i think i can answer that one. no. i think india is going to continue to be a problem in rsep, which is why i don't think -- at best, you're going to get a deal that is, you know, a piece of paper that is signed by a bunch of leaders. >> definitely won't be left behind. >> well, maybe not. we can debate that afterwards. okay. >> this is india's great gift to the united states. >> it's true. >> preventing the formation of something that will be a problem. >> quick two-finger from scott? >> i would just say that the implementation of tpp is really important. and if it goes through smoothly, and addresses some of these questions, and then they begin to form a line outside the door for folks that want to join up, the europeans are talking to the japanese and maybe -- basically interested, as well. then i think that puts pressure on others, including the united states to think about it. so i think that's an important part of the liberal international order that could still anchor things, even if we have these frayings in ma

and i didn't think from 2,500 we'd get to where we are now but i do think you start to see again some -- some lechls where it would make sense to take profits specifically in these banks. >> where does positioning -- how does that play into it i read a bank of america merrill lynch survey of fund managers with $5159 million under management and most preferred cash over equities the allocation to global equities at the lowest since september 2016 here we are in the markets. >> let me ask you clarify when you say prefer cash over equities on the margin or they would have a big are allocation of cash deanna they would to equities that would be kind of. >> i don't think it's a bigger allocation to cash than. >> sort on the margin a higher >> a higher cash allocation. >> than they've had in the past. >> yeah. >> my view on that is i think positioning is everything. where we were positioned andrea where groed and fear was at the end of december, we have kind much scouted the numbers over the last few weeks but we're at a place at least bears are at a lo low going back to june. bulls have ce

i think kind of like you, don. i always say, i hope we can do it here and hoping we'll hear some of our colleagues, make expectations here. and we do this. and they say, costa, you didn't do half the stuff you said you were gonna do. and so the expectations here i think are part of the process. but the challenge that we have with divided government historically is many times proven an opportunity. and you've been there when that divided government. and i've been there when the divided government occurred. and -- but we have a president like we've not had in modern history. and so whether we use terms like unconventional or different, there's a lot of adjectives that can be out there, i think we're going to see a sincere effort to move something forward on a bipartisan effort in the next six months. i would hope that the administration would be supportive and constructive in a positive way. clearly we have enough to disagree about. >> it's only to their advantage to get a bill through and get the economy moving. >> i

i think it's trades. everything that i see in front of me right now is when you look at the option markets, which is what i look at mostly, when i'm looking at the options markets, nobody wants to extend out everything is very short term. we're talking february expiration, march, but they do not want to extend out much further than that. because of that i think it's a great trade, i just don't think it's an investment. >> i just think the problem is once again the same problem we had six weeks ago. positioning now has gotten to a place where we're first of all, from a momentum perspective, the s&p back to the highest nine-day rsi that its had since probably august same thing with the vix, back down to levels before we october 4th started to spike and sell off. bulls five weeks in a row. whether you look at bull/bear indicators or the green index, all these things tell you people have gotten greedy lately. you're right back to the 200-day. this is a major level for markets, 2750 to 2800. it's hard to say yo

i created a political mooumt, i think i am part of one, but i think in terms of what i look for. i think it is the understanding of this moment that we're in right now and the ability to articulate it. i don't think a 2020 nominee can afford to be bad on issues of race. i don't think they can afford to be bad on issues of economic justice either. >> when we talk about things like the role of the labor bloousmt. when it is wages or union jobs. that is what we're fighting for. >> so you said that on the issues of race, i think those you would assume that you could not get traction on that. do you have to say you'll do it or is being aspiring to it in the future enough for you? >>. >> i think that we need commitments with teeth. i don't want to be placated. >> what is the definition. they love medicare for all, but they say it is not realistic. is that a nonstarter for you? >> for me i reject that outright. i reject the rational of saying adopting the same or similar insurance models is unrealistic. i reject that. i reject the idea that single payer is impossible. i reject the eyed

