partner, we are a friend of theirs, trade is incredibly important between the two of us. i m afraid if it s an unfortunate example of how sometimes our language may be exceeds the reality, but they are a friend and a partner and if i could talk about china that you mention because i think that is really the key to this. i don t think many people doubted we were going to be able to successfully negotiate with our partners to the north and south of us. but china is something that if we are not willing to confront them, our children are going to pay an incredible price and they re going to have to confront them at some point and i know that the president considers trade one of the arrows in his quiver to bring china to the table on a global scale, not just about trade but really about their ambitions globally over the next generation, and our willingness to work with them but at the same time, not seated them global leadership as they clearly desire. harris: i would imagine regionally t
today engaged his japanese counterpart in a wide-ranging bilateral covering the massive trade gap between our countries and burgeoning u.s. military aircraft sales but the big story so far is the usmca, the president joined by his mexican and canadian counterparts and signing that trade deal that as you pointed out effectively replaces nafta. we were taught on this agreement, it s been long and hard. we ve taken a lot of barbs in a little abuse and we got there, great for all of our countries. i look forward to working with members of congress and the usmca partners, and i have to say it s been so well reviewed, i don t expect to have very much of a problem. also this morning, vladimir putin arrived here at the g20. as for the possibility of a sit down between president and putin, to be candid, doesn t look so good at this moment.
concern for both democrats and republicans this congress. the third issue is, some welcome steps on environmental and labor provisions. what are the enforcement mechanisms for this cumin because of the questions people have. harris: what i hear you saying, that would not be a reason to reopen a text on this because you know what happens when you start to renegotiate deals with other countries. everybody gets farther and farther away from the table. so could these issues then be handled in five pages because that s how you go forth? i don t hear anything that would stop you from keeping trade in place between mexico and canada. i just want to get a close point on this and then move forward. absolutely have to keep trade flowing between the three countries. harris: s of this likely would pass with some side pages on those three issues you just enumerated. possibly, but again, i haven t seen the text of the agreement. i think a lot of my colleagues are trying to keep an open mind
harris: this is one of those meetings where one of those instances where the president really can talk a lot of trade and tariff and you bring that up. what do you think china is contemplating after seeing that agreement get signed today? they are already feeling the punch to their economy the tariffs have levied against the them. thanks for bringing china up because i think that the other big issue that a lot of people are wondering aloud about witches the chinese are putting a lot of retaliatory tariffs are farmers, our soybean farmers, pork farmers and so forth. so this particular deal is not going to do anything about those mentors are going to do anything about mexico s tariffs on our pork producers and so forth. so the question going forward is how is this going to translate into progress with regard to the trainees as well as dealing with
now, i don t think i m going to bridge too far. this is serious stuff from the stand standpoint of the secrecy. there s no difference between cooking the books on intelligence to go to war or cooking the booing books and keeping trade negotiations secret and we have to rely on wikileaks instead of the white house to find out what the heck is going on when it comes to american jobs. or maybe that doesn t matter. joining me tonight, lisa johnson, head of the investment law and policy at the columbia center of sustainable investment. and genevieve woods, senior contributor with the daily signal with us tonight. genevieve, how do you defend the secrecy here? your thoughts? well i think this is a trade agreement. there are trade agreements that will eventually come before the congress. respectfully, if you re not going to defend the secrecy, then what would you say about it? what i think we re talking about here is something in most