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Aisle, are rightly concerned about how he may respond when tested by russia, iran, north korea, and other transnational threats such as cyber. Considering some of these hotspots in the world in detail, i would like to start with iran, which remains a top concern for this committee. Their behavior with respect to forces across the region has not improved and irans unsafe actions have continued. I believe the joint plan of action is the most effective way to prevent iran from resuming their Nuclear Weapons program. General mattis, while you raise concerns about the jcpoa when it was being negotiated, you stated during a center for strategic and International Studies forum in april 2016 that in your words, there is no going back absent a real violation. I agree with that assessment. I look forward to hearing your thoughts about how we can build upon the jcpoa to address ....
Gravity of the office of the president and the magnitude of the challenges our country embraces will encourage him to be more thoughtful in his comments. however president-elect trump has made a number of statements addressing north korea s icbm capability, our trade relations with china and expansion of u.s. nuclear weapons. most troubling is the president-elect s continuing praise of vladimir putin and his seeming indifference to his efforts to influence the american election. many people believe you will be the source that cools the coffin. i look forward to hearing how you will manage the relationship between the nsc and the president. again, thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to hearing from our nominee. thank you, general mattis. there are standard questions we are required to ask. i would go through those very ....
With china, we have lost millions of good paying jobs. in the last ten years alone we have seen 50,000 factories shut down in this country, over 5 million manufacturing jobs lost, and many of these jobs are going to china, to mexico, to other low rate countries. compliments obviously to the senate for having the courage to engage this. it s almost i would imagine politically popular which makes this easier to pursue. i think the american people will take whatever they can get. where s the president and where is the house on this? well, i hope the president will be supportive. i think it s a step forward in understanding that our trade relations with china has been a disaster, and it s got to change, but we have got to go a lot further than just the currency exchange issue. the whole basis of permanent normal trade relations with china is flawed. we have lost, according to the economic policy institute in the last ten years, almost 3 million ....