were not getting any answers from anybody, president-elect trump inviting xi jinping to attend his inaugurationed president xi after the election in it comes after trade tensions intensified before the u.s. and china over proposed tariffs the move would replace a 25% tariff on canadian and mexican goods and additional 10% tariff on imports from china, xi jinping has warned the u.s. against renewing a trade war and there considering a weaker one heading into 2025, is even willing to plunge deeper into debt. and they have a lot of economic conversations underway. between china and the united states. it's all in the face of the surveillance programs in our face and president trump inviting xi jinping to the yunnan duration. we don't know where trump is in terms of the issues. use trump on the inauguration. i think that is all by design. this is xi jinping who deliberately spread, 19 bianca vince borders killing one point to million americans. this is xi jinping with malice of forethought kill 70000 americans with fentanyl. they run the regime with a half a trillion dollars of u.s. intellectual pro

this as the president-elect reportedly invites china's xi jinping to attend his inauguration.n markets and equity futures barely flatlining, maybe waiting for direction. maybe the update around the forecast expected the markets are cut again, an outside chance they could go 50. that is not consensus. p futures barely flat. the context is gains around 10% on european stocks yesterday and a strong session once again, the nasdaq 100 railing 1.8% driven by alphabet and tesla. futures pointing lower, s&p futures little softer, dropping seven points at gains of around .8% yesterday. let's focus on the euro, a little bit of softness for the dollar and that's giving the single currency bit of a lift. we will see if that adjust around what we see from the ecb. the two year, the front end of the treasury curve largely unchanged. inflation coming in in line with the estimates. bit going back above 100,000 but currently down 1% in the session. now to a focus on the u.k. with the london ipo market dropping to 20th place in global rankings with the value of listings sure trading luxembourg

either xi jinping has rsvp'd to attend the inauguration or he has not. anyway, for what it's worth, cbs news is reporting that xi has declined trump's invitation, but that china will send a hay-level official. you can see through the forced smiles of those fox hosts that they are trying very hard to put a positive spin on the fact that the man who spent the last four years accusing joe biden of being too soft on china is using the very first moment of his presidency to cozy up to china's dictator. and they are not the only fox news hosts running cover for trump on this. >> this is a power move to intimidate the chinese leader. if he declines, it's disrespectful, and trump will take it personally. if he accepts, he'll be forced to observe president trump at his most powerful moment. >> that might be the most craven attempt to put a positive spin on trump's erratic behavior since this -- >> look directly at the sun without any glasses. perhaps the most impressive thing any president's ever done. >> get ready for four more years of that. >>> now jesse waters

trump has invited china's xi jinping to the nomination. your thoughts? guest: china is our number one threat now and will be into the future, and it is good to speak to our potential adversaries. so i know president trump likes to engage when he is trying to deal with people. whether they be friends or foe. so inviting xi jinping i think is away to extend an olive branch to china, but i know president trump is going to watch out for america's interest when it comes to china, and he will not be fooled by anything they tried to do. i think he is trying to highlight that with president xi jinping by bringing him here and hopefully they can have dialogue and hopefully we can start this adversarial relationship that we are heading into, i think we can avert that, but we have to maintain that strength. host: we have callers lined up, stephen, lexington, kentucky, independent line, you are on with carlos gimenez. caller: thank you for having me. thank you, representative for your time. my question is regarding -- and i'm using air quotes -- "drones" flying arou

, the rise of xi jinping in china.ou can find that at c-span.org. it was last week or the week before on the "washington journal." the director speaking about making the documentary about trying to dig into the life of xi jinping. there it is. martin smith is his name. he was on this program. this is dave in new jersey, independent, good morning. caller: i was wondering if anybody is curious about the drones flying over and the chinese subs off our coast. don't forget the indians. they are coming too. do you know how to fight them? telepathically. host: in illinois, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning. i am trying not to get emotional. we are heading towards a civil war. this is what donald trump is going to do. people need to listen, especially american people of color. donald trump is going to pardon the january 6 committee. this is all legal. the january 6 people get pardoned. he is going to deputize them to make them his deputies. so now, they can do -- become deputized. they go into minority and people of

