new ferguson, senior fellow at the hoover institution.nie: a couple of headlines now from larry kudlow. he is saying the u.s. may move ahead on additional china tariffs and enforcement must be part of the china talks. basically what we've been saying here along with neil ferguson. the u.s. may move ahead on additional china tariffs, and enforcement must be part of the china talks. more on this ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: 26 minutes past the hour. just under four minutes to go until the end of trading in europe. we've seen a lot of volatility in glencore over the last half-hour. reports coming out of a major mine accident in the drc. nine people reported to have been killed. much more coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: 30 seconds until the end of regular trading in europe. at a headline level it is more to do with the g20 so we are in a holding pattern. not going anywhere in a hurry. the ftse is down. the dax is up. there is a buyer -- there is a bayer story in there. the cac 40 is flat. it is more of a cyclical bias which implies

my name is chippy yen, and i would like to reference a hoover institution report that came out in 2018, and it spoke about the systematic infiltration of the chinese communist party in the united states, even down to the local government level. and rose pak represents that. i would -- she -- as many sources already indicate, she is a foreign agent of the chinese communist party, and i would like to play a little recording of a phone interview with supervisor peskin from a couple of years ago. >> her name is rose pak, but it's not just about what rose pak represents. rose pak has been able to work with people to get undue influence in gaining city contracts, in gaining land use approvals to build new buildings in san francisco. it is really about political influence and how political influence works, and that even includes working with and outside influence outside of san francisco, and that includes the people's republic of china. >> i would like to reiterate this is a political institute we're talking about, the chinese communist party. the hoover institution specifically represented

we discussed this with the hoover institution. great to have you with us.started with this tweet from the global times editor in chief who china says is accurate and forecasting what beijing will do. this is what he tweeted over the weekend. he says the chinese side is concerned about the fairness of a trade deal because the most important part is the u.s. side must remove newly imposed tariffs since the trade war until now. china won't accept the deal if the u.s. keeps part of the tariffs. given what he says and what china has been saying all along, can we expect any time to progress this week without tariffs being lifted? i don't know if we can expect progress on them being lifted but i don't think we can expect them to be lifted. the chinese will set out a position to impress president trump who will be going in to an election campaign next year, that this will damage him as much as it is damaging them. for his own political self reservation he needs to get rid of these, then they can come to a deal. don't think the president is going to do that. i haven

if anyone knows the answer then scientists at the frown hoover institute for building physics based in stuttgart germany. this is our echo chamber music to test absorbers. peter punched ed and his colleagues research how people experience the sounds that surround them the field is called psychoacoustics they also develop products. here they're working on a booth with sound absorbing properties where one can conduct private conversations without being overheard. this chamber is anechoic that is totally soundproof it's used to test things but it's not actually pleasant to spend time man. this is it's perhaps rather too quiet we're not built to hear nothing at all it's we can't close our ears in contrast to our eyes now is our original vigilance systems warning us of dangers seen our hearing is always switched on designed to receive signals and issue warnings to protect us from harm . for good falzon to violently superfast and. this kind of sound is better than silence if we want to relax. just like. that has to do with the structure of waves. it's not a uniform constance noise with the s

with our lead off panel line he joins us from mountain view california research fellow at the hoover institution he served in the george w. bush administration and was an adviser to mark rubio's and mitt romney's presidential campaigns and in los angeles john i do roll award winning host of the young turks in the damage report on the young turks network welcome to the program guys thank you thank you so let's talk about joe biden he's been the target of trump's barbs he's countered declaring that the president is an existential threat to the united states what's your reaction lonnie. well let's just get to the raw politics of it when you're in a democratic primary that's got 24 candidates anything that gives candidates the opportunity to stand out i think is a positive one remember these candidates are fighting over a relatively narrow sliver of turf whether ideologically or from a policy perspective so i think for vice president biden being attacked by the president directly allows him to continue to make the claim that he is the one candidate who the president is most concerned about who's on

victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution. also a lifelong californian. professor hanson joins us. thank you so much for coming on. in what sense is california a third world state? >> it has all of the symptoms of wwhat we associate with failed states. the highest basket of income tax, gasoline taxes, sales tax and yet its schools are rated in the last 10%. one third of the nation's welfare recipients live in california. a fifth of the populations below the poverty line. a fifth of the homeless people live inn california. a very tiny but affluent elite. the most billionaires. and the largest under class and part of that and governor newsom has got it wrong. 25 years ago when we had prop 187 that cut off health care but not emergency health care to undocuments immigrants. that passed by 29% of the population. that fueled up pete wilson's -- itco was very popular and that t rid of a deterrent factor and people wanted to come to california often illegally and they resided here illegally and that was part of a perfect storm what at the same time 4-6 million p

jon: joining us now, former intelligence officer, john jordan, an economist at stanford's hoover institutewhat do you think about the idea that north korea's economy is in shambles, has been for decade. can you lure them out of their eyes laying with economic promises? >> possibly. their economy hasn't been in the same state it is now for the last few decades. it's in a very different condition and that's creating pressure below and inside the north korean party. so can trump through stick and carrot and through creating the perception inside north korea that he's willing to give the north korean regime a way out, a path to prosperity and security which is in contrast to what happened with the obama administration and qaddafi. that remains to be seen, but that's what they are trying to do. jon: if trump says i am not looking to knock you out of power. you can remain as chairman. i just want to get a deal done that takes away your nukes. is that something you would think kim jong-un would be receptive to? >> possibly. but it's not just kim jong-un he has to convince. and that's what the wes

coming up next we will dig deeper into trump's tariffs on mexico with be hoover institution.berg. ♪ ♪ allen in sydney. shery: i'm shery ahn. let's take a look at tariffs on a political angle and what may be driving the president to take these measures. joining us is the hoover for theion director 2012 presidential campaign. always great to have you with us. first question, i don't get, why now? we know the usmca is in the process of being ratified in mexico and canada. >> the president views this three political lens and the immigration issue to him in the u.s. and domestically is his top issue. he feels that is going to be his ticket to winning reelections. he figures i can do anything now, trade anything, make progress on immigration, trying to stem the flow of illegal and hents into the u.s. says congress isn't working with me anyway so what is the father trying to get them to death bother -- what is the bother trying to get them to collaborate? it is a win-win for him even though the economics aren't great. shery: he is thinking he doesn't have a chance with nancy pelosi

joining us, the overseer at the stanford hoover institute. i'm sure the intelligence community is going to go into overdrive now. we'll find out if there is real fruit that will come from this meeting. >> absolutely. but it's important not to lose sight of the fact that it' the economics that are driving this. the sanctions on the north korean regime are crippling. optics are important and it's getting a lot of play, i get that. it's historical. but we need to realize this is economically driven and it has to do with north korean internal politics. if kim jong-un can't deliver economic relief and sanctions relief the optics will be for nothing. jon: up until now chairman kim and his taughtered before them and his grand father before them -- the grandfather before them haven't seemed to care about the condition of their own economy. if their people suffered, it was okay as long as the regime was able to buy whiskey and cigars. the sanctions they have in place now have bite to them we haven't seen before. >> they have bite without precedence. b

. >> you are professor and director of constitutional law center at stanford law school, hoover institution, you've argued 15 cases in front of a supreme court, that's not -- widely regarded as scholar on free exercise and establishment clauses, tenth circuit from 2002, 2009, published broadly, bonafide are quite significant. a number of topics that i want to touch on during the course of this hour, we are not going to get everything i'd like to talk about but we would get to some of them, the first one is impeachment, we hear impeachment being discussed left and right in the country, in the media, by politicians, here is the impeachment clause of the constitution and here is what it says, the president, the vice president, all offices in the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, here it said with popular culture that that pretty much means it's a political decision, the house of representatives has the votes, that's pretty much good enough, is that how it works? >> i don't think so, mark, so p

joining me now with the reaction, victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution, rabbi ari asaro, a spokesman for the national conference of jewish affairs. victor, during the financial crisis, the banks were labeled "too big to the fail," but watching the left and the media rushed to her defense, chemist same be about aoc? has she become too big to allow her to go down in shame for these comments equating trump to the holocaust? >> i don't know. i don't know if i was more disturbed by her ignorance, or the integrity of the historians who rally to her defense. never in history of concentration camps have -- 15 million soviet citizens, p.o.w.s, did not go over german lines because there were concentration camps. the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp is a distinct distinction without a difference. as horrible as the death camps were, there were 15 million people on the eastern front -- 10 million in china that died in so-called concentration camps. there was never in the history of concentration camps treatment for transgender people and counseling

