ed: speaking about learning about people, marv oswald, basically on espn on new tiered he said god with three sons, lee angelo is one of the players they are in the middle and ucla who got arrested. people make mistakes. he got arrested shoplifting in china around the time president trump was on his vacation trip are there ve actually been people on the left criticizing president trump are pressuring private and someone to release these three young men, which he did. they were pressuring him saying why did you focus on just basketball players when there s all these other human rights problems? that s what the left has been saying. president trump helped you out, but she can president trump. i hope they ll thank me. they were supposed to be in jail for maybe 10 years for the shoplifting.
all sorts of terrible things and it is continued with president trump. in some ways, i think that you can say this was a fairly verbally extreme but nevertheless a fairly modest reaction. none of the president spoke for the south korean legislature and said some pretty tough things about north korea all of which were true and likely has human rights problems and all of the other things of the president mentioned. and north koreans could have responded with a missile test, they could have done next, white rose and really all that were angry words. i think all in all, the trip was successful. he was able to reassure our south korean allies and that has been a problem for him in the past. so that was a real achievement i think. in the north koreans really didn t say very much. specific, they warned the regime not to measure restraint as weakness saying he will be a fatal mistake elation. to some that might sound like a threat. is that some other pretty
neighbor but done little to rein north korea in. and kwun of china s strongest alliances is with russia. they follow the lead on votes at the united nations security council. president trump s visit has brought other issues into the spotlight from climate change to human rights violations. china is e the number one green house gas emitter in the world. but it remains in the paris climate agreement. only america is not in the paris climate agreement or is pulling out of it. and china is actually addressing it. china is saying we have it, we own it, let s do something about it. and we re going in reverse. that s right. china is trying to contain it. for decades, by the way, china has come under fire for forced labor and as we know it continues to suppress free speech. so china does have some real human rights problems. what all this comes down to is money and power. china is so big and rapidly
nuclear weapon in iran. that is job one. and yeah, we might be upset that they have human rights problems or other issues but i don t think that s a reason to destroy an agreement that is basically accomplishing our number one national security priority which is no nuclear weapons. yes, iran does things we don t like. we should use other foreign policy tools to address that but we shouldn t be pulling out of an agreement that we signed with our partners. it seems to me all that does is isolate us, you know, going back to colin powell, if you break it, you own it. i think that s the way the world will see this. if we do decertify, if the administration chooses to decertify at this time, what s the impact? yeah, it s a great question. this is a little confusing i think probably for viewers and understandably because we ve got this decertify case thing. this decertifying thing. just because mr. trump
still around. i think that will be the test. when he s gone, what the cuban people decide on going forward. there is an argument for going this route. putting economic freedom ahead of political freedom. we ve seen it in other parts of the world, southeast asia south asia east asia i should say welcome to china. in china, we still have human rights problems. i m talking about places like south korea and japan where we sent economic freedom will lead to political freedom. it s worked. it hasn t worked in cuba partly because we are on our own with his embargo. cuba is still trading with the rest of the world. they are just not trading with the u.s. that s part of the reasons why the policy is not been effective. chris: really quickly? he based this on something really quite clever, which is so much of the economy is owned by the cuban military, the intelligent, the security forces. basically, he forbade financial transactions with those particular entities, which