can do is to begin to just question their motives and everything and all i can do is to appeal to their decency. and at fox we've seen this happen with shepard smith, seen him be willing to stand up and say some things that he's been applauded for. i can't explain to you why they're taking this position because the position do me doesn't make any sense. >> the president is tripling down on this trade within china. does this wipe out the republican proclaimed benefit of those tax cuts to you? >> well, it certainly is going to be damaging. you can see the markets are reacting very negatively. we've had lots of trouble with china for a long period of time. as to this approach, i don't think now this doubling down and back and forth is the right