the trading day sent shares down -- and senator marco rubio has supported the president saying a potential new economy monopolies will require closer monitoring. it has met lower prices, long-term it could mean less competition. is there a legal case to be made against the e-commerce giant? bloombergnior antitrust analyst. marco rubio is calling it a new monopoly under antitrust laws, to the justice department go after amazon? lost itnk with existing will be very difficult, the body of law hasn't grown enough as cases have gone through the court. high bar ints a difficult standards to meet approved a company is a monopolist under antitrust laws, that is a part of the reason you see some calls by democrats for a change in the laws are a reassessment of the antitrust laws to better apply the way

you have entering cardin and marco rubio -- you have marco sayingnd benjamin cardin marco rubio and i demand united states government and the international community do something about assad, do something against russia. on the other hand, you have democrats who revere barack obama. what did barack obama do during the eight years of his presidency when it came to what was happening in syria or the last five or six years since the civil war in syria? obama took exactly the opposite position. he said, we're not going to get involved in cereal. we are not going to devote efforts to regime change. the cia under obama did spend roughly $1 billion a year to arm and train syrian rebels but nowhere near enough to actually overthrow assad, just enough to keep the were going because obama was very afraid of confronting russia in and also of the chaos that would ensue if assad were removed. that was barack obama's position. he allowed four assad to remain in power even though he threatened to remove him if he crossed the line. yet this very kind of ideologically mixed debate that does not follow

you have entering cardin and marco rubio -- you have marco sayingnd benjamin cardin marco rubio and i demand united states government and the international community do something about assad, do something against russia. on the other hand, you have democrats who revere barack obama. what did barack obama do during the eight years of his presidency when it came to what was happening in syria or the last five or six years since the civil war in syria? obama took exactly the opposite position. he said, we're not going to get involved in cereal. we are not going to devote efforts to regime change. the cia under obama did spend roughly $1 billion a year to arm and train syrian rebels but nowhere near enough to actually overthrow assad, just enough to keep the were going because obama was very afraid of confronting russia in and also of the chaos that would ensue if assad were removed. that was barack obama's position. he allowed four assad to remain in power even though he threatened to remove him if he crossed the line. yet this very kind of ideologically mixed debate that does not follow

aside for most of 2015 and then supported marco rubio. david: ok, and when he dropped out, did you have anybody next? [laughter] paul: um, no. i stood aside. david: ok. but ultimately when donald trump was the nominee of the party, did you support him then as the nominee? paul: i voted for him. david: ok. paul: and there is -- i was not going to vote for hillary clinton as some of my republican friends did, and i became optimistic about some of the opportunities in economic growth and regulatory reform, tax reform. david: has donald trump invited now you down to visit him? did you know him before he was elected president? paul: i did not. i invested in his bonds a couple of times. david: ok. [laughter] david: those were high-grade i bonds? [laughter] paul: they were on the date of issue. [laughter] [applause] david: they later became high-yield? paul: and below. david: right. [laughter] david: so, have you seen him since he is president, and have

would speaker rooib want to say if marco rubio was this the white house or jeb bush? the reality is that his speakership has been marked by dealing with trump controversy after trump controversy. their relationship was frequently strained. they didn't always see eye to eye on policy. there is a lot the speaker didn't sign up for when he took this job. and ryan is far from the only house republican deciding to call it quits this year. in fact, for a party that controls the white house and congress an awful lot of its members aren't interested in sticking around. ryan's departure is perhaps the bige blow yet. john cornan of texas acknowledged to rotters today that ryan's retirement creates another element of urn sent in the leadup to the 2019 election. while some republicans are walking aig away completely there are indications that those sticking around are trying to set red lines. mr. mueller's investigation is

marco rubio also treated about amazon this morning -- tweeted about amazon this morning. president trump picks his battles, and sometimes he has people lining up with him and sometimes he does not. line up morecians than the people. what if his percentage of voters stop shopping at amazon? there are two risks. we see marco rubio tweeting, if we see more and more of that, i think the concern about amazon will linger. julie: if you look at it, despite the turmoil in tech, it was best-performing group, up 2.2% are we saw defensive groups like telecom services lag. what are you hearing from strategists about what will happen to technology going forward, and whether it will retain leadership? michael: looking at the forecast, it is still there for tech, about 30% growth for the group in the s&p 500. there has not been a lot of orage to earnings estimate analysts opinions on any of these stocks, looking at facebook, amazon. analysts are still overnighted percent on these stocks. maybe they are late or will change their tune as things go on. nothing has damaged the long-term fun

