at the airport picked up by canadian authorities at the behes t behest of the u.s. government. several senior advisers to the president say trade talks continue separate from this. this arrest was months in the making. this was an executive who wasn t going to be in the united states so they waited forren vancouver. there s an extradition agreement. it may take months before she even make it to the u.s. if she does at all. the arrest was about iran sanctions and the claim is that this company was violating those sanctions. but underlying it all is this larger sense of concern about china, about technology and about espionage. i am hard pressed to see how that can go forward. there s nothing wrong with it. the justice department can and is taking an aggressive stance. but where is the macro policy? how does this fit in to trade policy and where are the reassurances to businesses that there is a plan in place, that there s a coherent, maybe even global attempt to work with
about the no votes in the senate. there were 18 and not one by any of the 20 women in the senate. now to what do you ascribe that? well, i believe that the 20 women of the senate, regardless of what is our political party, some of us are democrats, some of us are pretty liberal, some are fiscal conservatives, some got elected out of the roots of the tea party. but what all 20 of us want is a forward-looking agenda. and this is why i think the women really represent the middle road and speaking for the middle class. you know, while the guys huff and puff and pound their chest about macro policy, the women of this senate tend to focus on macaroni and cheese policy as well as doing the macro. we want to go what is the policies going to do to affect the american family, their lives
and this japan deal right now, with him being in japan, this is a crucial moment for this deal. japan s the biggest player, and he needs to get them onboard on autos and on agriculture. if he doesn t, it s possible the entire deal falls apart. he s already facing a lot of pressure at home, especially from democrats. this thing is very rocky at the moment. alex, while the president s over in japan, treasury secretary jan liu has written a short profile of shinzo abe for the time 100. he has very high praise for abe s economic policies saying they ve been designed to defeat inflation, incite dine annism. they believe a lasting recovery is finally in site. this is an interesting contrast. you have the president s top economic guy singing high praise for these very large macro stimulus policies enacted in japan, while in the u.s. the president s running around touting training partnerships at community colleges. the most macro policy is the