punching against his own fed chair more aggressively than he has in the past and then saying that this afternoon he's going to retaliate to china's retaliation on trade. >> you know, let's dial back to the beginning of the week, ali, if we might. i have to characterize it as a bit of a chaotic week for the white house in terms of economic policy. we began maybe i guess i'll call it with the greenland stimulus package which, seemingly, went nowhere. then there was discussion about whether there would be a tax cut, a payroll tax holiday of some sort. >> it was on the table. it was off the table. we need it, no, we don't need it, the economy is fine. and talk about maybe lowering or indexing capital gains taxes. and then we fast forward to this morning when the chinese announced that they are going to put a 10% tariffs on a lot of u.s. goods beginning september 1 to match the tariffs that the united states announced some weeks ago. this clearly inflamed the president. he didn't like it.