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Questions, andrea. let me tick through a couple of the top lines here. the president wanted to focus on school safety as we prepare to enter a new school year. he went around the table and talked to some of the key players about what specifically they re doing to make sure they make schools safer heading into this new year, including betsy devos, jeff sessions, kirstjen nielsen. and then he also talked about trade. he wanted to focus on trade as well. when he opened it up to robert lighthighser, there was a little bit of news there. he talked about the fact that they are making progress in their talks with mexico. perhaps on a trade deal. the president was very clear. he said, look, if you don t get a good deal, walk away from the table. a bad deal is better than no deal at all. lighthouser said in this case, i think it might be a good thing to get a laughter in the room. again, i thought it was striking to actually hear the trade rep say he does feel as if they are ....

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