government is interested in. at the same time, we see europeans agitating for talks. the german chancellor merkel has been a bug in the presidency are pushing him, the french, the british have weighed in. generally in favor of this. what is your over under on some kind of official multiparty talks will happen in the next year? i think it s long odds. one of the purpose of the increase pressure is to get north korea back to the table and meaningful way. similar to the table to get iran back to the table, whether you like the deal or not. it was the pressure with leaving open the door for diplomacy that got tehran back to the table. using the sanctions to enforce the un resolutions but also put in place measures that make it harder for north korea to import and export items for their nuclear program.
for bloomberg. what did you find? and does any of this increase pressure on kushner that could affect the way he governs or meet with foreign officials? yeah. pressure is definitely mounting on both kushner and his family. this debt is due february 2019. and look, they ve looked a lot of different places. and it s the sort of situation where they don t have a lot of potential investors. the plan they have to save the building involves raising it and a building razing it. and building a new fancy one. with a mall on the bottom, hotel on top of that. condos that would go from $,000 per square foot. can i ask you about that? your report is so exhaustive. right in the middle you re like, their plan to make up the $600 million debt as i understand it, and i m not a financial expert, their plan was to go billions more in debt, do i have that right? yeah. yeah to look for financing, to help them pay off their current
the idea that the north korean regime would collapse and threaten china s border with north korea. some suggest the u.s. should guarantee north korea s stability in some way. basically say that they wouldn t, they wouldn t push for reunification for south korea if they were restabilized. they don t want u.s. troops on any border in any scenario like that. you can make that kind of assurances and maybe china increase pressure if they knew they didn t have to be concerned about those possibilities. one more to you because when you talk about what the administration could do to bring china onboard, seems there is something that could push china away. if the president makes this decision to put higher tariffs around the country including from china. i was told from an administration official no decision is final yet. i don t think anything is expected before g-20, obviously. if the president were to go in that direction, that seems that
foreign policy without any plan. that s how wars start. steven, do you think it really is that series, that s how wars start? i mean, it is, after all, just a phone call. that s true. but i think what this does, martin, is increase pressure on donald trump to get through that process of naming a secretary of state and senior foreign policy advisors around him pretty quickly. it s true that elections have consequences. and the president elect soon to be the president will have wide latitude of deciding what u.s. foreign policy towards asia and everywhere else will be. the problem is it s not clear right now whether these changes that appear to be taking place in american foreign policy are part of some strategic grand design that s been fully thought out, or whether they re just ad hoc changes taking place on a telephone call with a president elect. i think when president elect trump gets that foreign policy team around him, we know he s narrowing in the choice of secretary of state.
live in poverty because the minimum wage is too low. so raising the minimum wage will help to create jobs, will increase the buying power of families affected by the minimum wage and will make a real difference in our economy. so i m a co-sponsor of a bill in the house to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. it s important to do that. it s important to help working families help make ends meet. we ve seen a terrific recovery at the top. not so much for the working poor in the middle class. we re doing a town hall meeting center to help increase pressure on congress to raise the minimum wage. i think there s tremendous resistance from some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who don t support raising the minimum wage, but we have to keep pushing hard. because it s important to families in rhode island and across the country. i m curious whether your colleagues on the other side of the aisle will look at this new york times interesting article