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Trump is willfully ignorant on this question or just ignorant? hes also got .people who have made their careers railing for texas. peter navarro, robert lightheiser, i think those guys understand it. i dont think president trump understands it. joes initial question is trump doesnt understand it. he thinks they is somehow being paid by chinese. were tariffing at the moment $20 billion. we have a budget of $4 trillion. this is a rounding area in the great scheme of life. >> there are so many case...

Number and i need to know as the press secretary how he is looking at the news. so i need to read the newspaper. he said did you see that story on a3? i know what hes talking about. and how does he know about the social media results? im sure theyre passed to him. >> shepard: a lot of talk about trade today, john. >> yeah. the white house is putting pressure on two fronts here. first of all, on canada by boxing canada out of the deal with mexico. the president put pressure on canada to sign on o...

>> the dow surged? and renegotiating nafta. robert lightheiser said we are very close to a deal with mexicans. >> in terms of nafta we are in the meeting with the mexicans as we sit here and i am hopeful that in the next several days we will have a breakthrough. there are difficult issues to work on. >> i asked the mexican economy minister about having a deal by the end of the week. >> we will see. always the devil is in the details. we have to make sure everything -- we have some hurdles. >> re...

Wilbur ross and peter navarro and robert lightheiser are all there. high-level meeting face-to-face with the chinese, over technologist taking the us and china the closest they have come to a full on trade war. back here at home a teenager has been arrested and accused of planning and isis inspired mass shooting in a shopping mall. he was charged with making a terrorist threat. officials say plans to release a message to america explaining the attack and allegedly spent $1400 buying weapons and ...

The trade issues. the delegation includes trade adviser peter navarro and representative robert lightheiser and larry kudlow and steve mnuchin. officials noted that all four are critical of the china trade practices. before officials head to china, the u.s. could have another trade fight. tariffs on steel and aluminum back in march and gave countries exemptions. those expire in 24 hours. it makes up 2/3 of steel and aluminum imports. it includes allies like eu, canada and mexico. global stocks...

The delegation includes representative robert lightheiser and peter navarro. economic adviser larry kudlow and steve mnuchin. all four are critical of the trade practices. before officials head to china, the u.s. has another trade fight. steel and aluminum tariffs in march and the countries with exemptions expire in 24 hours. that accounts for 2/3 of an aluminum and steel imports. multiple reports say the white house physician ronny jackson is not going back to his old job of the presidents ph...

Of what could happen. certainly if this were a trade war, both countries have a number of powerful missiles aimed at each other that they could launch. the united states trade representative robert lightheiser announced billions in chinese goods that could be taxed, including steel and aluminum, nuclear reactors, jet ski motors, bakery ovens, milking machines and sewing needles. china today announced 106 u.s. items worth about $50 billion that included soy beans, cotton, cars, cranberries and wh...

Direction to agencies and departments to ensure the entire administration is working toward the same goals. unfortunately, this afternoon, you will see empty chairs representing the presidents four nominees yet to be confirmed by the senate. secretary of agriculture, governor perdue, director of national intelligence former senator coates and robert lightheiser. these key agencies and departments will not be represented at the presidents first cabinet meeting. the president is confident these un...

It has a bad connotation because the united states was hurt bad by nafta. >> john roberts, do we have anymore than earlier? >> we understand what was behind this. follows along the presidents desire to craft bilateral deals, country to country as opposed to doing these big multilateral trade negotiations like the trans pacific partnership. the u.s. trade representative, robert lightheiser said when they were negotiating with mexico and canada, at certain times there were 1,000 people involved in...

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