in some respects a divergence between what senate republicans want and what president trump and his administration want. you know, senator mcconnell said earlier this week there is as many as 20 senate republicans who said they don't need to spend any more money at all. whereas president trump has expressed openness to even boosting the unemployment benefit. or giving out more money to people. so we're seeing this divergence between the two, and mnuchin and meadows have a difficult task in front of them to first come up with a deal with democrats, and then also take something back that senate republicans will vote for. >> right. leigh ann, one of the things we've also been hearing from the white house specifically from the president are these call for a payroll tax cut. those did not seem to be echoed at all in today's negotiations. what is the latest there? >> yeah we thought they were completely off the table, alicia, until once again the president tweeted about it today saying that he wants the payroll tax cut. but the reality is it is very difficult to find any support on capitol hill, includi

this is a full, concerted effort by the trump administration and the republican party, whether they like president trump or not or roll their eyes or not, but the whole party to undermine the legitimacy of the election, to cast aspersions on voting by mail, an attempt to vote people voting by mail, all while we're in a deadly pandemic that's killed almost 160,000 of our fellow americans. and above all else, there's the constant rhetorical war led by the president. it isn't just baseless, it's ludicrous. it doesn't even make sense. it's just pure deceitful propaganda, like something straight out of north korea. the president can't even keep his own talking points straight. >> so we have a new phenomena. it's called mail-in voting where you send -- >> new? it's been here since the civil war. >> new in terms of the kind of mill millions and millions of ballots. >> it will be bigger this year because of the pandemic. >> not bigger, massively bigger. >> i don't understand this topic with you. the republican party has an extremely well-funded vote by mail program. your campaign puts out emails

but now a sudden about-face, a sudden u-turn from the trump administration, because i think they just realized what that means if they're going to take that extension that they asked for. the administration has suddenly just announced that they're not only not going to take that extra time they asked for, they're actually going to wrap up the whole census thing a month early. they're going to stop the count altogether next month. which on its surface is bizarre. they already said they're not going to get this done, because they're crunched. at vanita gupta points out she was just on with chris hayes on msnbc. she points out that the census is calling it quits early, even as their response right now is the lowest its ever been. at this point in the process, they have counted fewer than us than ever before in the process. so why would they cut off the count early? they would not only need that extension, they would need to scale up what they're doing? why would they be cutting it back? on the surface it makes no sense, if you actually want to count everyone in the country, you need the

is -- the trump administration's bread and butter. the fears of their base, appeal to the worst instincts, try to deny that we're in a mode of crisis in this country, that we're dealing with a pandemic, and they're going to try to put forth donald trump as the man that can solve all of these problems, when what four years has taught us is that he is the man who has created and exacerbated many of the worst problems in terms of poverty, the economy, national security, all of those things. >> all right, brittany and alexis, thank you both. that is all the time i have tonight. i'm alicia menendez. i will see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. my colleague, joshua johnson, takes over at the top of the hour. he'll talk to joe kennedy about today's vote to pump up the post office and his race for the senate in massachusetts. e senate in massachusetts. ♪ for skin as alive as you are... don't settle for silver ♪ gold bond champion your skin simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. t

that would look like a victory for the trump administration for the middle east. on the other hand, we still have other messes in the middle east. you have dealt with a lot of the middle east in your lifetime. how do you view this, and in general, what role does the middle east play in another presidency? is it more withdrawal from the region because it is not as important to us as it once was, or is there another approach? sec. clinton: well, with the middle east, i think we should be grateful to see any progress, no matter when or how it proceeds. and this potential breakthrough is promising. we have to see that it actually israellace, and that backs off of its intention to annex the west bank. and i hope that the normalization of relations with an arab gulf power like the uae will bring some stability to the situation in the middle east. there are still so many problems, that i don't see how the united states can walk away. we have got not only the continuing challenges of israel and the palestinian dilemma of trying to figure out how best to live together with

