Pennies. i think we re right to be concerned about this attitude on trade. i do think that this deal as well as some of the trade activity has not been nearly as bad as some of the free market advocates. dana: some of the things that are interesting as north korea and south korea plan for a possible meeting between president trump and kim jong-un you have the trade piece with south korea that is our diplomatic out reach. then you have the sanctions and the push back against the chinese for intellectual property which also plays well at home. what are the chinese thinking? the question is what are the chinese really care about at the end of the day? this may be part of some broader game where the chinese said, look, you leave us alone on things like human rights. we ll take some of your aggressive trade action. of course we ll push back publicly. one thing i think that was quite positive was the intellectual property parts of this. china has been getting away with
Economic pressures, including the energy sector involving north korea. and if the president is talking about this, he might want to include russia s involvement because even if and as china ticks down its economic involvement, russia picked up its trade activity. so this has to be a universal effort. everyone must be on board. the president vice president-elect tweeted this. north korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the united states. it won t happen. has north korea already developed, congressman, a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the united states? you know, i think what you re seeing is an increased improvement in their system and
All right, good morning, everyone. i m john berman. happening now, president trump lashes out at president obama for not doing enough to fight russian election meddling, while he addresses what he sees as a huge global threat. canada. global fears of a trade war as the president shows no signs of backing down from controversial tariffs inside the white house, pure madness. that s according to the washington post. one senior adviser says we haven t bottomed out. all this as the president took a fresh jab this morning at president obama, over hillary clinton and the election, the election that was 482 days ago. kaitlan collins at the white house, a hub of trade activity and confusion this morning, kaitlan. reporter: yeah, a hub of trade uncertainty, certainly, with the president bringing nafta into this saying that maybe if mexico and canada bend to the will of the united states, they may not have to