Jeff Flake: ‘You Bet’ Trump Is Leading the United States Towards Isolationism

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BLITZER: "Are you worried that President Trump is leading the United States towards isolationism and thus leaving a vacuum for China and Russia and others to fill?”
FLAKE: “You bet. I think that's started as soon as the president announced his intention to withdraw from the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But we saw countries at that time not just say, all right, we’re going to wait for to you come around, they moved on. They moved on without us. China is now filling that vacuum. A lot of these countries, particularly in southeast Asia would like about to be part of our trade orbit, but now they are sucked into China vortex. And so yes, we’re giving up our global leadership and it has implications on the trade side, certainly on the security side, and I’m concerned as are many of my colleagues.”