. - when i thought about you was during the primaries, during the debates, when marco rubio and donald trump got into a whole thing about the size of his hands. - yes. - because i remembered, well you tell the story, back in the day, you all coined the relevant phrase here. - we did, we tended to coin epithets for people we ... - [evan] positives, right? - to talk about again and again. every time we mentioned henry kissinger, in the way that time magazine used to do, cause we had both, my partner graydon carter in time magazine, every time we referred to henry kissinger, we called him socialite war criminal henry kissinger. (laughing) and just the repetition of that was fun. - so funny. - exactly. we tried different ones on trump and then finally, i have now looked back at the history of this since it's become consequential, i guess, we started calling him short fingered vulgarian donald trump (audience laughing) in the early 80s. and as a result, because graydon had done a profile of trump while we were starting spy and came back to the little office we shared and said, you know, thi

and senator marco rubio. this is a 45 minutes [music] [applause]. these are my friends. we've great friends right here. we have made tremendous progress in our country. very tough one with cuba. not sure what happened we're going to celebrate a little bit. open for business. we are doing tremendously. we billions of dollars. apple 350 billion-dollar investment. and a new campus. beautiful campus and plants and i've always wanted that. something of the companies are bringing back their money they're putting it to work. chrysler is opening up a big a big beautiful plan. it is a whole different story. they all want to be part of it i want to think senator rubio he's been a great friends. and mario i want to thank you right from day one thank you. and secretary of the treasury hits racer in our secretary of labor. thank you alex not all of my choices were good that they were great once tomorrow is tax day and were to hear from everybody and we've heard so many people that are so thrilled. this is a last time you will fill up the long complicated return i would say some of th

the tweets storm at the top of the trading day sent shares down -- and senator marco rubio has supported president saying a potential new economy monopolies will require closer monitoring. it has met lower prices, long-term it could mean less competition. is there a legal case to be made against the e-commerce giant? bloombergnior antitrust analyst. marco rubio is calling it a new monopoly under antitrust laws, to the justice department go after amazon? lost itnk with existing will be very difficult, the body of law hasn't grown enough as cases have gone through the court. high bar ints a difficult standards to meet approved a company is a monopolist under antitrust laws, that is a part of the reason you see some calls by democrats for a change in the laws are a reassessment of the antitrust laws to better apply the way they would say it to these kinds of companies. david: changing the laws is one thing, that is difficult. the force point -- if you look at amazon shares in terms of e-commerce retailing, it is a very big share and has gained faster than anybody else. it looks like a monop

well, next hour we'll check marco rubio and see how he's doing. >> i think marco is a free trader.icize donald trump for the trump tariff tax. i'm sure marco predicted as well two years ago. so let's hope that he, too, returns to washington, d.c. will speak out loudly and strongly and aggressively. >> robustly. >> against the trump tariff tax and speaks to defend consumers, farmers, and the ideas of milton freedman and hayek and buckley. >> i know they're thinking about milton. it's friday, april 6, we're live in washington this morning at the top of the hour here. we have columnist and associate editor for the "washington post" david ignatius. former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele, joining the conversation chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" peter baker, and white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon pettypiece. good to have you on board. >> peter, let's do a wellness check on the white house. >> oh, no, remember we're not allowed to do that, it's inappropriate. talking about mental health. >> i'm not talking about ment

neil: marco rubio is at this event. florida governor scott is not.eve rick scott is fund-raising ahead of his senate run there. are we reading anything else in that or no? >> this is governor scott was urged by president to do to challenge senator nelson held the race quite a long time. he has been pretty lucky in terms of his challengers over the years. think was tough challenge though for senator nelson. you're talking about a governor who obviously has done well in terms of governing the state of florida, who also has a lot of money that he can pour into personally into his campaign. i think republican national committee and republican senatorial committee will put a lot of money behind this race. this is an opportunity for a pickup for republicans in november. neil: jon decker, thank you very much. jon decker, radio correspondent at the white house. the president is getting ready to speak in florida. it's a roundtable dedicated we're told, on this tax cut situation. connell mcshane is there with the very, very latest. reporter: president was just

