I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us.

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.