in the course of the last several days to being much more critical of vladimir putin, himself, who he said is backing a person that is truly a, quote, evil person. referring specifically to bashar al assad. and brian, even as we speak to you, another fundamental campaign promise we ve seen the president make a 180 on, of course, he campaigned on the idea that he would be labeling, declaring china a currency manipulator. it s something that certainly fueled a lot of the support among his populist base in this country. well, in an interview that took place as we understand it within the last matter of hours with the wall street journal president trump who even last week before his meeting with president xi said when it comes to currency manipulation, china is a world champion. well, he has now told the wall street journal that he will not declare china a currency manipulator. appears to be there may have been some commitments out of his conversations with president xi as he needs to