Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180825:06:17:00
>> so i think that's absolutely right and the president criticized his predecessors, in essence saying, they just weren't good enough or smart enough to handle this problem, when in reality, i think folks like me understand that this is a wicked problem. and it may not be solvable in any satisfying way. and so now you've got the question with china that's always been there. the president should have known that. he had two issues that he had to balance and manipulate. he went all in on the north koreans. kind of put that problem on pause. now he's ginned up this trade conflict with the chinese....