Max Baucus: “Thank you, Madam Chair.”

I think it's very unwise. Get ratchet up the rhetoric to a point we're getting too close to the tripping point where something disastrous might happen.

The most important geopolitical matter that crossed my desk during the 3 years I was there was TPP, and we blew it.

I believe it's one of the more important questions facing our country today.

It is hard to know how that would play out because China is pretty conservative.