the chinese are sending an envoy to north korea. i believe they claimed there was no connection to the meeting they just had with president trump, but helped significant is that? i think it significant. it would have been wonderful the president was able to say that in discussions with president xi, he has assured me he is going to do more and he s going to do it sooner based on what director pompei has told the american people, we may be months away from nuclear icbms as opposed to years away from that. but he didn t say that, it doesn t mean that we don t have xi s assurance. he made a point of the fact that his policy, trump s policy and xi s policy are one and the same. i do think this is a step in that direction. martha: just about 20 seconds. with ice is largely out of syria, iran is filling that vacuum, big concern? big concern. we just don t have a decent strategy to push back on iran
give any wiggle worm to perhaps kick some of this money back? because we know who people who live in these areas may look like they make a lot of money, but when they pay what they pay for their housing and transportation, everything in the states, it really does not make you a rich person to make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. it doesn t. the senate knocks out salt altogether. the house has knocked out most of it, the senate has knocked out all of it. doesn t leave much negotiating room in the conference. as far as the individual mandate, that will be interesting to follow. i don t know if we should be reforming health care at the same time we are doing a tax bill, putting it all together in one. it can have unintended consequences. right now i m not that helpful when it comes to salt in the state income and property tax deduction. martha: congressman peter king, thank you very much. always good to talk to you, thanks for being here tonight. coming up next, president tr