Katty Kay

I mean, it was...

Ironically, it was Donald Trump who said, Venezuela is close.

It's not a 20-hour flight away.

That's why we're not getting involved in the Middle East.

Then, of course, a couple of months later, he gets involved in the Middle East, and now he's going to China, which is a very important trip.

There are a lot of people nervous that he's going to undermine Taiwan's position.

I just had a text actually from Senator Chris Coons, who we spoke to when we were in Davos, who said that

He's concerned that Trump may well give away something substantial on either AI or Taiwan just to have a win as he sees it on trade at the summit because Trump's going to want to come away and say he got something out of it.

But Coons is saying also that he thinks Iran does significantly weaken Trump because of how he's mishandled it and because of the divisions that it's created with our allies.

Of course, Xi Jinping knows this and knows that Americans are worried about this.

There are very real issues that need to be dealt with with the Chinese, but I could imagine quite a lot of MAGA voters might be thinking, why is he going off again?

Why does he keep doing these foreign things when we're paying $7 a gallon at the gas pump in some states in America for gas?

It just feels like his attention is focused elsewhere, and maybe that's the legacy element that you're talking about, but I wonder whether that also has an impact on MAGA voters at some point.

Don't underestimate health care.

Huge issue.

Yeah.

And Republicans would love him to not be involved in Iran, not be involved in all these foreign ventures, but be focused on those questions of affordability.

Meanwhile, he flies off to China and the Chinese are getting a whole load of information about how America conducts war, how many missiles it has, what its missile plan uses, what its intelligence gathering capability is, how quickly it is burning through some of its advanced weapons.

missiles and munitions.

All of that is very useful information if you're sitting in Beijing.