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on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. >> sandra: big show coming up. first, "america reports" with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. >> john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of ka...

Look, the european union is almost as bad on trade as china is. i say that to people, say -- they say, oh, you know, the european unions so nice. they ripped us off, you know, like few others. we lost $187 billion when i was coming into office with the european union. now, with china, it was $507 billion. this is, its not sustainable. and what i did with the taxes and the tariffs on china, taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, we never took in ten cents. and the funny thing is biden, you sa...

Us on trade. look, the european union is almost as bad on trade as china is. i say that to people, say -- they say, oh, you know, the european unions so nice. they ripped us off, you know, like few others. we lost $187 billion when i was coming into office with the european union. now, with china, it was $507 billion. this is, its not sustainable. and what i did with the taxes and the tariffs on china, taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, we never took in ten cents. and the funny thing is ...

These tariffs are very aggressive so i think what china also needs in order to say yes to a deal and get to a deal is that we agreed to do these things if you take the tariffs off. if we dont comply you put them back on. i think thats a reasonable way. you have to remember china doesnt operate the same way we do. theyre under a lot of pressure because of hong kong, though worry very much about saving face and not looking humiliated so theres gonna have to be a two-way deal. we should be reasonab...

These tariffs are very aggressive so i think what china also needs in order to say yes to a deal and get to a deal is that we agreed to do these things if you take the tariffs off. if we dont comply you put them back on. i think thats a reasonable way. you have to remember china doesnt operate the same way we do. theyre under a lot of pressure because of hong kong, though worry very much about saving face and not looking humiliated so theres gonna have to be a two-way deal. we should be reasonab...

War ticked up and the stock market went down. households lost a net collective $3.7 trillion. thats the biggest drop in household wealth since the recession really. what do you make of these things? the market has come back since then. >> yes, but i do think it underscores the importance of calming trade fears right now for the administration. that was a very turbulent fourth quarter in the stock market. and if you look at things -- ways in which policy might misfire in ways that could cause thi...

Brian: 194 doing polls to find out what you think and asking economists what they project will happen. since 1994 blue collar workers have paid a steep price, lost millions of jobs as cheap labor and a lot of our companies have gone to mexico. mexico is not that happy because their g.d.p. is only going to 1.3% and not had the boone they thought. maybe canada benefited the most. its time to go in there and work out a better deal. keep the tariffs off but make out a better deal for america. >> isn...

Country like water. sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretary saying none of our trade allies should be surprised about any of this because the president has been talking about this since the days of the campaign. listen here. >> i think they should have been well-aware that again, something that the president has been shy about. hes been talking about this for quite some time. so if they were caught off guard, they havent been listening to what hes been saying about talking about and how hes ...