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Complicated. if you talk to a lot of miner, a lot of mine operators, privately they'll say they're not really comfortable with the idea of a chinese company coming in and buying an american coal company and then shipping the coal back to china. but the tennessee mining association is standing behind the chinese buyout. listen. >> this is a chinese company, this is not the government of china. this is a privately-owned company that are coming in and buying and creating jobs and creating, paying taxes, and they're not bringing in a lot of people. they'll be using local people to do the work, so ...

Jenna: yeah. everyone kind of leaning back like this, huh? >>nd jon they did have a handshake at the end, though, as you saw. jenna: interesting. a little more about russian and american relations -- i'm got to not sit back. i actually like you -- with mike o'hanlon coming up. we're going to talk about how that figures into syria. there was that reset button, right? we did see that. jon: doesn't seem to have done a whole lot of good. jenna: in the meantime, the chinese purchase of a mining company in tennessee's coal country is raising serious questions about the impact on energy markets here ...

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