family. this is a person as well as an american, and this is someone the president is praising to the nth degree. what do you think about the fact the president is going to south koa?litary exercises with as you know, this is something the north koreans have hated for so many years. we all wanted this to be a productive summit and lead to a successful negotiation, but you have to look at it and say north korea got a couple key concessions. and north korea as well. we got nothing but a vague promise. they got the president to use his own language of provocative. this is for our security and for the security of our south korean ally. so to make that concession to do so without even consulting our south korean ally and get nothing in return except the vague promise of some future denuclearization, a promise so vague from what we received in
nothing of a north korea that could build a missile putting los angeles within distance. the same question, what do you do here? well, you ve got it. it is a tough issue. there are 20 million south koreans within artillery range of north korea. i think a couple of things we need to do. e, we really h to strengthen that relationship with south koa, make sure the south koreans knowhat we are all-in if the north koreans want to go there. i think this deployment of these anti-ballistic missile systems is the right thing to do. but it is equally important and actually crucial that we have a deep dive with the chinese so there is a clear understanding of what we re looking for and what we re not looking for. the chinese worry not only about refugees, they worry about a lot of things. they especially worry about the notion there could be a unified korean peninsula under a u.s. ally. this would be a strategic victory for the united states, a strategic defeat for china.
anything. we are losing our shirts with free trade. at some point my conservative friends are going to have to go back and sakes wait a minute, we can t continue to lose three, four, five hundred billion i don t know a year with china. look, china taxes our product. i don t know if you know that or not. but when you go into china we sell so little product to china its irrelevant anyway, relatively speaking. but when you sell product in china, they tax us. we don t tax them, they tax us. how come? look at the deals made with south korea? they want to sell cars, they want to sell televisions but we want to sell cars in south korea but they put a tax on us. what is it for us in the trade agreements. i think the people doing it are incompetent or, maybe more likely, are controlled by their local lobbyist, represented by south korea. south koa, china, all these countries have lobbyists in this