ticed that this medium is very personal. And part of it is that I am aware that I'm not talking to just a camera. And the way that I'm aware of that is both the comments and seeing myself. So there's some life. If I did not see life and did not see my own face, it would feel more like a presentation, and you would feel it as well. So I don't think there's a good way for me to be able to solve this, but I'll work on it anyway.

Let's talk about Michael Avenatti. He tweets this morning provocatively. So you all know Michael Avenatti. He was Stormy Daniels' lawyer and he represented the woman who claimed that during the Kavanaugh situation that there had been these rape parties every weekend. He is not judged to be the most credible person in the world. But he tweets this morning, "There is too much at stake in the midterms for the Dems to allow the Republicans to use the caravan, which is so obviously a set up, as a wedge issue. It is time for the Dems to step up and be strong on border security. We can't once again be painted as weak and then lose." And then he does hashtag best. I don't even know what that means.

So the first thing he says is that the caravan is obviously a set up by the Republicans. So it looks like Avenatti is saying that the Republicans... yeah, somebody's saying I should use two devices and I'll try that next time, but I think there's a timing lag because when I see myself here I'm seeing myself in real time, but if I see it in the playback and watch it the way you're playing it, it's going to be a delay so it won't get me what I need. But anyway, Avenatti has apparently come out to be strong on border security because, and here's the funny part, even Avenatti can't defend the Democrats. I'll just leave that right there.

What I saw this tweet this morning in which Avenatti, who's presumably running for president as a Democrat, even he can't find a way to defend the primary Democratic policy point. I don't even know how he can run as a Democrat when he's coming out basically as a Republican or closer to one than a Democrat. And I just loved everything about this. I actually sat on my couch half an hour ago and I was just crying. I was laughing so hard that even Avenatti can't defend the Democrats.

All right, let's talk about Ian Bremmer. He tweeted a graph from Signal, and the source is the Committee to Protect Journalists, and it shows some graphs. And I'll just tell you what's there. Of the number of journalists in prison as of 2017, the number one imprisoner of journalists is Turkey. Is this the best simulation ever? I mean seriously, what are the odds? There are a lot of countries in the world. I haven't counted them all up, but let me ask my assistant. By the way, I have an assistant now. Alexa, how many countries are there in the world? All right, all right, all right, all right. So there are 195 countries. Out of 195 countries in the world, the number one imprisoner of journalists is Turkey. Come on. There's no way that this was accidental. I mean it might be accidental, but it is humorously accidental.

Who is the second-worst imprisoner of journalists? China. That's right. China has imprisoned 41 journalists in 2017. How many fentanyl labs did they close in 2017? I'll bet it's less than the number of journalists that they imprisoned. I'm just gonna put that out there. I'll bet China did not close 41 fentanyl labs in China that is leading to the death of 30,000 Americans a year. But they did jail 41 journalists.

And if you're watching what's happening with the Chinese economy and the US economy, you know that China is having a tougher time of it, or seems to be. At least that's the way it's being reported. Who knows what's true anymore. But it's being reported that China is having more problems economically than the US is. How do you know that's true? Well we don't know as much about China. That's a little less transparent. But what we do know is that the Fed raised interest rates because the US economy is too strong.

Now a lot of people don't know a lot about economics, so there are some things which are obvious to some group of the public who has studied this sort of thing, people who have business backgrounds, but it's completely non-obvious to the general public. And that is that if you're looking at this trade war, the way you win or lose a trade war is that generally the strongest has the leverage because they can wait longer. The weak economy can't wait as long to make a deal. And our economy is so strong that our own country, operating through the Fed, had to slow it down. China is worried