Max Baucus: “I urge my colleagues to recognize that we can unite around this issue because not only does our transportation system…”

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

In fact, the opposite was just the case. They kept complaining to us about our restrictions of technology transfer to China.

Sometime back, Senator Max Baucus, now the Ambassador to China, and I went down--we did not tell anybody; we just went down--and for 18 hours discovered the world according to Fidel Castro, and then also with an ag group trying to…