billion in tariffs which would be on top the 50 billion has already authorized. about that just a bit ago republican senator ben sass released statement that said hopefully the president is just blowing off steam again but if he's half serious, this is nuts. do you agree? is it nuts? >> i do. the reason is for me from his own point of view is that if he pursues this, we will be in a trade war. we went from him proposing tariffs on $50 billion in chinese imports and the chinese in the last 48 hours match that and they're going to put on tariffs. then the white house rushed people out to say we're not going to have a trade war. we're going into negotiations. everybody calm down. then our president throws a hand grenade back into the midst of this and said i want to go to