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Let's turn our eye now to foreign affairs.

I want to bring in our first guest, Mikeah Zenko. He is a senior fellow at the

Council on Foreign Relations. Micah, thanks for joining us here.

It's beautiful morning. Pierre Power Breakfast. We got the place all to ourselves, a lovely view across

the park, Central Park Park with the snow falling.

What do you think the view is from China of the new Trump administration?

We learned that President Donald Trump sent a letter rather than a tweet or rather than an actual

phone call to Chinese President Gee Jing Ping and I believe the President has spoken with a variety of foreign leaders.

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