that directly at the door of the trump administration. pulling the united states out of the iran agreement that i began negotiations for as secretary of state and my successor, john , to put a lid on iranian nuclear weapons program. any problems they have the trump administration could have sought to negotiate changes that they wished for. but instead, they pulled out, giving a green light to iran to pursue its nuclear weapons agenda. china is now cooperating with iran. thed to persuade them at council to set the table for the negotiations. and of course, we know that if iran pursues nuclear weapons, the gulf states will likewise and i cannot imagine a morning situation then a nuclear arms race in the persian gulf. so, there is an enormous amount at stake in the middle east and no responsible administration could ever walk away from that. i am so glad that you drilled down deeper on iran. a lot of our viewers have not paid as much attention to the chinese iranian relationship, which seems to be different and has changed. you go right back

it's called a guide to the trump administration's china policy statements. and it has a link to every one of about 200 statements or interviews or tweets by president trump and the top members of his team. the reason i put this together is i believe there's been a lot of misunderstanding and the left has also attacked president trump's china policy in many ways to distort what he has done and what his team has said and done over the last three and a half years. as we begin the next hundred days of the election campaign, i think we're going hear more of this, bill and rob, more attacks on the president, either that he has been too soft on china, the bide team has run several commercials where they imply that president trump is soft on china and then vice president joe biden comes on and says if i'd been president i would hey demand xi jinping immediately tell us what happened in wuhan with the virus and i'll save you against president trump. believe the president's policy toward china, i call it the three cs, it's been clear, coherent, and comprehensive. so i

help put the methane rollback in perspective on all of the different types of things that the trump administration has done in their attemp to roll back obama-era administrative rules. >> this is a culmination of sorts. to go back to the obama administration, there were three big climate rules that they passed. i alluded to the other two. the first was the clean power plan for power plants. the second were rules to limit emissions from cars and trucks. the-- and then, of course, the methane rule was the first-ever climate rule for oil and gas. so, when the trump administration came in, their top priorities at e.p.a. were to get rid of or at least substantially roll back all three of those. >> sreenivasan: tim puko of the "wall street journal," thanks so much for jning us. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: the massive rt explosion that killed scores and injured thousands in brut, lebanon this month has also created a healthcare and homelessness crisis in a city that was already experiencing strains due to covid-19. newshour weekend special correspondent leila molana-allen has the story. a warning to ou

but now a sudden about-face, a sudden u-turn from the trump administration because i think they just realized what that means if they're going to take that extension that they asked for. the administration has suddenly just announced that they're not only going to not take that extra time they asked for, they're actually going to wrap up the whole census thing early. they're going to stop the count a month early. they're going to stop the count altogether actually next month, which on its surface is a little bizarre, right? i mean they've already said they're crunched. they're not going to get this done without extra time to complete it because of the pandemic. as vinita gupta points out, she was on with chris hayes. she points out that the census is calling it quits early even as the response rate right now is the lowest it's ever been. at this point in the process, they have counted fewer of us than ever before at this point in the process. and so why would they cut off the counting early? they would not only need that extension. they would need to scale up what they're planning on

let me close by saying this, the trump administration, once again is in this. california and i suspect some of my colleague states also have laws that prohibit usury rates in lending. we have a law that doesn't allow that. the trump administration is trying to pass a regulation that would allow predators to evade that law by using a federal bank which we don't have jurisdiction over because it's federal, and we're state, use a federal bank to do their servicing loan activity. it is called rent a bank. they go out there and they go out there and they prey on you, but they do the loan through a bank, a federal bank, so guess what? they get to evade our state rules against usury interest rates. and the trump administration is allowing this -- is proposing rules that would allow this to occur to essentially let predatory lenders use banks, federally charter banks to go out there and prey on people. we're going to try to stop it. but once again, november's critical because we don't need a president who actually wants predatory lenders to get out there and use you as

