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of staff at the department of homeland security and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. its starting to feel a bit like groundhog day on capitol hill. thats because the house is trying again for a third day to elect a speaker of the house. weve now had eight votes. and in all eight, the republican kevin mccarthy has failed to receive enough votes. he hasnt even been able to swing the needle in his favour at all. this is the scene live in the ...

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Seeing trade wars and tariffs being applied to goods coming from china and other supply dresser options because of that. more recently sanctions on export controls that were put on semiconductors and other products going into china, made in china. these controls are targeted to artificial intelligence products. in semiconductor equipment made in china they cannot buy those equipment any more. most of the consumer stuff has been left alone. at the same time there is a lot of disruption and uncert...

>> neil: then what does it potentially extend to? >> what the government is doing right now, what the president is doing is using this as a negotiation tactic. while they are not putting the consumer friendly stuff on just yet, if china doesnt back down, the consumer stuff is going to go back on that list. thats when the consumers should start getting very, you know, a little concerned. to the reporters point, we shouldnt -- this is very small tariffs happening right now. but, if this increases,...

Impose -- though have to pay the tariffs. and then what they do is pass along the price hike that they are paying to the consumer. so if those prices go up and there is not a wage increase to follow, so that we can mitigate the higher hike in price, thats whats going to be problematic. so as we go into the retail season, you look at the list of the things that are being -- that are on the list of tariffs that are going to have tariffs on them, they are purposefully trying to stay away from the c...

>> you know, it seems funny that senator mcconnell is telling states to ignore new regulations because hes always complaining, e.j. that the president isnt following the law. you know back in september he said the president is required to take care that the laws are faithfully executed not -- as he has admitted -- make them up as he sees fit. but senator mcconnell can make up laws. whats going on here? >> youre making the mistake of looking for consistency, reverend. i mean you know i think ther...