i think that's what we have here. because i enforce what professor sillman said about the sufferability argument. and to that i would like to add i am definitely one when you're trying to combine congressional intent, you don't look at the tweets. you don't even look at the committee reports, which can be often written by lobbyists in the hopes of influencing later courts. who's to know what the intent of congress is when you have legislators and 100 senators on top of that. but yet we know the intent of congress was not to appeal obama care in its entirety because they tried to do that and they did not have the votes. we know whatever the intention of congress was, it was not to reaffirm the findings of what they did the initial time around because they took the initial ruth goldberg advice of the aca and its mandate, which was strikingly ineffective because it wasn't harsh enough, and then they completely nullified it and turned it into a hoardtory command. of course, the government does horditary commands all the ti

no, just i say what i think. and i'm not herejust to say that i'm 0k with everything. when i'm outraged or scandalised about something, i think it's very important to speak out. and i think also that now in europe, the way that we treat immigrants is so outraging and so terrible that we as intellectuals, and all the human beings, should speak out, because one day we will regret that we hadn't. because what? because of the violence, in hungary, even in germany, in poland, everywhere of the extreme right against immigrants, i think it's very important to defend our dignity and our right to be respected. do you see that as part of your role? something you can do with your role as ambassador? no, with my role as a human being, that's it. i don't think it belongs to my role as an ambassador. it's just me as a citizen. i think it's important to say that. to do what? and to do what? to say, look, on the one hand... to write, because i'm a writer. that's my onlyjob, i'm a writer. so i use my pen and a piece of paper and i

don't i don't think it made much difference with terrorism because terrorism is so rare that it doesn't make much difference but it certainly countering that sort of coordination particularly as i mentioned. earlier on syria would be some place where the united states and the russians could very productively work to stabilize that horrific disaster which is the been the syrian civil war they both really want the war to end and working together would be would be the case let me give an example of that there's a guy named sullivan who is in the obama administration and he said we talked many many many many times about syria but never did anybody in the white house talk about the possibility of swinging support to assad and they were brought up as a possibility now it seems to me that would probably have been a good idea but much worse in many respects as they didn't even consider it as a. quite a number of preaching some sort of agreement. but that's a totally different subject. to leave it there i really appreciate you

i think it is going to be a fiery speech. i disagree with ben on one point, while i agree that there is a the core of -- decorum and an expectation a behavior, this present has shown no respect for norms, governing norms. i would not be surprised if this was an on president's state of the union in terms of tone and in terms of stomping on the norms we expect from presidents and legislative leaders in the context of that event. a lot of ways the president does not have a clear legislative agenda. we also know that the trump administration has been far from a well oiled machine. we've seen a lot of staff turnover, including in key positions of the white house chief of staff. how does that kind of dynamic within the administration affect the development of something like the state of the union? about what the usual process is for generating a like this, and how is the bemp administration -- will different on those dimensions? >> a state of the union address is interesting within government. every agency within the federal governm

i think it is a problem they turned it back. one of the things i am concerned the fcc has rulemaking authorities that is much more expensive than the ftc's rue lemaking authority. they can say, here is how you have to treat traffic over the internet and privacy. they had a privacy rule under title ii. we don't have the ability to do that across the board when it comes to consumer protection issues. we have limited rulemaking authority. we have sector specific laws that will protect some data some of the time, but data is not housed in sector specific silos anymore. i think it makes a lot of sense for clarity, for certainty, and for protection, for there to be broader rule-making authority at the ftc. i think it would make a lot of sense for net neutrality to be back so the fcc can do it properly. a lot of the argument we heard about the need for withdrawing title ii and the open internet investmento increase in broadband appointment, and i think some numbers have recently suggested that even in the week of the overturning of the

