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guilty, he tried to pass information to his chinese handlers that would have exposed the identities of americans, other cia, dia colleagues who were going to go into china on behalf behalf of the united states. fortunately he did not succeed in doing that. his communications device did not work. so their identities were not revealed. martha: if they had been uncovered, what would have happen? if they were uncovered and china, at the very least they would have been imprisoned and who knows what else. martha: how big a problem is that? those three. what does that tell you about how many more of our former agents might be turning like this? there is three. that is unprecedented in number to have at the same time. and if you think about how few people do actually turn, that gives you a sense of how many people the chinese have to approach in order to get three individuals. and of course there are cases that we still may be investigating in cases that we may not know about.
take the long view on deals like this. what could the farmers and ranchers and the american agriculture economy be like if we actually got a trade deal with china that works for american farmers and american ranchers? we know that many of them have seen economic downturn. there has been some compensation measures, and taking the long view means waiting for the best deal possible. the president always welcomes them to come back. in the trade team, frankly they have been terrific. martha: he said himself that nobody is willing to bite this off. it is a big issue. i think americans across the board agree that something has to be done. so president xi has asked the people of china to pursue self-reliance. he said get ready for the next new long march, he called it. will the president asked the same of the american people? you look at the effort during world war ii. does he see this as a war? does he see it as something that will require americans to
is this larger in scale than what we saw from russia? it is equivalent to what we saw from russia on the political side, but on the economic side it is much more prevalent in terms of technology just for economic purposes. martha: i was also shocked to learn that the chinese government uses linkedin, which i think so many americans have the resume, and using linkedin to reach out to these guys? yes, they are. it is an easy way to go on and see what types of people have the experiences that show to the chinese intelligence officers that data someone who works for u.s. intelligence agency. let me reach out to them, obviously they don t reach out as intelligence officers. they reach out as academics or someone who is interested in their work and wants to hire them. and then they invite them to china, and we see that on the political and economic side, invite them to china, and there they continue the cultivation of that person ultimately as a co-op to you.
anybody, let alone the number two economy in the world play americans for fools as has been done for so many years. this president has proven he is ready to negotiate better trade deals. he has done it with the usmca, the people that work behind us, martha, better get back here and vote on, that will help constituents left, right, and center. better, bigger nafta, called unc a, he is willing to do that with china. and people are waiting to exhale for a trade agreement. martha: the farmers are, the market is. it is preceded by the art of the negotiation. martha: understood. there are reports out of china that they don t think that anything can happen before the 2020 election. does the president want to see this happen before the election? you say that he it was just today, if they are waiting out the clock for 2020 thinking that he won t get reelected, they will be