so, yeah, xi jinping can't go.e though is that countries around the world, some of them, view trump's invitation as actually a sign of weakness. that's especially true in the middle east and the gulf. and i'm sure that other leaders around the world might think the same thing. of course, trump doesn't see it that way, but we've got to be careful about the way the rest of the world views what president trump does. eric: why would you say it would be with seen as a sign of weakness as opposed to reaching out to an adversary and trying to to sit down, you know? what's your sense of the diplomatic view as you just said of some of those in the middle east and elsewhere who would have that opinion? >> well, everybody knows that china has a declared the united states to be its enemy. it formallingly did that in may 2019. we know that china kills 70-75,000 americans each year with fentanyl, a program that is backed by the politboro standing committee and xi jinping himself. and, you know, you have to think about the famili

xi jinping and viktor orban. we told you about a report that trump had allegedly invited them to the inauguration. this morning, incoming white house press secretary caroline levett confirmed that an invitation had been extended to xi jinping. >> reportedly, and you can confirm this, sounds like donald trump has invited president xi to the inauguration. >> that is true. yes. and this is an example of president trump creating an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies but our adversaries an our competitors too. >> has he rsvped? >> to be determined. >> i'm not really sure what to be determined means there. either he has or he has not. but anyway, cbs says that xi has declined the invitation but will send a high level official. the fox news hosts are trying to put a positive spin on the fact that the man who spent the last four years accusing joe biden of being too soft on china is using the very first moment of his presidency to cozy up to china's dictator and they are not the only fox

xi jinping has not heard those words from a u.s. president for four years. this is an opportunity of a lifetime. i think, you know, xi jinping is not a natural risk taker, but i think this is almost like, if he's ever going to take risk is now. i actually think that this is an amazing opportunity for a reset. i think -- i'm willing to bet the next two, three weeks, the dollar is going to go up, because people are going to be basically putting on the trump tariff trades, but i will be looking to basically sell it, as we get closer to the -- to the inauguration. >> all right, always interesting conversation, david, thank you. david woo. david woo unbound. what do you think of that, julie biel, in terms of, you know, seeing that dollar weaken from the levels it's at now, basically two-year highs? because a lot of people are just assuming that things are going to be so bad around the world still, tariff wars, ukraine, et cetera. >> yeah, it's not -- you know, people who are making that bet are just benefiting from the previous data that's really shown that. if y

xi jinping's 5% growth in 2024. hope that can find support for the sector in 2025.ood and beverage, you don't have to go too far. high in demand. not just in china and not just in asia, but the united states and elsewhere. let's be brutally honest about it. younger people are not drinking as much as my generation. that is a good thing, but not as good for the food and beverage producers. shall i go on? the dollar index. dollar up 6.4%. i have a guest waiting to tell us the answer. euro/dollar. this one's interesting. if we still believe the ecb is going to carry on cutting rates and if we still believe europe is going to flat line on the growth fund and we think there is a limit the fed will have cuts beyond one in 2025, then that puts that pair at an interesting position. a pair in the last couple months from the september highs has gone in one direction. dollar/yen. again, this is xtraordinary. you have wage deals this year which were north of 5% which we were all waiting for. we thought it would be a catalyst to higher interest rates. nowhere near as much as peop

the president elect has invited xi jinping of china to witness his inauguration. this is a power move to intimidate the chinese leader. if he declines, it's disrespectful and trump will take it personally. and if he accepts, he'll be forced to observe president trump at his most powerful moment with all the presidential pageantry america can muster. you put xi jinping in a subservient position. plus you can spy on him the whole time he's in d.c. trump saying, i'm putting the bidens out to pasture. watch you bribe the wrong guy. the country is on a hot streak, and we're pretty much ready to get things done. so the democrats should sit back and enjoy the ride. choo choo. doctor jill is. >> i hope that you all feel that sense of, you know, peace and light and that just for a moment when you leave here today that you feel, i don't know, a little a sense of joy because i think we all need like this, you know, we all need to feel joy now during this, this time of the season, during just during this time. >> former speaker of the house newt gingrich joins me now. how are

about. >> there you go. >> that is xi jinping. donald trump knows well, and helps his vicious, and absolutely, m m looking at diminished joe biden and looking at hunter biden, and saying mark, mark. to put them in his debt, i don't know they were controlled by him, i do believe they were compromised in ways we will only learn it is a tragedy that media went on vacation for 4 years during joe biden. i know you were not involved and a lot of people called it out like i did. but everything about joe biden has been obvious from day one, legacy media has been protecting him. they are like his -- they are his blocking guards and tackles. >> that will lead to us president trump, he has a legacy from his first term here, got the tax cuts in we had a booming economy. he got the abraham accords in. but then came the pandemic. and it destroyed a lot. will he be able to redevelop his legacy as president in this second term? >> i am ox mystic. we -- optimistic, we have to add greatest upset win in election in 2016, and greatest comeback in pol