well i mean i think like i said before images do really have a power. i mean they've they affect people i think it's you know if you look back to the vietnam war and the images that started coming out of vietnam they went a great way in you know changing public opinion on that war and making people go into the streets and protest and start to demand that the u.s. withdraw from the war and i think militaries around the world have taken those lessons and they've seen what photographs can do and what you know the media can do to affect people's opinions and i think that's why we see all around the world i mean every year the job of journalists photojournalists in any type of videographers writing journalists is their job it's much more dangerous every year because so many people now see what we do as threats you know threats to whatever their narrative is whatever the propaganda is and you know the like anything in our culture the iraq and afghanistan wars had to be sold to the american people and you know it obviously wasn't what the government wanted to

i think the s.e.c. thing is nuanced. i think also if the s.e.c. can be the bad guy and push -- you know, push the mighty tesla or the -- push elon musk to a place he doesn't want to be, they're an easy scapegoat when in fact that's not the problem right now. >>> we do have some breaking news here. msci will increase the weight of china a shares going from 5% to 20%. the index added china last year. it will happen in three steps, may, august and november we were just discussing this huge run in shanghai so far in 2019, part of this in anticipation of this move by msci let's bring in rebecca patterson. great to have you with us. this will really change the face of the msci index by increasing this weight. >> absolutely. for the emerging market index under msci, china become its the elephant in the room this was widely expected so it's not a huge shock that it's happening. but as you said a few minutes ago, the passive flows into this will be a source of support for chinese stocks for at least months to come, maybe longer i think another really impor

post-trump i think is a different story. a lot of that depends on how the democrats, can they center themselves or control the forces they have unleashed with identity politics that move it to the left? >> i want to ask you, do you think trump will be primaried in 2020? is that a suicide mission somewhat? >> maybe a suicide mission, but i think he gets primaried. >> he gets primaried. okay? any names? >> i think it's too early to tell. i mean, and will he even be running? again, i am -- i do believe that the political pressures, and i'm not divorcing, i think democrats are very smart to be slow roll and let an impeachment marinate a little bit. that's the way you do it. but i think at the end of the day, just as i look at the political landscape as somebody who ran the campaign committee twice, i don't know how they don't at least initiate an impeachment inquiry after the mueller report comes out and whether donald trump stays or not, i think is a matter at this point that we're just not clear on. now, i just say this, if he

ok i think that. you know a lot of people try to compare it to the vikings and and i often say that would only be comparable if the only way you ever saw white men was at work was as a viking and in nothing else you never saw them on television in a t.v. show you never saw them saving the world in a hollywood movie you never saw them as president i'd states you only ever saw a white man as a viking and what would be the first thing you'd say if you when you met him which you would be where's your longboat where you're horns this is exactly the situation we're actually in i live in portland oregon and when i go into piles bookstore there are odd all the books in the bookstore there probably five books written to him someone from my perspective a native woman in the twenty first century and that this is our reality imagine if that was you know the reality of white men it would be a very different world and so it's really the absence of any other trials and the lack of balance of being there are allegedly

>> i think this concept of being on hold, i think we're -- i would like to think that we're out of thebe made i don't think we're in that game anymore, but obviously we will react to data as it comes in if the economy is better than expected or worse than expected going forward, we're willing to move in either direction there wouldn't be any presumption now anymore that we're going to move in one direction or the other so in that sense, i think the level is good here >> there was going to be a slow and sharp downturn the fed pencilled in slowing growth but not necessarily slow growth at around 2.3% the consensus. we keep getting these decent jobs numbers i see them as more coincident. you see them as lagging. either way, what's the outlook for growth as you see it >> there's a near universal rate that the growth rate will have to slow down to the potential growth rate of the economy nearly everybody has the economy slowing down in 2019 that doesn't necessarily mean anything bad for the economy it just means you can't go above trend forever. so i think that's basically where we are if y

