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Services we sell to our trading partners versus how much we buy from them. whenever we purchase more imports than we sell in exports, that is a deficit. in 2018, the u.s. ran up a total trade deficit of $621 billion. an increase of 12% from 2017. if you dig deeper, we can see that america's trade deficit in goods alone shots up to $891 billion in 2018 which a record high. for all the hay that president trump made about our deficit with china, the trade gap between both countries has only widened despite president trump's trade war with beijing in fact. the deficit with china has increased by a...

China ended up selling more merchandise to the united states. and the united states ended up selling less to china. and now the trade deficit with china alone has hit a new record high of $419 billion. and what does president trump have to say now that he has completely failed in his promise to reduce the trade deficit and the trade deficit has actually gone up dramatically to new record highs? >> thanks to our powerful trade policies, the trade deficit is falling and falling and falling. >> well, you didn't expect him to tell the truth about it, did you? now that donald trump has completely f...

The quarter -- $52 billion. nobody reports it. >> i think nobody would have thought that would be possible so quickly. $52 billion reduction in the trade deficit for the quarter. >> nobody reported it because it is not accurate. now despite the figures he continues to reference, the actual commerce department is telling a very different story. we just received the data yesterday showing america's trade deficit in goods rose above $891 billion. that is the highest level in the nation's nearly 243-year history. meanwhile, the trade gap with kline h -- with china hit a report of $419 billion desp...

High of $419 billion. and what does president trump have to say now that he has completely failed in his promise to reduce the trade deficit and the trade deficit has actually gone up dramatically to new record highs? >> thanks to our powerful trade policies, the trade deficit is falling and falling and falling. >> well, you didn't expect him to tell the truth about it, did you? now that donald trump has completely failed to do what he said he would do with the trade deficit, in the presidential campaign the only time you will heard donald trump talk about the trade deficit is when democrats r...

Southwest of the county, those are going to continue to rise and what the information we're working very closely with the national weather service, who are doing an awesome job right now predicting these water levels. what we are seeing is we're exceeding record water levels on some of our bayous and creeks by not a half foot but by three, four, five, six feet which is absolutely incredible. just to give you an idea of how much rain has fallen in the last 24 hours, 419 billion gallons of water have fallen just on harris county in the last 24 hours. >> so jeff when we think about what people ha...