makes people uncomfortable about the potential for this being ratcheted up from one side going back and forth. the sympathy that donald trump gets for most of the american public is china does not play by the world trade organization rules and that s a legitimate complaint but as economist talked about in paper last week, we can negotiate that and we should negotiate that but the idea, donald trump s big obsession that he s going to defeat the trade deficit which by the way he s expanding the size of it, it s not as big as what he says, but that is a mistake because the u.s. is richer than china and it means that we are going to buy than they buy from us, there s going to be a trade deficit. paul: dan, the other point i would make, look, you will get a deal, when are we going to get a deal, okay, you re fighting with the mexicans and canadians on nafta, you re fighting with europeans on cars and now chinese, will we complete one of
the same thing and that s what makes people uncomfortable about the potential for this being ratcheted up from one side going back and forth. the sympathy that donald trump gets for most of the american public is china does not play by the world trade organization rules and that s a legitimate complaint but as economist talked about in paper last week, we can negotiate that and we should negotiate that but the idea, donald trump s big obsession that he s going to defeat the trade deficit which by the way he s expanding the size of it, it s not as big as what he says, but that is a mistake because the u.s. is richer than china and it means that we are going to buy than they buy from us, there s going to be a trade deficit. paul: dan, the other point i would make, look, you will get a deal, when are we going to get a deal, okay, you re fighting with the mexicans and canadians on nafta, you re fighting with europeans on cars and now
is eyes wide open. they know before north korea hasn t followed through on their promises. with these negotiations thanks have to know not only what they want but what they will walk away from the table over. it seems like everyone is willing to put everything on the table, though. there could be a treaty that we could have normalized relation with north korea. they could have denuclearization. everyone seems to be cautious which is good, but the pace at which this is going is stunning. bret: very fast. the president on nafta negotiations. nafta has been a terrible deal. we are renegotiating and will see what happens. mexico and canada don t like to lose the golden goose. i represent the united states. i don t report mexico or canada. bret: a lot of trade issues.
year. they still have to do their job. and ooeld wields like to see them fix our immigration system. not only is the administration frustrated but americans are, too. 80% of americans would like to see this problem fixed. they want something to be done. they are begging congress to do it. and certainly, i think not only does the president have a right to be frustrated. he has a right to be angry. he is, he is expressed that. he has done it publically and he is going to continue to do that until we can fix this flob. in nafta, is the white house on track to meet speaker ryan s deadline on that next thursday on nafta. we are continuing in the conversations and we have made progress. hopefully we will get there. by thursday is the president willing to revisit this after the elections in mexico and the mid terms? we will let you know. kristen. a follow up on one of my colleagues, to be clear, doescaly sadler still work at this white house. yes, shes to. to follow up, more b
well, and the president knows there is a key component of his base that watches the same programming and may want him to respond to that also. look, it is not exactly clear whether this was weekend twaoert and we will shift to weekday policy or whether there is a potential shift. we have been hearing they are going to be able to work this out on nafta and the president has been committed to taking care of the daca children. the march date passed and here we are now. at 2:00 this afternoon on his public schedule is larry kudlow to replace gary cohn.