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Did china ask us if it was okay to devalue their occurrence, disturbs currency, making it hard for our companies to compete? heavily tax our products into their country? the u.s. doesn't tax them or build a massive military complex in the middle of the south china sea. i don't think so, what are the implications here? >> this is either spontaneous commentary from donald trump. via twitter, which we've seen for months during thinks campaign and since his election. or it is the president-elect signaling a substantive shift in the primary superpower relationship of our time. between the u.s. and ...

Always overreact in public opinion. it's normal for these statements to come out from them. donald trump knowses there trade issues and he wants a better deal with china. if you start toalking to taiwan it gives you leverage you that don't have. when you add all of those together, take a phone call from taiwan was a well-planned decision by them. i don't think this was an accident or oops. and it's been since 1978 since a president talked to them. it was about time this phone call was made. >> ben ferguson, scott bolden, i've run out of time. thank you for being here. the trump pick for secr...

This is something new from yesterday. the question is, is he going to double down on it as some of his surrogates suggest or is he going to take this as kind of what to call it, a gap and move on. i hope it's the latter. >> why is that? i mean, why is it better -- why is the one china policy better right now for this country? >> you know, donald trump has talked about draining the swamp in washington. let me say that u.s./china relations, u.s./taiwan relations have been on dry ground for a long time. there is no problem there. there are problems in north korea, problems in the south china sea,...

I never defended donald trump. he's right in the role media is playing in this race. could have been a front page headline story. press doesn't want to think of it like that. they don't want to look at trade issues. it's why a lot of american workers, blue collar people feel the press doesn't relate to them. >> that's not the case. >> we had it on our front page. we've covered those issues. >> everyone -- >> this is a driving pulsating issue in the media and a feeding frenzy against hillary clinton if the media -- >> we make judgments about what the big story is. he's provided us with the bigg...

>> and when it comes to the hot potato of trade issues, hillary pushed for the president's transpacific partnership when she was secretary of state. here she was. >> we are also pressing ahead with negotiations for the transpacific partnership, an innovative, ambitious, multilateral free trade agreement that would bring together nine pacific rim country, including four new free trade partners for the united states and potentially others in the future. >> but last week this headline appeared in "the huffington post." hillary clinton opposes major obama trade policy. so is hillary clinton shifti...