Bo Hines

There's a piece of the story missing because I started my career at a place called the Boston Consulting Group.

And they sent me to Tokyo for three years back in the late 80s, early 90s.

That's when I learned the language.

And to go back as U.S.

Ambassador to Japan under President Trump in 2017, the honor of a lifetime.

I can tell you representing the greatest nation in the world, any place in the world is an honor.

But particularly in a region like that, that has so much strategic, you know, so many strategic initiatives that are underway right now.

You think about this.

Japan has more U.S.

military stationed there than any place else in the world.

Japan is one of the toughest environments in the world.

If you think about the neighborhood that they're in, North Korea, Russia, China right at your doorstep.

The time that I spent as ambassador really helped me dig in deeply in terms of the national security issues that our nation confronts and those that our allies confront.

At the same time, we did two trade deals with Japan.

nobody thought it could be done and we were able to navigate that with Jameson Greer working right beside Bob Blytheiser.

I loved working with those guys and we got two great trade deals done.

Jameson is back now as the U.S.

Trade Representative and I'm very optimistic that we're going to see more trade flourish.

President Trump knows how to do this.

I've been with him in the trade negotiations.