- Today from The Global Lane,impeachment on steroids.

Intelligence Communitywhistleblower, or Trump saboteur?

Trump/China policy, learning some lessons

from Ronald Reagan's playbook.

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Corporate salvation throughpolitical correctness?

President Xi says, noforce can shake China,

but the big Red Dragon is already quaking

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Democrats and the mainstream media

have characterized theperson who filed a complaint

about President Trump's phone call

to the Ukrainian presidentas a whistleblower.

The impression is that he or she is

an intelligence officer, a true patriot,

protecting America and theConstitution from abuse.

But our next guestsuggests the person is not

a whistleblower at all, but a saboteur.

Former Congressman Bob Barrwas House Impeachment Manager

during President BillClinton's impeachment.

Mr. Barr is also a former CIA analyst.

He's now President and CEO

of the Law EnforcementEducation Foundation.

Congressman Barr, it'sgood to see you again, Sir,

and tell us, why do you think

this whistleblower is actually a saboteur?

- The whole notion of a whistleblower,

particularly in the intelligence business,

is someone who uncovers somethingthat is an urgent matter

that would not otherwiseget out and that relates

to foreign intelligenceclassified information.

What we see in this particular case

involving the July 25th conversation

between President Trump andthe president of Ukraine

has nothing whatsoever todo with the foundation for

an Intelligence Communitywhistleblower in the first place.

It does not concern classified material

relating to foreign intelligence

and abuses relating toforeign intelligence.

And when you look at the complaint

that was compiled by theso-called whistleblower,

it becomes clear when you look at that,

that this person has deepanimus toward the President

and has been putting, orhad been putting, together

a compendium of informationgathered from various sources,

second and third-hand information,

over a long period of time,

at least going backseveral months this year,

and then sorta struckwhen he or she thought

the moment was right to basicallygo after President Trump.

This is not a patriot,this is not somebody

that has pure motivessuch as was characterized

by the director of nationalintelligence last week.

And moreover, when the Inspector General

for the IntelligenceCommunity, which is the person

to whom the so-calledwhistleblower sends his complaint

before sending it to the Congress,

when that person reviewed it,

Mr. Atkinson is the Intelligence Community

Inspector General's name,he did not even listen

to the underlying conversation

or read the transcriptof the July 25th call.

So how in the world this Inspector General

decided legitimately that this was

an urgent matter involvingforeign intelligence

and classified materialwithout even looking at

or listening to the underlying call

is really a mystery to me.

It's either grossincompetence or he was trying

to enable and assist theso-called whistleblower.

- Now, President Trump hastaken on the deep state

of the U.S. Intelligence Community,

and Senator Chuck Schumer, you remember,

warned President Trumpbefore he became president

that intelligence officials have, quote,

"Six ways from Sundayat getting back at you."

Is this what's happeningright now, Congressman,

a serious game of gotcha?

- It definitely appears to be that.

There has been tensionbetween President Trump

and the Intelligence Community,

particularly career operatives

within the Intelligence Community,

since even before President Trump

was sworn into office in January of 2017.

So it's not surprising, in a sense,

that it would be intelligence operatives

that are behind the sabotageof the Trump administration.

- Now, you managed the impeachment

of Bill Clinton for the House,

what's the difference withthis impeachment inquiry

of President Trump?

- The difference is like night and day

between what we looked at in 1998

in the impeachment of President Clinton,

and what the Democrat majorityin the House is doing now

with regard to President Trump.

Back in 1998 we of coursestarted with the Starr Report,

the very lengthy report that was compiled

by Independent Council, Kenneth Starr.

He sent that to the Hillin September of 1998

and that was an exhaustive compendium,

an exhaustive analysis, if you will,

of potential impeachable offenses,

which Judge Starr was required by law

to send to the House of Representatives.

What we did in the House andin the Judiciary Committee

at that time, under theleadership of Henry Hyde,

is we took that report, we held hearing,

we supplemented it with updated material,

and passed out of the Judiciary Committee

four articles of impeachmentagainst President Clinton

that were very clear, veryprecise, very well-supported

showing that the President had committed

four violations of federal criminal law.

Very different now what's happening,

the House seems to have been throwing

everything they canthink of up on the wall

to see if anything would stickof an impeachable nature.

They finally now have seized on this

July 25th phone conversation

and this so-called whistleblower report.

So that apparently is the horsethey've decided to run with,

but it still is very unclearthat there is anything

at all in this incident that would rise

to the level of an impeachable offense.

I certainly don't see it, andI've looked very carefully

at all of the material that'sbeen made available publicly.

- Well, what do you think,

quickly, we're running out of time here,

what do you think's goingto happen in all this?

- I think the Democratshave gotten on their horse,

they're gonna run with itno matter how bad it is,

no matter which direction it takes it in,

because they are absolutelycommitted to anything they can

between now and the next year election

to undermine, destroy President Trump.

So, they're gonna proceed with it,

I don't think it will helpthem, but they will proceed.

- Okay, former CongressmanBob Barr, President and CEO

of the Law EnforcementEducation Foundation,

thank you for providing those insights.

- My pleasure, Gary.

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- President Trump says the United States

is making progress on trade with China,

so he recently lifted tariffson 400 Chinese products.

The products exempted includelaminated wood flooring,

circuit boards, tiny Christmaslights, and dog collars.

Well to provide us with some insights

on Trump and Chinatrade is Harry Kazianis,

he's Director of Defense Studies

at the Center for the National Interest.

Harry, always good to see you,

and I know I a recent opinion piece

you recently wrote for Fox News,

you talked about Trump's China policy.

You suggest that it's reallya policy of containment,

so tell us about that.

- Yeah, essentially whatDonald Trump is doing

is he's literally takingthe old containment playbook

that Ronald Reagan usedto defeat the Soviet Union

and applying it to China.