estuvo acompaÑado por empresarios locales, tambiÉn por el congresista mario dÍaz-balart y el senador marco rubioe arrancaron aplausos. >> quiero darte las gracias, seÑor presidente, por ser un campeÓn a favor de la democracia y la libertad. [aplausos] >> muchos aplausos porque Él estÁ ayudando, está haciendo algo para ponerle presiÓn al gobierno de venezuela y de cuba. lourdes: aquÍ la mayoría de los asistentes aseguraron estar de acuerdo con la reforma tributaria del presidente. >> el capitalismo organizado es lo mÁs lindo para levantar el pueblo. lourdes: pero afuera de la actividad se escucharon voces disidentes. >> va a hablar sobre el chorro de dinero. lourdes: trump se reunirÁ martes y miÉrcoles en su residencia de palm beach con el primer ministro de japÓn ilia: el presidente trump prometiÓ hoy mÁs acciones contra los gobiernos de venezuela y cuba. se lo dijo a ninoska pÉrez, comentarista de la emisora univisiÓn en miami. >> el presidente obama regalÓ todo y sÓlo he recuperado. somos duros con cuba porque queremos que el pueblo tenga libertad. ellos han sufrido por tantos aÑos y si vemos

decide for most of 2015 -- and then supported marco rubio.n he dropped out, did you have anybody next? paul: no, i still decide. ultimately, when donald trump was the nominee, did you support him? paul: i voted for him. i was not going to vote for hillary clinton, as some of my republican friends did. and i became optimistic about some of the opportunities in economic growth and regulatory reform. has donald trump invited you to visit him? did you know him before he was president? >> i invested in his bonds a couple of times. >> those are high-grade bonds? >> they were on the date of issue. [laughter] david: high-yield? paul: and below. david: have you seen him since he was president, and have you given him any advice? paul: i visited the white house once a few months ago and we chatted about taxes and economic policy. david: you've raised a lot of money for republicans. do they listen to you? thank you for your ideas, by the way i'm having a fundraiser? paul: that is not the way it goes. -- let's bem humanists here. their problem is that the

and then supported marco rubio. david: and when he dropped out, did you have anybody next?er] paul: no, i stood aside. ok.d: but ultimately, when donald trump was nominated to the party, did you support and then? paul: i voted for him. i was not going to vote for hillary clinton as some of my and iican friends did, became optimistic about some of the opportunities and economic growth and regulatory reform, tax reforms. david: the donald trump invite you down to visit him? did you know him before he was elected president? paul: i did not. i invested in some of his bonds a couple of times. [laughter] david: those were high-grade bonds? [laughter] paul: they were on the issue. david: and they later became high-yield? paul: and below. [laughter] i visited the white house once months ago and we chatted a bit about taxes and economic policy. david: you have given a lot of money, raised a lot of money for republicans. do they listen to you? that's not the way it goes. problem, let's be isanists here, their problem that they are subject to all kinds of forces. all kinds of pressure

marco rubio respaldÓ el juicio por corrupciÓn contra maduro.redes sociales circulan videos de una extraÑa y peligrosa prÁctica conocida como el reto del condÓn. consiste en aspirar fuerte para aabsorber un condÓn por la nariz y sacarlo por la boca. como nos dice lourdes del rÍo, estos jÓvenes estÁn aceptando este desafÍo sin percatarse de que les podrÍa costar la vida. lourdes: ha regresado un desafÍo muy peligroso en las redes sociales. el llamado reto del condÓn. el desafÍo del condÓn implica inhalar un preservativo sin envoltura a travÉs de la nariz y sacarlo de la garganta por la boca. una proeza difÍcil e incÓmoda. >> estÁn locos. no tienen capacidad mental. eso hace daÑo. yo fui joven. nada que hiciera daÑo. lourdes: pero esto no solamente parece una locura sino que lo es. arriesgarse a hacer algo como esto podrÍa incluso costarle la vida. >> instar un condÓn a la fosa nasal puede causar ahogamiento, sse puede trabar en las cuerdas vocales o en la trÁquea. lourdes: los lubricantes puede provocar reacciÓn alÉrgica o infecciones. si la falt

speakers include house minority leader nancy pelosi, florida senator marco rubio, and georgia congressman john lewis. as well as robert kennedy's grandson, congressman joe kennedy, and his daughter cary kennedy, who runs runs the human rights organization that hosted the event. this was held in the russell senate office building's kennedy caucus room, where both he and john announced their presidential candidacies. this is just under two hours.

