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maloney says she wants to look into and she s curious adds well whether there need to be tighter ethics laws governing investments from foreign entities that were government counter parts. that s a mouthful. president biden s connection to all of this is not direct but as you noted, john, you know, he had some very hash words for the kingdom while on the campaign trail with reference to jamal khashoggi, as you said, the war in yemen, other human rights issues. now as my colleague peter baker i think wrote yesterday in his story about the potential saudi visit or the confirmed saudi visit, when i was in saudi arabia last fall for a conference sponsored by the entity that invested with mr. kushner, there were very few representatives of the biden administration there. they only sent the deputy secretary there. however, the place was long on trump administration alumni, so you can see this is a real shift, not just from campaign language, but from actual
this was the president, and i do think it was based on his campaign language. his instincts and, frankly, his not being his predecessor. relative to north korea, rocket man, calm before the storm, you ll find out. that type of word choice caused you to be concerned that we were being driven to war. the book went to press before some good news has occurred. did you not give president trump enough credit when you wrote the book? no, i gave him credit for some things. i actually thought that he actually increased our tolerance for risk in northeast asia. and i get that because we were heading to a bad place. i give him great credit for economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, nudging the chinese in a more forward leaning position. military demonstrations. aircraft carriers, b-1 bombers,