administration regardless of what position they want to take, whether it s aggressive, conciliatory, whether it s dismissive, typically an administration would gather its top diplomats, would gather its experts in the field, would come up with very specific language because overs every single word is going to be analyzed by the receivers of those words. typically those words would be chosen very carefully. here you have president trump, according to staff, speaking off the cuff and using whatever words he feels appropriate. and then his top diplomat and defense secretary seem to be also taking their own way on this. that is what is particularly unusual about it. not just the way but the way it s being rolled out. the language and the lack of coordination on message is one thing. but i mean, if you want to advance the ball, if you want to get your policy done in this case, it is to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons,
handles trade and might rip up the trade deal. you ve got moon saying that he doesn t like the missile defense system that got agreed to by the previous leader in that country, and he would rather do more of a conciliatory like to open up talks with them. so china in all of this. how would you assess the relationship between the united states and china right now, between president xi and president trump given the trump administration within the last 24 hours posed new sanctions on the chinese bank saying its acting an an enabling for north korea. we know north korea s economy relies almost completely on trade with china. 90% of north korea s trade is with china and the president was very clear when he tweeted in the last two weeks that china has not done enough on north korea. where does that stand as we head into the g-20 next week?
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obama picked him to be the transportation secretary. and that was in 2009. so it is hard to handicap these things but i would not be surprised if it was an individual from the hill who has real credibility on both sides of the aisle, and there are a numb ber of people who fall into that category. give me a couple of names that you are watching? senator manchin who has been really reck sill or t really reck sill or the toir reconciliatory in the process with the comments that have been made by speaker reid. and now, the ones who have been through the most reps and has the muscle been set of the way that washington functions here, and do you see him functioning in a similar way?
do you think, in order to heal this nation after this wrenching process, that president-elect trump should take this issue head-on and reach out and address individuals who might actually be scared in their own country? well, i think, obviously, i maybe disagree with the characterization that you laid on the table here. if you look at donald trump s first speech after knowing that he was going to be president-elect of the united states, you saw at 2:30 in the morning this is a person who gave a conciliatory, measured, very appropriate, i think extremely impressive, speech about coming together, building bridges. there was no there was no bragging. there was no relitigating issues from the campaign trail. and he did that. that was that was president-elect trump s decision to do that. it wasn t a speech writer that decided, here is the speech you need to give. he looked at the speech and said, no, no, no. we are going to bring this country together, and we want to tell the whole wo