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A protectionist and immigration where he is a restrictionist. everything else, hes transactional. this trade policy violates every core tenet of what we stood for as republicans. i thought that was a core principle, not this crony capitalism that protects the few at the expense of the many. >> the trade area, he has advanced the thinking of republicans. we were a party of free trade at all costs. >> tariffs on canada? >> and so what president trump has said is, basically, im going to make sure w...

At all. i think hes completely transactional with the exception of two issues, trade where hes a protectionist and immigration where he is a restrictionist. everything else, hes transactional. its obvious to all of us. this trade policy violates every core tenet of what we stood for as republicans. i thought that was a core principle, not this crony capitalism that protects the few at the expense of the many. >> i think trade is an area where he has advanced of thinking of republicans. we were a...

>> peter, we should make it clear, its not like hes asking them to fund the wall. usmca is not necessarily a huge leap for them. its basically nafta 2.0. its not a huge point of contention, not like other issues. >> thats exactly right. obviously theres been a lot of frustration between democrats with anything the presidents been doing. theres real frustration about the tariffs. theyve been laying into the president saying hes squandering a good economy that was provided to this administration b...

Declares a state of emergency so he can do it by fiat. imagine who americans would be tra freaking out and appropriately so because they would be announcing this as insipient dictatorship in america. i think thats worrisome. >> its a national -- if he says its an national emergency for health care, therefore by fiat, im going to do it. >> they would go crazy. this is why we have separation of powers. this is why the president needs to get the consent of congress. donald trump may try to go aroun...

>> so we have the muslim ban, right? mark talked about sending troops to the border as a stunt for the midterms, tariffs on canada and other countries. he is constantly trying to use national security to get something that he wants politically. thats a dangerous trend, isnt it? >> it is. its absolutely dangerous. hes already misused that rationale to send troops to the southern border for no purpose, when they were thousands of miles from this caravan, which in turn was no threat. now hes trying...

Neither party quite frankly plugged us back into the global economy. it was working in the aggregate but youngtown and akron and these places werent feeling the bump of the aggregate. so i feel like these trade deals have to be written differently. but what we always argued, joe, is, look, we are all for fair trade with countries that have environmental standards, human rights standards, thats a fair playing field for us. so to see the president of the united states start a fight with canada, we...

Strike you? >> it strikes just about everybody, which is preposterous, of course. the real place in hell is reserved for the guy whos systematically undermining the north atlantic treaty organization nato and the international rules based order, walking away from the transpacific partnership agreement, walking away from the iran agreement, threatening the nafta agreement, imposing tariffs on canadianumber exports to the united states, imposing tariffs on canadian steel imports and this at a time...

The past and so, what happens from here is very, very important. >> i dont want to be too pollyannaish about this, maybe that legitimacy that theyve gotten now because they got to sit down with the president of the united states, maybe that will make it harder for them to be bad actors in the future. >> maybe. youre talking about a brutal dictator who is the biggest human rights violator on the planet who the president now says we have a special bond with and who we trusts. trust has to be earne...

President trump on his way back home to the united states. kim jong-un on his way back home to north korea. president trump today said he formed a very special bond with the dictator. contrast that with the meeting that he attended before coming here to singapore. the g7, where he left really in a fight, a bitter fight with americas closest allies, including canada and the canadian prime minister justin tr trude trudeau. the former canadian ambassador in the united states is joining us and forei...

>> the picture with angela merkel, who i get along with very well, where im sitting there like this, that picture was were waiting for the document because i wanted to see the final document as changed by the changes that i requested. that was a very -- i know it didnt look friendly and it was reported like nasty both ways. i was angry at her. actually, we were just talking the whole group about something unrelated to everything. very friendly. waiting for the document to come back -- >> so that...