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March 31. between now and then, i will address a few administrative matters relative to my departure and work towards a smooth and orderly transition for mike pompeo. i'm encouraging my policy planning team and undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, those confirmed, as well as those in acting positions, to remain at their post and continue our mission at the state department and working with interagency process. i will be meeting by members of my front office team and policy planning later today to thank them for their service. they have been extraordinarily dedicated to our mission which...

The iran deal that was successful and conclude that had there's partisanship that comes out in cases like this. in this case, i don't think democrats should be rooting for donald trump's failure. we should be rooting for his success. diplomacy is a positive thing west should want this to be successful. i think the skepticism, not just from democrats but those familiar with negotiations, you're kind of putting the cart before the horse here. and there are big components to make this successful including an interagency process, defining what success looks like, what you're going to give, having ...

You just described a process to me before that that said that you've done inner agency stuff and researching it behind the scenes. but no negotiations with china. no negotiations with these other countries. why? >> we certainly have had discussions with china. their big advisor to mr. xi was in washington that very same day. we had mar-a-lago session with china. we had another session in november back in beijing. there's been plenty of discussion. >> how many people tried to stop the president from doing this? gary cohn reportedly has threatened to resign over this. what's your understanding a...

Gary cohn reportedly has threatened to resign over this. what's your understanding about this? >> i don't know anything about gary resigning. gary was certainly part of the interagency process. president likes to have dissenting views, likes to hear every side of everything because that way it makes sure that his final decision is the best informed. >> hard to find a republican supportive of this decision on capitol hill. hard to find many people in business that's not a -- perhaps somebody in steel or aluminum and not even everybody in those industries are for this. does this give you pause a...

The paper work hasn't gone through a legal process. there's no interagency process. this stuff was planned out for weeks and weeks in advance and we're still being litigated among this trade team. this is not a small decision. 25% tariff on steel. we don't know whether there are carve outs. 25% on aluminum. this is something that was opposed on national security grounds that it's being if voekd on national security ground. mattis said it will do us harm because who do we get our aluminum from? actually canada. not china. and steel china is down the list. so we're getting our allies upside and ...