covered here. frankly, in great shape, intellectual property, financial services will be a massive move to the banks and credit card companies and all of these companies, including ownership interests. before, you had to do certain things that made it difficult for banks and institutions to really go into china. china has really been opened up now for the first time to financial services into the big banks and credit card companies and other types of financial services. so that is a tremendous thing. i think we have complete agreement on that. intellectual property come a lot of agreement, but we will have some of that included in phase 2. agricultural should be done. and signed a big deal with japan. that was a very big deal. a lot of that had to do with agricultural. so the farmers are doing well. currency, foreign exchange, we are set on that.
president having a personal interest at stake. so, this is part of the regular discovery process. again, this is written right into our constitution. the president had an opportunity to essentially divest himself of his ownership interests. he chose not to. and now it s perfectly appropriate for congress to determine whether there is a constitutional violation. yeah, it s the emoluments clause, article i, section ix, clause viii says that no president should accept any emolument, present of any kind from any king, prince or foreign state. that s what you re referring to. let s turn to the latest fight, senator, between president trump and former vice president joe biden. it all started with the president embracing kim jong-un as the north korean dictator taunted biden now biden says the president is behaving underneath the dignity of the office. that s what biden s campaign is saying. what do you make of that?
finances, they ve hovered over everything in this presidency so far. we haven t seen his taxes. there are questions about bank loans, deutsche bank back in the news today. this emoluments lawsuit. i know it sounds confusing. i know some people might tune out when they hear it. i hope they don t because they re doing it on the show. but why does it matter? why does it matter to get at the heart of where the president s money comes from? katy, this is the first president in perhaps forever who did not put his business or his earnings, his ownership interests in businesses into a blind trust. he refused to do that. he s not made his income tax forms available. he s not made available the projections of his business. he s lied about his net worth. he s lied about his net worth in order to obtain loans from deutsche bank, which frankly strikes me as a criminal behavior, but i m not a law enforcement official. you can t inflate your net worth
the letter i sent to him. what s most keconcerning is congress pazes legislation and nine months pass and nothing happens, and we start complaining about that, and all of a sudden there are sanctions imposed on deripaska and his companies except they re postponed. they re postponed for more than 30 days, which is normal. they re postponed until september. and that allowed deripaska to do all kinds of things relative to his ownership interests. and so for all intents and purposes the sanctions were only in place for about four months. the thing that is striking from an outsider s perspective and someone not an expert on these things is deripaska seems to be such a dangling thread when it comes to the mueller investigation, when it comes to his relationship for example, the president s campaign chairman paul manafort, whose criminal case is still ongoing. it seems like an odd time for the u.s. government to be taking
response yet. you know, what s most concerning about all of this, congress passes legislation imposing sanctions last july, nine months pass and nothing happens and we start complaining about that. then all of a sudden there are sanctions imposed on deripaska and his companies, except they re postponed. they re postponed for more than 30 days, which is normal. they re postponed until september, and that allowed deripaska to do all kinds of things relative to his ownership interests. so for all intents and purposes, the sanctions were only in place for about four months. the thing that is striking as an outsider and somebody not an expert, deripaska seems to be such a dangling thread when it comes to the mueller investigation and his relationship with just, for example, the president s campaign chairman, paul manafort, whose criminal case is still ongoing. it seems like an odd time for the u.s. government to be taking steps related to deripaska that