stanford university hoover institute released a comprehensive report last november. the title is china's influence in american interests promoting, constructive vigilance. it talks about the infiltration in the united states, into our local government, our university, chinese-american communities, and our media. chinese consulate infiltrate into the san francisco community through people like rose pack. she carry out concept policies to suppress pro-taiwan groups, and pro-democracy groups. rose pack also helped the consulate work together with the pro-ccp media to carry out china's propaganda. according to the report, the president of the china news service acknowledged that if china could gain control of the media in u.s., it would have better influence and a say in american politics. the report indicated over the course of the last 20 years, the series of chinese language media have fallen under the bejing control. the two newspapers named by the report are aligned with the state-owned media with bejing. as we're exposing it here, don't be surprised that you will f

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victor davis hanson was watching last night, a senior fellow at the hoover institution.onight. professor, thanks for coming on. i don't think anybody believes that gun confiscation, which clearly a lot of these people are for, would make the country safer. so it has not made other countries safer. what is the point of that? i wonder, why wouldth they support it? >> yeah, it is kind of strange when a professor of law can't say we don't have a right to go into a person's home and confiscate illegal weapons. but she couldn't answer, no, absolutely, to that. i think what is going on on aside, tucker, from the fact that no democratic candidate with few exceptions want anyone to be the left of them. they are all moving left. on gun situation, i think we always in this country fixate in the misdemeanor we think we can control because we have no idea how to deal with the existential felonies. if we have 11 or 12,000 deaths by homicide, with the use of firearms, the vast majority are handguns. they are usually stolen or they are sold illegally, and most of it, to be quite frank,l

victor davis hanson was watching last night, a senior fellow at the hoover institution.onight. professor, thanks for coming on. i don't think anybody believes that gun confiscation, which clearly a lot of these people are poor, would make the country safer. so it is not made other country safer. what is the point of that? i wonder, why were they supported? >> it is kind of strange when a professor of law can't say we don't have a right to go into a person's home and confiscate illegal weapons. she couldn't answer, no, absolutely committed to that. what is going on a side, tucker, from the fact that no democratic primary candidate with few exceptions want anyone to be the left of them. they are all moving left. ongoing situation, i think we always in this country fixate in the misdemeanor we think we can control because we have no idea how to deal with the other potential felonies. if we have 11 or 12,000 deaths by homicide, with the use of firearms, the vast majority are handguns. they are usually stolen or they are sold illegally, and most of it, to be quite frank, are

jonathan rhoden of the hoover institution, also the author of the new book "why cities lose."eacham back with me. maryann, starting with you, how exactly do you plan to eliminate coal? you're from west virginia. so many of those people who lost their jobs when those plants closed stood up politically and voted for president trump because they wanted those jobs again. >> well, this is not only the biggest ever philanthropic investment in climate change but it works regardless of who is in washington and so as a west virginian, on the one hand everyone's experiencing the affects of climate change and we have to make sure that no one is left behind making the transition of coal to clean energy and what we have been doing for a decade with bloomberg, with many partners at the sierra club. we have over half the coal plants in the country announced to retire and building on that infrastructure, on that success to meet what the climate science demands and make the transition to 100% clean energy and we have to make sure no one is left behind in the process. workers and communities. i

here is lindsey bell, cfra analyst and lanhee chen, hoover institution research fellow. lindsey, i will start with you. very interesting and clever gamesmanship, sending trudeau over to speak to nancy pelosi directly. i was why are those two meeting? oh, right, it is being held up in the house. she hasn't set a date. canada already introduced it to their legislature. mexico already passed it. she really, the ball is in her court. what do you think that conversation was like? >> how embarrassing will it be if the u.s. can't ratify the agreement and canada and mexico get it done before us? it is good to see there is progress being made and that trudeau is speaking to pelosi and hopefully instilling some good intentions with her and hopefully we can see them move forward on this because we need to see this uncertainty, this one trade uncertainty removed from the market. melissa: lanhee, do you think this is marked better than nafta than it is replacing? >> look, i think there are improvements in this usmca deal. frankly i think the protections for labor and environmental is

