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Your children as well if you are a u.s. citizen youre separated from your children. >> there seems to be a little bit of lack of humanity that these children are being all used as props. im curious, adrian, your response to that and what you make of the president using this as a negotiating tool. he wants democrat to get back to his border security agenda. he wants them to fund his wall on which he campaigned. >> yeah, look, i think this is president trumps heinous act yet among many heinous act...

On imgreat lakmigration and get wall, there are bills on the floor of the house but stop the separation of parents from their children. if they said it, if a majority of senate republicans and a majority of house republicans, if even a selected number of elected republican members of congress, not people like me talking on cnn and other networks, but other elected members of congress said it, i think the president might say, let me stop this. >> scott, do you think that this is now just a negoti...

Goodlatte bill and house leadership bill. he was commenting on the discharge petition in the house. he would sign the goodlatte or leadership bills. that from the white house. paige payton is back with us. also april ryan. good morning, april. let me start with you. the president calls it cruel but according to "the washington post," he is using this family separation issue as a negotiating tool. im wondering your thoughts on that. >> well, any time this president has a chance to use something...

Back, blaming the president for slapping tariffs on chinese goods. youre in the "cnn newsroom." president trump is repeating his false claim that the widely criticized practice of separating immigrant children from their parents at the mexican border is the democrats fault. this morning he tweeted this -- "democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. this is why we need more republicans elected in november. democrats a...

Chinese, they rig their markets no more than the chinese. its an education there. whether this is the answer, i dont know. do you worry that trying to protect one industry of this president and any president down the road that might consider doing the same would be hurting lots of other industries. congress would be remiss if it didnt do something about that. >> i look at these tariffs as mainly a negotiating tool. i know he has to put bite behind them. >> by the way, the markets have agreed wit...

Aside. i was in iowa and onsin, there are tens of thousands of farmers and folks in the ag community deeply concerned about the presidents trade or the protectionism and the tariffs. i was in texas last week, same thing there. good policy, usually, is good politics. well, tariffs are both bad policy and bad politics for this administration. were going to make our case to the american people and especially to rank and file conservatives and republicans because it is important that theyre hearing ...

Eerily similar to what george w. bush and his team was saying a decade and a half ago to support steel tariffs that they were putting up. you know that. cnn covered it. it did not work. it did help the steel industry 13, 14 years ago. these tariffs, it simply propped up what was an ailing difficult economic situation. it is not going to work now. tariffs dont work. they simply have government at that point picking winners and losers and we are -- our argument would be whether it is democrats or ...

Coming out. you find out they planned the summit, then canceled, then back on. how much of a role did the president canceling the meeting play in terms of a negotiating tool? >> well, look, i think we forget that these things are usually done from the bottom up, right? negotiators meet for weeks and months and then the leaders get together after the communique is agreed to and they sign on the dotted line. now you see this, the president trying to do it from the top down. just working with kim j...

That impacts you and the family most. tax policy makes a huge difference. bringing larry kudlow on board, i know him well and understand his economic policy. hes all pro growth, low taxes, low taxes. >> except for the tariffs. >> no. larry is against the tariffs and he wouldnt have signed on if he didnt think that that was about bargaining. i think he thinks that is a -- >> hes been an aggressive defender of the tariffs. >> its as a negotiating tool. i dont think that he would abide by these thi...

One tweet. one step at a time. were playing against people who are thinking much more strategically. >> stick with us. we will have many more questions for you. president trump says there is no trade war with china. are the tariffs just a negotiating tool? we discuss that is and more next. here you go little guy.