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Logistics for the summit. here is someone that was a foreign policy advisor, bob dole, also with the pentagon, under secretary of state with the trade issue, it is very complex. he is surrounding himself with the right team and secretary mattis at the beginning, he also sent a message yesterday about the south china sea. all of this plays into it. >> to the president, and his team to the need to look over some of the brutality of the north korean regime because of the nuclear threat is by far the most important thing? >> for example the philippines, a great ally of the niceties. until obama wa...

Hour after numbers are released at 8:30? >> you're referring to a rule in place since 1985 started in the reagan administration. no federal employee is supposed to talk about those numbers until an hour after they've been released. larry kudlow, his adviser, said he didn't talk about the numbers, just said he was looking forward to them. but, yeah, the market absolutely moved. what happens next month if the numbers aren't so good? no tweet, a different kind of tweet? in a different era, this might prompt investigations, but frankly folks in washington have a lot else on their plate right now. ...

What secretary ross did. this is an enforcement issue. it's not a trade issue. weit didn't agree to any idea po quo. secretary ross will make sure that the enforcement issue is in. but in a way that's good for american companies and i'm not going to go through the discussions on the enforcement issue. that was completely independent of our trade negotiations. >> chris: but we just had the sound bite of president trump saying it's a small component of the overall deal. he seemsl. to be linking zte wih the trade talks. >> again, the president asked us to look into it as part of the delegation an...

Because they're selling us more than we're selling them. >> neil: but what -- the president is meeting with china right now. the vice premier this hour. one of the things that has come up is this how far do we push the chinese? peter navarro is saying we push them a lot and we do do anything with companies like zte. mnuchin, the treasury secretary, seems to be part of that more traditional approach incrementally we get concessions from them. even if it means making a deal on zte, the end justify the means. where are you on this? >> yeah, first of all, zte is a separate issue. it's a national s...

Larger attempt to get into the trump campaign. it's just not feasible, even if you believe the transcripts when they say that, you know, the primary reason for the meeting at least according to the russian side were these adoptions and it turned into an issue about the magnitsky case and the magnitsky act. even if you believe that, there's no way that these guys were freelancing and that veselnitskaya and the team said hey, let's go do this. there had to have been knowledge from the kremlin on this. >> that donald trump jr. walked in on a meeting at trump tower where the russian ambassador kis...