i don't think xi jinping is likely to come, but i think it does a something of the person who chose to invite was xi jinping, as opposed to, let's say, the leaders of britain or france or germany or canada, traditional allies. >> so, your colleagues at the new york times report erin siri, the lawyer who is helping robert f kennedy junior pick federal health officials for the incoming trump administration, that he has potentia and the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. and one more time, to be clear, the lawyer petitioned to revoke the polio vaccine. senator mitch mcconnell, who is a polio survivor, has called this petition dangerous. is there any medical or political consensus that the polio vaccine should be removed from childhood protocols? and i am concerned how his top advisory role affected kennedy's confirmation prospects. >> all of the mainstream scientific efforts will tell you that the polio vaccine is one of the most singular successful innovations of modern science, and in the last century. it can transform what had been a death sentence for a lot of ame

he has a history of trashing musk calling him a circus monkey for china, who kisses the ring of xi jinpingf course, that's a very different tune than the vivek ramaswamy we heard today who went out of his way to publicly praise musk after k files reporting came out i have never worked with somebody who i feel more challenged by in being surrounded by. >> i mean, he's he is somebody who's able to think outside of the box, outside of the matrix in a way that i haven't actually seen before i've learned a lot from working with him. >> it is not surprising to me having having worked with him, that he's created some of the greatest manufacturing companies that america has ever seen. >> so that was today. >> and k files, andrew kaczynski joins me now. so andrew obviously that was after you had posted online some of your reporting here. what did you find. yeah. >> so we found that he has an extremely long history of attacking elon musk as a puppet, as subservient to the chinese communist party and look, with a lot of our stories, it's like we uncovered something that somebody said, five, ten, 15,

what has press secretary caroline leavitt had confirmed that an invitation had been extended to xi jinping. >> reportedly, and you can confirm this, it sounds like donald trump has invited president xi to the inaugoration, so what can you tell us about that? >> that is true, yes, this is an example of president trump creating an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies, our adversaries and our competitors, too. >> has he rsvped? >> to be determined. x i am not really sure what to be determined there me and sprint either he has agreed to attend or he has not. but anyway, for what it is worth, cbs news is now reporting that president xi has declined trump's invitation, but that china will send a high- level official. you can see through the forced smiles of those fox news hosts that they are trying very hard to put a positive spin on the fact that the man who spent the last four years accusing joe biden of being too soft on china is using the very first moment of his presidency to cozy up to china's dictator. and they are not the only fox news hosts running cover

stuart: donald trump was asked about inviting xi jinping to his inauguration. listen to this. >> reporter: who have you the opportunity to invite here inauguration? >> everybody i have invited. >> reporter: president xi as well? what is your message? stuart: we understand xi jinping has been invited to the inauguration. why would trump invite xi? >> it shows a lot of confidence and as winston churchill said it's better than world war. no reason not to open up from a position of strength which donald trump is willing to do and has run on. he invited xi jinping tomorrow lago in his first term and focused on china in a tough and realistic way but bringing xi jinping, opening up an ability to have a discussion in a period in which as donald trump says we might be on the verge of world war iii, that's common sense. the worst policy is what we've been doing now where we have president biden taking pot shots at president xi in fundraisers and meantime we can our military position because he is supporting so much and ukraine against the houthis and so forth, donald trum

cook and elon musk probably have is that they both bend the knee to the true overlord, which is xi jinpingbout these comments, aaron, that i think makes them so hard for him to walk back, besides the fact that he was saying this stuff last year, is these are sort of fair criticisms that many people have had about american companies. >> i mean, you're the business reporter. you probably know this a lot better than i do but these are sort of fair criticisms about american companies that are doing business in china. and it's i think, sort of also raises the question of here, you do have somebody who, like he said in some of those interviews that we reviewed, who is so intertwined with the government, government contracts government subsidies, working with the government to now have that person in charge of cutting the government spending and government subsidies raises sort of conflict of interest questions. >> well, certainly, if this is somebody that you said is bending the knee to the true overlord, which is xi jinping, you know, and to your point, saying this in recent months this isn't t