And actually I'd argue whatDonald Trump is trying to do

is even tougher than whatRonald Reagan tried to do.

I think if you compare the Soviet Union

really at its height to China today,

I would actually argue thatChina's much more powerful.

They have an economy worthsomething like $13 trillion,

they innovate a lot ofproducts that Americans buy.

All you have to do is goto Walmart, any store,

and probably the bulk ofthe things you're buying

come from China in one shape or another.

So what Trump has done is not only try

to take on China and contain their rise,

but I think something more important,

to contain the foundations of that rise,

which is their economic power,

which they're essentiallyleveraging to harm U.S. interests.

So, irrespective of whatyou think of the President,

I think it's a smart move.

- Well, Harry, I know about this because

I was in Washington coveringRonald Reagan at the time.

He had a clear strategy tobring down the Soviet Union.

He even issued many secretnational security directives

to hurt the U.S.S.R. economically.

Now, how much of Trump'sstrategy is actually

coming from Ronald Reagan'splaybook, especially on that?

- Well I think a lot of thepeople around President Trump,

I'm sure Mike Pompeo, the newNational Security Advisor,

Robert O'Brien, he is very mucha student of Ronald Reagan,

I know him personallyand know that very well.

I think a lot of thesepeople have gone back

and basically done theirhomework and reread history

and understood that alot of the weaknesses

that the Soviet Union has, China has.

For example, the way that the Soviet Union

would contain their people's hopes,

dreams, freedoms, aspirations,

is very similar in a lot of respects

to the things that the Chinese are doing,

except the Chinese are using all

of their advancedtechnology to essentially

subjugate their own population.

So I think that'ssomething that Donald Trump

will use to his advantage.

I also think one of the things

that Trump understands quite well

is in order to be a super power,

to be the strongestsuper power that you can,

you have to have avibrant, growing economy

where people are allowed to innovate,

develop the best goodsand services you can,

and quite frankly, the bestmilitary products on the planet.

Trump has done that, theeconomy is doing very well,

something Ronald Reagan obviously did,

and if you compare thatto where China is today,

the Chinese are not growing at those

10 to 11% rates that they were.

In fact a lot of people say

the Chinese economy'sactually contracting,

so I think the lessons are quite frankly

pretty spectacular comparing the two.

- And of course the Soviet Union was

a big threat to theUnited States militarily,

Russia still is, I guess,

because of all of its nuclear weapons,

but it seems that China is

a greater threat to us economically.

Your thoughts on that, military, economic,

which is the bigger threat?

- 100% economic becauseyou have to understand

the only way a nation like China

can have an advanced military,

aircraft carriers, submarines,cyber capabilities,

is you need to have that economic

and industrial foundation to do that,

and that is really where thethreat from China comes from.

The Chinese don'tinnovate and create goods,

products and services thatthey can sell to the world.

Most of the time they steal that.

They've stolen trillionsof dollars in assets

from the United States, alot of it is military goods.

They've stolen a lot of plansfor our aircraft carriers,

submarines, missile defense systems.

So this is the nature of the threat,

and it's a real shame thatthe Obama administration

did not take this on when Chinese power

was growing exponentially.

Now it's left forPresident Trump to handle,

and he has a tall task ahead of him.

- So how badly is Chinahurting economically

because of the Trump tariffs?

I know at least 100 western companies

have closed factories, have moved,

or at least reduced theiroperations out of China.

It seems like China's no longer

the go-to country for business,so what's happening there?

- Well they're debilitating.

My own sources on the groundand in different areas

in a lot of the industrialheartland of China

are telling me factories are closing up.

And interesting enough, a lot of factories

in different goods and servicesthat were built in China

are moving to Vietnam.

In fact, Vietnam's economy and ports

are blowing through theroof because they don't have

the industrial capacityto absorb all of this.

Their ports can't evenoutput all of the stuff

that they wanna send to the United States,

so it's having a debilitating effect.

The other thing that this isdoing is it's exasperating

a bigger problem Chinahas, and that's debt.

The Chinese don't like to explain this,

but their debt to GDP,when you take all the stuff

that's off the books, it'ssomething like 260% to GDP.

That is two and a half timesour national debt, roughly.

So the Chinese, literallywhat they're having to do,

is going to bail out a lot ofthe state-owned enterprises

that make a lot of thesegoods and services,

and that adds to their debt.

Eventually you could evensee China have a debt crisis.

- Okay, Harry, we've gotabout 30 seconds here,

so look into your crystal ball.

What do you think's going to happen,

will China cave in on the trade issue,

or they're going to waitout Trump's presidency.

- [Harry] I think what you'regonna see is both sides

actually agree to ashort-term deal, just for now.

I think Trump wants to makesure the economy is strong,

I think he's gonna take a strategic pause,

which I think for right now,that's the right thing to do.

But when Trump getselected, all bets are off,

he's gonna go hard on China.

- Okay, Harry Kazianis,Director of Defense Studies

at the Center for the National Interest,

thank you for those insights.

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corporate political correctnessis Dan Celia, President

and CEO of Financial IssuesStewardship Ministries.

Dan, I notice Mattel's stockhas dropped drastically,

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It seems like it might be anattempt to turn things around.

Do you think being pc will workfor them or any corporation?

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They've got deep, deep problems,

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- I know the boycott of Target,

when they went to sex-neutral bathrooms,

led to a big drop in theirprofits, at least for a while.

Do boycotts work?

What's the best wayfor Christian investors

to fight the culture war, Dan?

- Well, I think boycotts are part of it.

They definitely workbecause they raise awareness

to the general public, andI always think that's good,

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We, at our ministry, we try to attack

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Dan Celia, Financial Stewardship Ministry,

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