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MORNING
MORNING AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING A SPECIAL EDITION OF
INSIDE TENNESSEE AND AN
EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH
TENNESSEE SENATOR BOB CORKER
HIS CAREER IN SERVICE
STARTED AS FINANCE
COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF
TENNESSEE VOTERS IN
CHATTANOOGA ELECTED
CHATTANOOGA ELECTED THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
OWNER AND REAL ESTATE
ENTREPRENEUR MAYOR IN TWO
THOUSAND ONE FIVE YEARS LATER
TENNESSEE VOTERS SAID BOB
CORKER TO THE U S SENATE
DURING HIS TWELVE YEARS IN
OFFICE HE HELD THE NUMBER OF
LEADERSHIP POSTS INCLUDING
CHAIR OF THE POWERFUL SENATE
FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
WILL HEAR HIS ADVICE TO HIS
SUCCESSOR MARSHA BLACKBURN
AND HIS ADVICE TO PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP BUT WE BEGIN OUR
CONVERSATION WITH HIS TAKE ON
A LIST OF KEY COUNTRIES
AROUND THE WORLD AND WHETHER
THEY ARE FRIEND OR ENEMY OF
THE UNITED STATES AND I JUST
WANT TO HEAR YOUR FIRST
THOUGHT WHEN YOU HEAR THESE
COUNTRIES THAT START WITH
RUSSIA A SMALL ECONOMY
THE SOUTH OF ITALY LARGE
NUCLEAR ARSENAL PUNCHES ABOVE
THEIR WAY AND AS ALWAYS IS
GENERALLY SPEAKING THE FAIR
SLAY WORKING AGAINST WHAT IS
WORK ON TO DO EITHER OF YOU
AND OR OTHER PLACES FRIEND OR
ENEMY CERTAINLY NOT FROWN AND
HOW IT'S A SORT OF THEY'RE
DEFINITELY AN ENEMY OF
THE THINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE
TO ACHIEVE IN A WHIRL WHICH
IS NO GREATER DEMOCRACY
LESSENING OF CORRUPTION. IT'S
YOU KNOW NON SUPPORT OF
DICTATORS AND THAT TYPE OF
THING SO YOU KNOW THEIR VIEWS
OF THE WORLD ARE DIFFERENT
THAN ANYTHING WE DO THAT'S
WHY UKRAINE HAS BEEN SUCH A
TENSE ISSUE BETWEEN S WHEN
UKRAINE AGAINST THE MOVE
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN WEEDING
OUT CORRUPTION THEN OBVIOUSLY
THAT A THREAT TO PUTIN'S SO
WHAT HE VIEWS AS IMPORTANT TO
HIM IN HIS OWN COUNTRY IN
MANY CASES ARE THE ANTITHESIS
OF WHAT WE WISH AARON OWN
COUNTRY THE SHAME OF IT AS I
REALLY BELIEVE THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE AND THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE OVER TIME CAN HAVE SO
MUCH IN COMMON BUT HE IS AN
IMPEDIMENT TO THAT HAPPENING
RIGHT NOW YOU KNOW A PROBLEM
FOR US TO DEAL WITH CHINA
FRIEND OR ENEMY. CHANA
PROBABLY IS MOST IMPORTANT
RELATIONSHIP THAT WE NEED TO
MANAGE OVERTIME THEY GET ONE
POINT THREE BILLION PEOPLE IF
YOU JUST DO THE MATH RIGHT
NOW THEIR ECONOMY SLOWING BUT
IF YOU DO THE MATH OVER TOM
IT'S LIKELY ECONOMICALLY WITH
THE SEVENTH AND TWENTY OR
THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE THAT
THEY OVERTAKE US IN SIZE AND
SO THEY HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT
GOVERNANCE ONE PARTY SYSTEM
FREEDOM THE PRESS THAT WE
WOULD COME OUT EARLIER IS NOT
NOT NEAR WHAT ALL OF THE BUT
IT'S A COUNTRY WHOSE
RELATIONSHIP VERY IMPORTANT
FOR US TO MANAGE
APPROPRIATELY AND VERY
IMPORTANT FOR US TO STAY VERY
CLOSE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE
STEALING INTELLECTUAL
STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM OUR COMPANIES
ARE FORCING COMPANIES FROM
THE US TO PARTNER WITH
