Katty Kay

And they may not be as disastrous as the most suicidal Democrats who are texting me seem to think it is.

But let's kick off with China and Iran.

You were covering the White House in the first term and he went to China and they had, I didn't even know that such a thing existed, but the Chinese gave him a state visit plus.

I suppose no one wants a state visit minus, right?

I mean, that's...

like not something you would want.

That's the bad one.

He got the state visit plus and the Chinese rolled out every piece of red carpet they could find in the country and showered him with love and praise.

And I'm just, is this going to be the same?

Is this going to be the same sort of, maybe it has to be a gold carpet now anyway, or a gold statue, a gold statue of Trump.

Maybe that would help if he turned up at Beijing airport.

Yeah, I think Trump, I mean, to that point of it's kind of with Trump often it's all personal and foreign leaders kind of now get Trump after however long he's been on our national stage, 430 years.

I mean, it feels like that.

I wonder sometimes if he mistakes these relationships because he is proud of saying that he has good personal relationships with Kim Jong-un, with Vladimir Putin, with the King of...

the United Kingdom with Xi Jinping.

And I don't know that he really understands that he may be misjudging the power of the relationship and the nature of the relationship himself.

And in a way that could weaken his position.

So I think he thinks I can go in there, be leader to leader, work my famous art of the deal charm on him with a bit of leverage thrown in.

And because we understand each other man to man, we're going to get something done, which is some kind of

grand bargain.