it is called a guide to the trump administration china policy and has a link to the 200 statements andinterviews by president trump and the top members of his team. there has been a lot of misunderstanding and the left has attacked and what his team has said and done the last three and a half years. i think we will have more attacks on the president to be too soft on china running commercials where they imply president trump is soft on china and vice president biden comes on says eyewear demand president xi tell us what happened in move on with the virus. and i will save you against president trump. i believe the president's policy toward china, the three c's, c's, clear and coherent and comprehensive. if you go through the documents according to the subject matter i will give you some examples of among conservatives on china is very wide it's not altogether clear where we are going with the china policy over the last three decades or what will happen in the next two decades. a conservative reporter called jesus in beijing came out about ten years ago and forecast christianity will tak

if the goal is to get to a nuclear free world and perhaps the destruction of how the trump administrationpproaches this, giving us an opportunity to what those norms and agreements should look like and perhaps we will have that with the administration that wants to take a slightly different approach. the short answer is yes, it is something that we as congress should be looking at in a bipartisan way. methodology tot advance nonproliferation? the short answer is yes, we should be working on that. can we take the next question? can you unmute your microphone? i am so sorry for being unmute. nepal.om it is a great pleasure for me to be here. that there is really something optimistic for the world. what happened today in the morning i saw in the news that russia has a coronavirus vaccine and the government approved it. what do you think is there any effect regarding the situation to other developments in the -- what is your analysis regarding the european development that they are receiving criticism as well. there is a big question about the safety of people. what is your opinion regarding

it really depends upon the trump administration. two possibilities.ne, the trump ministration bans it but a future administration unbans it. tiktok ceases functioning that is reactivated in a future administration that is more hospitable to chinese investment in the united states. or it is sold. banned as you recall, is in india right now but they are trying to work with the government and going through the courts to try and revive itself in india. app today does not mean it cannot be permitted tomorrow. emily: certainly lots to follow, lots of possibilities here. anupam chander of georgetown university, thank you for joining us. coming up, robinhood has skyrocketed past its competitors but the company now paying a heavy price for its sudden rise. we will talk about the latest outages. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: robinhood has catapulted ahead of its online brokerage rivals with a smartphone app that has attracted an army of young investors. but that comes with complaint. outages, regulatory probes. today, traders were experiencing tech issues. joinin

he was at the beginning of the trump administration part of the voter fraud panel that was set up. remember donald trump set up a panel to show us how bad voter fraud was in the last election and it came up with goose eggs? >> well, do i remember? that was sort of the beginning of my unraveling. i remember shouting at the television, there is no voter fraud. if you look at them as bookends, that was the first lie. and now they're picking up with the second lie. what's remarkable to me, having once been a republican, is that the rnc is also now saying the quiet part outloud and saying that this guy is what threatens their senate majority. the guy that threatens our senate majority is the guy in the office with no corners. >> that's right. you are joining a small club of msnbc anchors who have officially two-hour long shows. you have been anchoring that for a long time. but it's official. welcome to the club. as i tweeted out earlier, more nicole wallace is what the country needs right now. >> you're so kind. thank you. >> all right. we begin tonight with the numbers. spain, 0 new cas

the trump administration adding about 6.7 jobs. is that more or less than obama's last three years? on jobs you show is not accurate from the obama administration. it's a downward slope the whole way. the trump administration was able to arrest the decline, and the surge went like gangbusters all the way until covid started. >> the question, to be clear, is given that they didn't add coal jobs, it's fewer jobs in the same number of years as the last administration. what do you say as a trump 2020 backer to voters who look at the fact. what do you say, as the argument given that record? >> well, there was no jobs recession before covid. and even with covid, this biological attack from china, we're seeing unemployment start to drop again. but the boarder wall is being built. obama care, the republicans, of course the democrats are going to try to drop that. but paul ryan and others did not have the spine to stop that. and it's going to fail under its own weight anyway, obama care. and infrastructure, that's something that both republicans and democrats have obstructed in congress. that