i think on the other part, i think it's -- i think we can only bite off a certain amount, right? i am a little worried with the fast act extinguishing here at the end of the year. having to go back to a six- month, nine-month program. so i would ask that we try to address the infrastructure on the road side as quickly as possible. i think it's gonna be difficult with this congress to swallow everything. right? to get everybody to agree on that infrastructure development. so i think we have to do a bit at a time and show the success. success breeds and gets people's momentum. this needs some wins, right? they haven't seen a win in a while. this would be a great win for the american people, for the industry, and for them. >> you know, the airport bill last year -- there was one. but you're right. so you think we should triage kind of this -- >> i think so. the more complex, the more opinions, the less likely they're going to come together. >> yeah. >> i want to go to the audience, too, in a minute. we'll stand up. but the mike, we'll get it to you. but i want to get that to point. a

do you think that's fair? >> i don't think so.ere are, obviously, instances where we've seen that it's happened. but i look at the new fbi director, chris wray, who's an incredible guy, and i think he's weeded those people out. i think he's gotten rid of a dozen of the leadership positions that were occupied by jim comey folks and replaced them with folks of his own. you change the leadership that was tainted by jim comey's leadership, and i think the president -- and when i spoke with the president about this, he thinks he's doing a great job. there are times he's frustrated, gerry, we know that, but in the end, watch his actions, not his words, and he's supportive of crust at the fbi. gerry: quick question about 2020, i assume you think the president will be renominated. >> yes, sir. gerry: which of the democratic candidates do you most fear? >> i think joe biden at the moment for this reason: i think he will have the opportunity the, because of his background, to go into places like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin and a

i think we have 30% of our people go to the giants game by ferry. what do you think we're going to need to stay ahead? sk >> yeah. i think that's a great question. i think our focus was on this effort was the next five years, so five years from now. we want to be really responsive and nimble to today's need. i think certainly, we can start with a fleet of eight vessels, and we have more needs than vessels there, and go from there, and i wouldn't be surprised to see us double that within those ten-year periods to get up to 20 vessels especially if they're responding to the market that you're talking about, san francisco -- intra-san francisco travel. >> what kind of fuel will they use? l.n.g. >> we're very excited about the electric vessel, and that's the work that we're doing, as well as implementation, it's really -- is the technology there for us today, and if it's not there today, it will be there very, very soon so we're excited about the possibility. >> it would be nice if they could go to the dock and plug in like they do to the cruise terminal

>> i tend to think he was. don't know if i mentioned i had in my notes at one point that adams was the one that said we are viewed as raw americans and jefferson's french i think was not perfect. he was not fluent, he said i can read french, i don't write well in french he usually turned that over to a clerk but he understood it and he had to be able to converse at some level he could not have carried on his duties. that is what they were speaking among the diplomats. i have had this question come up so i don't have the quotes in front of me but i did begin to look for what were others saying. lafayette who he knew somewhat but they became to know each other better when jefferson was in france was writing back to washington saying, he is doing a great job. he commented on that several times. some other americans said he seems to be very well accepted here. he became lasting friends with the likeness of so he did establish some very good friendships there in paris. he m med domtar say -- -- continued to correspon

i don't think it's a setback at all i mean i think the expectations were probably a bit too high driven by trump himself yeah but he was trying to skill things in no rush but at least we're talking i mean let's roll back the clock to a year and a half ago fire in fury talking about rocket. rocket missile tests towards towards it was a really tense moment. but it's bigger than your button then this is only a year and a half ago another sitting down and talking ok they can come up with a great deal today were. never but all these are going to keep talking so i think. to call it a failure is wrong i think a lot of people know that states in security are probably relieved the trying to get away too did not give away too much that was definitely a few years away and i think this time around well there might be some diplomatic relations opened up and they're going to continue talking but there was a real fear after the singapore summit in june the trump would give away too much that he would reduce sanctions before north korea was really willing to give up nuclear weapons and that's the key t

i think the first medal is and i was like you know i have to say. i don't know i think it's difficult when you live in a country to know how you're perceived you know like you said you haven't. as a viewer of the country i think it's really interesting i love to travel because i love to find out what people think of it british people. usually not very good but . like i. was from a. few more smartest men i wasn't. on the scene alutiiq course i mean i have. learned that when you are really into ok. in london as vision it was an email voiced by monday. there are other schools spat on me when i go if it's an inside well you know i've got books missions are going to expose your country and you know even in the u.k. small as we are people are different in different parts you know in minton's known for being quite you know people being quite rude and unhelpful and aggressive because if you go to the north of england people say oh good morning you know how are you and you never go if you don't mention people think you're crazy that you don't look at each ot

