partner with them. they force them to give them the information. so the practices have been grossly unfair, this administration is trying to do something to make sure that american intellectual property is protected. neil: let s talk about where this goes measurement on wall street have been worried about that. they have memories of trade wars and can t stop. they grow and grow. you re worried about that. i m wondering what kind of advice the president is getting from foreign leaders, other countries that say be careful what you start here, mr. president. german financial minister and others. do you fear that it s going to get in the way of some of the other deals you hope to make with some of these same foreign players? the chinese included? my role is working with capitol hill. there s more bipartisan support for these actions on china. members in congress have neil: i don t know.
speaking on behalf of the president that he believes russian trolls, russian cyber warfare activists were engaged in trying to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election? yes, he has said that. getting to those comments that you just mentioned, he s also affirming a fact that the cyber problem is not simply a russian problem. there are other malicious cyber actors, including north korea, for one, and that cyber threats are not just these influence operations. the cyber threats, there are a range of cyber threats, threats to critical infrastructure, threats to american intellectual property and our economic security. we face a growing cyber danger that the whole government has to get together to confront and it s not just about one country and not just about one area. let me ask you about another line that jumped out at me. in the actual document it says china and russia are revisionist powers who want to shape a world antithetical to u.s. values and interests. does the
i m just going to ask you to go to that one issue if you would. it s not a trick question. i wrote down five of them i wanted to comment on. just on trade agreements. i think as you know, the president-elect is very much interested in free and fair trade, and as you commented on, this is not about limiting imports, this is about growing exports as much as we can be. you ve also commented on intellectual property, i think one of the biggest problems, an and, our american intellectual property is not being kept, and it is being taken in foreign countries. you ve mentioned nafta, the president-elect is very much interested in renegotiating nafta, so that we can keep more jobs here. i think, as you know, he has picked up the phone and called many ceos, i can t member the last time a president or president-elect did that and worked for the american people. jenna: steven mnuchin answering questions in the senate hearing to assume his new
estimate of the number of jobs america loses due to china s intellectual property violations. now, absolutely nobody anywhere in the entire world thinks that simply calling china a currency manipulator, which mitt romney says he ll do, is going to make chinese businesses stop stealing american intellectual property. that s ridiculous. whether or not 12 million is more jobs than you d expect in an obama or romney first term, it may not be if we get into a recovery, the simple fact is whatever you think of the worth of these policies, the studies and numbers the romney campaign has provided for them have nothing to do with are simply not credible. ezra, there seems to be a mix based on the data you provided. we look at recent months. the economy added an average of 150,000 jobs a month. romney s plan as well as some of the moody s prointersectijectio they d need 250,000.
action. mark, aren t you upset they are stealing the thunder from the real comedians? i want to say about the eyebrow painting, we know asians are hairless. it had to be done. i think he had some eyebrows under there. no. that s a whole new racial stereo type. i have a few living in my home. a whole family in my storage unit. i thought it was a great ringer for tiger woods as well. that could be in there. we have to trademark obama so every time this wierdo does an impersonation and makes another black prince charming take a little money off the debt. it is american intellectual property. exactly. if they call him black prince charming they need to gef ty digs some money.