they are not here, emphasize not here, to express a political opinion or to protest, just to protect supporters of mr. trump. well, that certainly was not their role in washington d. c. on january 6th. and it does not seem to have been their role in previous rallies in washington to, quote unquote, stop the steal. other pro trump efforts to sort of cling to power after he had lost the election yeah. i was stunned by the idea that a secret service agent would call himself on unofficial inching toward official liaison with the oath keepers. the secret service has waved away the correspondence between the oath keepers and its own agents and just kind of routine contact. but on the outside, it s hard to imagine that having this same relationship, the same unofficial liaison relationship with, i don t know, antifa that the sort of coziness between these organizations, i
we are looking at ways to help the post office modernize and help move them forward. they ve lost tens of billions of dollars over the last ten years. we would like to see that stop and we re looking at the best ways to do that. anything specific dealing with a.m. ston, i m not aware of anything on the table. the discussion we ve been having, i think we re all trying to get a little clarity on, whether u.s. and china are actively in negotiations now or if it s the routine contact we would expect through u.s. and china and you re hopeful that direct negotiations routine contact but this is a negotiation period. that s why it doesn t happen immediately. and there s a process and we re going through that process. two questions. one, following up on that, earlier chinese officials said