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the invitation of xi jinping to the inauguration has puzzled people who study the u.s.dership on the most important real geopolitical and national security issue of our lifetime. that's what we need the bidens did not do it that's what this administration has to do and were in a moment where we have to lead on this. and a serious issue that faces stationary past lincoln and the civil war, fdr in the second world war, reagan winning the cold war clear ambiguous american leadership directed the american people explaining the stakes of what were do dealing with. yet many people that can explain this very clearly and we need that the highest level so we can take this on so we know where were going without mixed signals and entertaining our enemies are dictators, adversary dictators. we need to get real get clear and bring the american people into a position where we can handle it. maria: wouldn't now be the appropriate time while china is somewhat weak economically, china's economy struggling even without president-elect trade tariffs beijing promising fiscus it's all smoke

xi jinping has he invited -- has the president invited xi jinping to the inauguration and has xi acceptedl larry good to be with you, i don't know. i'm not sure who has been invited yet it would be brilliant if he did that, you look at background of inaugurations, no foreign leaders inv have ever come it would be brilliant to bring your biggest economic adv adversary, president trump does think out of the box, it would be p brilliant to do, that you mentioned paris, we have a president, striding world stage as an american president should, you stride without fear and you represent america. in president trump -- president-elect trump showed that when we went to paris it makes you feel good. larry: i agree. general kellogg, continuing this guest list conversation. would you advocate inviting putin and zelenskyy? then after the inaugural sitting down with them, and talking or next couple days sitting with them in washington d.c., not you know not in europe some place, right here in dc. and try to hammer out a deal? >> you know, larry, anything that trump does, president trump plays you know

. >> let's turn to the transition, because donald trump, as you know, has invited president xi jinpingnt xi is turning down the invitation, but what could this possibly say about u.s. relations with china? >> the well, it is not a bad thing to extend a hand to xi jinping, to watch a democratic inauguration and see what that is like. trump has had a sort of hot and cold relationship with xi jinping and with china generally. if we can tone down the rhetoric and have a working relationship with china, that is a desirable goal, and if that is what donald trump has in mind, that is a good thing. i am nervous, however, that the inauguration not be filled with a bunch of authoritarian dictators like xi jinping or an authoritarian like viktor orban of hungry, that is a bad image. >> you were the president of the nato parliamentary assembly and the secretary-general just this past week called the global security situation "the worst in my lifetime." what do you make of his comments? >> well, i think he is looking especially to the european prison. remember, he was the prime minister of the neth

they do not need xi jinping doing more than he has. tom: what was the response? we had a lot of legislators at the time, including speaker pelosi. bring that forward to 2025. to politicians is it advantageous if they show the flag in taiwan? scarlet: it depends on who you ask. the younger generation would say they like saying that because they see taiwan as its own country, culture, separate entity. if you ask the older generation, you might get a different answer. the older generation has ties to the nationalist government that fled to taiwan from mainland. paul: how do you think the folks in china are thinking about this incoming administration to mark what is the view? concern, optimism, fear? scarlet: i think they feel like they know they are dealing with a known quantity. the fact that president-elect trump invited xi jinping to his inauguration, and she's and his team saw it for what it was, -- xi jinping and his team saw it for what it was, a flex, and they are not attending. it is a little bit of like recognizes like. did i tell you that i scored two goal

stuart: china's president xi jinping declined trump's invitation to attend the inauguration.loud and clear his donald trump is interested in peace and diplomacy and xi jinping slammed the door. marco that down for the record that that's the direction he wants to go. it's not good for china. stuart: they are not happy about tariffs on chinese exports to the united states. sorry i am out of time. see you again real soon. this is hard to believe. massive pro eu protests taking over the country of georgia. what is going on here? ashley: membership in the european union. the government announced a delay in that effort, the overwhelmingly pro-european georgia population got upset, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the country, the protests have been triggered by a general election in october and allegations of fraud by the incumbent government. many businesses from hospitals and simply went on strike, riot police have deployed tear gas and water cannons and accused of savagely beating those protesters but demonstrators are showing no signs of back

xi jinping will touch on deepening economic reforms in his speech. global stocks are set to notch a second year of gains power by wall street. the dollar closes in and its best year since 2015 while gold surges. good morning and happy new year's eve and what a stunning year it's been for equities. looking at futures all in the red. but a cloud of uncertainty hanging over things as we are in 2025 with donald trump said to be inaugurated on january 20. let's check in on how the dollar is doing and it's been another stellar year as well for the dollar, fueled by trump's reelection in the fed being less dovish in its policy pivot but the bloomberg dollar spot index a touch weaker this morning, brent trading at $74 a barrel, bitcoin off the highs we saw earlier this year and gold also a touch weaker today but finally checking on asian markets, we have the chinese pmi data this morning, more to come later in the week. the asia pacific index currently .1% weaker and asian stocks set for a quarterly loss as the year end. the hang seng stronger and the yen at

