Mark Kimmitt: Trump put his cards on the table

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00:00And he's also put on the table quite a lot of his own cards before the negotiations even

00:06began.

00:07I'm just wondering, does this look to you like negotiation or appeasement?

00:09Well, if you're talking about Trump, I think that it was probably unwise to put the cards

00:16on the table ahead of time, but that's Trump's style.

00:21If he was to come in, if he, in a very quiet manner, a very diplomatic, a very conventional

00:27manner, people would suspect his intentions here.

00:31But this is the way he negotiates.

00:33He too will throw out a maximalist position and then start the hard work of negotiating

00:38down from there as the days and months go on.

00:41So this is just starting both sides, as you might expect, are demanding everything.

00:46The hard work is nowhere close to being started.