stands astride the pacific with lots of capital in each nation. he s been called donald trump s china whisperer because he s a booster of president trump and also close to china s leadership. schwarzman s new book is what it takes lessons in the pursuit of excellence. steve schwarzman, pleasure to have you on. great to be here. why has it been difficult to get a deal. you re one of the people that president trump has used as an intermedia intermediary. the reason it s difficult to get a deal is one side is growing faster than any country in world history over the last 40 years. and their desire to change isn t overwhelming. and they are smart and they know that change is important. so the question is how much change, how fast, and that s just the debate. the idea of just staying where
as an american public and it would appear the dni and the cia director through russian media accounts and russian intermedia intermediaries, no good, i guess? well, i mean, nicole, tell me a time whenever you ve seen president trump speak for 15 minutes about substance. never. i m guessing he was getting his honey-do list for the month. i mean, never. the notion that he could sit and talk about the sea of azov with president putin is laughable, i think. the problem here is if, you know, policy is not a personal process. it involves the entire u.s. government, our military, our diplomats, our intelligence agencies. by doing this in private with someone like vladimir putin, you re providing him leverage to use against us in the future. let me ask you something. donald trump said something super weird. he defended the soviet invasion of afghanistan and everyone was scratching their heads, like, that s not on fox & friends or fox prime. where d he hear that? i don t know, he does
saying, you know, what does assange got? hope it s good and stone is saying, it is, i d tell bannon, but he doesn t call me back. again, this is before the big assange announcement. right. and stone had been or assange had been teasing some kind of october surprise for some time in public. so stone keeps falling back on this idea that everything that he knew was public information. and that might be plausible if not for the fact that i obtained messages between julian assange, or wikileaks and roger stone indicating they were in direct communication. roger stone has said there s an intermedia, this radio host working behind the scenes to preview the material. one thing roger stone did not tell the house intelligence committee when he testified last year was that he was actually talking to wikileaks directly. he did not mention, something we forget a lot, that he met with a russian in may of 2016 in order to obtain dirt on hillary clinton. he obtained this he met with this man named
again, this is before the big assange announcement. right. and stone had been or assange had been teasing some kind of october surprise for some time in public. so stone keeps falling back on this idea that everything that he knew was public information. and that might be plausible if not for the fact that i obtained messages between julian assange, or wick qkileaks and roger ston indicating they were in direct communication. roger stone has said there s an intermedia, this radio host working behind the scenes to preview the material. one thing roger stone did not tell the house intelligence committee when he testified last year was that he was actually talking to wikileaks directly. he did not mention, something we forget a lot, that he met with a russian in may of 2016 in order to obtain dirt on hillary clinton. he obtained this he met with this man named henry greenberg
american counterparts. we just demonstrated we have means to overcome the system, negotiating items. i do hope in terms of strategic ability, we will find an acceptable solution for both sides and that applies to the intermedia and and short range missiles. i would like to ask about the inf violation but i will ask three final questions about vladimir putin. when you were first elected in 2000 you were portrayed as a democratic reformer, with european culture and did not out becoming part of nato.