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14 other things as well. John, I thought we'd wander into the land of tariffs and

now that folds over into a national agony on wage growth. What's actually

quite interesting is the president has actually scored his first win

without much media coverage on on trade a

revamped trade deal with South Korea may be small at the margin but you do wonder

whether this approach of this administration can generate results professor Schiller

can it well he's got people intimidated

and I think that it has an effect on the on negotiations I mean it may have a

positive effect in other air like North Korea.

You know he comes across as a kind of unpredictable, aggressive guy and I think he does know something about negotiation.

Isn't that a really good point,

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