the agenda for 2018, infrastructure, immigration looming large but steve bannon has his own ideas of where the president s head should be at. here s some of what he told axios the president should focus on in january. trade with china, building the wall, and daca. he said it s a make or break moment for president trump. do you agree? well, it s very important, obviously, if he wants to maintain his political capital at the same time still have allies left to help him with his agenda on capitol hill. it is certainly a very, very ambitious agenda. one of the big problems that this president is going to have increasingly during this year is that the off years are usually where you get things done and find some bipartisan support but during election years like this, midterm election years, the folks up on capitol hill, the parties tend to try to find where their differences are. they want to go into the election year drawing contrasts with the opposition party. when you have very tough t
what is your reaction to the president now saying as a result of needing their help he has been soft on china? again, the word soft, a word he has often used against his opponents, but now he is using it to describe his own approach. well, i think president trump has, as you said, mitigated and softened his approach quite a bit in 2017 compared to what he said as candidate. talking about slapping major tar rifs on all trade with china, that s what he was saying as candidate, 45% tariffs, that kind of thing. and as we know, since he s been president, he s built a bit of a personal rapport with president xi at least when they ve been together he tried to sweet talk the chinese premier. frankly i haven t had as much of a problem because it s been combined with official positions on china especially on security issues fa have been fairly tough. for example, the national security that came out some ten days ago. so trump is trying to do this
august of this year where there were 6 open violations found. two of them had to do with defective carbon monoxide and smoke detectors on the first floor, not where it originated. now the landlord owner of this building had 30 days to fix these problems and certify they were fixed but according to that city department, they were never certified that they were actually remedied or fixed. so it is possible that they were fixed but it was never reported. but the fire commissioner says it is simply unclear at this point whether or not those smoke detectors were working and whether or not that may have played any kind of role at all in this case, ana. such a tragedy situation. scott mcclain, thank you. major cities across the country, including new york, stepping up security for the new year s eve celebrations, las vegas, boston, they all have plans to enhance police presence this weekend. there will be many more officers walking the streets around new york time square.
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business with north korea. is this a plausible, adequate, diplomatic move? i think it is one that secretary mnuchin scale back himself in an interview with fox news. that was the first opening gambit. what he said after that was that we intend to strengthen sanctions. look, trade with china accounts for about 4% of gdp. if we suspended trade with china that would affect not only our own economy negatively but the global economy. i don t think that will happen. i think we needed to be tough and clear about what is expected of china and i think steve mnuchin sent that message today and you ll hear much more of that, both out of the national security council meeting tomorrow and also in the united nations. we are coming up to un general assembly. i think first and foremost on every nation s agenda is going