i don't think i probably have to agree of the day and i think they probably can't win the title but want to finish ahead of boy and want to aim for that i think. they can definitely qualify for chambers they can finish you had a ball. would set them up very very nicely for the next season yes just very briefly how will combine do. yeah i think there's there's too many problems of not just little things you know the main colleague of ours wrote an article recently which said no longer a team to be feared you know there's no longer teams will go there and they will beat them and that's wasn't the case last year or even for the past seven years so i think it's going to be tougher by and i think they they need a lot of things to go right and seven points is a tough gap to make up some poise a tough guy back after indeed and unfortunate that's all from us to this week i'd like to thank my guests thank you for being in thank you for being the season good luck in the states and we'll see you when you come back next year and yanick my right hand man thank you as well to all of you at home thanks

i think that is first and foremost. a woman running does not draw the same women votes on the republican side. so we really have to address, i believe, making sure we have very qualified candidates also for women. i was in a race of seven, so i was running against six men. i made sure in my messaging that i was saying, i'm the most qualified candidate. i'm not running for women. but, as we move forward just really quick, and the only female pilot to my squadron. when i first got into my squadron, call signs are kind of stupid, my callsign was quota. so, it is since been changed, but i'm still the quota. it does not matter if i reached on every landing during a deployment, that one landing i made, that was bad, that is what you are remembered for is a woman. the guys can make crappy landings all day long that is not brought up. so we really have to make sure that we are putting forward extremely qualified candidates also, but yet, i would like to add and i am sure all of these women understand, i am much nicer to telemark

i want you to run. but the clip we just shown, my grandchildren think i should run. okay. t you've got to show, you think you want to run against trump because you want to run for the country, not because your grandchildren want you to. >> juan: kennedy is putting down beto o'rourke as a beta male. >> greg: i want to talk about beto and biden. every time i see -- beto is not exciting. he's excitable. every time i see him, he's like a buzzed college kid at thanksgiving dinner and excitedly telling the family about the class he's taking on noam chomsky and when he leaves, everybody the table is going did he take something in the bathroom? really, really hyped up. biden is like a redhead at the beach. he's got no base. why enter a race when you're going to have to leave? i feel like the media has already selected kamala harris. he is like the old white guy at the raven people wanted to leave so that they can break out the ecstasy. the only way biden could win and i believe this seriously and he could win big is to talk to the obamas and convince michelle to be his vp. for four

president trump: i think it is a big loss. the deal was not a great deal from the standpoint that they could have made a better deal. a much better deal. i come from new york city. i love new york city. yes. final briefing in a couple of hours. sad when likevery that happens i'm actually getting a very complete rethink about two hours. shame. it is a thing whenis a sad that happens. i have expressed that. you bear any responsibility for moderating your language? president trump: no. my languages very nice. been oneconflict have year. what do you think? president trump: who are you with? >> people's daily newspaper china. the cooperation. president trump: we have great cooperation both ways with china. a lot of good things are happening. so many people everyday, they are going to make a deal, they aren't going to make a deal. it is fake news. do they have fake news in china? i think so. are they going to make a deal? i think we have a very good chance of making a deal. both parties want to make it a meaningful deal. i can speak

i think they should help with us that. so those exercises are very expensive and i was telling the generals, i said, look, you know, exercising is fun and it's nice and they play the war games and i'm not saying it's not necessary because at some levels it is but at other levels it's not but it's a very, very expensive thing and you know we do have to think about that too. but when they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on those exercises and we don't get reimbursed, we're spending a tremendous amount of money on many countries protecting donees tries that are very rich, that can certainly afford to pay us and then some. those countries -- by the way, those donees trie done -- countw that it's not right but nobody's ever asked them before but i've asked them and we're gaining a lot of money. we picked up over $100 billion just in nato over the last two years, $100 billion more has come in and we're doing that with a lot of countries. you'll be seeing that a lot. yes, sir, please. one second, please. >> thank you mr. pre