marco rubio tweeting at the president, trying to remind him of that, essentially saying cautioning ofving syria too soon is not about being hawkish. it's about the fact that if we leave too soon, we leave behind a vacuum that will either make iran and hezbollah stronger or lead to a resurgence of isis. the question is will the president listen. >> i think the best analogy to this is afghanistan, which is another place where he said he wanted to bring troops it out. it was too long. it's an endless war. it's an unwinnable situation there. and he agreed to add troops to afghanistan. it was an early indication that he was willing to listen to the hawks that tend to rule the republican party. >> will that continue under this alleged new trump, where he's alleged making his own decisions, no the listening to advisers so much. >> it's unclear because the idea that you just mentioned of pulling out of iraq too early can definitely be said for afghanistan. i mean, that's where -- you know, that's where bin laden was. you can say that about a lot of these hot spots, which is why you have the l

cruzkers, marco rubio, ted , they pay more attention to this.ething that will be a building debate in the months to come. >> specific legislation, some of requireents of an act entities that promote political agenda for a governments to register for as an agent and it forces universities to disclose donations from foreign sources, $50,000, important to consider, especially when it comes to china. >> foreign agents registration russia was forced to register, the problem is that an old law was passed in 1938 and has a lot of gray areas. there is a lot of ways that people, or companies, or nonprofits, or donors, who do have ties to foreign countries or foreign local parties, they do not have to register. there is a lot of perhaps foreign influence that we are not aware of. what this law would do is to try -- if a mediat is outlet does not have editorial control and funding for a foreign government, it would have to register. that would apply to the chinese network, chinese television network here. and other chinese funded media outlets here. in ter

marco rubio is from the state of florida cape canaveral you know from which many of the most famous space missions was launched now florida nasa is very important to florida rubio knows that brian sign is unqualified to leave nasa and that is bad for the state of florida he has made this very clear and yet he voted for brian stein basically because he whacks the will to oppose the president even when he knows the president is wrong and then jeff flake of retiring senator from the state of arizona so someone who presumably trump has no web or a job where there is no worry about a future primary defeat. jeff flake who said scathing things about donald trump initially voted against bryden stein and then changed his mind and is that was the decisive vote and i don't think that flake and rubio were alone i'm sure many of their members of the senate republicans were aware that they were voting to confirm someone who was not qualified under any normal standards of qualification and i think that they're acquiescence to an unqualified nominee is representative of the problems within the repu

we're talking about -- liz: what data >> what data was marco rubio using?ssume some sort of official capacity data. but the committee voted for it? liz: joint committee and taxation and tax policy center which is a liberal organization do say the majority 80 puerto rico per of the tax cuts do go to the middle class and lower brackets and two-thirds of the household don't pay federal income tax at all. >> i understand when the max bonus is a thousand dollars, now i'm not a crumbs advocate -- >> don't do it jessica. >> i said i'm not a crumbs advocate and i'm not going to do it, no crumbs. liz: okay no crumbs. >> i think there will be an argument that the economy continued to grow and that's a good thing consumer confidence up. liz: but what are the dems come paining on? >> they will talk about how we can have have a freer and fairer economy, about higher individual taxes to make sure it goes to the people who need the money. you asked what they are going to do. liz: but lawrence the data shows the wall street journal report of that the top 20% pay 87% of fed

ican senator marco rubio recently tweeted new economy monopolies will require regulating. elizabeth warren and bernie sanders warned their flubs to be anticompetitive. and cory booker has asked the d.o.j. and the ftc to weigh in on what he called the rising c tide ofporate concentration. corporate monopolies are generally considered bad because any allow companies to overcharge for their products but amazon is getting slammed for lowering prices too much, something that consumers actually like. >> the violate anti-trust laws it's not just because you are big. u have to be anticompetitive, you have to be hurting consumers. nobody is making that case. >> reporter: cazon'stics say the company is using its pricing power to squeeze its suppliers, vendors, and even its workers. but it's tough to prove that's anticompetitive and not just good business. >>> our guest tonight says the iticism and attacks on amazon could continue to put pressure on the stock near term, joining us timothy lessco of janrity investment advisors. >> thanks for having me. >> we should point outtou are ex

job there to become the chief of staff of one of republican establishments favor sons, senator marco rubio of florida. the move is certain to raise questions about whether mr. rubio, whose hopes of becoming president in 2016, were dashed by mr. trump, may be positioning himself for another run and underscores how unsettled the conservative remains after two years after mr. trump became the party's improbable leader. from truth, new mexico. independent line. paul, go ahead. you are next. caller: thank you for taking my call. this is just a statement. you pay taxes. i can't see the home state getting their cut if they don't rovide services that you need. i tried to buy stuff in my home state. i can't find it in my home state so i got to go out of state to do it. my home state wants the money, they should provide the goods i am looking for. it's just a statement. you guys can talk about it later if you wish. thank you. host: republican line from ashland, kentucky. mary. go ahead. caller: hi. this is mary ellen. i want to say about that sales tax, i do wonder -- two comments. first, about sale