that is emblematic of the larger challenge and i would commend everyone here looking at the hoover institution to observe the chinese authorities deny americans systematically access to chinese society whether education or cultural exchange or media engagement as well as public broadcasters and at the same time the american counterparts are not afforded the same opportunity. this is not a binary choice between simply denying china access may need to be creative and way to publicly shine a light on the way china is stingy with access to our institutions it doesn't cost too much to make a point this is the way their systemos operates the way they treat their own people to deny access with perfectly legitimate conversations of corruption of human rights they don't permit that forward democratic institutions but the first step is to have a much more robust discussion and that goes a long way to set wheels in motion. >> so what about those companies that provide other forms of surveillance that china uses at-home? what's the policy in that regard quick. >> until such time as we can determine that t

now, director of domestic policy studies at stanford university, and research fellow at the hoover institutionnnie chen, and welcome, we want to get into some of the opinion pages and this latest opinion police for politico entitled dear democrat, here's how to guarantee trump's reelection. charl charlie writes, despite early polling numbers trump could still win reelection because he has won essential dynamic working in his favor, you. trump's numbers are unmovable, but yours are not. he doesn't need to win this thing. he needs for you to lose it. there are millions of swing voters who regard trump as an abomination, but might vote for him again if they think you are scarier, more extreme, dangerous or just annoyingly out of touch. this week's debates give you two more chances to form circular firing squads, turn winning issues into losers and alienate swing voters. he goes on to list 11 ways he sees democrats potentially imploding on their 2020 chances, including promising free stuff with no plans to pay for it. abolishing private health insurance, continuing to talk about reparations, immig

moderates be concerned here for deinterstate policy advisor for mitt romney and fellow at the hoover institutionibutedder for millennial politics max burns. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. ainsley: you heard that i want to play a sound bite of john decliney he was criticizing medicare for all thnsd they didn't like that either. listen to this. medicare for all may sound good that's correct not good policy or good politics. [crowd boos. >> i'm telling you. -- i'm telling you -- ainsley: these are two democrats in california. democratic convention. 14 of those candidates there and they are being booed. they are not even left enough for the group. should this be a concern lonnie? i will start with you. >> the democratic party is not the democratic party of bill clinton gone massively far to the left. look at the constituency a lot of these democratic candidates for president are speaking to far left kings. you saw it in california. you will see it throughout this primary process. we all know that presidential primaries pull candidates to the polls to the extreme and the democratic party tha

for more on the president's trade negotiating tactics, hoover institution research fellow lanhee chent's start with what eamon ended on, the idea of a bilateral trade agreement between the united states and the uk >> well, a lot of that's going to depend on where the uk goes with respect to brexit if they don't make that determination soon, it's going to be very difficult for the united states to negotiate a bilateral fta. we already do have a series of what are known as mutual recognition agreements in place, one in particular relating to the pharmaceutical industry that would continue, essentially, current eu trade practices with respect to the uk on those issues indefinitely until there is an fta, but we're not going to be able to get an fta hammered out until they know what they're doing with brexit so, this is, at least, i would say, several months, if not several years out. >> we've talked an awful lot about facebook and how it's in the crosshairs now for some of its behavior and tactics, but if you think about trump's trade policies, some of it is the same way. he's got some of

institution right now? >> oh, the world's getting very, very small at the hoover building and it must feel very isolating because as i said earlier, it's the attorney general that you rely on to have your back. and so on the topic of what we're doing about our elections, even if the fbi said to the attorney general we need "x" number of agents, "x" number of dollars, department of homeland security comes in and says we want to bolster cyber security in the following states and voting precincts. if the administration isn't tuned into that, isn't supportive of that, that money, those resources, that manpower is not going to happen. so what we need to hear from, really, is ask the secretary of homeland security, the acting secretary of homeland security. ask the fbi director, do you have what you need? have you gotten everything you've asked for to secure the 2020 election? and i'll bet you the answer is no. >> mimi rocah, let's just take a brief sidebar to mr. flynn, who is awaiting sentencing. dumped his last lawyer and has taken on a new one. we know this thanks to the president's tweet this morning. "general mi