Max Baucus: “But the status quo is trouble because the Clean Air Act is going to have to be implemented.”

The Senate has yet to speak on those two Chinese initiatives.

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

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.