president trump has kept another one of his campaign promises and that to some way straighten up this terrible trade imbalance, and it just so happens that west virginia bounds the natural resources and natural gas is really important for china for the chemicals standpoint. low and behold, we ve got some real wonderful things going on today in west virginia and through our commerce department and through the president and a lot of different channels and everything, we ve got some real hope of unbelievable growth within the state of west virginia. brian: so it s $84 billion. it s china energy that s going to do it. are they going to hire west virginiaians to work? absolutely. absolutely. you know, they ll be investing dollars here and that s what, you know, the president said all long, you know?
can get that passed but here is the problem. you can t pass that $84 billion plus up with the budget caps we have right now. maria: right. jack: they have got to be removed by the appropriations committee and its got to be done by 1 january. if we don t do it by 1 january that budget goes all the way back to 549 billion, not 640 billion. we lose almost $100 billion. that is an absurdity. we ll never rebuild military unless the congress removes the budget caps so that we can grow the budget. maria: we ll be watching that that s obviously very important. general always a pleasure to see you thanks so much. good talking to you maria. maria: general jack keane there a busy week ahead for republicans on capitol hill this is the week both houses of congress fine tuning their tax plan, our panel will weigh in next as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. it was tough getting out there on stage.
you can take home today. bret: for someone who got a lot of grief here at home overseas, he s at least getting a hat tip from some of these countries. but bret, the overall goal here is to get china to help us to lean on north korea to stop the nuclear program. bret: we don t know if that s happening or not. we don t know it s happening, but we know he doesn t like these multilateral trade agreements. he s made that very, very clear. but what those trade agreements do is give us influence in the region. to the extent that we pull away from these multilateral trades, we have left them in front to put on china, to pressure north korea. so it s not just about u.s. exporters and markets for them, it s also about keeping some sort of influence, keeping some sort of leverage. that is the goal here. that is the end game. bret: you would agree, $84 billion goes a long way in west virginia. yes. bret: jonathan, them in this trial. a juror steps aside. says, the jury is leaning tow
meet with the crown prince. secretary of state rex tillerson has spoken to his saudi counterpart regarding limit on but refuses to give further details about the conversation. bret: rich edson of the state department. thank you. as we reported earlier, president trump s objectives was in part to persuade china to do more to rein in north korea. but how did he do at persuading china to do more to close the trade gap with america. here s james rosen. among the 250 billion in new trade agreements announced during president trump s visit to beijing, a deal for that china energy investment operation to port 84 billion into west virginia power projects.
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