so are the russians. the south koreans are openly violating too because everybody is getting away with it. president trump needs to bring down the hammer first on beijing, then on moscow, then on seoul, and we solve this short of the use of force. but until then, kim kim jong uns going to continue to defy us. jedediah: a negotiation deal on tariffs would be very, very big for this president. he was talking about that when no one was talking about it last time around in the campaign. do you see progress you can actually count on? no, or you can t count on it because, you know, we ve had decades of failed trade agreements with china, so why do we think the remedy is another trade agreement? no, that s not going to work. what s going to work, i think, is disengaging from the chinese economy, reducing our vulnerability to chinese bridge reasons and hostility and all the rest of it. then i think we re going to be in a much better position. so i sort of view no deal as a really good deal f
area. can i just speak about the realities of it? s of the president this negotiation deal, it has to go through all of you on capitol hill. what are some of the sticking areas you think congress will pass as usmca? i think so. we need to look at it and look at the details but i don t know of any real stumbling block and i haven t seen or heard rumblings of any real sticking points that would make it so congress. harris: some democrats that they might stand in the way although i don t know how they could since they say they feel like big chunks of it are just like nafta. exactly. i have to give president obama credit because he was willing to take on an issue which is generally a republican issue and that is free-trade. he did try to negotiate agreements with some of our agents and others and he brought along some of his republican democratic colleagues in thinking that free-trade really has been beneficial to both nations, let s go ahead and move
behavior. the question is there are alternative remedies to the one we originally put forward. that is the area we will explore promptly. decisive move from the commerce department. now looking for other ways to punish zte without hurting u.s. suppliers suppliers. in return, u.s. wants concessions from china like removing tariffs on agriculture products. the president is working to get zte back in business. now linking zte s fate calling it a broader negotiation deal with china. there is the trade angle here and there is a national security angle. just a couple of weeks ago, the defense department, pentagon, banned zte products from sold on u.s. bases for national security concerns. the top intel agencies
with the new congressional budget bipartisan review that s going to come out. you re going to see people lose their health care insurance and see rising premiums based on the math. it s going to be a lose/lose, and it s up to the republican administration and trump to use his negotiation deal, the art of the deal to sell a lem ton the millions of american who is voted for him. president trump was golfing today while his vice president was on the stump for this health care reform bill. how do you think he s doing as a president trying to sell this legislation? time is going to tell. i think the rollout was choppy and could have been a lot better. i m surprised they didn t have the president front and center rolling this thing out. why wasn t he rallying? he loves these rallies, right? he does. so it will be interesting to see what he says in nashville this week when he rallies for the first time since the bill was rolled out. i also want to see if he ends up in some of these dis
klugman? go on. i would say the reasonable position is that you want the chinese to be able to buy more stuff. how do you do it? the currency issue is part of it. you can get them to do it through what? if their currency was worth more that. could buy more things. i know. how do you do that? it s part of the negotiation. you have to have something that china wants. a. they re not in the negotiation deal. yes, i understand that but it s part of a whole gestalt as we would say. how do you get other nations to consume more and consume more american products. and i think the average voter, if you talk about just the stateses you mentioned, ohio pennsylvania, michigan the average voters in the rust belt are not going to get that deep about it. they re going to say to themselves there s is this specter of what china has done in terms of flooding our country with cheap products, walmart s shelves are stocked with cheap goods. and detroit, flint michigan. when you think