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>> announcer: axios one big thing is sponsored by bp. all right, joining us now from washington, d.c., the look at axios a.m., the cofounder mr. mike allen. great to have you with us on this tuesday morning. what is the axios big thing? >> the axios one big thing is the paid race for 2020. so 90 days till the iowa caucus. today one year to the year election. and axios has exclusive figures about ad spending so far in the presidential race. here's the surprise. this race is being fought online like we've never seen before. all the time that i was covering politics it was all about the airwave...

Talk to us about that. >> yeah, d.c. needed a new business, right? so this new shadow industry is trying to help companies gain the system to get exempted from president trump's tariffs. so these tariffs on goods imported from china already cost businesses billions. ceos warning they're going to have to pass it along. but you can apply to the u.s. trade representative, had is part of the white house, to get exempted. so far 44,000 people have axios courtney brown spent weeks going through this data and discovered that only 10% of people were getting those exemptions. so much money's at stake. ...

Joining us from washington, a look at axios a.m. editor and chief of axios, nick. good morning to you. talk about the one big thing today. >> how biden haunts biden. sometimes it feels like joe biden has to run for president against himself. it's one of the big challenges of 40 years in the public eye. there's always something from his past and history that can come up and it's one of the controversies of the day and it can make it more challenging tabbed makes him hard for him to weigh in on a tax on president trumps as the campaign begins to heat up. biggest example just this week when presi...

Had one yet and that has made chairman adam schiff the sort of de facto face of president trump's impeachment trial. he sort of has this dual hat role that he's assuming where he's obviously a key committee chairman, but he's also taking the role and assuming the role of the chief investigator, and i think that democrats are really drawn to his intelligence background, and that's sort of why they're using him to sort of be that de facto oversight leader for this investigation. >> all right, alexia mccammond live in d.c. we're going to be reading "axios" a.m. in just a bit. that does it for u...

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