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That foreign countries will have to pay to the united states when every economist is trying to tell him they are simply sales taxes that the american consumer, the trump voter will have to pay. >> tariffs are taxes collected at the border, and when you have tariffs on, say, aluminum and steel, what youre doing is cutting the defense budget. that is, you are effectively cutting what the defense budget will buy thats made of aluminum and steel, which is almost everything the defense department buy...

Stop him. so call me step cankeptical. >> the one time they did that was in russia. that was a sanctions issue. that was a policy that really motivates a lot of conserve tifrs atifconservetives and republicans. aside from any private agreement they have with the president, free trade in china is an area where you do hear them speaking out much more overtly and more u more overtly disagreeing with the president. its a fascinating dichotomy that on the one hand hes not afraid to be tough with the ...

President clearly seems more anxious to meet with kim jong-un than americas closest allies. >> i think it is remarkable. young there have been, you know, these divisions in american history between, you know, isolationism and internationalism. and the president seems to sort of move back and forth between them. when it comes to our allies in trade, hes, you know, america first. we dont need allies. we dont need alliances. but when it comes to military matters, you know, he has been more on the s...

Basically being involved on an equal playing field and for many, it feels like this is at the point of unraveling and its a moment when other countries like britain have also been withdrawing. so many allies are seriously worried and its fair to say this seems like a potentially new moment in our free trade framework. >> beyond free trade, i mean, if you consider that there has been this narrative of potential protectism and isolationism from the trump administration. i listed a few of them this...

Conversation between fdr and ronald reagan. the question of the primacy of the state versus the market, the question of engagement over isolationism and one of the things that strikes me about this moment which goes to something speaker boehner said, that conversation which has gone on under both parties under different presidents, under different congresses, has not been replaced or succeeded by a different chapter in that conversation. its as if we here in the 1920s again building walls and tr...

>> thats a good question. it is going to be a desert experience. falling back on my religious training. we are going to go through that desert experience where we have to do a lot of soul-searching and a lot of think about who we are in order to convince the american people -- >> arent we a party that tolerates racism and nativism and isolationism right now. but thats not who we are. thats not the kind of republican party i joined, thats not the kind of republican party im willing to fight for. ...

And thats code for, they should rise up and change the regime. >> i had an e-mail from president macrons ambassador to the united nations, a former french ambassador to the u.s. here in washington, who is so aggrieved by this withdrawal, as are other europeans, and talking about it as a real isolationism by the u.s., and the fact that now europe has to act on its own and try to reform and expand the u.n. security council, which is a wish list thats hard to n navigate. but work without the u.s. >...

Of the deal is gone, then we actually would be at the same place. so this idea that president trump is going to do something different i think is wrong. steve: just for fun, more than anything else, this reminds us how much the progress the president is clearly making in at least articulating and implementing an agenda, even if you dont agree with it. hes setting out a view and making it happen. in other words commanding the world stage in a way that a lot of people didnt think was possible. let...

Will lead to another 9/11. steve: i mean all of these things that were said, its not isolationism. it may not be exactly what people like that and the elites wanted, different than what they wanted, but you cant say. >> its not isolationism. he made that clear when he was asked by "the new york times" on the trail, are you an isolationism, he said, no, no, no. are you america first, yes, im america first. responding to the "the new york times" question. hes believing were the most powerful count...

Of the deal is gone, then we actually would be at the same place. so this idea that president trump is going to do something different i think is wrong. steve: just for fun, more than anything else, this reminds us how much the progress the president is clearly making in at least articulating and implementing an agenda, even if you dont agree with it. hes setting out a view and making it happen. in other words commanding the world stage in a way that a lot of people didnt think was possible. let...