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Running the Trump Organization. It worked that way in the campaign and in the white house. People like gary cohn, one of his chief economic advisers, peter navarro, he would have them battle it out about tariffs. Navarros side ended in winning. Thats also been trumps longheld view about tariffs. Gary cohn later resigned, mostly because of that decision made by the president. But he is someone who, in our reporting, shows in recent weeks hes grown more and more frustrated with some of the advice ...

Earlier this month, the Senate approved the 2021 United States Innovation and Competition Act, which includes a significant trade amendment called the Trade Act of 2021.

On May 27, 2021, the U.S. Senate voted to amend the United States Innovation and Competition Act (the Act), formerly the Endless Frontier Act, a bill that started as an effort to increase the United States competitive advantage in the world through investments in research and technology, but has morphed into a broad, China-centered legislative package addressing trade and other issues. The package includes an amendment, the Trade Act of 2021, which would, among other things, allow tariff rel...

Elections. the republicans in the senate are in such a perfect -- >> that is a good point people are barely speaking out. >> but how many votes does he need for the supreme court? this -- if not for this issue, then for what? >> that is a question i asked senator flake on the show yesterday. he held up the confirmations for judges for tariffs but wouldnt do it for this. and i asked how are tariffs more important than the sanctity of our elections. there a good argument that this is more importan...

Into correction territory, which would mean that were off 10% from the markets most recent highs. were not quite there yet, this is about trade. the president saying, this is the first of a tariff bill. he implied theres more to come. investors are not sure how to position it and what yet the chinese response is. thats what im watching most, trace. >> trace: i hear it all the time. wall street does not like uncertainty and today is the pinnacle of uncertainty. good of you to join us. thanks so m...

Described it? >> i like to think they have woken up and now theyre going to be their own men and women, but i sort of doubt it. they have been extremely comply nltd with this administration. and it is a little bit of a mystery that why on trade would they suddenly perk up. i thing it has a lot to do with republican donors, but more importantly, i think they know that a trade war puts at risk what has been a very good economy. really, the only thing trump and republicans have to run on is the eco...

Passed the -- anyone? anyone? the tariff bill. the holly smoot tariff about. >> right, ben? >> smoot-hawley i thought. >> its both. >> right. youre right, charlie. should be smoot-hawley. china has been incredibly good to us. yes. they are an aggressive power. yes, they are a rising government. yes, theyve done number of bad things. overall they have benefitted the american consumer fantastically. we should not be picking fights with them, especially someone as incredibly ignorant as donald trum...

then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. its really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, su...

north korea tonight. some of them bizarre, others terrifying. if you want to see what sets the kingdom apart from the rest of our socially networked planet, consider this, king jong eel died two days ago. thats how tightly controlled the media is. when word did arrive the dear leader was dead, his brainwashed followers mourned him like the god theyve been told he was. >> the grieving is intense for a leader they were told walked at three months of age, talked at two weeks. those who ar...

followers mourned him like the god theyve been told he was. the grieving, as youd imagine, is intense for a leader theyd been told first walked at 3 weeks of age, talked at 2 months and authored -- not read, but authored 1500 books while in college. those who are not overcome were simply dumbstruck on receiving the news. like this gathering for example. they, like most north koreans, not likely aware their fallen ruler scarfed lobster and swilled fine cognac while an estimated million ...