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Take this out of him and, you know, hes got really fragile ego. i would say thats the only sort of real leverage that we have over this man. >> so there are people out there that would say this is stooping to his level. why stoop to his level? >> yeah, there are lots of people saying that in this country. many of them supporters of trump. there is a big difference. donald trump sits behind the most powerful protected desk in the world in the oval office. hes the president of the most powerful co...

Go down this road, you rattle china, and then they get nervous and then youre able to have some leverage to recenter the relationship somehow? >> there may be. except that china likes to play a long game. when theyre thinking about china 2025 or china 2050, were thinking about usa tomorrow. so to the extent that you have a leader there who is leader for life, and you have a president who is a temporary occupant of the white house, there are different strategies at work here. the chinese could ta...

That do not lead to the reciprocal pain? what are the other choices? >> the other choices are multilateral action. the united states is not the only country that has been victimized by chinese trade practices. our european allies, mexican, japanese ones have also complained of the same keends of abuses. so president trump taking the baton from president george w. bush had been part of this multilateral trade negotiation, the transpacific partnership, involved the 12 countries around the pacific ...

Some symbolism here and a reaching out, an effort? >> we dont know exactly whats in the content of the letter. people have taken notice that secretary pompeo did not actually meet with chairman kim and you see even in the north korean statement theres a callback to the statement of the conversation they had in singapore. so perhaps its an effort to continue this process, the negotiations, by kind of rielle vating it to that head of state level because there wasnt much progress at least from secr...

Victory. it reduces u.s. leverage and the negotiation allows kim to dictate the pace, tone and terms. your thoughts on that comment? >> well, you can look at it from different perspectives. i look at the summit as being a completely positive outcome. for more than ten years, no one had had successful negotiations with north korea. president trump was the first leader from the u.s. to meet with a north korean official. thats positive in itself. you have to start with an ongoing dialogue that will...

China sends us, that would be the trade war to end all trade wars. that would rattle the economy. >> that was my question, look at the stock market today, i think it went up, it ended the day up. >> yep, yep. >> wall street not yet responding like this is a panic situation. >> certainly not panic. wall street has been going sideways since january, since we topped out. we havent made a new all-time high in the dow or the s&p for quite some time. the nasdaq, being strong in technology, has been do...

Their argument is that because of presidents interview with our colleague, lester holt, other public statements hes made, the support by the white house to have witnesses testify, by providing documents, they argue that all the answers are in those sorts of pieces of evidence and testimony that the special counsel team already has. trying to urge them to say what more would you need from the president himself to resolve any questions. they dont expect this is something that the special counsel w...

Without putting it behind him. the further problem is legal. thats if you force mueller to issue the subpoena, you litigate the subpoena and you lose, then all of your negotiating leverage disappears. the reason is president has negotiating leverage right now is that he can threaten as his lawyers are doing, to refuse to appear for an interview and to litigate against and fight a subpoena. the moment you litigate and fight against the subpoena and the courts rule against you, you lose the abilit...

And then youre able to have some leverage to recenter the relationship somehow? >> there may be. except that china likes to play a long game. when theyre thinking about china 2025 or china 2050, were thinking about usa tomorrow. so to the extent that you have a leader there who is leader for life, and you have a president who is a temporary occupant of the white house, there are different strategies at work here. the chinese could take the hit for a longer period of time, potentially, than the u...

To have some leverage to recenter the relationship? >> it may be, china likes to play long games. to the extent that you have a leader that who is leader for life, and you have a president who is a temporary outcome pan of the white house. there are different strategies at work here. the chinese could take the hit for a longer period of time, potentially the u.s. if they chose to do so. right now their economy is faltering a little bit so they may get a little harder. but also companies that imp...