that happened because senator marco rubio really, really effectively convinced president trump that it was in his political interest, despite the fact that president trump before he was president said, sentence were down to the possibly to look at a trump tower in havana, that it would be politically beneficial to have the support of cuban-american republicans in particular because they came your earlier. they are the wealthier group. they are more willing to support republican candidates, that having the support of that constituency was more important than u.s. policy. but to me u.s. policy should care about the caribbean. this is our backyard. this is our strategic interest, and who are moving into the gravy now come into cuba? the russians, the russians just sent a tanker of oil and now they're going to run the refinery which the venezuelans used to run. so the russians, along with the chinese who are cuba's major trading partner, are sucking up all the air in cuba. and i don't think that having russia and china 90 miles off our short is a very good idea. it certainly didn't work ou

to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubioespect their view and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a comeback statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . thank you for choosing r.t. international for the latest headlines two and my colleague calling for a the top of the hour. i don't want my wagon anywhere but i'll go on. board will pull you out of a. good mouth and see what it and i didn't do it will always be the good is it also. muslim or noble and else hold. on a prophecy of the. people to. keep it or don't or don't let you come up with a rule to. keep on going about the how i live and i'm mad at them and the money because i'm. not bad with the internet but oh november creative us in the eyes of a myth as an adult pointed out on to them but i have the only thing is as it is about. cranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed t

policy as andrew said president from past hurt to a policy over to the hard liners led by senator marco rubio and not in the u.s. senate so this this is a problem especially since cuba has always had a mentor an ally that provides support and subsidies such as the soviet union and then benson way less so now once again cuba's looking for that mentor for that nation that can subsidize its a come to me and it's looking toward russia which is providing it with petroleum and has taken over mishal been agreement to take over the management of the sea and forgoes petroleum refinery and also china which is cuba's major trading partner more greater than the e.u. so these are things the united states should worry about we are pushing cuba toward russia and china rather than helping cuba and its people export and their business and their possibilities and bring it closer. to the united states andrew tazo i want to get your thoughts on cuba's role and position in the wider latin america region this transfer of power comes at a precarious time in cuba's history cuban allies in latin america have been vot

we're all here you would think so i mean i don't know i've never been a ted cruz i've never been a marco rubio i just assume that you know like when they accept so much money from oil and gas companies ultimately they understand they have to be the mouthpiece for oil and gas companies that the heads of the oil and gas companies are all going to be affected by it anyway. yeah i mean it is a sort of paradox or irony that like when wealthy people who've made careers despoiling the environment when they make a lot of money the first thing they do is buy a beautiful house in a beautiful natural place you know and you'd think that there would be a lesson learned like oh we only have this one home if you make a nuclear bomb why would you be surprised if someone dropped a nuclear bomb on you yeah yeah it's kind of like a musician like it would be absurd for me to complain about people not paying for music when i don't pay for music that's right it's hypocritical yeah a lot of the world disappear critical a lot of inconsistency. you've written a memoir porcelain but there's so much more to your life st

seems to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this and make sure the solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action. samir khan r t washington d.c. . an american photojournalist says he feels betrayed by the f.b.i. after he spent seven months held by terror. in syria match three years says al qaeda also took his credit card to use them to purchase various items including computers he claims the f.b.i. tracked these transactions and used the information to infiltrate the terrorist organization manchuria has been trying to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by on those at the time affiliated with al qaeda he spent months in different rebel held prisons in aleppo in two thousand and thirteen he managed to escape becoming the first westerner to do so he's written a book about his ordeal called the dawn prayer describi

to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubiorespect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support to come back a statement like this in makeshift solutions or perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . to get to have your say on this story and everything else by following us on social media either back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines for you that. we've been waiting. for a long time because it talked about the dollar that this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding and america's wars because ever there's got to be trained in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that money to wage wars all over the world. then what. well you always will pull you out of the. woods with the goodies. keep it or don't. come up with you through. the money there's a. member who's going to. be divisive. and is about. a lo

