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Consideration on trade issues. the issue is to work with china to have a day in and day out understanding with the chinese about what we want to see out of this and what they could expect to see out of this, how we can work together, and not how we can outsource it to china. so that is a diplomatic game and it is a diplomatic game that goes on every day. and for the president or for the secretary of state who thinks this is a one-person sport, this is a team sport and you have to have a big team engaged in these issues and everything needs to be worked in advance. you don't just show up at sum...

China on trade while they're helping me on north korea. now, we can have a debate later on about how much they're really helping on north korea but he has clearly faced the issue that every president before him has faced which is, how do you get the chinese to cooperate on a political goal while you're beating them up on an economic goal. i read his comments today as suggesting that he was going to step back a bit on the trade issues and he did that by saying the chinese are simply acting in their own self-interest. who doesn't act if their own self-interest in trade? we do, they do, everyone ...

Rest of the country. joining us now, republican congressman dave bratt of virginia. it wasn't just the governor's race, it was the lieutenant governor's race, it was the attorney general's race, it was all the races for the house of delegates. this was a democratic sweep, by and large, in your state. what happened? >> so what's common to all of those, we failed to nationalize the election. the democrat showed up and nationalized the election, and i think we were running too much on state issues. even at the state level, virginia only grew at 0.6% gdp growth rate last year. that's not gaood. an...

Way it is. the senate failed on obamacare repeal. health care was the number one issue. and the economy is number two. and tax cuts are up right now. so we better get that one through. >> is that a yes or no? you look at the exit poll numbers. twice as many people in virginia came out to vote in part to opposition of this president than in support of this president. so yes or no, say it like it is, referendum on this president or no? >> it depends on what you mean on -- on the agenda, no. i always deal in policy, not on personality and all the drama. >> on the man. on the man. >> i don't think...

Asset for us, but we have to have ideas, we have to have new faces and fresh ideas. >> so, alice, to that point, if democrats put up what david gergen is saying they must put up to have these important victories, fresh faces, new ideas, how does that counter what scott taylor said at the beginning here, you heard him say that the republican representative from virginia, that this is a referendum on the administration. that the exit poll numbers show us, twice as many people came out to vote in part in opposition to the president than came out to vote in support of the president. >> to clearly,...