what we're looking at is, if we allow him to be successful, what does that say to xi jinping who now looks at taiwan and says i think america has withdrawn from the world leadership. they've seen how much we have grown in strength and they know that we have the upper hand. and if that is the case, the rest of the world will watch taiwan go down, and you will see an economy which will explode around the world. but you will also see one more thing. you will see a combination of russia and china and north korea and iran. any place there is a possibility of creating a fire for their purposes, they can do that. and we will find ourselves on fire in multiple locations. our premises have always been to hold one battle front at bay while we dispense with an immediate adversary in another location. but if you're going to fight one, you're going to end up fighting them both, and they are both very strong adversaries today. i would just offer this. if you're not prepared to fight on two separate occasions, you're much better to call this thing right now and convince xi jinping that he perhaps s

why do you think that xi jinping made an exception for tesla that it hadn't in any other case? -you know, i thought there'd be no way that china would change its rules and allow an auto-manufacturing facility, especially a high-tech one, to be done without it being a joint venture. and ma said, "i'm not going to do a joint venture." and over and over, he wt there, and i think xi jinping or the leaders in china thought, "well, it'll be better to have the manufacturing plant here," and they changed the rules for him. -so, does he -- i mean, do you think he's aware, as an individual citizen who's been on the cutting edge of these new technologies, but also as somebody who's now playing in geopolitics, does he have a role as an american patriot to think about deepening ties to china? -i think he feels deeply patriotic, and he cares about innovation and growth in the united states. and like many business leaders, he kind of feels that we have to balance confronting and competing with china, but also finding areas of cooperation. he has said that we've become a little bit too provoca

xi jinping by the way reportedly telling president biden in a condolence letter about jimmy carter thathina relationship is one of the most important in the world. chinese state media says xi is willing to work with the u.s. to bring about the development of healthy, stable u.s./china relations. >>> i'm curious if you buy that. the wall street journal is reporting that the u.s.'s channels with china have gone dark. they say chinese officials repeatedly tried and failed to get access to trump's inner circle. what do you make of that? >> this is why suzie wiles' ban on cabinet nominees posting their opinions is so important. we just can't have the friction and trouble before the president is even inaugurated and some people are already putting out things who are nominees or possible ambassadors that could mislead the chinese. president trump about 25 years ago wrote a book on how china was our major threat and how what he would do if president, t25 years ago and he said unpredictability and really harsh sanctions are the only way to get china's attention. it's in the book. 25 years is a l

i think xi jinping is unsurprising. he does that with great frequency.errence remains, and we cannot avoid the conflicts that the american people voted against in november. they don't want the united states and wars, but they don't want an america that is weak either, allowing china to steal our jobs and work and make life miserable for the people of the united states of america either. >> john: real quick before we go, conventional wisdom is that president xi is going to move on taiwan by 2027. that would be right in the middle of the second term. do you think president xi would take that risk? >> i think it's very unlikely, but he already has begun moving. he's conducted missions that he never would have done where president trump in office, flying planes into their economic zone. this is a broad effort that xi jinping has been involved in, so this conflict is in some ways already underway, and president trump's goal is to restore economic power without putting our soldiers and sailors and airmen at risk, the very things that we voted him into office t

especially with the unification of taiwan and what is china's ultimate goal under xi jinping. they're smart ways to do it but to your .7 audits have failed and they have $4 trillion in assets and 4 trillion in liabilities. how they can get a solution to accountability is troubling i think that's where potentially something that has an external audit looking at the office of the inspector general's to do a more thorough investigation to this and holding flag officers accountability of certain and why should you be deserving of another posting. >> shannon: you mentioned does your earlier and they are looking every possible expenditure and five points is that there is that kind of thing. do you think it will be bipartisan support for what they find? it's up to congress and they can't do anything less you guys make some cuts. >> i thing there will be support for finding efficiencies and cutting waste. there's no democrat he wants the government dollars to be wasted. i think that comes down to the details of what they're going to do. if they're going to dramatically cut programs th

that puts xi jinping in a bind. if he refuses, he's snubbing the new president. if he comes, it might look like he's paying the new president homage. trump wins either way. >>> one congressman suggested there's an iranian mother ship that's launching the drones over new jersey. the pentagon denies that. >>> and president biden marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history commuting 1500 jail sentences and granting pardons for 39 others. president-elect -- is that president biden speaking? president-elect trump is speaking. let's go to him now. >> -- this honor for the second time. i think i like it better this time, actually. [laughter] but we did a good job. we had a great first term despite a lot of turmoil caused unnecessarily. but the media's tamed down a little bit. they're liking us much better now, i think. if they don't, we'll have to just take 'em on again, and we don't want to do that. but i do want to thank "time" magazine. i've been on the cover many times, i can only talk about 25 great covers -- [laughter] the others i sort of hid

