Okay. Welcome back. Thank you for tolerating our seamless transition there. But i was really grateful to sheila for stepping in and really providing a wonderful opening for our event today. She touched on the wide landscape of issues that japan faces in 2019 and kind of gave us a good tease on a number of issues. You missed the were going to have a competition to see if we can guess one of the characters in the new era name. So you can think about that in preparation. So this is a nice switch for me because normally ive been also ive been encouraged to speak into the microphone so people in the back can hear us. The last couple of years ive handled the Foreign Policy or International Panel so its nice to be able to switch back to domestic today. This is a transition year for the imperial house. This is also Prime Minister abes seventh year as Prime Minister. And by the end of it, he could end up being japans longestserving Prime Minister ever. It is also the year of the boar where its
Not too many have gone a read out. Tilde great conservatives assembled here what happened on this historic trip. We flew 42 hours to be on the ground for 39. That is an interesting way to travel. It was a great trip. I was extraordinarily proud of the president. He will be here tomorrow to tell you about it. All i can tell you is he did exactly what you and i would have wanted him to do. There was no way he could take the deal the north koreans offered him. He wanted to do a deal, but was not desperate to do a deal. Sometimes the only thing you can do in a negotiation is walk away. I think that was the right play. I think we all have a lot of questions following up. Just to get started, how did you get yourself wrapped up in this . You have this great congressional voting record, you are in a state seat, everything is going Mick Mulvaneys way, and what happens . The Freedom Caucus was getting boring. Anyway toas leaving run for governor. Roll labrador was leaving. We thought we would l
[applause] whatsit like to have, as the chief of staff to the president , such a strong conservative . I think it makes us all feel great. Ive got the chief in a perfect position, because as you said, you are a bit sleep deprived and jetlagged. I would only do it for you. You have done it before. How is that . Thats pretty cool. He wanted to be here with all of you. He just came back from a pretty important trip. Not too many have gone a read out on that trip. Tell the great conservatives assembled here what happened on this historic trip. Mr. Mullaney we flew 42 hours to be on the ground for 39. That is an interesting way to travel. It was a great trip. I was extraordinarily proud of the president. He will be here tomorrow to tell you about it. All i can tell you is he did exactly what you and i would have wanted him to do. There was no way he could take the deal the north koreans offered him. He wanted to do a deal, but was not desperate to do a deal. Sometimes, the only thing you ca
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