo twitter cfo and william sonoma ceo a lot at the top of the hour on "mad money." make sure you catch that what do you think? >> i think going to places where you have some predictability in people talked about united health care, and j & j, companies that can be very defensive here i would be a little more concerned about mega cap check but i think a handful of these valuations are defensive and i agree google is one of them. >> in terms of going into companies that have very little exposure to china, one would think small caps. >> moving to russell, iwm, which is small cap etf, if you look, it didn't make it nearly to the levels it will over the summer s&p made a brand-new high, russell didn't even come close that tells you something >> it's a growth call. if you're worried about kbroej in this company or globally, small caps will perform. that's your hedge. >> i like bank of americ

. >> yeah, very interesting. jim, the congress also running for president, i think he was first out of the gate with this as well. let's talk about this. nia-malika henderson joins us now. it's interesting to watch how the i've got a plan for that has seemed to turn in elizabeth warren's favor, whether you look at her polling numbers, bumper stickers, she's wearing that badge. people were trying to shame her but now it seems to be working in her favor. >> i think that's right. the shaming in the beginning was, oh, she's sort of like tracy flick in some ways. in some ways it's a gender shaming. yeah, she has very much played this to her advantage in a field of 23 people, you need to figure out a way to break out. you need to figure out a way to brand yourself and she has done that and done it to a level that no one has been able to do it. and she in some ways, except maybe with this plan she announced today with the whole, you know, law about indicting a sitting president, she has been setting the pace. it's been peop

charles: thank you very much, erin, jim. appreciate it.rade tensions with china wrapping up again house minority leader kevin mccarthy is urging that now is the time to vote on usmca. >> it will only make us stronger in this battle with china where china doesn't want to have a fair trade agreement. it would unite americas. that is something that would be much stronger in this debate going forward, make mesh stronger, make our economy even bigger and they're talking about more than 200,000 new jobs. only one person holding this up, speaker nancy pelosi, she can call up the vote and it will fast. charles: here with his take congressman sean duffy from wisconsin. thanks for joining us. the steel and aluminum tariffs on canada and mexico have gone away. countier tariffs on our american farmers have gone away. this ups the ante on nancy pelosi and democrats to make a move on usmca, doesn't it? >> you mentioned steel and aluminum tariffs for one of the reasons why the democrats wouldn't take up usmca. labor reforms in mexico which the mexican se

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