i don't think he's ever tried to unify. his inaugural address was focusing on crime. >> very dark. >> very dark. and that seems to be his only play in his playbook. i don't think he's tried to reach very far beyond his base. i agree that he could. i'm also going to be looking at how he treats nancy pelosi, does he call her madam speaker, or is it nancy, he cou gracious and extend an olive branch. that's just not in his nature. maybe he'll, you know, have a new play for the state of the union. we just haven't seen that. >> immigration is a very big issue california, it's akey issue for him. and among those in theil audien be an undocumented immigrant who worked at one of his golf courses. she wasinvited by a democratic congresswoman. scott, how will that affect any message that the president delivers on immigration and border security and protecting jo for americans? >> it reminds me of what steve bannon did during a debate with hillary clinton, he brought women that had accused clinton of sexual assault to a debate. it's a d

with you larry i don't think he's listening to his security advisers and i don't think he's listening to his military generals i think is listening to fox and friends and i know i know that sounds like a joke i'm not joking i think this president wakes up every morning he turns on fox and friends and that's where he gets his foreign policy i mean i would never say that about any other president republican or democrat but the thing the president says there's no rhyme or reason to any of his approach whether it's north korea whether it's isis whether it's any of the issues in the middle east i think he literally just wakes up he sees what's trending on fox and friends because we know he watches fox news all day long and tweets about it and i think that's where he's getting us talking points and his policy. view. well i think it's a great line but it's not accurate if you look at where again the specifics of what he is discussing today and what we're talking about here is issue with the worldwide threat assessment i don't think that's coming from i believe that is coming directly from mi

so i think, one, i think it's calling it statutory construction fits poorly. and i think looking at it as a remedy kind of is a more grounded analysis. i think the main problem that courts struggle with in severability as it's understood is that it asks that katina factual question. if the realized this part was unconstitutional would it have wanted what remained? or would it have wanted wanted no law at all? now you have the instance where the legislature thinks about it and we talked about the bousher case where they devised a fallback law. but the fallback law. sometimes you see those but they're a rarity where the legislature says i see this constitutional prom, worried about it i'm going to devise a solution so the court knows what i want. most of the time they don't do that. either they are silent or they have this incredibly broad severe ability clause. and i think courts tend not to give them weight, because it's saying i don't know what the constitutional problem is but whatever it is, whether it's small, or enormous i still want you to save the rest.

i don't think the inflation data is as meaningful. over the next several months i would agree with. but there is a substantial amount of earnings. trying to understand what these companies are seeing, what their response in the market and what that means is important. jonathan: this inflation risk that people are grappling with every day, the increasing prospect of a recession as the year progresses, is that something you see hanging over your asset class for the time being? jim: the biggest thing is there is too much debt in the world. i think that by its nature is deflationary. as you see inflation pick up or rates pickup, that is ultimately going to slow down growth globally. that is always going to be the question. yes, in all of our asset classes, policy and the potential for recession is going to be where you will see severe moves like you saw this summer. tony: the only thing that flip-flops faster than the fed is investor sentiment. if you get some other metric, you will possibly get everyone to shift to the other side of the b

