host: chairman roberts, where are you concerned with the urrent nafta negotiations? where do you see problems? senator roberts: well, the problem is the trade deficit. but the trade deficit is very small if you look at the verall success of nafta. and i don't think we -- it's like humpty dumpty. you don't push humpty dumpty off the wall because you can't put it back together again. to start the termination effort, to start that clock, it would send shivers all throughout agriculture. you have to plan ahead in agriculture. you have to have predictability. you have to have stability. so all this talk about termination is very counterproductive. i just met with the president at the christmas party at the white house. i was one of the last ones before i could even say merry christmas, mr. president, he looked at me, put his thumb up and said we're going to be all right on nafta. so we'll see. we've had some long discussions. many members have gone up and talked to the appropriate folks up in the white house. and i look forward to going up again. so i'm still optimistic we