Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of East Side Global Economy Podcast.

My name is Frederick Erickson and I am delighted to welcome back to this podcast my good

friend Frank Lavin. Frank is, among other things, a fellow at the Hoover Institution of the

Stanford University. It was until last year, the CEO of Ecom's company Export Now and is the author

of several books on economics and international affairs,

including Homefront to Battlefront, a moving story about his father's adventures in Europe during

the Second World War. Frank has had senior posts in national security and international policy

in the administrations of the two Bush presidencies and was

a close aide to Ronald Reagan during his time in the White House, something we will learn more

about next year when Frank in March has his new book out, which is called Inside the Reagan

White House, a front row seat to presidential leadership with lessons for

today. Frank, welcome. Thank you, Fred. We're great to be back with you. Good to chat with you.

And I always enjoy our conversations. So do I. And today we are going to talk about a topic,

I assume you have spoken to a lot of people about in the past week, the

income and second Trump administration and what we can expect from it in foreign policy.

Now, Trump, he's been around US politics for quite some time now, and the world got to

know him already in his first time in the White House.

But what type of Trump is it that is returning now, do you think?

What is this general outlook on the world and America's role in it?

And what do you think is what he wants to change?

Well, I think there's two or three elements of this new Trump administration

that we're likely to see in the coming months. And by the way, I'd say just as a preface to these comments, all candidates for office might have a gap or a difference between their stated policy goals they articulate in the course of a campaign and what they actually do in office.

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