of our trade situation. that means small. that means small. wow. we got through them, steve. more importantly and most importantly for people at home, seriously, any time donald trump talks about tariffs and talks about america first, he s talking about putting working class consumers last. this is a massive tax on the very people who can t afford it when they go to walmart, when they go to home depot, wherever they go. and will cost more jobs than it saves. plus those prices are going up. all the people who have to make things based on those materials, their jobs will disappear. this will cost the american worker. coming up, president trump is still raving about his new favorite dictator, boasting about their great relationship while slamming the, quote, haters. and while the president is back at the white house, his secretary of state is in seoul right now explaining his boss s surprise pledge to stop military exercises with south korea.
so if that s your mindset, the idea that you would not value or protect their concecomes pretty naturally. when we saw from south korea south korea was just that, look what was not on the agenda, no talk of missile, much less medi medium-range missiles that reach places like south korea and japan. the talking about taking u.s. forces out. when jimmy carter did that decades ago, there was wildly controversial. and again, what worries me as much as anything was the lack of consultation. this is a country who basically has placed its security in our hands. the idea that we would ever make a major announcement like that without first working with them what kind of a message does that send? beyond the immediate substance. had what kind of message does it send on human rights that you have gulags all over that country. the most repressive regime in the world and donald trump is saying that kim is quote beloved by his people.
actions over the past 18 months has broken the nato alliance, the western alliance in favor of who? russia. what he did in the last couple days by saying that we re not going to do military exercises with south korea, it s not just about north korea. it s about building these military relationships with people in that countries in that region in the world that can help us stop china from its expansion. they re building islands in the south china sea that they have militarized. they have bases now in africa, so they re protecting the raw materials that they re getting from africa. locking down long-term raw material contracts with poor countries in africa to feed their industrial machine, they re investing in cyber, in submarines in all the latest technologies. so to say we re not going to have a relationship now with south korea is putting us at a huge competitive disadvantage. and you know what happens as china moves throughout the
and he s very, very smart. he s a great negotiator. and he s a very strategic kind of a guy. funny, smart, great negotiator. funny, poisons family members, kills. starves anybody who gets in his way. when you think about sort of the henny youngman of southeast asia. name the dictators in our history. so, evan, as leader of japan, leaders of south korea, leaders of australia, other long-time allies of the united states hear that, what is the impact? well, first of all, you know, if you open the chinese news today, what you see is that they re rejoicing. you know, this is really they ve achieve what had they wanted in the korean peninsula. number one, they wanted to avoid a war. number two, they wanted to avoid the united states military abruptly taking over pyongyang and moving all the way up to the chinese border. number three, they never thought
the claim was in new york he would throw a lot of bluster up front but when he sat down at the negotiating table he would give away everything the other side wanted and that s how he found himself in multiple bankruptcies and that seems to be what happened here. whether he did it ahead of time or on the spur of the moment, as richard said, giving away the military exercises with south korea without getting anything in return, think puts mike pompeo in a very difficult spot. it suggests that this negotiation is going to go equally badly if we get to the second and third stage. but frankly, a lot of folks think that what kim wants is to just drag this out to just give himself more time. and to the extent that all trump really cares about is these syrupy photo ops, if he finds a way to set up a few more of those, keep trump going, he may be able to get that time he wants without ever having to give up anything in return. senator, the iran accord,