how do they know max baucus is corrupt? tv didn't tell them. tv loves max baucus. tv loves the cup. desperate corrupt. no -- love the crop. no, we told him. he took more money from the health care industry than any politician. the idea that he was going to do effective change of health care reform was laughable. speech, ato obama's college campus in north carolina, and they grew to when he said max baucus, and they him right -- they booed when he said max baucus, and they were right. in the old days with no digital media, there was old media. the same talking heads who have been wrong decade after decade after decade and never embarrassed about how wrong they are. you have joe scarborough tell you how great the iraq war is and how great republican politicians are. now he is in favor of the democratic establishment, but progressives, no no no. they are eager to be dismissed and ignored or derided. it is not just joe. obviously, fox news, cnn, msnbc, almost all of them. go find me a couple of journalists in this town that don't have disdain for progressives. i bet you can't do it. you

max baucus is here. he is a former democratic senator from montana.ow all about this because -- good evening by the way. you are a democrat from a red state, correct? >> correct. >> so you understand the challenge here. a lot of democrats how there tonight are upset with joe manchin, by the way. and, again, you know what it's like representing a red state in the senate. are they right or wrong to be upset with him, senator? >> well, i know joe quite well. i know lisa quite well. i know susan collins quite well. i served with them. in my judgment, they're all three very strong, good people. they're class acts, all of them. all three of them. i can't say the same thing for some others in the senate, a little bit beady-eyed, but those three are very solid. now, the responsibility of a senator is to represent his or her people in his or her own state. the party comes second. the people you represent comes first. joe manchin is doing what he thinks is right by the people of west virginia as is lisa murkowski and susan collins. they're doing what they think

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at what i did and i got it by going to see my god as well as to my god i am not going to get the baucus bill is i mean about all that i want to son cause i know what god got. the most about a lot of. the movie said. back forty to forty years back of fifty years back it's going to. open mike the country the music. people just the way they wanted nothing but today he. changed their they're trying to enforce people into the old ways. want people to do . right now we are now a music studio they actually have made a song for up the football league in afghanistan i have to go on to have finish it . really really into it will be really was a little bit of those over. to. follow through that i could joke about how close. this. when i was i was doing a show in afghanistan called the voice which is the international show one of step national team in afghanistan and they had gathered a couple of mo os to sit down and talk about me so basically build brainwashing people against me. which is a holy month so the end of the show on the team flights one of them a loss he says of a cat's her head and br

over one particular campaign promise variance in space it started with this tweet from state premier baucus soda talking about various investments in future technologies such as the hyperloop and the space program. goals it's the logo that's really caused a stir meeting very a one on talk and mission future on the bottom and there in the middle a picture premise him self very well and quickly became a hash tag of issues of thought it was close enough to donald trump's america first campaign with ovarian twist and there were plenty of tweets and poking fun as delusions of grandeur this uses said brother you gotta go and gave said to his own bat signal probably shining over munich so what will be a very very in space program get up to well he uses suggesting they might discover new planets in the great beyond or perhaps variants might go on to colonize the solar system is a tweet showing what mohs might look like in the year twenty sixty four. i'm not was the day as ever they call the station continues online you can find us on twitter at speed up the usual. don't forget to use the hash tag.

certainly if you look at what happens now with the baucus start up there that you can star where it is a growing prize it's probably what their sources said it's that there won't be even more anything. coulter lives so security is very high. interest funding also who goes up the prizes at some extent it will. and that's where you see really big back require the change i think it's low only only here there's a bull's striking focus or quite as it were observing this race but it's also the longer thing that it has on people ruben paolo just raised the point to something i actually want to ask you about he spoke about grabbing the attention of donors and you know one thing that i've come across and i've spoken to aid workers covering you know different natural disasters and crises is i encounter a lot of relief workers who have been telling me the last few years that they worry about what they call him pathy fatigue meaning that we're living in a time when there are so many crises in disasters that are reported upon that sometimes people just feel bombarded by this constant stream of bad

max baucus. alix: also here with us on set is vincent reinhart.s like a logical conclusion would be, companies have to shift their supply chain. vincent: yes, they do. easy, how hard, how do look at something like that? vincent: that is the hard thing with trade. for high tech, a preponderance of things that go into what we use come from china. shifte extent, they can to other areas within the asia-pacific rim but it will take time. sense, the president has fired off the starter pistol for everybody to rethink how to get around in terms of supply chains. some things are easy, soybeans can come from brazil and argentina with little extra cost. when it comes to the chips that go into your specially designed vehicle dashboard, it is going to take a while. david: china has ramped up in the chip area. united statesday, companies say we are not going to buy any more chips from china. where would they turn? vincent: it is elsewhere in the , it is not because all made in china. it is assembled in china. there are pieces that go back-and-forth to be shippe

bachus --welcome mat max sieben baucus. welcome. you heard what the chinese ambassador said.se prepared? did they have the wherewithal to combat us on trade? >> i think they do. we do not want this but if you want to start in america, we are prepared. it made the chinese concerned about who the deal with. he said a couple or three times to me, we do not know who to talk to. the president cannot make up his mind. i think they are confused. i think they are prepared and the chinese in my judgment for a good number of years are tough. they are resilient and do with it takes to survive a trade war. in geopolitics, timing is everything and we have this election coming up in three weeks time and then you have the treat -- 320 after that. there was talk president trump will meet with president g --xi. maybe we could make progress after we get past midterms. max: there is some possibility we will make progress after midterms. i do not think we should hold our breath. it comes down to whether the united states sense a strong signal -- send a signal china can wrap its arms around and u

now baucus on his one country in particular focus today according to amnesty international the country has the fifth highest number of executions in the one with over seven thousand people waiting on death row one of them is a christian woman. she was sentenced to death in two thousand and ten for allegedly insulting the prophet muhammad it was it has become the most high profile blasphemy case in pakistan and has gone all the way to the supreme court this week the judges postponed a verdict in the case. joining me now is called last month from the new social media disco welcome a cause now we see this is a highly kind of contentious case in pakistan and that's reflected on social media as well yeah absolutely i mean a lot of eyes are on a case she's been on death row for eight years now on the one hand you have people fighting for her release on the other though the majority of people least in pakistan really are calling for the death penalty in this case and we see that on social media these are religious hardliners in pakistan they're kind of afraid that if she is released in the co