trump xi that eases sanctions on telecom giant zte. xi reached out to president trump directly pleading on behalf of the chinese company, zte had been penalized for doing business with both iran and north korea, major violation of sanctions, the president indicating days ago he believes china s bad behavior is the united states fault. we had massive theft of intellectual property. i don t blame china, i blame the united states for allowing this to happen. now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are slamming the move. a letter signed by 14gop senators calls zte, quote, serial and premeditated violaters of u.s. law and cautions the president that fidelity to the rule of law is a key part of what distinguishes the u.s. from a country like china that s ruled by communist dictatorship. a statement from democratic leader pelosi, reason part the president zte deal is staggering
play out in the world statement, we are all watching in interest but possibly north korea, all of it, right? that s right, i think that i suspect that when xi did contact president trump he was not pleading for relief for zte, he was probably in a very subtle way threatening, look, we can hold up your qualcomm deal to net netherlands company or renege of resolution in north korea, a lot of tit for tat trades doing on, are they going to buy u.s. agriculture goods, are they not going to buy them. threat to withhold other purchases if u.s. gets tough with zte, those are the tit for trat trade deals. if you step further back, the big issue with china is it operates in an entirely different way than all of our
north korea takes on the world, good see you. a month ago i had gone to you, the leaders of north korea and south korea are going to meet, they are going to shake hands and might have hugged, you might have said you re crazy, ed, now they have done it twice. this is amazing, three interkorean summits up and years between each other and now we ve had two in short succession. moon jae-in is pronorth korean, he surrounded himself with people who actually want north korea to take over the south so i get a bit nervous when i see both kim and moon in the same place because there you have a north korean and much too cozy. what does president trump do to make sure we are not too cozy and the united states gets a good deal? democrats like nancy pelosi, the president sent this letter, it was all tickly with kim jong un, all of the overdone rhetoric
betrayal of the american people although trump pledged to fight for hard-working americans, he s now using u.s. government resources to enrich a foreign company. but the president standing firm insisting he ll forced zte to change management. pay $1.3 billion fine and commit to buying american parts, he also says it ll help get a better trade deal with china in the future. all this as the u.s.-china relationship also faces major obstacles in security front. yesterday military landed long-range bombers in artificial island in south china sea, the two are grappling with the north korean issue. this adds yet another degree uncertainty to bilateral relationship that s strained in every possible direction. ed. gillian turner reporting from washington, thank you. laura. and for more on this, let s bring in john, associate editor for wall street journal and fox news contributor. thank you for being here
memorial weekend. we are talking about the deal that we are learning the details of because they are now public. let s talk about security first, trade war or not, people are wondering about the security concerns, are they legitimate, some of the phones, talking about zte manufacturers, american parts, the security safe, are we safe as americans? well, the republican senators and the democratic senators who disagreed with the president s move say we are not and not only are we not safe but they violated the sanctions deal. and they covered it up after ward. the commerce department has rules for that and the president should not step over those rules. he should abide by them and the congress department had said, look, zte is not a player and we will penalize them. there s been pretty significant negotiating going on between president trump and president xi, how does it all