i think we've seen that in the trump administration and that may advance much of the trump story so far. can you give us some historical examples that may help be a corrective to what the trump administration has experienced if indeed you agree with what i've just described ? >> it's certainly clear that some of my best stories in the fight house about inviting our between the national security advisor and secretary of state in the next and administration example you had henry kissinger was the national security advisor and it's on now because you have this photo wisdom on foreign policy but then hewas very young, very aggressive, very thin-skinned . and he was constantly threatened by william rogers who is the secretary of state in the nixon administration who knew next and going back to the eisenhower administration because they were close personal friends yet kissinger ran rings around rogers in part because it and recognized it and he learned from kissinger on foreign policy whereas rogers had nothing to teach nixon who himself was quite the strategist . so sometimes you had this th

the fema administrator, pete gaynor. president trump of course there who is being briefed and talking to the media there about hurricane laura. the strongest hurricane to batter the area in 150 years. so far 2.6 million liters of water have been delivered, 1.4 million meals. we should mention nbc news is

>>>> no, i think the trump administration will be quite frustrated because what they probably w wanted was a crisis between iaea and iran, which they would be able to escalate further. early on in the trump years, they went to the iaea and tried to strong-arm them to request access to a variety of sites, and the iaea p pushed d back bee they had no clear evidence that would justify such a request. later on, such a request was made, and the iranians have agreed for inspections at two of these sites, it seems like partly as a resultt of the iaea also saying they don't have any further questions beyond that. it does not seem like this was independent of the security council decision. had the security council caved to trump, it seems unlikely the iranians would have been forthcomomg when itit comes to e iaea request. brent: you mentioned the u.s. security council decision blocking u.s. efforts to impose sanctions. how is that going to impact the trump admiministratition's stray towards iran? >> the trump administration strategy towards iran is a failure by a all accounts becaue it has not

> back with me miles taylor, former senior department of homeland security official in the trump administration miles, you mentioned the president's mental acuity was discussed daily by senior members in the administration including those in the cabinet. there was that story early on about the 25th amendment having been discussed. was that ever something that you became aware of? >> yeah. anderson, i'll be frank with you. that's not really something that i can comment on, at least at the moment, but what i will say is this. on a very regular basis, you would have these last-minute fire drills where the president would make spontaneous unplanned, ill considered decisions from the white house and his cabinet would have to drop everything to try to go address those challenges. that may not seem like a big deal if it happens every once in a while, look, every president deserves to, you know, think up new ideas and have his cabinet respond but talking about weekly unplanned emergencies it has a waterfall effect on the operations of the entirety of the federal government. the taxpayers watching this

trump. whether you like him or not, i do like the way this administration has worked against the dictatorship. i'm always going to be very grateful for it. >> to so what has trump done? he expanded sanctions started by president obama and president bush before him. remember presidents imposing bans on certain individuals and stopping all business with v venezuela state oil company. the goal, pressure the president to step down. besides the sanctions and photo ops, trump does a lot of talking. >> all options are on the table. zblfr strong ones and less than strong ones. and you know what i mean by strong. >> i have no idea what you mean. i'm begt you don't either. as we all know, talking tough and doing something are different. sanctions against the rich and powerful in venezuela do not trickle down to help the people fighting for basic needs. it never works out that way. despite all the sanctions, he is still in power. and most of what the trump administration is doing asylum and refugees in this country is directly hurting the people of venezuela. if somebody comes across the boarder claim a

you referred to some during the trump administration thus far. and what would you like to accomplish during a potential second trump term? mr. o'brien: that's a great question. i think the president has had a terrific run of policy successes. just in the time i have been here, the president was able to negotiate a cease-fire between the kurds and turks and save thousands of lives. the president, as we discussed earlier, was able to encourage nato countries to spend $400 billion more on their own defense and collective defense. the president came into office with the middle east aflame and a caliphate the size of great britain across syria and iraq. he destroyed the physical caliphate. late last year he was able to , bring justice to baghdadi, a guy who had been a real monster and killed a number of americans , including kayla mueller and foley, journalists and aid workers who were brutally killed. not to mention the thousands of yazidis and christians and muslims he killed in his caliphate. we ended the caliphate. the president restored deterrenc

