The following is a transcript of an interview with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that aired Sunday, December 15, 2019, on "Face the Nation." This interview was taped in-studio ...

Robert Lighthizer is the obvious choice to be Treasury Secretary in a second Trump administration. As the architect of Trump's first-term trade agenda, Lighthizer has proven his ability to ...

Mr. Cohn declined to comment on the record. Enter Robert E. Lighthizer, who arrived at the White House in May 2017 as the U.S. trade representative. Mr.

He favored free trade and opposed protectionism.

May 02, 2025 Robert Lighthizer Robert Lighthizer, who served as U.S. Trade Representative in Trump’s first term, defends the president’s tariffs and makes the case for more balanced trade.

Robert Lighthizer, who was the U.S. trade representative in President Trump's first administration, says China poses an existential threat to the United States that must be urgently addressed by ...

ROBERT LIGHTHIZER: So they own $23.5 trillion dollars worth of stuff. But if you said, what is it mostly, it is probably mostly debt, a lot of it's debt, a lot of it is equity in our companies ...

During heated trade talks with Japan in the 1980s, Robert Lighthizer, then a top negotiator under President Reagan, earned the nickname “missile man” after he took one of Japan’s written ...

Robert Lighthizer may be the most powerful Trump official you’ve never heard of Trump’s US trade representative thinks like him — and he also knows what he’s doing.

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Presidents 2020 trade policy agenda, on Capitol Hill, June 17, 2020, in Washington, DC.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer discusses the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin look on Oct. 1, 2018.