trade representative office's former senior director for china, albright stonebridge principal, amy selico. give us the real deal. are we close to a deal or not? >> you never know until you actually have a deal, but i will say i'm optimistic for a couple of reasons. one, i don't think the administration would be signaling we're this close if the things that are keeping us apart were truly impediments to a limited deal. so i'm optimistic on that front. secondarily, of course, i think both sides need this limited deal. so there's an impetus in beijing and in washington, d.c. to get something papered over so that both sides walk away with something, then there's a continuation so we can get to the more thorny issues, where we are going to have trouble resolving. liz: you talk about deadlines. everybody's got a calendar on their office desk. today is november 15th. december 15th is the deadline before the new u.s. tariffs kick in on chinese goods. putting china aside and punishing them, what does that mean as we are then going to be just, you know, ten days away from christmas at that point? >