could start unleashing wall street, which would be down if they don't act. >> steve: so cool if xi jinpingo to inauguration, they are our biggest adversary for the most part. what is stunning and given fact talking about trump effect and how he's getting stuff done before he takes power, wouldn't it be amazing if on inauguration day you have president of mexico, canada, we have come to an agreement, this is what we're going to do and announce from the get go and border problem becomes pretty much dries up. something like that, i wouldn't be surprised if that happens. >> brian: joe biden let in more illegal immigrants than anyone in american history dating back to 1850, only thing close. >> lawrence: effectively did zero. >> brian: he opened up the door and left it open and denied he did it. >> ainsley: what is the point? to get votes? >> lawrence: undo everything he did on day one. we paid the price for it. it is unfortunate. another fox news alert, today new jersey governor is set to speak with the white house about those mysterious drone sightings. >> steve: there is one right there. the

a lot concerning credible before we should have taken action, i think once into chinese public xi jinpingansmissibility told world not contagious you knew it was forcing passengers into the world getting countries to take them continuity quarantine teens locking down his country shows intentionally spread disease beyond china borders we have not impoverished costs if we don't xof costs xi jinping will think he can being spread next consequences. >> italy partners with china so many italians working in china for "belt and road" initiative he allowed them to go back to italy. >> that is how in new york because of travel between italy and new york city, this is how the disease got into u.s. >> you are take on illegal immigration federal reporting an illegal migrant from china living in united states charged with shipping weapons to north korea gordon, the chinese national who entered united states in 2012 student veez stayed past expiration exported to north korea concealing items inside shipping containers from long beach, california making its way to north korea, according to investigators

i was once asked, when i spent more time in xi jinping in china than with any of the world leader, more than 108 hours alone with him, i was in a plateau with him in china and he looked to me and said, can you define america for me? i said, yes. one word. he looked at me through a translator. i said, possibilities. in america, we believe anything is possible if we do it together and that is what we have done. we are going to continue doing it. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> president biden and vice president, harris spoke at the tribal nations summit at the white house highlighting the biden administration's native american policies. ♪ [applause] vice president kamala harris: good afternoon everyone. good afternoon. can we please applaud sophia? [applause] this is why we know the future is bright, right? please have a seat. please have a seat. i want to thank everyone for your leadership, for your long-standing friendship, and for the work we have yet to do together. let me say it is so good to be with secretary deb haaland who has been incredible leader in such a powerful fighte

were down and trump is inviting special guests at the party as the president-elect has invited xi jinpingwitness his inauguration. a power move to intimidate the chinese leader and if he declines it's disrespectful and trump will take it personally and if he accepts he will be forced to observe president trump at his most powerful moment with all the presidential pageantry america can muster. you put him in a subservient position and spy on him the whole time he's in d.c. trump is saying and putting the bidens out to pasture you bribed the wrong guy. the company -- countries on a hot streak and we are pretty much ready to get things done democrat should sit back and enjoy the ride. dr. jill is. >> i do hope that you all feel that sense of peace and the light just with what you're leaving here today and there's a sense of joy because i think we all need to feel joy right now during this time of the season and a former secret of the house joins a evident i even felt joy this evening and it does feel a little bit for like those trained you put around the crack there's tractor your little boy

i was once asked, when i spent more time in xi jinping in china than with any of the world leader, more108 hours alone with him, i was in a plateau with him in china and he looked to me and said, can you define america for me? i said, yes. one word. he looked at me through a translator. i said, possibilities. in america, we believe anything is possible if we do it together and that is what we have done. we are going to continue doing it. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪

i was once asked, when i spent more time in xi jinping in china than with any of the world leader, moren 108 hours alone with him, i was in a plateau with him in china and he looked to me and said, can you define america for me? i said, yes. one word. he looked at me through a translator. i

