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Shouldn't me make america 1929 again. do you think the tariffs could have that dire of consequences that we're hearing senator sass warn against? >> i'd say two things about that. first of all, this isn't an exercise in theory. i worked in the bush white house in 2001/2002. president bush imposed steel tariffs. there was damage to the rest of the economy that exceeded any gains to the steel industry. it went to the wto and the wto ruled against the united states. i've been mystified by this action because they know they will lose and they know there will be harm. you just have to look back at ...

The higher number of u.s. and coalition forces that were there in the years after the u.s. invasion in 2001/2002. why would a handful by comparison of u.s. troops make the difference now if those much largers did not? >> those much larger deployments did have an effect, though i was critical of president obama's increase when he increased the number of troops to about 100,000, but then immediately announce d the date for their return. i think those increases and those circumstances prevented afghanistan from falling apart, becoming under the control of the taliban. now it's a sign of success t...

Doable. >> and that's my question. not that it wasn't a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of these horrible setbacks morally. we have the people urinating on those dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning, and now you have this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. and i'm not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis are much more angry with us, and we rated much more lower among the iraqis in '07/'08. who still put us up in the 40%, 50% favorability range. th...