CHINESE COMPANIES IN MANY
CASES THE BUSINESS THERE
WHICH IS VERY COUNTER
PRODUCTIVE AND COUNTER TO
SORT OF THE WTO PRINCIPLES
THAT THEY ASCENDED TO
PROBABLY SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN
YEARS AGO SO THEIR CHALLENGE
BUT I THINK YOU KNOW FROM OUR
STANDPOINT WE NEED TO PUSH
BACK AGAINST THOSE THINGS
THEY DO THAT ARE AGAINST OUR
INTEREST AND WERE DOING SOME
OF THAT NOUN HAVE BEEN FOR
SOMETIME BUT I WOULD CALL
THEM A CHALLENGE AND AN
ENTITY THAT OVER TIME COULD
EITHER BE ONE OF OUR GREAT
FRIENDS AND WE COULD SHARE
TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC
TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC PROSPERITY OR SOMEBODY THAT
COULD BE A GREAT THREAT TO US
HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE THE OTHER
AND MUCH OF IT ALL DEPEND ON
HOW WE ENGAGE NORTH KOREA
NORTH KOREA IS A CLOSED
ECONOMY WITH A DICTATOR WHO
HAS I THINK BEGUN TO REALIZE
THAT THE ECONOMIC MODEL THEY
HAVE IN PLACE WILL NOT LAST
IT WON'T WORK AND THEREFORE
UNDERSTANDS THAT HE'S GOT TO
FIGURE OUT WAYS OF OPENING UP
THE VIEWS THE NUCLEAR ARSENAL
THAT HE HAS WHICH IS SMALL
BUT STILL EXIST AND THE VIEWS
THAT IS HIS TICKET TO
SURVIVAL. HE KNOWS THAT I'M
UNLIKELY TO BE INVADED BY ANY
OTHER NATION AS LONG AS HE
HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SO
HE'S OUT OF PLACE RIGHT NOW
WHERE HE'S TRYING TO FIGURE
OUT HOW TO MOVE AHEAD WE CAN
OPEN HIS ECONOMY OUT BECAUSE
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TREMENDOUS
SANCTIONS AND OTHER COUNTRIES
DO BECAUSE OF THIS
DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR ARMS
SO HE'S TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
HOW TO BALANCE THAT WITH
POTENTIALLY DOING SOME THINGS
THAT MIGHT PUT HIM IN IN
JEOPARDY OVER TIME SHOULD HE
ACT OUT IN THE WAY CITY HAS
IN THE PAST SO THAT'S
THE RELATIONSHIP IS JUST
BEGINNING THERE WASN'T MUCH
AS YOU KNOW THAT HAPPENED IN
SINGAPORE BUT POMP A O HAS
BEEN WORKING HARD AND I WOULD
SAY THERE'S AT LEAST
THE GLAMOUR OF AN OPPORTUNITY
BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
WITH SO MANY OTHER
ADMINISTRATIONS WHO TRIED WE
JUST HAVEN'T GOTTEN WHERE WE
NEED TO GO WHILE THEY
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AS THEY
ARE RIGHT NOW AS THEY
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
THE COMPLEXITY OF THEIR
PRESIDENT TRUMP SUGGESTED WE
WERE VERY CLOSE TO WAR WITH
NORTH KOREA WHEN HE TOOK
OFFICE IS THAT TRUE NOT WHAT
SAUDI ARABIA FRIEND OR ENEMY
SAUDI ARABIA. WE'VE HAD A
LONG HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP
WITH THEM THEY HAVE A YOUNG
LATER THAT IF HE WERE HERE
YOU'RE INTERVIEWING THEM IS
VERY IMPRESSIVE THIRTY THREE
YEAR OLD PARSON I MET HIM
WHEN HE WAS THIRTY TO KNOWS
ALOT ABOUT ECONOMIC ISSUES IS
TRYING TO OPEN THE COUNTRY UP
GOOD TO GREAT AND THERE'S NO
DOUBT MOM AND HE DIRECTED
WILL SAY WE'VE GOT HAVE PROOF
OF COURSE NO DOUBT A MOM AND
THAT HE KILLED THE JOURNALIST
IF THAT IS INDEED TRUE WHAT
KIND OF SANCTIONS WHAT KIND
OF PUNISHMENT DO YOU THINK
MATCHES THAT CRIME FROM
THE WELL ARE PUTTING
TREMENDOUS PRESSURE ON
THE ADMINISTRATION BUT WE
CANNOT LET A THIRTY THREE
YEAR OLD CROWN FRANCE IS NOW
POTENTIALLY BE AROUND FOR
FORTY OR FIFTY YEARS GO
AROUND