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Benefit the american people. lowest unemployment in 50 years since man walked on the moon. what have they done since the midterm elections? there is not one signature piece of legislation they have brought to this president's desk. all they want to do is pursue one investigation after another. and the american people are fed up. >> bret: all right. so let's say they take the vote. do you think they have the votes, number one? number two, then does the administration policy change? >> oh, i don't know if they have the votes. i think it would be important for the american people to know for why ...

The chinese or the u.s. to start those talks. >> i'm not going to negotiate with you guys. i'm going to leave that to secretary mnuchin and ambassador light highser. we're continuing to have conversations with china an continuing to look for a better trade deal with them. >> i want to follow up on maggie's questions. he asked about the idea that putin offered, essentially allowing robert mueller and his investigators to go to russia to oversee or witness the interrogations of the russian military intelligence officers if the u.s. would reciprocate and have russian officers come here to watch a...

Secretary of state to north korea? and for the prime minister, if i may, you a moment ago alluded to new trade talks between your minister and mr. light highser, should we interpret that to mean that you are now open to negotiating a bilateral trade deal between the united states and japan and then a second question, japan is the only major american ally that was not exempted from the steel tariffs. did you ask the president to exempt japan and if so, how did he reply? >> thank you, mark, very much. the fact is that they do have three prisoners. we have been talking about them. we're negotiati...

Exports. the united states is committed to free, fair and reciprocal -- very important word -- trade. we're committed to pursuing a bilateral trading relationship that benefits both of our great countries. prime minister abe and i have agreed to intensify our trade and investment consultations. ambassador light highser who is with us today will take the lead for the united states. these past two days have been extremely productive. the friendship between japan and the united states has never been closer. i truly believe it has never been closer than it is today and the bonds between our people...

The president you'll be hearing about iran very shortly. meanwhile, that meeting with military leaders yesterday, chris, the president sort of leading off by saying we're seeing the calm before the storm. we're all sort of left wondering what he meant by that. >> we are. and i suspect that's part of what the president wants. he wants us to be talking about it and wondering what he has up his sleeve. i will say it goes deeper than that. this president has a theory. richard nixon did as well. the kind of madman theory. one of the ways that you can perhaps control behavior is leading your enemies...