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there are a lot of foreign leaders like xi jinping first among them, who probably don't want to be at the center of a democratic inauguration. it's just sort of not their thing. but for donald trump, he clearly is extending these invitations. but a little bigger picture here. i think the whole inauguration. i'm thinking back to the first day in the briefing room. it seems like a million years ago, sean spicer, the biggest crowd ever. who knows, maybe it will be this time. but i do think that there's a bit more confidence, i guess, coming from the trump team this time around, largely because he knows the rules of the game this time. yeah, people are falling into place. this is his republican party. it was not eight years ago. >> no question about it. it's also, jeff makes an interesting point about how donald trump has chosen not to really be seen here in the last couple of weeks. i mean, i see how long it lasts. of course, donald trump loves the spotlight, but maybe that's one reason why polls show that people are looking more favorably at the way that he's handling the transition, be

what xi jinping is doing is preparing for what trump 2.0 means.rying to -- dani: i'm trying to understand what the upside of xi jinping being in the inauguration would be? jesse him and the crowd bundled up. annmarie: it is not happening. dani: imagine trump saying something and he cannot respond and he is sitting there in the front row. there is little upside. lisa: this reminds me of when you have two girls and one has been trash talking the other one and the other one invites them to the party they will show up and no one will like them, it is just a massive power move. i will put that aside. nvidia ramping up hiring in china. sources telling bloomberg the employer will -- up from about 3000 and the start of 2024. that included 200 people added to a team in beijing working on new economist driving technology. fascinating that at a time we are talking about china cracking down on u.s. companies you have a major u.s. company, the largest company expanding in the region. annmarie: china cracking down on nvidia, earlier this week saying they were p

i look at xi jinping being invited to the inauguration. think to myself, are we being sold a pop here on the risks? >> yeah, it is a strange move, i think. more than anything here, he has particular goals to reduce the trade deficit and things like that. i think the negotiating table is full and if the time will be much more pared than trump 1.0. they go straight to the negotiating table. that is the same in the eurozone. that should sort of reduce -- i think that leads to the extreme scenarios that people were worried about and significantly less likely the market is assuming. >> fair enough. >> at the same time -- >> please carry on, sir. >> at the same time as well, they also have stimulus in the bag. if we do get the large tariffs and that effects the chinese economy, i think you get they would resort to the consumption stimulus in that people are looking for and level of that i think will depend on the relationship with the u.s. >> kyle, i believe you are in leicester. i know it has a great party scene at university back in the day. i

i was once asked when i spent more time with xi jinping of china than any world leader, and i was in a tibetan plateau and he asked could i define america, i said yes, one word and looked at me through a translator, and i said "possibilities." in america we believe anything is possible if we do it together. and damn it, we're going to continue doing it together. thank you. re ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] ♪ >> on wednesday, secretary of state antony blinken testifies on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan before the house foreign affairs committee. we also expect questions on the situation in the middle east as well as the russia-ukraine war. watch the hearing live 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3, c-span now, our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> attention middle and high school students across america. it's time to make your voice heard. c-span student cam documentary contest 2025 is here. this is your chance to create a documentary that can inspire change, raise awareness, and make an impact. your documentary should answer this year's qu

it would be very strange indeed to have xi jinping at his inauguration. >> we have had ambassadors butis the only time we have invited a foreign leader and a foe of america to the inauguration of the american president. it certainly smacks of coronation and perhaps that is the point. tim miller, claire mccaskill thank you for being here today. appreciate your time. >>> the north carolina managing to mask inside a hurricane relief bill. >> but first, one writer says democrats misunderstanding of a key voting block might cost them the election. i'll talk to new yorker staff writer about that theory coming up next. when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am... ...being me. keep being you... ...and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in many people—whether you're 18 or 80. with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to undetectable—and stay there whether you're just starting or replacing your current treatment. research s

trump invites china's xi jinping to the inauguration. good move, bad move? what do you think?i think that this is classic trump and this is what people love about him. he's going to change the way that america is perceived in the world after joe biden and kamala harris broke it. i think this is a positive sign. he is going to be putting us back on a path of peace and prosperity and strength. and i do want to just clarify that i saw the cnn poll on x, not watching cnn. [laughs] >> trace: i was just kidding you. we are doing a story later about how the viewership is dropping off so we will talk about that. alexa henning, jason chaffetz, thank you. great to have you. another nfl stars house apparently targeted during monday night football. it follows a string of burglaries at the homes of high-profile athletes. and we just got the frantic 911 call when cincinnati bengals quarterback house was broken into. we will play that for you next. and you've heard of sanctuary cities, what about super sanctuary cities? san diego county doubling down on protecting illegal immi immigrants. an