>> i think he's just trolling her. n getting the traction people thought she would. i think she'll have a lot of problems explaining her past behavior. claiming to be native american, the whole texas bar. i don't think trump sees her as a serious threat. i think he's more trolling her. others will pull off the nomination, not elizabeth warren. i'm not sure how long her campaign will last. >> senator amy klobuchar is expected to join the already crowded field that we've been talking about. what does she need to do to stand out from the pack? >> that's a great question. you know, the more candidates that decide to jump into this race, the harder it will be both to stand out but also the lower the threshold comes in terms of winning primaries and caucuses. you need fewer and fewer votes to be the majority vote getter. the one thing i will say from where the party is headed is certainly lurching leftward. this is a formative time for the party. we're getting away from more stock in trade. i don't want to call them more cons

you think you'll ever get a wall. no i don't think he'll ever get the kind of wall that he wants he may get some more barriers some more electrical equipment. hopefully he will see what is really needed more coast guard resources to stop shipments from the water more border patrol agencies more detection equipment in the air more drones that will be what is needed for stopping illegal immigration not a wall people will go under the wall up over the wall it is not needed and there's parts of the west larry the borders where there are mountainous regions you're going to trample into the land rights of native americans of ranchers of wildlife it doesn't make sense he wants to please his base of about thirty percent of the american people and he doesn't want to expand and represent all of us moderates democrats others that are part of this country. you are an election observer invented in two thousand and fourteen when madeira was elected the united states is now calling for him to step down was your reaction. well i think her

i think he will do an kexcellen job. i'm not so sure i would be a buyer. continue to be low. it's such a high correlation to the financials i own bank of america. i'm not looking to buy anymore i'm not looking to sell it it's just there. >> i'm not a big believer in selling or shorting equity names. i believe morgan stanley traded 42 i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be doing with that. >> the price is 42, i need a $30 price target >> this is not going to be popular. i'll say it any way. you cannot take macro economic commentary about u.s. situations and extrapolate that into trades this guy albert edwards i'm convinced is more of a performance artist than a strategist who has literally been predicting the end of the world since my bar mitzvah it's on and on and on. maybe this will be the time and this clip will be infamous and they will play it to embarrass me in six months opinion maybe this will be the time that the ice age comes. i don't know as a general rule, you don't want to take this kind of thing where the credit cycle is already turning and it w

intelligence and so questions needs to be answered and i think that the u.s. doesn't want to get to that point where the war ends and questions are being leveled at washington i don't think that anyone wants to be in that position and of course we're moving towards you know election time the presidential election will i mean the race will begin quite soon so i think that people want to position themselves and try to use yemen as a kind of you know political called. scott why their reluctance on the part of donald trump to. to push the kingdom to push saudi arabia it is it can't really just be about money. that's part of it we know there were discussions between people around trump with the saudis and with the u.a.e. just before trump took office and just afterwards in terms of i took office around various projects we know that specifically donald trump's son in law jerry question or who has sort of been designated the unofficial middle east envoy for the ministration is very close to the saudis including the mahomedan solomon we know that that's one reason why

well i think this is the solution as i said i think is there is no way other than coming back to back that for our kids citizens i think they have been very ego to build that issue with it or neighboring countries but you know the neighbors they don't stop issuing i could just state because they don't allow independent or even seen the scimitar to most attend almost they could just share a region in their own country so but in europe where our affairs are part of our country they have the utmost region where we're to with them within the framework of for the state the federal state has put this its own authority on the regions they have their own authority we should and we can the federal authority on that count over the region and we should know we can the region with a count of the federal state that's how we're put out how we work out and i think we have been very successful at the end of two thousand and thirteen of two thousand they'd seen we as a relationship we opened the airports of the region of kurdistan we opened the trade again and i think it we have to build on these trai

i think it is just a waste. i really believe in free education for trade schools because we need plumbers and we need electricians. we need air conditioning people, those are more important then a college education. when i worked i had people come into our business with a four year college at a drycleaners because they could not get a job anywhere after they got their degree so what a waste. >> thank you for the call. >> this concern over to these degrees lead to good jobs and what are people earning? i think that is out there more than it has been in a long time and i think what you're seeing now in response to that in a policy environment is getting information out there of what graduates go on to earn within specific programs. you might prevent some people making choices that don't lead to a sort of good return on their investment. i think those anxieties are fueling those kinds of solutions. >> first i would say congratulations on putting five kids through school. and i would like to pick up on two things. on

