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Consider the risk that a near-tomorrow deal with china would give away the tariff leverage needed for a broader agreement on the issues needed the most such as subsidies, domestic firms, forced tech transfers and blocking u.s. firms access to key sectors. >> 100%. and the fact that rubio is saying that reflects something important which is that theres a consensus building on both the right and the left. hes not so different from elizabeth warren in terms of what he would say about china. theres ...

How much of a deal is this? >> its not really much of a deal. what this amounts to is we have taxed ourselves tens of billions of dollars so that we could get to basically where we were before we taxed ourselves tens of billions of dollars. there are some major structural issues that we do want china to reform on. we want chin to become a more market-based economy and have more ip protections, fewer subsidies for its state-owned businesses. but those are pretty difficult intractable problems and...

Questions id love to fit in. i want to look at the schedule next week. as you look at the house calendar, on tuesday, there will be a vote on a spending deal. on wednesday, a vote to impeach the president of the united states. and on thursday, a vote to approve a trade deal. why is it important for house democrats to have this impeachment sandwich, if you will, to have these other votes around this major constitutional moment? >> sure. well, politically, theres -- these arguments that weve heard...