difficult set of negotiations. and i don t think we should expect any quick wins. it s certainly premature for the president, as he did, to declare mission accomplished. a rare visit to new york. happy to have you. always happy to have you on the broadcast. jer jeremy bash with us here in new york. coming up, help may be on the way for soybean farmers after the president s meeting with the head of the eu. a bit complicated, but we ll explain. there are plenty of other trade issues. this afternoon s rose garden event did not address them. we ll take on all of it when we come back.
meetings since the event took place. politico also reporting president trump is going to chair a national security council meeting on election security this friday, notable because it would be the first ever nsc meeting of this presidency dedicated exclusively to that topic. here with us for more, back from aspen, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon. jeremy, if you were the secretary of state in charge of carrying out american foreign policy globally, would you have asked the translator to come on by and maybe bring her note? what about jim mattis, sitting over at the pentagon? might he be curious to know what these two leaders talked about for two hours plus? i might try to pull aside the translator and get some sense about what the conversation entailed. we don t expect translators to have a full rendering of exactly what was said. but i think what s more important, brian, it s clear that the president has not told his senior team about the vote deal he has c