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Britain is preparing to leave the European Union in March 2019. The complex negotiations have moved slowly and Mays Cabinet seems deeply divided over how best to separate Britain from the 28-nation bloc. Trump expressed annoyance with EU trade policy: "We cannot get our product in," he said. "Its very, very tough. And yet, they send their product to us — no taxes, very little taxes." He says his problems with the EU "may morph into something very big" from a trade standpoint. In the intervi...

Yet. he doesnt have that. he doesnt have a trade deal with china. he started with this trade strategy to help who? farmers, you know, the midwest and the rust belt. are they better off today than when he started? that could be an interesting calculus for him next year. >> the farm bureau just said farm bankruptcies are up 24% year over year so you talk about helping the farmers with the bailout. -- >> bailout twice the size of the auto bailout. taxpayer funded -- >> some polling showed the farme...

Whether its radical islamic terrorism, whether its the tremendous growth of china. there are a lot of other things. so nato is becoming different than it was. much bigger than it was and much stronger than it was because people are now fulfilling their commitments. there are some countries that arent fulfilling their commitment. those countries are going to be dealt with. maybe ill deal with them from a trade standpoint in a different way. ill work something out where they have to pay. we dont w...

Gaulle. macron has been talking about a european defense agreement, a european defense agency in essence. so france always plays a little bit of a disruptive role. most of the time it is behind the scenes in the settled with a cool, polite, political talk in public. today we saw it right out there in front. both men went at each other politely but nonetheless in a way were not used to seeing at international meetings. >> sandra: macrons words, we do pay what we have to pay. president trump went ...

At the moment. he was asked about his comments that he is a nationalist. because, remember, the president was talking about in the context of people being globalists, which is the only fair way to put. this the conversation was about others being globalists. he said im a nationalist. now, can you interpret that however you want. i have no -- i cant tell you how to interpret that. i dont know how to interpret that i know that, you know, its a worked thats been used before and if he used it that w...

China? and why shouldnt it only be about china. >> from a trade standpoint? >> yeah. >> with there is a couple of approaches. this ought to be focused on bad actors. wherever they are. and including china. secondly, we know there are shipments so we think we can tackle that but the challenges, you know, in a complicated world is to make sure were not impeding that fairly traded steel and aluminum and inadvertently with broad tariffs we dont want to harm other u.s. manufacturing workers or our ec...

Diplomatic and economic message that he has. >> and the chinese work in five-year increments in the whole plan and their whole plan is long-term thinking, and nothing is off of the cuff ever. >> and the history have been around 2,000 year, and looking at the long haul here, and you to remember that president xi who just won the election and the ninth congress what they want from the president is some type of stability and vision as to what he wants to do, and not om as i said diplomatically but ...

Articulate what the trump doctrine is in asia, because everybody is confused and erratic and seems like he is talking off of the cuff which is what you dont want to do with the chinese. so it is military, and diplomatic and economic message that he has. >> and the chinese work in five-year increments in the whole plan and their whole plan is long-term thinking, and nothing is off of the cuff ever. >> and the history have been around 2,000 year, and looking at the long haul here, and you to remem...

Needs to articulate what the trump doctrine in is asia because everyone is confused. its a military but also diplomatic but also economic message that he has to -- >> the chinese work on five year plans and they do increments in their bigger plan. their whole thing is thinking long-term and forward. they dont do anything off-the-cuff. >> i think the chinese have been around, what, 2,000 years. youve got to remember president xi who just won re-election, what they want from this president is some...

Of america. president trump has made it clear well honor the agreement. it doesnt mean we admire the agreement. >> reporter: so theyre not happy about it, thomas, but they will go through with it. i think what that signals is really how crucial australia is as a partner for the united states in the region from a trade standpoint, but most importantly, from a military and strategic and security standpoint on. one of the five nations that helps to fight isis and security around the world. thomas. ...