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Be an obvious one. what most --eole be an obvious one. what most people dont — be an obvious one. what most people dont realise _ be an obvious one. what most people dont realise about - people dont realise about cocoa in chocolate is that 70% of his produced injust two countries in west africa, ghana and ivory coast, in a way that involves outsized water consumption, so about 20,000 litres of water per kilo, and thats way more than beef or soy or avocados.— thats way more than beef or soy o...

Believe in complete denuclearization. what does that mean exactly? >> it means they get rid of their nukes. very simple. they get rid of their nukes. nobody else would say it. it would be very easy for me to make a simple deal and claim that but i want them to get rid of their nukes. >> for president macron, the president referred to your meetings in the cabinet room to a potential deal between the two of you on iran. can you give us a sense of what that might be and are you confident that youll...

Our vice president and karen for being here. thank you very much, appreciate it. now, we had a wonderful conference today and i think especially the one-on-one in the oval office, we covered a lot of territory having to do with trade, having to do with iran and various other subjects. so i think a lot of good things are going to come out of our meeting and i appreciate your being here. well take a couple of questions. how about jeff mason from reuters. jeff? >> thank you, mr. president. >> hi, j...

Respecting the rules because we are the one who contributed to the creation and think it makes sense to respect the rule that you decided to create. in life, thats a good method. and third, because i do believe that we have a very first issue on trade, which is overcapacities in steel and aluminum, it doesnt come from europe and not even from france. and its good to work together when you are allies, and especially when you work so closely together on security issues like iran and syria. so im c...

Lig lighthizer, heading over to china. as you know they came here last week and were having very substantive discussions on trade. but i think it all plays to the border and the fact that they have been extremely strong on the border. very little has gotten through, much to the surprise of a lot of people. and i believe the trade will work out, but i also think that china has never treated us with more respect than they have over the last short period of time that im president. i have a very exc...

I hear what you said. when you call upon fair, equitable trade, when we look at international trade, there are some common challenges. we shall work together to make sure this does not destabilize our markets. but i believe we can say we can build a path to make sure between allies, there is an alliance with international trade law. attached to that, we have preferences. and there are situations we can probably improve. but i believe both you and i want to make sure our businesses or companies c...

Contain iran in the region. we will continue to work to that effect within the u.n. security council to make sure that humanitarian law, the prohibition of chemical weapons hopefully complied with and we will continue to shoulder our responsibilities to that effect, but we will also work with our partners in building a sustainable political solution, an inclusive one that will prevent any germany and once again will prevent feeding terrorism in the future. we also talked about the climate and he...

Despite some of the media saying that ive made concessions. i dont -- i havent even discussed a concession. other than the fact that meeting is a great thing, and im sure that a lot of other people would have liked to have had the position were having. i will say this, we put the strongest sanctions on a country that we ever have put on any country by far. china, president xi has been very strong in helping us to solve this problem, in his case at the border. hes allowing very little to get thro...

It and i hear what you said when you call upon fair and equitable trade. when we look at international trade, today we have some common challenges. there are capacities in a number of sectors which are well known and we shall work together to make sure that this does not destabilize our markets or brings about unfair competition, but i believe we can say that we are both attached to make sure that between allies there is compliance with international trade law, at least france is attached to tha...

About this previously, theres a great deal of discussion about the trade imbalance between u.s. and china and rightfully so but what people dont talk about is the u.s. has massive trade imbalances with a number of asian pacific countries including japan and i may share a number that may surprised, 51 billion-dollar trade imbalance with japan just through august of this year alone. thats the last month that figures were made available to us and so the u.s. is obviously looking to hammer a more fa...