make sure we have defenses that respond to them as technology advances. not only weapons systems he described cyber weapons as well. america has a responsibility, thenational security team is fully engaged to make sure we are fully prepared to protect america from whatever regime . you mentioned china. the chinese leadership recently made a change. where xi jinping can stay on past a second term. are we headed back to the bad old days of single person leadership? and what are the invitations? it s the case that xi jinping has created enormous personal power. he has taken many of the levers of power that were from time to time more dispersed. but from america s perspective, this demonstration has been clear, pushing back against the chinese threat. if you look at the president s national security strategy, it was very clear what the chinese are doing. whether it be on trade or the theft of intellectual property
staff. threats and opportunities presented.the relative cost and we provide those two president trump each and every day in an on garnished way. the president then makes his decision based on those facts. director mike pompeo, thanks for joining us today. up next, we will bring in our sunday group to see how the latest grand jury testimony can shape robert mueller s russia probe.
fox news has confirmed. it includes everything the president has been talking about. he s going to support them. kind of surprising based on what the nra doesn t think supporting the minimum age to buy long guns from 18 to 21. allow some school faculty and staff to be armed. he s banning bump stocks. improved background checks. supports school safety improvement such as the stock school violence act and create a task force to study gun violence. looks like he s willing to go up against the nra on this issue of raising the age. i think we need to see the full load of the proposal because i think what is done at the federal versus date level. but yes, he made statements in recent weeks. the nra has been very unhappy with it he s gone back and forth. it s beenhard to tell exactly where this is going to end up .
the trump administration wasn t tapped into the idea. our rhetoric is forcing rcing h now ready to make a deal. that s not what happened. what happened was very traumatic. i think you were there. the president sticks his head into the briefing room, a big announcement is coming. it s playing to the idea that president trump wants the eyes of the world on him. he will do something hopefully that his predecessors failed to do and he will be able to say, i did it. john: jason was talking about how we got here. tim scott of south carolina things president plated pitch perfect all along. is what we saw in january and we re seeing the manifestation of it.- - have you deal with the north korean bully? our president is the right person at the right time in the right place. john: all of this talk of little rocket man and firing. and all that. it sounds like it was a strategy born of hubris and it worked. both the pressure campaign
or their continued advancement in the east and south china seas. this administration is prepared and engaged in pushing back against the chinese threats so that we can have a good relationship with china in a way the world desperately needs. want to finish up with one question about the process. several business writers wrote about it. peter navarro was the white housedirector of trade . talk about the presidents policy, says quote, my function as an economist is to provide the underlying analytics to confirm his, the presidents intuition. his intuition is always right in these matters. the application is the president makes a decision and he finds facts to back it up. does that apply to the intelligence community as well? of course not. when it comes to trade, where most focus on the national security pieceof that . we try to inform the presidents