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Blame. for all of this though, the democrats seem to be casting this as a referendum on president trump in this district. is that fair or do we need to dig deeper? >> well, no, i mean, tim, again that guy murphy, he didnt run opposed the last time. hes run away with it, as molly said in her report, time and again, republican, even though this is a-- molly did mention a majority democrat district. these are working class democrats who did turn out for trump. so, what he did this week in terms of ...

And we want to see concrete and verifiable action on that front. >> when it comes to tariffs, tariffs on steel and aluminum are important vital in his words for national security. he signed those thursday, they take 15 days to go into effect. itll be a 25% tariff on steel imports, 10% on aluminum. >> the strong steel and aluminum industry have vital to national security, absolutely vital. steel is steel, you dont have steel, you dont have a country. >> trumps top economic adviser gary cohn resig...

You being with us. you put together that exemption for mexico and for canada. you get to 25% of the imported steel into the united states is now exempt from these tariffs. are you okay with that? youre for the tariffs. are you okay with the carve-outs? >> yes, canada and mexico are our allies and i trust the judgment of wilbur ross and the trade ambassador. the big problem here is china has with its government-owned steel companies has overproduced for 20 or 30 years and conducted a trade war ag...

My question to you would be, how well has that worked the last 25 years, and i think this is a way to step outside the box and negotiate strong. leland: well see if its deja vu all over again. >> we dont want to see that. leland: you point out the 1994 deal that fell apart. there was concrete relief and it fell apart and they ended up with a nuke. great to see you. >> thank you. leland: as you can imagine theres a lot more to discuss when it comes to north korea. next hour, well talk to ambassad...

North korean leader kim jong un president trump will shift his focus to southwest pennsylvania tonight. thats where hes expected to hold a campaign rally for republican congressional candidate, ellison barber is at the white house with much more, ellison. >> hi, eboni, president trump is set to leave the white house in a few hours. the trump campaign says that they expect about 6,000 people to attend that event in pennsylvania, its been incredibly busy week here at the white house, on thursday t...

Newly minted democrat supreme court in pennsylvania thats drawn a new map thats going to cut-- should lamb win, itle cut lamb out and saccone will have to run against another democrat in another district because of judicial activism. its a hot mess, leland, that didnt need to happen. were it not for that dope tim murphy. ill just say that again. leland: your words, not ours. next time we have you on, well catch up with you ahead of time to figure out who youre going to call a dope so we can have...

>> right. leland: why are they wrong? >> were not going to have a trade war right now because, number one, europe has to-- if they have a challenge to what the u.s. is doing, they have to bring a wto complaint. the with wto allows tore national security reasons to take action against imports. they would have to bring a complaint, were 18 months from a decision on that complaint, and then they would have to decide proportionate tariffs thereafter. so were 18 to 24 months away and europe says they...

Praised president trump. organized labor didnt typically run with the republicans. how does that play in there in this district? >> well, thats why this week was so key, frankly. you know, im not nuts about the tariffs, frankly, but for pennsylvania-- >> you have to think the timing is both, either coincidental or really convenient. >> yeah, you had some good old-fashioned burly men in there, did you see at that signing ceremony, guys with hard hats and the vests that came from steel country, pe...

North korean leader. white house president secretary sarah sanders accepted the invitation to meet as long as the administration sees concrete and verifiable actions on the part of north korea. >> the maximum pressure campaign has clearly been effective. we know that it has put a tremendous amount of pressure on north korea. and they have made some major promises. theyve made promises to denuclearize. theyve made promise to stop nuclear and missile testing. and theyve recognized that regular mil...