one, xi jinping wants to think if he can pry allies away from donald trump's america.prime minister, shinzo abe at margo la grow a few weeks ago. -- mar-a-lago a few weeks ago. i think the relationship with japan is strong. china's economy is in a distressed state. they need good relations with japan. i think we'll see china make nice to tokyo for a little bit while they try to figure out what's going on at home. cheryl: and maybe make aggressions to the philippines, to your point. president-elect trump posted on truth social this, this is his christmas message, merry christmas to all including the wonderful soldiers of china who are lovingly but illegally operating the panama canal. always making certain the u.s. puts in billions of dollars in repair money but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. gordon, what do you make about president trump's new target which at at this point is pana? >> china has port operations at both ends of the panama canal and in the middle of 2022 when general richardson flew over the area in a helicopter, she said the faciliti

xi jinping thinks they will have hit 5%. what does it mean for 2025 and the trans pacific questions you and i have been asking about the relationship with the u.s. and mr. trump and xi jinping and china? they are still hanging over the markets. year to date moves on the asian indices. i'll show you those before i move on to the european bourses. you can see the nikkei despite all of the concerns we have about interest rate policy and what's going on politically. up 19% in the year. that is without doubt the standout performer on asian indices. let's flip back to the european markets. the last couple hours of trading. the london market .20%. a slog this year. the cac 40 up .4%. i will show you the european markets year to date. cac 40 down a couple this year. the german market despite all of the concerns that you and i talked about, frank, volkswagen, up 19% in 2024. that is a final print for the dax. frank, it's been lovely chatting with you this year as well. i'm looking forward to more in 2025. have a great new year. >> i

president—elect donald trump has invited chinese leader xi jinping to his inauguration, according to shortly after securing victory in the presidential election. it remains unclear if the chinese president has accepted the invitation. trump will become the 47th us president during the ceremony in washington onjanuary 20th. staying with us—china relations and washington has increased tariffs on imports of chinese solar products as trade relations continue to deteriorate between the world's two biggest economies. the new taxes target chinese solar wafers and polysilicon — as the biden administration looks to protect the domestic clean—energy industry from cheaper foreign imports. the new measures will take effect injanuary. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's head to india where we will get their latest inflation numbers later today. prices are likely to have moderated due to lower food costs, but the number will still come in at the upper level of the central bank's comfort band according to a poll of economists from reuters. india's growth has also been slowing

xi jinping basically wants overnight. away from mass manufacturing and property to high—tech industries like ai, renewable, biotech. that is going to take years if not decades to achieve so really a long—term project but in the meantime let's not forget there is also the small matter of a second ronald trump presidency to contend with as well. as we head towards the end of the year, it's a good time to look back on what have been the hottest topics online. according to google, the cost of living and extreme weather were the most widely searched subjects in the asia—pacific region. elections were also popular in searches — as half of the world's population went to the polls. google's yolyn ang took me through top search trends this year. we saw a variety of searches across the different countries. in countries like australia actually the searches took a diy turn. how to repair the car on their own or how to tune a car. locals looking to search to find information to help them get —— get by and tune up things that were on t

i was once asked, when i spent more time in xi jinping in china than with any of the world leader, more108 hours alone with him, i was in a plateau with him in china and he looked to me and said, can you define america for me? i said, yes. one word. he looked at me through a translator. i said, possibilities. in america, we believe anything is possible if we do it together and that is what we have done. we are going to continue doing it. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> washington journal, our live form involving you to discuss the latest issues and government, politics and public policy from washington and across the country. tuesday morning, a look at new research on how much wealthy americans pay in federal taxes with a senior economist and democratic congressman paul tonko on the looming federal spending deadline, the incoming trump administration and democrats priorities in the 119th congress. a reporter discusses potential changes to the defense department during the next trump administration. joined in the conversation at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning, on c-span, c-span now,

that donald trump has invited xi jinping to attend his inauguration next month.tion to apparently hungary's far right leader orban who is still considering whether to attend. this is not something we do. we do not invite foreign dignitaries or autocrats. let me get your thoughts on that. whether we are crossing a rubiconn. >> the first thought is george w. bush about the first inauguration. that is some weird, well, you know what. you'll have to google what george bush said here on cable. but look. donald trump wants this kind of weird pomp and circumstance where he gets treated like, someone being honored by the heads of the other tribes. it is not democratic. it is un-american in the sense that it is not within the traditional american sense of what the presidency is. which is that you are called mr. president. not his exexcellency for a reason. this is not some weird coronation like they have other places around the world. but obviously, donald trump doesn't really get that. and this is about his ego. it would be strange indeed to have xi jinping at his inaugu