i'm joined now by jonathan steele international affairs commentator good evening jonathan seemed lots of nice warm words from both sides on the face of it what did you make of the meeting. well as you say it is friendship is hardly ever been warmer and stronger than it is at the moment there's almost no issue in which you can find disagreement between russia and china and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high and chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china senator it makes sense for the these 2 other big powers russia and china to emphasize their friendship. as a sort of contrast with what's going on with the united states is it is think that is the driving force to the fact that america is making life difficult for so many other people it's bringing their enemies together or is it because there's just lots of opportunity for deals between russia and china well there's lots of opportunities to do between russia and china. to trade $150000000000.00 roughly by natural trade which isn't sounds enormous a

visit here to russia mark 70 years of diplomatic relations and international affairs commentator jonathan steele told us moscow beijing ties and are better than ever friendship is hardly ever been stronger than it is at the moment there's almost never sure which you can find disagreement to trade a $150000000000.00 roughly by natural trade richardson sounds enormous and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high in chinese american tensions even higher because there's a trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china well i think it's kind of warning to the west. to say look russia can supply. the united states or can china and in fact they can get together in the cold war there was this russian china american triangle with american china allied against russia and russia has supplies united. america. russia and china. the chinese leader arrived in moscow bearing gifts paying over 2 giant pandas to moscow as it was part of a conservation program. and just to let you know kind of tied in with this the state visit comes amid growing tensions of course as we've been reporting

international affairs commentator jonathan steele says russian chinese relations are better now than ever. friendship is. stronger than it is the moment is almost never sure if you can find disagreement. $150000000000.00. sounds enormous and it comes at a time. when chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade that's been imposed by china well i think it's a kind of warning to the west. to say look. the united states or can china and get together. this russian china american triangle american china. russia and china. the u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial servicemen has pleaded not guilty to the charges the republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused in a way that has shocked many. comments. the case of a u.s. navy seal accused of some pretty nasty crimes in iraq has grabbed headlines the man is eddie gallagher he's accused of murder attempted murder and a slew of other crimes now according to the reports when his team initially report

international affairs commentator jonathan steele thinks pompei 0 is interfering and british politics. it's one thing to criticize say you disagree with another government's policy that's legitimate under international diplomacy it to actually take action to try and reverse policies. is beginning to become interference works when peres said which is really sinister is she said rouge will begin to push back against actions taken by jamie colby will pushing back as much as a criticism that implies that she's going to intervene physically in british politics and possibly undermine that cauldron that they have a government it's not a typical slope on chaotic might was that he's trying to organize it would be trying to organize a coup against the british government or put sanctions on the british government or some other way try and put pressure between that goes beyond criticism of richard reid and exactly what he has in mind he just uses that word push back its actions he's talking about. criticism. the b.b.c. reports it has obtained a draft letter written by u.k. mobile operators to the

international affairs commentator jonathan steele says russian chinese relations are now better than ever. friendship is hardly ever been stronger than it is at the moment there's almost never sure if you can find disagreement to turn age of reason $150000000000.00 roughly bilateral trade richardson sounds enormous and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high in chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china but i think it's kind of warning to the west to. say look russia can support. the united states or can china and in fact they can get together in the cold war there was this russian china american triangle with american china against russia russia has supplies united it's america's russia and china. u.s. military judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case of a navy seal accused of committing war crimes one week before the trial of the servicemen has pleaded not guilty to the charges republican congressman himself a former soldier recently defended the accused in a way that is shocked artie's kil

visit to russia mark 70 years of diplomatic relations than international affairs commentator jonathan steele says moscow beijing relations are now better than ever. friendship is hardly ever been stronger than it is the moment there's almost never sure if you can find disagreement to truly degrees $150000000000.00 roughly trade which sounds enormous and it comes at a time when russian american tensions are high in chinese american tensions even higher because of the trade war that's been imposed by donald trump on china well i think it's kind of warning to the west. to say look russia. the united states or can china. get together. there was this crushing china american triangle with american china against russia and russia has supplies united . russia and china the chinese leader arrived here in moscow better gift paying handed over to punters to moscow 2. well a state visit comes of growing tensions between china and the u.s. as mentioned just now in the trade war we're going to take a close look at that later in the program i can tell you. next this morning concerns over press freedom have