. >> trevor: you have had some critics, the likes of marco rubio who said "now's not the time for politicss on getting puerto rico ready for the next hurricane season." how do you respond to that criticism? we need to let all the elected officials, there will be puerto ricans all over the united states. right now it's to impact several state, and hopefully, if we get that done, then we can get some real results for puerto rico. >> trevor: thank you for your time. i'll tell you this. we will-- ( applause ) we will make sure to keep supporting. we will keep telling you how you can support puerto rico. thank you for your time, and most importantly, president trump will keep throwing paper towels. governor ricardo rozzayo, everybody. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ oh -- you're bad enough to me ♪ ♪ bad enough that we ♪ always have something to get over ♪ ♪ oh -- but when the night is deep ♪ ♪ you find me in the streets ♪ asking me - to come over ♪ this ijust listen. (vo) there's so much we want to show her. we needed a car that would last long enough to see it all. (avo) subar

bush administration was an advisor to marco rubio's and mitt romney's presidential campaigns and he joins us from the beautiful campus at stanford university in palo alto california lani given china's new tower of move is this a trade war now larry i don't think so i think if you look at it in the grand scheme of what could have been in fact what we're looking at now is a relatively minor set of activity on both the u.s. side as well as the chinese side now the question is will this escalate into something more will there be additional tariffs applied by the united states additional retaliation by china as of now though what we have is a relatively limited and circumscribed set of activities on both sides the uncertainty larry is really the issue here we don't know where it's going on our side we don't know where it's going on the chinese side and i think those are questions that remain to be answered this seems like they have a lot in there being the way they can. sell all their stocks right. they don't well they go on the money. so they they do have a lot of u.s. treasuries they do have

. >>> and florida senator marco rubio also called for prayers for all law enforcement officials who risk their lives every day. the florida department of law enforcement is investigating the shooting. >> well, you hear it before every flight, right? instructions on how to put on those oxygen masks in case of a flight emergency. well, images were released from inside the plane show many passengers on tuesday's fatal southwest flight wore their masks the wrong way. new riveting video shows the terror also unfolding inside the plane's harrowing emergency descent. flight attend abts rushing to calm and secure distraught passengers. this as we are learning new details about the inspections leading up to the disaster. nbc news's tom costello has more. >> reporter: new video of the terror on board flight 1380 as flight attendants wearing oxygen masks shouted for everybody to breathes. >> everybody breathe. everybody breathe. >> reporter: the plane in a fast emergency descent after losing an engine and sucking passenger jennifer reardon partially out of a shattered window. as fellow passengers d

lawmakers, you have seen marco rubio, ted cruz pay more attention to this. it is certainly something that is going to be a building debate in the months to come. host: this specific legislation and some of the elements promote the agenda of foreign governments to register as foreign agent and forces universities to disclose donations from foreign sources of $50,000 or more. why are those things important to consider when it comes to china? guest: we talked about the foreign registration act especially since rt was forced to register. it was an old law passed in 1938 the has a lot of gray areas. there's a lot of ways that people or companies or nonprofits or donors who do have ties to foreign countries or foreign political parties don't have to register. there's a lot of perhaps foreign influence that we are not aware of. what this law would do is try to -- toy what what clarify what exactly, is a media outlet that has editorial control and foreign funding from the government, they would have to register. that means other chinese media funded outlets here. in

bush administration and was an advisor to marco rubio's and mitt romney's presidential campaigns and he joins us from the beautiful campus at stanford university in palo alto california lani given china's new tower of move is this a trade war now. larry i don't think so i think if you look at it in the grand scheme of what could have been in fact what we're looking at now is a relatively minor set of activity on both the u.s. side as well as the chinese side now the question is will this escalate into something more will there be additional tariffs applied by the united states additional retaliation by china as of now though what we have is a relatively limited and circumscribed set of activities on both sides the uncertainty larry is really the issue here we don't know where it's going on our side we don't know where it's going on the chinese side and i think those are questions that remain to be answered this seems like they have a lot in the only way they can. so are all those stocks right. the well they have all the money. so they they do have a lot of u.s. treasuries they do hav

to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . u.s. president has signed an order to deploy the national guard on the mexican border until his long awaited wall is built. so we have to have strong boaters we're going to have the wall we've already started building we're working out systems now and we called out the national guard and you know we're doing a real job but i'll tell you what the laws of this country have to be strengthened and toughen up the president said he plans to send between two and four thousand troops to the border this follows a more than two hundred percent surge in attempted crossings from mexico since march two thousand and seventeen this according to official data mexico has voiced its alarm over the planned mili