and although that's too big a statement but if you look at china, china's doing very, very poorly. they're losing millions and millions of jobs in china and we're not paying for the tariffs. china is paying for the tariffs for the 100th time. in the case of china, china is eating the tariffs. at least so far. >> and with that, i would like to welcome in my panel with me here on set, senior white house reporter forenbc news digital shannon pettypiece. washington bureau chief for "usa today" suze anticipate pasean p brendan buck. joining us from ft. worth, texas, democratic congressman mark veazey. thank you very much for being here tonight. susan, let me start with you for the big picture of what we ran through for the course of this week. it really does seem as though the economy is the one thing that has kept this president afloat. it's the one thing where his