the trump administration and the president himself see allies more as a liability. the vice president believes very strongly that the u.s. has to be at the table in the international institutions helping shape the solutions to big problems that no country can solve on their own, whether it's climate change or nuclear proliferation or public health related issues or terrorism. that goes by the way also for shaping the future rules of the road when it comes to trade in international economics as well -- as well. the trump administration has walked away from multiple tables outright and left the iran nuclear deal, the paris agreement, the nuclear arms treaties. the who. finally, something you mentioned in your introduction which is values. joe biden believes that what makes americans policy distinctive as we are not neutral between autocrats and the people seeking basic human rights and human dignity. we choose a side and he has objected to this president's cozying up to dictators and autocrats. to turning a blind eye to the massive abuses of human rights and pressures

challenging the executive order from the trump administration.ive orders on tiktok, which is owned by bytedance. the first order came down august 6. it was a 45 day order saying after the 45 days, u.s. businesses and consumers could not use the app in the united states. it was superseded by another executive order, giving bytedance 90 days to divest the u.s. business of tiktok to an american buyer. microsoft has acknowledged interest. in a statement, tiktok says it strongly disagreed with concerns raised by trump in the executive order on august 6, saying there were national concert he -- national security concerns. also saying there was no due process ahead of the order. separatet, which is a executive order, a group of users made up largely of chinese-american lawyers have asked a federal judge to block trump's ban on what they say appears to be all users of we chat in the united states over national security concerns. the complaint filed in court by the u.s. the users alliance claimed the ban is unconstitutional. they also claim the executive

since march my colleagues and i have conducted oversight over the trump administration's response to this crisis to ensure it is efficient, effective and equitable. our goal is clear, to save americans lives and livelihoods. our message to the administration is simple, it is urgent that we put policies and politics aside and work together on behalf of the american people. at this time of national crisis i sincerely hope that the trump administration will recognize the value of being transparent with congress and the public and will incorporate with oversight efforts. the simple finding of our oversight is this, six months after the virus plagued its first american life the federal government has still not developed or implemented a national strategy to protect the american people. this has prolonged the crisis, resulted in tens of thousands of preventable deaths and worsened economic devastation. last week i chaired a hearing on the urgent need for national plan to combat this virus. doctor county testified at that hearing that the government failed response had the worst outbreak th

. >>> trump administration is tightening on huawei the limits first announced back in may and preventedhe company from obtaining semiconductors without a special license. they are adding 38 affiliates to the black list raising the total to 152 affiliates. back to you. >> maybe a little good news there on covid-19. thank you. >>> let's get back now to the markets. if at first, you do not succeed, try, try again the s&p has tried and failed three times. kick out that failed close from february history is on the market side. finding wherever the s&p 500 previously closed within 1% of the new high would need an eclipse of eight calendar days following the bear market of 2000-2002. all the rest of eight days or fewer. >> welcome in the president of potomac wealth advisors. there are lies and statistics. what do you make of the s&p 500? do you think it will make a record high and by the way, does it matter? >> it will make a record high. to some short-term technicians it will matter to others,ing the question is, will it stay there there is no alternative to asset stocks looking past the bad

what is it about the trump administration that stands in their way? > why think they would be generally for bringing down any administration. they are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism, there tactics. [inaudible] a description of them is consistent from what i've seen. with the trump administration, a lot of them has been the demonization of the trump administration. from day one i went back and watched his victory speech after election night. people should go back and look at it. he's very measured, he was very statesmanlike speech, he offered the olive branch and praised hillary clinton and thanked her for her service and talked about working together to make things better for the american people, that was the day he want and from that point forward there has been no resistance. they been trying to impeach him from day one. they've done everything they can to shred the norms of our system, to do what they can to drive him from office and debilitate his administration and i think it's because the desire for

