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Needs to win. >> if he claims victory even if its perhaps not as good a deal as they could have gotten, theyre going to listen to him. even this deal here, you have to look at what he did with nafta, too. republicans were cautioning him against this hard line with tariffs saying, this is going to blow up in our face. it will be interesting to see if the party reorients itself, if hes able to land another deal after renegotiating nafta. >> i think weve seen the party more hawkish on china are not...

President is pushing hard toward a summit in some sense boxes him in to having something to show for all this. >> the chinese know the art of the deal. >> but hes blunted the impact in a way, too. what is it, $7.7 billion have been paid out to farmers in order to -- so while this is being tied up, theyre not selling soybeans and crops to china. so what happens when these sub as i h subsidies stop? are they going to be dormant? >> you have those states and you pointed out on the map these are sta...

Territories. today youre seeing a lot of relief in the market on words from the president and his tone. one thing to keep in mind, the stability, at least, in this market really hinges on whether or not there will be an actual deal signed and whether or not it can be enforced. that is key here. one trader telling me this market is really one negative headline about trade away from a reversal and from president trump possibly changing his mind, which is a possibility. john? >> just make sure none...

You look at michigan there, three states the president won last time, hes got some work to do. maybe the president decided we push, we pushed, we pushed, now its time to cut a deal. >> this is the first president who approached china through the lens of the reelection possibility. look, americans have a habit of wanting something from china and not getting it. george bush tried to push china on things like property theft, but north korea is more important, iran is more important. obama wanted ch...

Policy, we talk a lot about how the president doesnt actually care to get into the details of a lot of policy issues that are complicated. we talked about this during the health care debate, that he never actually learned the issue. trade, i think, is the one issue that falls in a different category. he cared about it in the beginning, he cares about it a lot right now, and it is important to him to get trade right, and its fundamental how he sees the united states role in the world. >> its also...

Billion worth of chinese exports. alison is live with wall street. >> you can see the dow up 180 points. you can see that optimism tone from the president now this morning and the optimistic tone he took on twitter over the weekend. a trade deal between the u.s. and china becomes more and more of a reality and as the president delays thon loosening the tariffs on china. i have seen fear kind of subside over the past several weeks. we watch an index called the vic. its actually way below since au...

Prepares for a big fight on tariffs against china, but he likes the tariffs already in place. >> billions and billions of dollars of tariffs a month. every month, billions of dollars. i love it personally. i love it. alright, i brought in ensure max protein... to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. (straining) ill take that. (cheers) 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. in two great flavors.

Decades. did he move them? >> if you are someone who thought chinas behavior really needs to change in a fundamental way, youre probably not pleased with what were learning china has agreed to. it looks like theyre going to agree to buy more natural gas and soybeans from the united states, that they will take a tougher line in terms of property, but these are all things china was probably going to do, anyway. so if the test of an agreement is did you force them to do things they werent inclined ...