Max Baucus: “I look forward to working with the USTR to ensure Japan meets the high-level standards of this agreement.”

I think we should press protection of human rights, but we are only going to get so far.

I think it is a creative idea.

I'm saying China would not stand idly by. They would not just sit there and watch whatever may or may not unfold in North Korea should U.S. attempt preemptive strike.

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.