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Straight quarters of 3% economic growth. low unemployment, fantastic for everyone. the tax cut has delivered a $2600 cut to every family in this country. there are areas of concern. wages dipped the last quarter. they are still up 2.8%. under obama, they were flat. the trade deal is tough. some places, you have steel companies closing and you have aluminum companies opening up. what he did with the ee was very smart. i think what he did is he is saying for a short term pain, we want long term gain. he raised some tariffs and they came back begging yesterday. they have a verbal deal and they ar...

You didn't have to beat your chest and threaten people in order to talk to our friends. the eu is our friends. at least as far as the european union. >> you talked about auto tariffs. you've actually cosponsored a bill that would in part delay any from going into place. this was not part of something that was part of the agreement yesterday but do you think right now, is the threat of auto tariffs over? or do you believe that's still a concern? >> it's still very real. again, the eu is only a part of the auto tariff problem. in alabama and in tennessee, where senator lamar alexander and i cosp...

Benefits of the tax bill that the republicans were pushing and also very frightened about the potential for a trade war, for the industries that you just listed for these states in particular. trump narrowly won them and made the difference, that the margin in michigan was smaller than the votes that jill stein got, these are very, very narrow margins and he has to be worried about that. >> this is before they're contemplating 25% auto tariffs. it's clearly that trump's nervous about this, that's why he's out in iowa today, and he keeps pointing out the need for patience in these tariffs. but ...

Professor. and ben white. a correspondent for politico. ben, to you first. you wrote that you said you feel like this is a positive. but you also felt that way soon after the president spoke to china. >> yeah, i mean it feels very similar to what happened after the beijing talks when secretary mnuchin was there. they came out and said we have an agreement with china to avoid all the tariffs. there was a positive notes. markets reacted positively. trump changed course and we started a trade war. $200 billion with more to come. on europe we don't know whether trump sticks to this whether he gets...

The expectations are so low going into this, the president possible talking about increasing auto tariffs, there is still an ongoing investigation as to whether the administration will move in that direction. he also floated 0%. two extremes there. this is the first business meeting. >> harris: thank you very much, good to see you today. the house financial services committee, you know they're talking about this. congressman, great to see you. from the great state of wisconsin, always. i want to talk about the concept, you just heard our reporter refer to a trade war being discussed on your co...