i also hear, to donald trump and to a lot of trump supporters, i hear a lot of council on foreign relations, blah, blah, blah. the thing that donald trump is doing on the trade front here is the stuff he promised to do when he ran for president. his economic message over the course of the time that he ran, this was at the heart of it. multilateral, all these trade deals, council on foreign relations, that s all for the birds and not helping the working man in america. just think about the politics here. is donald trump not, in fact, doing exactly, on this issue, exactly what he promised to do when he ran for president of the united states? it sounds like he s trying to do exactly what he promised to do. here is the important distinction, even by his own measurement here. john, did you see him walk away from this summit with any kind of major big bilateral deals, even what we re seeing here is that countries like china don t necessarily have to come to
what they have seen is the rift between progressives and moderates in the democratic party hasn t completely legaled. i mean, perhaps healed. i mean, perhaps we shouldn t expect it to have. it s only six months in. the reality is they seem to be aware that most americans do not know what the democratic party stands for. and we were looking at some polls last week, and quite a few people who were on the bubble about whether they were going to vote for trump or clinton repeatedly said clinton just gave them arguments for why they shouldn t vote for trump, not why they should vote for clinton. what s interesting is if you look at the deal they talk about, economic wages, improving wages, lowering costs, job training, it s a lot of the message we saw trump deliver on the campaign. so with i think about 24 house seats up for grabs, they really are going for some of those people in trump district. the anti-globalization message has always been like a lunch bucket democratic message. su
language, but just enough language where everybody can walk away with something basic. you mentioned sticking points, trade is one of them. donald trump has been critical of fair trade saying the u.s. wants fair trade and you are also seeing fair countries make big moves with europe including japan, and trying to sign up big trade deals. how do you at the end at the end of a summit like this put out a commune kay that will satisfy everybody without having substance? i would say, that s the artistry of diplomatic speak, and what i mean it s to draft something effective enough trying to say something while really saying nothing in real substance, and i don t mean to be cynical but that s the reality of the situation. you mentioned specifically what was a great point that japan already signed a free-trade
increase trade, suddenly china is a much bigger player than it was as a result. in theory, this would have been the case if hillary clinton was the president too. she said she would not have supported t.p.p. she would have finagled something. in theory if we re looking at campaign promises. it s not just t.p.p. the other line he said in this is he will forge bilateral relationships. that s a knee to the groin to the whole multi-lateral world trade organization, these big trade deals. the europeans can say good-bye to their deal. this is going to be donald trump individually picking off individual countries now and saying, we ll do a deal here, we ll do a deal there. this is what you get, this is what we get. richard, we want to ask you about a tweet that donald trump sent out last night. you re rubbing your head in advance of a migraine. i m not being rude. i ve got the tweet. we have it, many people would like to see nigel ferage to
that will put our workers and businessings at a disadvantage. we should write the rules. is this actually about an economic conflict? the issues are hr important. those will determine everything else. this is important for the united states. it s not just the tpp and also tpa with the trade promotion authority. there are a lot of big trade deals in the hopperer as well. this is a vision of the united states trading with countries in a peaceful and democratic world. that s really what s at stake in connection with the tpp, the trans pacific partnership. want to weigh in? when it comes to writing the rules in the region i think economic peace is crucial. part of what china s island building is doing is calling into question some of the rules the united states has stood by in the region including freedom