CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto December 20, 2019 14:36:00
Battle over competing economic systems. and, remember, before president trump got here, china was engaged in this economic interaction. what we're trying to do as an administration is hold them accountable and the tariffs have been very successful in that regard. we've had tariffs on $370 billion worth of chinese goods, and the economy is doing great. we're defending our technologies from china using those tariffs. now we have a phase one deal. they would not have come to the table unless those tariffs were in place. so trusting trump on trade because he's not going to -- we've got deals with ...