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Did china ask us if it was okay to devalue their occurrence, disturbs currency, making it hard for our companies to compete? heavily tax our products into their country? the u.s. doesnt tax them or build a massive military complex in the middle of the south china sea. i dont think so, what are the implications here? >> this is either spontaneous commentary from donald trump. via twitter, which weve seen for months during thinks campaign and since his election. or it is the president-elect signal...

Always overreact in public opinion. its normal for these statements to come out from them. donald trump knowses there trade issues and he wants a better deal with china. if you start toalking to taiwan it gives you leverage you that dont have. when you add all of those together, take a phone call from taiwan was a well-planned decision by them. i dont think this was an accident or oops. and its been since 1978 since a president talked to them. it was about time this phone call was made. >> ben f...

This is something new from yesterday. the question is, is he going to double down on it as some of his surrogates suggest or is he going to take this as kind of what to call it, a gap and move on. i hope its the latter. >> why is that? i mean, why is it better -- why is the one china policy better right now for this country? >> you know, donald trump has talked about draining the swamp in washington. let me say that u.s./china relations, u.s./taiwan relations have been on dry ground for a long t...

I never defended donald trump. hes right in the role media is playing in this race. could have been a front page headline story. press doesnt want to think of it like that. they dont want to look at trade issues. its why a lot of american workers, blue collar people feel the press doesnt relate to them. >> thats not the case. >> we had it on our front page. weve covered those issues. >> everyone -- >> this is a driving pulsating issue in the media and a feeding frenzy against hillary clinton if ...

>> and when it comes to the hot potato of trade issues, hillary pushed for the presidents transpacific partnership when she was secretary of state. here she was. >> we are also pressing ahead with negotiations for the transpacific partnership, an innovative, ambitious, multilateral free trade agreement that would bring together nine pacific rim country, including four new free trade partners for the united states and potentially others in the future. >> but last week this headline appeared in "t...

More protestors appear. the governor promised there will not be a repoet of the violence and unrest. he is temporarily moving his office to baltimore as local officials come out in the response. a city wide occur now will go into affect step oclock p.m. tonight. it came after the violence in west palt balt within a mile where freddie gray was arrested this month. and new reaction from president obama. chief white house correspondent ed henry has more. >> reporter: good to see you, jon. it was a ...

Votes in the vote to pass fast track? >> were not going to pass fast track. were going to defeat it. theres opposition to it. with regard to the human rights you talked about, those objectives say we need to promote human rights were going to promote human rights. what does promote mean? as larry pointed out, no enforceability. there hasnt been in the past. he cited the cases. were going to be engaged with the country of brunei who flags and stones women, gays is that the human rights we want to...

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The u.s. to get rid of tariffs on automobiles, and the u.s. is asking for a very long phaseout, plus for better rights to get into the japanese market that goes beyond tariff. on those old-fashioned trade issues, they are very stuck, but all the focus is obscuring the fact theres a lot of tpp issues that arent really trade ones that have gotten stuck. the other countries are say ix-nay, or the united states has been pushing these crazy rules, and another country has joined australia in saying no...

Offered up candidates that are truly about the future, offering a hopeful, optimistic growth-oriented set of messages, we win. when we dont, we tend to lose. so i think if hillary goes that direction, or whoever the nominee -- >> lets take something that is easy for everybody to understand. back in the 90s, bill clinton i thought had the guts to come out for nafta. at the it wasnt popular with labor, but he thought a global market made more sense. we could certainly compete with mexico. wed be b...