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you had the steele dossier, it looks like you had a dossier created by jonathan weiner at the state department, using as a source, not only steele, but folks like sidney blumenthal, clinton aide, and cody share, who goes back a long time with the clinton group. this is just incredible in the sense that everyone has been thinking that at the justice department and the fbi, that is where all the bad activities were taking place. secretary pompeo needs to be working with ag barr as closely as any other agency head in terms of decoding the deep state conspiracy against then candidate trump and president trump and they were desperate to get this information out to their friendly democrats on the hill just before drop was inaugurated. it was not to help president trump. it was to destroy him and undermine him. >> sean: tom fitton, judicial watch, he will be gusting with uss in the next couple of days. it's getting very interesting, without a doubt, a deep state reckoning, it's happening before our very eyes. the single biggest abuse of power scandal in american history is about to be laid bare for a

you have the steele dossier and looks like you have a dossier created by jonathan winer at the state department. using steele and sydney blumenthal, a clinton aide or pal and cody sheerer who goes back for a long time with the clinton group. this is just incredible in the sense that everyone is thinking it's the justice department and the fbi, that's where all the bad activity was taking place. secretary pompeo needs to be working with a.g. bar as closely as any other agency has in terms of decoding the deep state conspiracy against then candidate trump and then president trump and they were desperate to get this information out to their friendly democrats on the hill just before trump was inaugurated. it wasn't to help president trump. it was to try to destroy him and undermine him. >> sean: thanks with that report, tom. getting very interesting without a doubt a deep state reckoning. it's happening before our eyes. the single biggest abuse scandal is about to come to light. sources are confirming to me that things are most likely worse than we thought. we have the new letter from th

preposterous and it couldn't have happened. >> christopher steele had an in with the state department years even before the 2016 elections. he knew this jonathanoing back sometime. he was helping him according to the documents we have. then once the dossier came up, he conveyed that to the senior state department official, victoria newland. and then newland is already talk about that with house democrats, other documents we have show that the state department was a key area or key agency in the antitrust efforts, shepherding the dossier, not only to the congress, but to the justice department. even through christopher steele. we think that he has the one dossier no, the state department sending his own material separate to congress. if the ag bill barr is going to look at the scene is not only look at doj, fbi, nsa, cia, state department is the middle of a storm when it comes to this. lou: he want to look at the senate intelligence committee. he will need as well to look at how the john mccain got his hands on the steele dossier. and how is it that he is sitting there working with a former agent of michigan six i security conference who is the

preposterous and it couldn't have happened. >> well, or steele had it in with the state department going back years even before the 2016 elections. he knew this jonathanner guy, was helping him out according to the documents we have, and once the dossier came up, he conveyed that to senior state department official, victoria nuland, and then nuland is, obviously, talking about that with house democrats. other documents we have, lou, show that the state department was a key area or a key agency in the anti-trump efforts shepherding the dossier not only to congress, but to justice department even through steele. you know, we think that steele has the one dossier? oh, no. the state department was sending its own material separately to congress. so when a a.g. barr is going to look at this, he needs to not only look at doj, fbi, nsa, cia, state department's at the center of the storm when it came to these coup efforts. lou: into he's going to need to look at how did john mccain get his hands on the steele dossier, and how is it that he's sitting there working with a former agent of mi-6 at a security conference who is the person designated for him to hand

documents out of the obama state department showing that christopher steele, glen simpson had special access to a person called jonathantate department.

documents out of the obama state department showing that christopher steele, glenn s simpson had special access to a person called jonathany in the john kerry state department, and he was working with victoria nuland and a

. >> jonathan, as you've been pointing out, we're getting snippets of notes from the pool. joining us now as well, msnbc political analyst michael steele, former republican national committee chairman. we don't know exactly the context of this because he's talked about iran and the pool report said that he said it's hard to think it was intentional. i want to be careful about that, because i'm not seeing it myself. so let's not go there. he started out talking about the economy and trade and the booming economy, markets up. that partly on the feg signal yesterday perhaps. we don't know about that. he's been beating up on the fed. he's getting back to his -- what his advisers had hoped would be his reelect mode talking more about the economy than some of these glooef vances, michael. this escalation in iran is front and center right now. >> it is front and center. i think it's sort of a try angulation, if you will, by the president and his team to pivot to the economic stuff as they want him to do and the party broadly wants him to talk about the good economic numbers, the hesitation by the fed to advance additional increases in the int

steel or magnesium part we have manufactured. we protect ourselves but also create a value proposition for our customers. jonathanunt -- alix: you reduce the amount of aluminum? ramzi: yes. we've restructured parts that were previously aluminum and have been able to take as much as 25% out of that product. withoutluminum lighter sacrificing performance, quality, safety, or sustainability. david: what does that do to your margins? ramzi: we do see margins increasing. we have made a significant product shipped to a product oriented business. alix: if that is what you are doing one year ago, have you had to change and do new things or are you doing the same old, same old as the trade war tracks on and we get the whole this may never end situation. ramzi: what we are finding is customers looking for alternative solutions and being must more open to alternative ideas. you see that change, you see an openness from our customers and a willingness for more innovative ideas and we are bringing those ideas forward. david: we have mentioned mexico, we have mentioned china. what about your? -- what about europe? forwardean t