isaac: it is another reason why the trump administration and the u.s.ent are putting forward to explain why tiktok is problematic and why tiktok is a risk. other affiliates and subsidiaries and the parent company can have access to tiktok's data. even though the company says it is walled off from partners, it is very easy to imagine beijing or the chinese parent using either legal chinese means or extralegal means, accessing all this data regardless so this is just another way the u.s. government can say we actually have a case here against tiktok. until now, huawei has been a major tech company in the spotlight. today, another development. the pentagon saying it will share spectrum with the wireless carriers. there are a lot of concerns about the race to 5g and whether the u.s. could be china in that race. isaac: a very positive development for 5g in the u.s. and economist vehicles -- au tonomous vehicles whose success relies on 5g development. there have been complaints from partners that the pentagon is acting like a hog, taking up way too much of th

six states now are suing the trump administration over what they're doing. day trump's postmaster general says he will appear at an emergency oversight hearing in the house next week. on the senate side, senator elizabeth warren of ma massachusetts is calling on mitch mcconnell that he should bring the senate back as well like they are doing in the house. she and several of her colleagues wrote today to the board of governors that oversees the post office, calling on them to reverse the changes that trump's postmaster general has put in place. they're also saying if he doesn't cooperate with them, that board should fire him. they should use their power of overseeing the postal service to remove him from office. we have all covered politics and elections for a long time now. i have never covered and election scandal like this one. it is almost unbelievable it's where we are. joining us is elizabeth warren. senator warren, we thank you for making time to be with us tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you. it is good to be here. we are conventioning, right? jus

somebody asked how many gays and lesbians are there in the trump administration because during the obama biden administration we had 2500 and i said we don't keep a list we are not interested in putting you on a list of whether you are gay or straight so we just have a different philosophy about what it means to be equal and we don't separate people by race or gender or sexual orientation. shannon: what is your experience in responding to people how you can support a particular administration or a conservative ideology or party, if they don't lighten up on this issue? >> it is a matter of priority. a lot of people in the gay community values that part of their identity very highly. perhaps their number one animating issue when it comes to politics. i don't tell them that they shouldn't. it is not how i go about things. i happen to be gay but i also care about a bunch of other issues that align more with the republican party, more with the conservative movement and being a freethinking person in a free country and titles all of us to decide our priorities for ourselves, act accordingly an

the brookings institution sir, finds trump administration has beener on russia than obama administrationions. >> absolutely true. through the use of sanctions has been tough on russia. the investigation into michael flynn, they knew that flynn was coming in as intelligence chief and he was going to see exactly what they were up to in the fisa warrant process. yates testified that she would not have approved the fisa warrant applications had she known what she knew now. it goes to show that they were going to any length to get flynn out of the way. elizabeth: what was not discussed, so sally yates is basically talking about this january 5th, 2017, meeting in the oval office where she is saying, well, we really was only about whether to share information with flynn. so that is the issue. she is saying only just about talking to flynn about whether or not you know, to talk about sharing information. whens it really about, you know, the logan act, biden brings it up at the oval office meeting. it was president obama saying to james comey and sally yates, put right agents on it. the right fbi

has said is necessary to prevent the spread of covid-19. >> while the trump administration has been-19 to justify asylum restrictions, i.c.e. officials still have not released children who were in family detention centers. a federal judge back in june warned attention centers were, quote, on fire. and this week buzzfeed reporting the number of immigrants who've died in i.c.e. custody is the highest it has been since 2006. joining me now, the executive director of immigrant defenders law center. lindsay, when we say that these children, that these babies, are virtually impossible to find, what does that mean? >> well, that means that we're in a situation now where the government has created a parallel shadow system for dealing with children who come to the border seeking asylum. and it's truly frightening because normally when a child comes to the border and seeks asylum, they would be entered into proceedings that would allow them to go before a judge, that would put their welfare first by putting them into facilities that would reunite them with sponsors of the united states or at

