lew,you listen to jack gideon, is america exposed? to pick yourave fights.n everything. the united states is the most powerful in the world, and we can to play that leverage for our interests and values, but we cannot do everything. we have to pick and choose which fight you want. as they keepoblems fighting with everybody. iran and china and russia. essentially, everybody else. that diminishes leverage. at some point, people wonder if this is a guy we want to play with or should we organize a game by ourselves without the united states. that is the danger down the road. new there is the idea of debt and new deficit, congressional budget office driving this conversation. we're fine art & reine ise guess thate and brain suggesting an economic slowdown and could get to your a $2 trillion deficit. troubling.s is very usually deficits go up when you are in a recession or in a war. we do not usually drive the deficit out of control when we are in a period of sustained high growth. first of all borrowing requirements will keep growing. focus ons with all the trade

saudi crown prince saudi arabia tonight any involvement earlier i discussed this with my colleague jack lew the. it looks like the u.s. may have been aware of an imminent threat to the journalist well initially the trumpet ministration was rather slow in responding to the disappearance and this really may indicate why earlier in the the week reports surface that the u.s. had intercepts of saudi officials discussing a plot to lure him back to saudi arabia and detain him there now he's of course been living in the u.s. for about a year now at this point and he writes for the washington post he's a journalist and a lot of his articles are rather critical of the saudi government now it's unclear when the u.s. may have intercepted this intelligence and if they may have acted on it but it does raise quite a few questions not least of which being whether or not they had a responsibility to warn the journalist that his life might be in danger in some way shape or form now on wednesday a state department official did come out saying that they did not have any prior knowledge of the incident though a

but jack lew warned in a speech that you don't want to overuse sanctions.st of to all, everybody is in this together and second, if there is evidence if a country subject to sanctions has not mended its ways, you want to remove -- has mended their ways, you want to remove those sanctions. iran was the implication, and trump seems to be violating those principles. in a way, this gets the back of the rest of the world up and they say, we really want to disentangle ourselves from the dollar. even if it might not happen quickly, it could happen. jason: if not the dollar, what? peter: that is one of the reasons -- the euro doesn't even real have a bash have a real government behind it. no fiscal taxing authority, and the chinese government doesn't seem to be willing to have the openness that would be required of a country with a reserve currency, so the u.s. is by default the world's reserve currency. carol: coming up, traditional studios tired of being outmaneuvered by netflix are fighting back. jason: and we hear about the rise of streaming services. carol: pl