the hip and without understanding there s real consequences to his actions. representative chu, do you share much of what representative meeks has said here? and what do you believe should be the right response, if any, coming from congress to the way that donald trump has engaged so far not taking office officially, being president-elect? what do you think? i certainly agree with congress member meeks. donald trump has been shooting from the hip, and i wonder if he really thought through what he was doing when he made the call to president tsai of taiwan? this goes against many decades of protocol. now, i do believe that the u.s. and taiwan should have a strong relationship, but it is far different when you re operating from the office of the president. this leads me to wonder how he is going to carry out foreign policy, and whether the doubts we all had about his foreign
reunification. we can t overlook grating tsai on her leadership. it s not something acknowledgeed by beijing and considered an affront. whether trump knew the ramifications of the phone call still are unclear, but if it signals a major shift in u.s. policy, then it will also bring a major rift in u.s./china relations between trump s presidency even gets started. richard? janice, thank you. from beijing with that report for us. i now want to bring in two ranking members here from congress. we have california congresswoman judy chu, chair of the congressional asian-pacific caucus in los angeles. also with us, new york congressman gregory meeks, chair of the congressional black caucus pac. also a member of the house committee foreign affairs financial services. start with you, representative meeks. since you re on the house committee of foreign affairs financial services. a lot of money, when we talk about china. there s the trade deficit which is about one-third of a trillion
with european allies, dealing with individuals and even in central and south america. it is very dangerous, you know. playing around with russia, and then what s going to happen with turkey and syria? it s a delicate balance that you have to work with. you just can t shoot at the hip and then go tweeting, and then someone say something you tweet back, and that is not the way the president of the united states conducts diplomacy and not the way that we are going to keep the trust of our allies. right. which is very important. i want to shift gears now to something that happened on your side of the aisle, congressman chu, and congressman meeks, and that is the question about leadership for democrats in the house. and what we heard from nancy pelosi is that she would like to look at at least two junior leadership positions. this to bring in some new blood. that average age discussed to date of 66, clearly the two of
who may not have felt that they had been reached out to by the democrats. and we look at that very issue that you bring up here, representative chu. it is something that is resonating, right? over this last year about, our voices being heard. representative meeks, as we look at leadership not only in the house for democrat, and by the way, representative pelosi still knows how to get a vote. does she not? plus or minus two or three. but to get over the dnc. that s also for you and representative chu a question. who should lead? who is hearing the voice? well, i think that that s where our work is really going to be over the next two to four years, because we ve got reach out to all of america. the sprob not just the presidential election but we ve lost gubernatorial seats, lost state legislatures. getting close to 2018 and 2020, with our lines cut, a lot of
policy experience will in deed be held to be true. that he wasn t really ready to deal with these foreign matters. and it leads me to wonder how he is going to be able to negotiate the delicate areas that he needs to as president. congressman meeks, as we look at the way he s dealt, at least with this latest interaction with taiwan, one of his tweets was saying, they called me. is that okay? and if this is the way that he proceeds with dealing with foreign powers, is this the way we re going to talk about foreign policy for the next four years? it s very dangerous. you know, sitting on the foreign affairs committee, on the subcommittee for asia-pacific for a period of same and even around the world. how he talk about nato, dealing