how do they know max baucus is corrupt? tv didn't tell them. tv loves max baucus. tv loves the cup. desperate corrupt. no -- love the crop. no, we told him. he took more money from the health care industry than any politician. the idea that he was going to do effective change of health care reform was laughable. speech, ato obama's college campus in north carolina, and they grew to when he said max baucus, and they him right -- they booed when he said max baucus, and they were right. in the old days with no digital media, there was old media. the same talking heads who have been wrong decade after decade after decade and never embarrassed about how wrong they are. you have joe scarborough tell you how great the iraq war is and how great republican politicians are. now he is in favor of the democratic establishment, but progressives, no no no. they are eager to be dismissed and ignored or derided. it is not just joe. obviously, fox news, cnn, msnbc, almost all of them. go find me a couple of journalists in this town that don't have disdain for progressives. i bet you can't do it. you

max baucus is here. he is a former democratic senator from montana.ow all about this because -- good evening by the way. you are a democrat from a red state, correct? >> correct. >> so you understand the challenge here. a lot of democrats how there tonight are upset with joe manchin, by the way. and, again, you know what it's like representing a red state in the senate. are they right or wrong to be upset with him, senator? >> well, i know joe quite well. i know lisa quite well. i know susan collins quite well. i served with them. in my judgment, they're all three very strong, good people. they're class acts, all of them. all three of them. i can't say the same thing for some others in the senate, a little bit beady-eyed, but those three are very solid. now, the responsibility of a senator is to represent his or her people in his or her own state. the party comes second. the people you represent comes first. joe manchin is doing what he thinks is right by the people of west virginia as is lisa murkowski and susan collins. they're doing what they think

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companies, welcome max baucus, former ambassador to china. thank you for joining us. had a chance to look at this. have we seen similar instances of hardware hacks, implanting chips from other countries? max: this is the first hardware i am aware of. it is not the first time china has tried to infiltrate the states,ates -- united not only the government, but companies. it is a trend and it has got to be addressed. andid addressing years ago we got the chinese attention. they send people back to put together a cybersecurity agreement. it was a good start. we have to keep putting pressure on china to get more agreements like that. section three or one preceding going on right now, it deals with cybersecurity. it is largely a data issue rather than hardware. is that one of the ways to deal with this problem, through sanctions available? help butsanctions will that is not a trade issue. it is more of a security issue which means we have to sanction statutes,r different as we did with the breach not too many years ago by the other government office. david: you spend 36 yea

bachus --welcome mat max sieben baucus. welcome. you heard what the chinese ambassador said.se prepared? did they have the wherewithal to combat us on trade? >> i think they do. we do not want this but if you want to start in america, we are prepared. it made the chinese concerned about who the deal with. he said a couple or three times to me, we do not know who to talk to. the president cannot make up his mind. i think they are confused. i think they are prepared and the chinese in my judgment for a good number of years are tough. they are resilient and do with it takes to survive a trade war. in geopolitics, timing is everything and we have this election coming up in three weeks time and then you have the treat -- 320 after that. there was talk president trump will meet with president g --xi. maybe we could make progress after we get past midterms. max: there is some possibility we will make progress after midterms. i do not think we should hold our breath. it comes down to whether the united states sense a strong signal -- send a signal china can wrap its arms around and u