Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180405:19:55:00
He later tweeted when you're already $500 billion down, you can't lose. regardless of how you feel about trade deficits, the president is lying. according to the commerce department, the gap between chinese goods and services imported into the united states and american goods and services exported to china was just over $375 billion in 2017, up from $347 billion in 2016. there is no way you can add or subtract these numbers to get to $500 billion. that's just a made-up number by the president. the u.s. trade deficits in goods and services worldwide last year did have a 5 handle. that's $566 bi...