i've spoken to the trump administration many times and the people in the administration about this and the question always comes down to, well, businesses don't like it. there is a thinking in washington -- now, there are a few congressmen, there are a fewed good senators, a few good people in the trump administration. but it is, it's a catastrophe, it's a machine. and i think that -- >> and we've lost it. for the most part, we've lost it. we haven't been able to execute on wholesale -- [inaudible] >> so the trump administration has been very good on illegal immigration. fundamentally ended catch and release. we did get 280 miles of border wall built, which is something. it's not nothing, we did something. we did get the -- [inaudible] agreement which reduced massive illegal immigration. all of those things are fantastic for illegal immigration, and interior deportations did go up slightly. the one thing we didn't get is legal immigration because of financial interests and control a lot of washington and a lot of other things. there is a political definition called postdemocracy which

donald trump his administration have pursued an all-out assault on latino communities, from the moment he came down that golden escalator saying he was going to take on the mexican rapists. it started the moment he announced his presidency. feeding the flames of fears and racism against latinos. it is baked into every aspect of how he has governed. this week was an especially poignant reminder of the terrible consequences of allowing that kind of hate to grow unchecked. butought we could defeat a, it only hides under the rocks. when a president breathes oxygen in, it comes roaring out. on monday, we marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in el paso where a gunman explicitly sought to target latinos and 23 beautiful lives were stolen from us and their families. i know what it is like to lose a child. it is awful. -- the stakes of trump's irresponsible policies, of division and hate that he promotes israel. -- is real. these are life-and-death decisions. whether it is repeated attacks on dreamers or immigrant communities. whether it is his neglect of people after hur

i think we've seen that in the trump administration, and that may, in fact, be much of the trump -- [inaudible] story so far. can you give us some historical examples that may help be a corrective to what the trump administration has experienced in, indeed, you agree with what i've just described. >> well, it's certainly clear that some of my best stories about in-fighting are between the national security adviser and the secretary of state. in the nixon administration, for example, you had henry kissinger who was the national security adviser, and it's hard to remember now because we see him as this kind of aged few -- guru, spouting wisdom on foreign policy. then he was very young, very aggressive, brilliant, to be sure, and he was constantly threatened by william rogers who was the secretary of state in the nixon administration who also knew nixon going back to the eisenhower administration, and they were close personal friends, and yet kissinger ran rings around -- partly because nixon recognized kissinger's brilliance. so sometimes you have a situation where the national security

let's talk about federalism in the trump administration. lots of push back in the states about travel bans and sanctuary cities and mail-in balloting. the administration challenging the restrictions as they pertain to religious institutions and now obviously what's going on with the protests in chicago and minneapolis and portland what does this say about the use of his authority in the long run healthy development? >> i think actually the trump administration has been respectful of federalism, sometimes in ways that have reduced its ability to get political goals and i think that is a good test of how committed any president is to the constitution. one was the pandemic response and there i think clearly president of trump would like to reopen the economy a lot faster than the state governors are. in a weird way the fate of the economy is tied to the decisions of a lot of blue state governors are happy, happy might be the wrong word but to clamp down much longer than they should. i could see him trying to override them trump hasn't. he said

kenji layout what you see as roadmap whether it's a second trump administration or a biden administration, b a roadmap for winding down this hyper nationalism enough to begin to initiate more transnational multilateral initiatives? >> great question. and i will start by, this is my opinion, just kind of sitting, i think we should drill down on what's happening in u.s. politics. i think you are seeing the two parties in transition right now. you are seeing kind of the coalition that historically has supported democrats and white-collar workers or blue-collar workers, union workers shifting to supporting trump. the more college educated suburban voters shifting to support democrats. you are also saying this strange convergence in terms of when you are thinking about foreign policy, for an engagement with the far right and the far left kind of coming together. the trump approach, you know, with the drawing andnd focusing inward is not that far off of the perhaps bernie sanders approach to foreign policy. that seems simplistic because there are real differences when it comes to climate change

