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00:00But here we are, a pause for everyone except for China.
00:03What do you make of this?
00:05So the first thing I would say is if you go back and you look at that clip,
00:08didn't you get the sense that the Treasury Secretary was almost like the adult in the room
00:12saying, we have a child, don't retaliate, you're the grown-up,
00:18you have to make sure that you're acting in a mature manner?
00:20And I wonder if maybe the nations that didn't respond,
00:25and there were a couple that said we were going to sit and wait.
00:30And I wonder if maybe they were thinking maybe we'll just see if he'll actually follow through
00:36or if he'll do just what he did.
00:39And there had been, just a couple of days ago, there had been talk about a 90-day pause
00:44for a couple of hours before they say, no, no, that won't happen.
00:47But here we have it.
00:49It's almost, I wonder, now we can reverse engineer, right?
00:53We can look at this and we can say, this is what he's been saying all along.
00:57He's wanted people, and he mentioned this last night, to essentially come in and kiss the ring.
01:02And he wanted that to happen.
01:04And so now he can be, again, the man at the center of the storm
01:09who can listen to all the different countries that are approaching him.
01:13He can negotiate, but he can also say, this will happen or this won't.
01:18This is what he's built for.
01:20This is what he loves to do.