i think within the democratic party. ch i am lone guy at table there is a whole debate, a debate between populist left and moderate, can someone in and left win the general. and we're not sure, because, i think that you know, democrat party has been pushed to the left, it will be a real interesting debate. i believe you need to be a pro-growth democrat to win the 2020. >> okay i am take exceptionist, i don't think that america is turning socialist, 82% of country either feels they have achieved american dream or on cusp-that means, freedom. people want freedom, to live their lives the way they want, i think all this excitement about socialism, honestly is just ignorignorance. people don't know what they are excited about, they don't know how it works. we'll have a tremendous education over next two years as republicans try to explain to country, i think they will be able to, donald trump will be able to do it. why it is a terrible idea. it comes down to, you take money from one group and giving it to another, there over i

i think that there is, i guess what i, to answer your question, i think there is perhaps some political space for jim's idea, for josh's idea, you know, that's not a federal thing so much, that's a level down, and i wanted to talk about the political viability of that. i think it is a very, very heavy lift. i sort of suspect you wouldn't disagree. and then for david's idea, you know, i don't really know, but i'll talk a little bit, you know, the politic, i will talk a little bit about that idea if i might so can i say a few things about the policies? because i read these papers carefully and very much enjoyed them, they're all very well written. so in terms of josh's point, josh said during your conversation, and this was the zoning idea, governments make rule, right? well, that's true. but in a way, the zoning rules that you're talking about, the local ones, are almost the most representative level of government you can think of, because if comes down almost to the block level. now, your idea should be something that should be in place already. it is a great idea, and the reason i say

i don't think that role was filled. so i don't have a legal answer for you. >> it says is in the book, we're governed by parliamentary procedure. all the commissions are. so you can't make that motion. >> well, i guess -- >> i'm next in line. >> feel free to speak. i made the motion, i guess i would need a second. do i have a second? besides, i can make the motion. >> i think -- >> i have a second from commissioner. >> okay, you know, that's improper and i've asked the city attorney to look into that. everyone else is governed by parliamentary procedure and i don't think the chair can do that. the last meeting when we brought the election issue up i was concerned and angry. i spoke out at that time because i learned four members of the executive board, the mayor's office had decided who was going to be the president and vice president, hirsch and taylor and that's what i was concerned -- upset because of the back room politicking, the decisions made without having a discussion among all members of the commission and excl

i think there's... call it trauma, i would call it a moral ambiguity behind everything, because after the shooting i found myself on television almost 24/7 for a month or two, and ifound myself skyrocketed to this position were so many people were looking at what i had to say and were listening to me. and this was only weeks after the shooting that i found myself at this point with my platform. so, ifind myself asking the question, was it all worth it? what makes me so special? why should i have been somebody who was able to reach all these people? and that's difficult, but i certainly don't have any trauma from the shooting itself. i was over a hundred yards away from the shooting. i was not in any physical danger. that's why i hate when people call me a victim or a survivor. i mean, there were young people who go to school every day right now and saw their classmates die. i didn't see anyone die. you're very frank saying, listen, i was quite a long way from where the shooter was, i'm not a victim, and

i think the -- i can't remember, i think it's the state department that was supposed to do that. you ha to ask secretary pompeo. >> because i want to ask you about one thi that the saudi foreign minister posted on twitter. it was a rather threatening poster. take a look at it. it was something here. i know you're very familiar with him. our leadership is a red line and lookt thebomb, we warn against any attempt to link as ggi's crime to our leadership. the united states congress has oasically done that. the intelligenceunity has done that. that's a threat against the united states? i don't kow. >> i donw what that is. i know that state department is looking into it and that congress is looking into it and beyond that, chuck, itoas not come my desk yet. >> you know ago the jeff bezos story. he has implicated "the national enqu ter" and owner, mr. david pecker, in some form of a blackmail or extortion scheme. can you y definitively that the president of the united states knows nothing about david cker's reporting on jeff bezos? >> you and i were talking about it before the show, abo