the trump administration has identified the competition as the defining challenge of our day. what will it take for the united states to prevail in this competition with china? could you articulate some of the core policy thats that it-- policy paths that the administration has pursued and will continue to pursue? mr. o'brien: it's a great question, paula. pointed the impressive things -- one of the impressive things the trump administration did in the initial years was put out a defense strategy, and we have near-peer competitors, russia and china, that are trying to reshape the global commons, trying to change the global norms and rules of the road, so to speak, we have all operated under the second world war. with china, we have unique challenges. you have a communist party of china that is an heir to china-- stalin's russian communist party, marxist-leninist party. they have total control over their people. the control is becoming orwell would have imagined when he wrote "1984" with mass surveillance. they are exploiting that control , the national security law and a democ

what is it about the trump administration that stangdz in ngtheir way? well i think they would be, you know, strongly for bringing down any administration. they are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism and bolsheviks and pashistic and your description of misconsistent what i've seen. with the trump administration, you know, a lot it has been demonization from day one i went back own watched his victory speech after tonight people should look back it it was very measured. it was a statesman like speech and offered branch and praised hillary clinton andnd thanked pr for service for the krntle and working together to make things better forve the american peopl. that was the day he won, and from thater point forward, thers been the resistance. they were trying to impeach him from day one. they have done everything they can, they've shredded the norms of our system to do what they can to drive them from office or to debilitate his administration. and i think it's because of the desire for power. that he, the left wants

this met with total disapproval from the trump administration and they worked very ha rd administrationy hard to find a way to walk israel back from this and at this point, the united arab emirates ambassador to washington played a key role meeting withjavid cush, the president's son—in—law who was the chief adviser on middle east matters and we end up where we are today with his unexpected announcement that there would be this diplomatic relations for the first time between the uae and israel but now we come to iran quickly, which is the relationship between the uae and israel was... quietly relationship between the uae and israelwas... quietly going relationship between the uae and israel was... quietly going on. they are part of the anti—iranian alliance. in entente cordiality is being built quietly between certain arab states because they fear iranian influence in libya and in lebanon. we will come back to that in a second. while we are dealing with these three players in the negotiation, we talked about the politics and the economics of it but what about the economics of it but wha

the postmaster general will testify next week amid accusations the trump administration is sabotaging the service to prevent mail-in voting for the november election. cnn's kristen holmes has more. >> no, we're not tampering. >> reporter: president trump today insisting he is not behind recent delays in u.s. mail. >> it's been run horribly. and we're going to make it good. >> reporter: and denying he is using the postal service to meddle in november' election. >> wouldn't do that. i have encouraged everybody speed up the mail, not slow the mail. >> reporter: that's not stopping speaker nancy pelosi, who called the house back early from summer recess and plans a weekend vote to stop the administration from implementing any changes ahead of november. >> i'm all about piecemeal. if we can bring on postal, let's do it. >> reporter: outrage sparked by postal workers who sounded the alarm that recent changes by trump's postmaster general like cutting overtime and post office hours have slowed delivery times, something the postmaster called, quote, unintended consequences in a recent letter.

for the palestinians, they think it is an empty promise because the terms the trump administration put for statehood gives israel 30% of the west bank, keeping palestinians in their disconnected enclaves. nothey said it wil work. that ts will move toward ang israeli-palestinian peace, but mr. trump does have ais arab eli peace. jane: barbara, thank you for joining us. now, in belus, thousands of men have dressed in white and at they have formed human chas to condemned the crackdown on protests. ueest started after the disputed elections, which gave alexander lukashenko another term in office. police have made more than 6000 arrests. some detained were released today. teful relatives ghered outside of the jail in minsk, hoping to be reunited with their loved os. from there, our correspondent sent this report. >> theyalked to freedom rough the crowd. correspoent: these are some of the the day when protests in belarus started. after a days of anxious waiting, some families are finally reunited. but many are still waiting for the relatives. people in the crowd show photos of family members