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You concentrate on the shared goals. obviously in your handling of the cia, you had a strategy and how you're going to manage that priorities of tasks. as i ask you the questions, i want you to keep the concepts in mind. in managing your relationship with almost all nations, there's an economic relationship and there's security relationship. obviously you're not secretary of commerce. you're not the u.s. trade representative. you're the secretary of state. you're concerned, obviously, about security, but our negotiations in terms of trade will have a great effect. i w i was struck by what they...

Want them to assist the united states. there's plays to make it not zero sum alternatives where you have to sacrifice an economic relationship for a security relationship. you build teams. the state department has -- under secretary e, has enormous economic team that in my judgment from what i can see over an extended period of time has not been able to deliver as much value as some of the other parts of the economic apparatus of the united states government. i'm intent on finding the right people to make sure we have the tools so we can make a broad effort across all elements of the diplomati...

You going to deal with that conflict between the trade relationship and the security relationship? the reason i'm pointing out china, is we were there and crossed into the dmz. we were in the blue house. walked into north korea. from my standpoint, talking about priorities. our number one priority in our relationship with china is to get them to continue, and they are effectively enforcing those sanctions, so that we can bring to conclusion the dismantlement of north korean threat. so can you speak to that conflict between trade, economic relationship, and security relationship? >> senator, it...

Of having the u.s. military foot the bill on that. cnn white house reporter jeremy diamond here with us now. jeremy, let's start with the president's first trade deal. tell us what's in it. >> yeah, well, the president just took to twitter a few minutes ago to tout this trade deal. he's calling it a, quote, great deal for american and korean workers, and saying that the u.s. and south korea can now focus on our important security relationship. but let's get into a few details of what this deal actually does. it's going to allow american auto manufacturers to double the number of u.s. exports t...

He says look, the u.s. trade rep just announced an agreement in principle on chorus. a great deal for american and korean workers. let's focus on the important security relationship. yeah, we get the inference. security relationship between the u.s. and south korea as relates to north korea. let me tell you habit this deal. this deal would not only call for targeted tariffs in the auto sector, but sets up targets for steel tonnage, which would in turn hopefully keep the south out of the sites of new massive tariffs on steel. the administration, they're hailing this, calling the agreement in pr...