Interview with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on the the state of the economy and the US-China trade war; Interview with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg; State of the Cartoonion: Making over the Statue of Liberty.

State of the Union

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3.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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First, Jake sits down with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to talk about growing recession fears, the Federal Reserve's decision to lower interest rates and whether or not American consumers will bear the brunt of the additional China tariffs. Next, Jake talks with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg about how his efforts to break through with black voters, his plan to reduce gun violence, and the Trump administration's peace talks with the Taliban. Then Xochitl Hinojosa, Rick Santorum, Amanda Carpenter and Andrew Gillum discuss President Trump saying that Americans had no choice but to vote for him due to the economy, the controversy over several progressive Congresswomen being barred from visiting Israel and the division within the democratic party over gun buybacks. Finally, in this week's State of the Cartoonion, Jake explores what the Statue of Liberty would look like after a Trump makeover.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Inflaming the debate, President Trump uses a foreign ally to exploit the partisan divide here and punish his political opponents.
0:14.5	Keep America great because we have these socialists want to take it away from us.
0:20.0	That score settling as a new poll shows trouble for the president against several of his 2020 rivals.
0:26.2	Will the politics of division work a second time?
0:29.6	And recession jitters.
0:31.6	President Trump said to be rattled as economic alarm bells
0:34.7	cause a wild week on Wall Street. Can the president convince voters that he
0:39.1	is still the best guy for their money? Let's not do the gloom and do it's all good.
0:43.8	I'll speak to White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro next.
0:47.0	Plus, first in the South.
0:49.0	2020 Democrats head to South Carolina and make their pitches to African American voters.
0:54.1	I've got to work that much harder to make sure the voters have heard our message.
0:57.6	But can anyone knock former Vice President Joe Biden out of the lead?
1:01.5	Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttiged
1:04.0	joins me exclusively in moments. Hello, I'm Dick Tapper in Washington where the State of our Union is keeping an eye
1:17.0	on our retirement accounts.
1:19.0	President Trump is wrapping up a working vacation at his Bedminster resort, but he doesn't seem to have used that time
1:24.6	to unwind.
1:25.6	Instead, last night, and this morning he appears to have been scrolling through Twitter, sharing
1:29.4	messages about the crowd size at his recent New Hampshire event, retweeting praise for himself from fans,
1:34.6	praising conservative media allied with him,
1:37.0	and heaping scorn on the rest of the news media.
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