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About having a big check on china. is that -- >> well, im not from the midwest, but my wife is from detroit. and ive been married 26 years, thank god. ive been to detroit, and i laughed when i went through confirmation that i one of the things i brought to this job was i saw how differently the country looks at trade. you cant do gimmicks. but i went to steel mills in ohio, with sherrod brown, and i remember going to the clevelands "plain dealer" editorial board, and sherrod brown gave me the mo...

Of undercurrent that its about presidential leadership. and ill remind everybody, after the 2012 shellacking democrats -- >> 2010. >> -- 2010, it would have been nothing in the presidents political for him to move forward, you know what, to help jump-start our economy, help put americans back to work, were going to move forward with the trade agreements with panama, korea, and colombia. we did that. the president gets it. he understands its always been tough. i was a mayor when president clinton...

Underperforming. we have a soft economy. theres a lot of economic anxiety out there, and people project the anxiety against trade. that one of the reasons they got job insecurity is potentially because foreign competition and leadership in washington is giving away too much. thats, i think, largely a myth, but enough truth to it that people with feed off of that. whats dinteresting, when you look at trade agreements that resulted in enormous trade surplus for america, you still get populist sent...