we have a couple of folks that i'd like to have say a couple of words while we leave the media, tom donohue has been the president of the chamber of commerce for a long time, do you have anything to say? >> thank you very much for having me, mr. president. the business community has been waiting a long time for an administration and a president and a willing congress to do what we haven't done for many decades. and we think we were lucky to arrange a budget so we're going to have a better opportunity to send it. i think you're right, there are some members of the democratic legislature that will come around on some of this, particularly if the numbers are as promised. you hit it right on the head, we've got to work on it, we are going to have some differences amongst the business community on what should be the takeaways in the end, but we just have to work on that and i think you're planning is really quite good, off to asia and everybody else get it worked out, come back and see what we have. thank you very much. >> what you said is important, we did get the budget passed, it was a big ev

tom donohue has been president of the u.s. chamber of commerce for a long time. tom, do you have anything to say? tom: thank you for having me, mr. president. the business community has been waiting a long time for an administration and a president and a willing congress to do what we haven't done for many ecades, and we think we were lucky to arrange a budget so we're going to have a better opportunity in the senate. i think you're right, there are some members of the democratic legislature that will come around on some of this, particularly if the numbers are as promised. and you hit it right on the head. we've got to work on it. going to have some differences amongst the business community on what should be the takeaways, but we just have to work on that and i think your planning is really quite good. off to asia and everybody else get it worked out and then come back and we'll see what we've got. thank you very much. president trump: appreciate it very much. and what you said is important, we did get the budget pass. that was a big event, it doesn't happen oft

that tom donohue has been quite aggressive in the past few weeks. i will read the quote and invite you to respond. he said let me be forceful and real -- direct, there are several poison pill amendments on the table from the administration. all of these are unnecessary and unreasonable. we have reciprocal moment in the chain -- and the chamber has had no choice but to ring the alarm bell over these poison pills. tom is a good friend of mine, we have a good working relationship and we speak frequently at his events, for the various countries and various multilateral entities. he is very much a free trader and he is right, the agricultural community is worried, the multinational community is worried, because they are the ones who have things potentially at risk. our efforts will be to do no harm, and not have retrograde motion in any aspect of the nafta as it relates to the u.s. second, we will try to build upon the limited concessions that canada and mexico made in the tpp negotiations. think to pursue what we are important factors that have been hur