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Good. i don't think they'll retaliate, but if they did, we have the ultimate form of retaliation. i think there's very few jobs left in china. we would be able to step it up. i've been very mild about it, very, very mild. there's a long way i can go. somebody had to take on what was happening with china. we can't allow china to take out of our country $507 billion every year, not including intellectual property theft and so many other things. we're having very good talks with china. i think things will happen, but we'll see. >> reporter: if they do retailate would you want your team to meeting...

Companies. they don't tax our companies. so france did that. i told them, don't do it, if you do it, i'm going to tax your wines. we're working on that right now. >> [question inaudible] >> good. i just spoke to him. i have a good relationship with president macron. but they shouldn't have done this. they used to take advantage of the united states but not with me as president. i look at deals that were done with other presidents and this country and it's a disgray that our country allowed this to happen. for china for years and years making from 300 billion to $507 billion a year. okay? now w...

With china, $507 billion. you look over these for many, many years, they've been taking. and guys like biden say -- he was there eight years. "we'd stop that." no, trump is stopping that. trump is stopping that. [scattered applause] so representative ayanna pressley -- [boos] issue related in any way to elvis? i don't know. who knows? you never know. if she thinks that people with the same skin color all need to think the same. she said we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be around voices. we don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice.

China made -- we had a surplus meaning they did on us of $507 billion. it is been hundreds of billions of dollars a year for many, many years. so obviously we can't make a 50/50 deal. it has to be a deal that is somewhat tilted to our advantage and if we don't do that, we're taking in a fortune from tariffs and we're hurting china because many of the companies are leaving and going to a non-tariff state. so they don't have to pay the tariffs. and the other misconception about china and i think you read an article today in the "wall street journal" about it, people aren't paying for those tarif...

We're hearing relative to mexican tariffs. i hope we will get that resolved. >> dana: good news because mexico is acting to send the national guard troops to the border. >> mexico started and i still think really is the primary driver for the president is the national security issue. >> dana: is the secondary driver than what the president was tweeting about. >> i don't want to get ahead of the president. i haven't spoken to him about it. >> dana: so president trump making decisions that are politically unpopular. tariffs might have to be one of them. if that's the leverage that you have to ge...