Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170103:07:29:00
Idea, "b," possible -- >> might he be on to something? >> since nixon went to china, the basic u.s. policy has been to encourage china as a potential friend, as a potential, you know, eventually co-equal in the world economy, to encourage the growth of freedom of china, encourage free markets and to kind of push russia aside. first to smash the soviet union or dissolve it, also to keep the success of russia at arm's length. donald trump is clearly reversing that. it seems very clear he wants to reverse that. he wants to be, you know, bad cop to china, and good cop to russia. >> it is important...