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I think the idea is that china could have announced this morning that they were going to block all rare earth materials, very vital to the technology industry or put american companies on some sort of bad actor list. they opted not to do this. in fact, they said some of these tariffs go into effect september 1. some on december 15 echoing what president trump is doing. we know the tit for tat is in there. they could have taken a harder stance. you have two narratives here. the american public wa...

Well find out. the president is set to lift off about 1.25 your time for the dmz. judge jeanine: joining me, trumps former campaign manager corey lewandowski. the reporting john roberts has given us regarding the president restarting trade talks with china. you recently wrote an article about the president fighting to fix the trade talks at the g20. your article seems to make clear. >> this president from day one said hell put america first. for too long we had a terrible trade practice with our...

Having bad policy ideas or being unable to learn things quickly is worrying, that you would want somebody more capable in the job. but there are suggestions that its worse than that. at one point you say the president is emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable. i worry in particular about the emotionally overwrought part of it. do you mean by that he is out of control? >> no. i mean by when confronted with evidence. for instance, there is a scene in the book where he starts talking ...

>> -- describing this to rachel in the last hour, the presidents inability to understand how things actually work in the world trade organization and why it generally works so much to the united states advantage. lets listen to that. >> when confronted with evidence -- for instance, there is a scene in the book where he starts talking about the world trade organization, which is an organization that actually gives us great leverage if there is unfair trade practice in the world. and he said, thi...

I worry in particular about the emotionally overwrought part of it. do you mean by that he is out of control? >> no, i mean by when confronted with evidence. for instance, there is a scene in the book where he starts talking about the world trade organization, which is an organization that actually gives us great leverage if is unfair trade practice in the world. and he said this is the worst organization in the world and the advisers who are experts in there saying no. and trump says, well, we ...

United states advantage. lets listen to that. >> when confronted with evidence -- for instance, there is a scene in the book where he starts talking about the world trade organization, which is an organization that actually gives us great leverage if there is unfair trade practice in the world. and he said, this is the worst organization in the world and the advisors who are experts in there say, no. and trump says, well, we lose our cases there and they bring out the document. no, we win 85.7% ...

Unfair trade practice in the world, and he said this is the worst organization in the world, and the ad vvisers who are expes in there say, no, it is closing his mind to the information that makes it possible for the president to weigh arguments and data. >> do you have concerns about the tariffs that are levied and whether they could be, you know, curve this economic growth and create new problems down the road? >> i do. and i think that they carry the grave risk that they undermine and damage ...

Harsher tariffs on china? >> we are tocontinuing to monit that process. >> reporter: is the goal at the -- quickly, is the goal at the end of the day to get china back to the negotiating table the way they were at the negotiating table with american trade officials just a few months ago? >> the goal at the end of the day is to end the unfair trade practice that china has engaged in for decades and that the administrations before this president have ignored. >> reporter: returning to the question...

Be patient. thoughts on that? >> i would interpret "be patient," just let this go for a while harley-davidson, dont do anything. i think we will get a deal out of that and everyone will be happy. so far i havent seen any deals and its not even really clear what negotiations are underway. so i can understand the presidents desire to tamp this down because it is an embarrassing result. >> bret: but on the big picture, when you look at this policy and what they are attempting to do, potentially doe...

That will mostly center on long time unfair trade practice. i wont be talking about the russian witch hunt folks for a while. i should put up a clock to see how long he made it. >> robert mueller had other ideas. here we are talking about it. he wont be able to resist chiming in. this underscores todays development, of course, this is not a hoax. we now have 20 people charged. this is the farthest thing from a witch hunt. this is real. while i dont think bob mueller thinks this way at all, it is...