a chronic tariff situation going into 2019 which would suppress economic activity. the chinese need to understand, may be beginning to understand that there is a consensus that the chinese predatory mai maif your is beham and it s not going to go away. that s precisely the point. one of the things that will help is inside china xi has rod s roo nationalism is not popular. and there are reformers that refer the way china was going when it joined the wto. they ll also pressure him. when we come back, the arrest of a chinese tech executive threatens to throw u.s.-china relations further into turmoil. gordagordan chang on
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response is a very very very very very large ratio. this existential trade and worry that we have been experiencing, that the world has been experiencing about this stuff between our president and the north korean leadership, the threatened potential start of war, it s all based on intel we have never seen that apparently doesn t have any backup from any other intelligence agencies or any other countries. so again, we ll be talking in detail with somebody who has real earned expertise on the north korea issue later on in the show tonight. but as we continue to watch the threats and the bluster and the chaotic kinetic activity from the this administration on north korea, i think it s worth noting that we have no idea where the radical change in maif behavior by our own government is hawk chully based on anything real. stick a pin in that. we re coming back to that a little later in the show tonight.
it s complicated. no easy answers. sb we have to look at all options and encourage the coalition of partners in the region to do their part and come to the table. and the whole world has to respond to this. before i let you go i want to hit on the other big international head line of the day. north korea obviously launching a missile overnight. the secretary of state basically giving a kind of no comment, right, the idea apparently being don t give kim jong-un the provocation, the response that he might be looking for. was that the right move from the secretary of state? look, i think, you know, the president tweeted about kim jong-un some months ago. this is a serious national security challenge. was that not a serious response? it doesn t seem serious. this is a nuclear power that we ve got to figure out how to manage and we have to put real pressure on china, which is really the country that has the most ability to manage the maif
i have to ask this question. why haven t we captured him. i kind of leaned forward and said because he s hiding. turns out he was hiding in almost plain sight of the pakistanis under the circumstances that i personally believe make it almost impossible to believe their high functioning highly skilled intelligence agents did not know the terror master mind was under their noses. we will talk about that and give you the detailed account of the seal team raid that killed him. first meet who heroes both nave reveals lieutenant commander eric griton who fought in iraq and afghanistan. holder of the bronze star and other medals. griet ton runs a wounded veteran aesz organization. former maif knee seal benjamin smith also a dially decorated combat veteran who served in iraq and middle east and around