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A trade war but were never afraid of having one. we have the confidence and capacity so as to not bring the economic and trade relations between china and u.s. into danger. joining us now, brian brenberg from kings college here in new york city. so parse that chinese statement for us. it does seem that there is actually a certain amount of caution built in to the presidents tariff proposal. >> yeah, a lot of caution here. neither the president, nor the chinese want a trade war. they want to get ...

How they helped broker it, the presidents tariff proposal has pushback. the president following through on on imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum and these imports will have potential bad effects. and thats why theres so much strong opposition from republican leaders and calls that the president didnt meet the legal standard of showing this is a matter of national security. will lawmakers do anything about that? well see. the white house is also dealing with the stormy daniels scandal. there ...

Proposal. and we just learned that president trump could imfoes tariffs by the end of this week. and a russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent after being found unconscious in a small english town. as investigators try find out if this was a kremlin hit, politicians are now calling for an investigation into this and other suspicious deaths that could be called into question. this seems eerily similar to the poisoning of another russian spy in 2006. >> reporter: thats right....

Trump and respecting that and coming everyone the commitment he made to make sure we are treated fairly throughout the world. heather: some members of the steel industry are plotting the tariff proposal. chicago based industry saying, quote, foreign product impact markets by 70% was only 30% less than domestic supply. company situated in the united states not able to compete with those prices. donald trump still working hard on his campaign promise to fix obamacare. >> obamacare is a disaster, a...

The republican pushback on the presidents tariff proposal is on full display this morning. house speaker paul ryan says he thinks the president has the righted in, but needs to hone it a little more. >> there is clearly abuse occurring. clearly there is overcapacity dumping in trend shipping of steel and aluminum by some countries, particularly china. but i think the smarter way to go is to make it more surgical and more targeted. so i think 232 is too broad. and i think it is more prone to reta...

From the tariffs. joining me now is republican congressman warren davidson from ohio. hes called the presidents tariff proposal a big mess. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> so you actually have some rare first hand knowledge of the effects of the steel and aluminum tariffs. you have a background in manufacturing. you managed one of your familys companies which dealt with metal stamping. so people think about spoons, if you think about brackets on, as you said, ikea ...

And the trump administration by surprise. >> this is not new for the president. we expected that show that he put on, that apprentice style show he put on with dianne feinstein so-to-his left and senator cornyn to his right, you knew that wasnt real. that was for the cameras and the president has a tendency to do that. i dont believe anything he said about guns. set that aside, im more troubled with the chaos he set our economy not just the u.s. economy but the global which he through when he in...

President. we expected that show that he put on, that apprentice style show he put on with dianne feinstein to his left and senator cornyn to his right and you could see both of their faces. you knew that wasnt real. that was for the cameras and the president has a tendency to do that. im more troubled -- i dont believe anything he said about guns. set that aside, im more troubled with the chaos he set our economy not just the u.s. economy but the global economy through when he introduced this t...

With that tweet that kelly just read. hes treating the european union like its some sort of adversary. we would think we wouldnt punish people who we cooperate with every day but this is president trump and anything goes. >> all bets are off. okay, josh. i know that youve written about how the presidents tariff proposal will hurt the manufacturing industry, even though the president says, no, its actually going to protect them. talk about that. why is that? >> so it will protect certain jobs dir...