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>> laura: given your best government experience, intel community, scale of 1-10, 1 being the least likely attending the most likely that obama knew about this investigation. >> i would say ten. >> laura: jeff? >> i would agree. they have to know whats going on and if they didnt than they are not doing their jobs. >> laura: lets remember susan rices email to herself which i mention at least once a show. here it goes. she writes in him all to herself, national security advisor inauguration day rig...

Being the least likely attending the most likely that obama knew about this investigation. >> i would say ten. >> laura: jeff? >> i would agree. they have to know whats going on and if they didnt than they are not doing their jobs. >> laura: lets remember susan rices email to herself which i mention at least once a show. here it goes. she writes in him all to herself, national security advisor inauguration day right after noon. officially trump ex-president then, but nevertheless. president obam...

>> exactly. and the concessions theyre making are not concessions. theyre saying were going to buy more soy beans. theyre not saying theyre going to change their approach to intellectual properties. >> they already wanted more soy beans. >> exactly. theyre not saying theyre going to change the system of subsidies to push china forward on important new industries like artificial intelligence and other things. the u.s. is not achieving its goals here. what theyre doing is providing some face-savin...

U.s. plans to send a team to china to hammer out details, which the u.s. treasury secretary spoke about earlier. >> were putting the trade war on hold. so right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute the framework. we are immediately going to follow up this with secretary ross going there with very hard commitments in agriculture, where we expect to see a very big increase. 35 to 40% increases in agriculture this year alone, and energy, doubling the energy purchase...

Trade talks in washington with chinese officials. u.s. plans to send a team to china to hammer out details, which the u.s. treasury secretary spoke about earlier. listen. >> were putting the trades war on hold. so right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute the framework. we are immediately going to follow up this with secretary ross going there with very hard commitments in agriculture, where we expect to see a very big increase. 35 to 40% increases in agricultur...

Clear since the first meeting with president xi, that we are going to reduce the trade deficit. we have a an agreement with china that they will substantially agree to it. i would just comment that ultimately these are not government to government transactions. its not a giant purchase order with us. we are immediately going to follow this up with secretary ross going there, with very hard commitments in agriculture where we expect to see a very big increase, 35% to 40% increases in agriculture ...

Targets but ultimately this is about industry being able to have hard contracts and deliver these goods. >> chris: and as far as the presidents threat first of $50 billion in tariffs on chinese goods and $150 billion, those are all on hold? >> they are. the president had a very productive meeting with the vice premier in the oval office with all of us and the vice president. he heard these commitments himself. and he can always decide to put the tariffs back on if china doesnt go through with th...

International observers and journalists. calling on that event praised by president trump as a show of good faith would also be a major blow to ongoing negotiations and its not the first time north korea has carried out such a show. in 2008, they destroyed a cooling tower, a symbolic show of commitments to giving up nuclear ambitions only conduct a far more powerful test the following year, something the u.s. will no longer tolerate. despite the apparent success of that meeting between president...

>> and jamey was on the staff at the national security council at the clinton administration and is a senior fellow at the atlantic counsel. nice to see you. so this agreement on the part of the chinese to buy more goods without specific commitments, what does that mean to you? >> reporter: its not that big of a deal in the sense that it will be great, if china decides to buy more from the united states, it term helps people in the united states who are buying agricultural products or energy. bu...

Targets, but ultimately this is about industry being able to have hard contracts and deliver these goods. >> chris: and as far as the presidents threat first of $50 billion in tariffs on chinese goods and $150 billion of thosei, those are all on hol. >> they are. theng president had a productive meeting with the vice premier in the oval office. he heard the commitments himself. >> chris: president trump shocked a lot of people this week when he tweeted this. president xi of china and i are worki...