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You concentrate on the shared goals. obviously in your handling of the cia, you had a strategy and how youre going to manage that priorities of tasks. as i ask you the questions, i want you to keep the concepts in mind. in managing your relationship with almost all nations, theres an economic relationship and theres security relationship. obviously youre not secretary of commerce. youre not the u.s. trade representative. youre the secretary of state. youre concerned, obviously, about security, b...

Want them to assist the united states. theres plays to make it not zero sum alternatives where you have to sacrifice an economic relationship for a security relationship. you build teams. the state department has -- under secretary e, has enormous economic team that in my judgment from what i can see over an extended period of time has not been able to deliver as much value as some of the other parts of the economic apparatus of the united states government. im intent on finding the right people...

You going to deal with that conflict between the trade relationship and the security relationship? the reason im pointing out china, is we were there and crossed into the dmz. we were in the blue house. walked into north korea. from my standpoint, talking about priorities. our number one priority in our relationship with china is to get them to continue, and they are effectively enforcing those sanctions, so that we can bring to conclusion the dismantlement of north korean threat. so can you spe...

Of having the u.s. military foot the bill on that. cnn white house reporter jeremy diamond here with us now. jeremy, lets start with the presidents first trade deal. tell us whats in it. >> yeah, well, the president just took to twitter a few minutes ago to tout this trade deal. hes calling it a, quote, great deal for american and korean workers, and saying that the u.s. and south korea can now focus on our important security relationship. but lets get into a few details of what this deal actual...

He says look, the u.s. trade rep just announced an agreement in principle on chorus. a great deal for american and korean workers. lets focus on the important security relationship. yeah, we get the inference. security relationship between the u.s. and south korea as relates to north korea. let me tell you habit this deal. this deal would not only call for targeted tariffs in the auto sector, but sets up targets for steel tonnage, which would in turn hopefully keep the south out of the sites of ...

"@ustraderep just announced an agreement in principle with south korea on korus! a great deal for american and korean workers. lets now focus on our important security relationship." if the same time, they trade deal with south korea is coming around. when they are trying to put some leverage on south korea. >> this is part of the presidents pledge to renegotiate americas pre-existing trade agreement. i think this is something you will see trump talk about more when he goes out perhaps tomorrow ...

Closest allies in canada. >> and the president also raised some eyebrows because he said something about south korea. tell us about that. >> reporter: the president continuing to really go after u.s. allies on the issue of trade. south korea, japan, the european union, hes accusing south korea in particular of ripping the united states off. he also brought in the security relationship between the united states and south korea. he mentioned the thousands of troops that the u.s. has stationed in s...

Further left of her they have always looked at europe and in particular the european union, the shining city on the hill where everything is totally civilized. i promise you the referendum of 2016 mark to pivot point in which the way europe is organized and what you are seeing in country after country citizens demanding put in place reasonable measures and the days of open borders, the days -- i genuinely believe those days are coming to an end what happened in switzerland is an example of that....

Greater role in world leadership. i think this kind of image of the two leaders together is going to be very important for the japanese people, fred. >> we believe thats wheels up for air force one there, flying over the island of oahu, after their 24-hour sift in honolulu. so ambassador, in your view, first stop japan. how much might this visit of president trump in japan kind of set the tone before he heads to the other four asian nations? >> well, if youre preparing a presidential trip, you w...

And senior state department officials have pushed pakistan to address militant groups operating inside its borders and then launching attacks in pakistan. trump administration even threatened to cut aid to pakistan over this. secretary said pakistans government needs to address militant groups operating in its countr country. >> we have made some very specific requests of pakistan in order for them to take action to under mind the support the taliban receives and other terror organizations recei...