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Those tariffs were instituted by president trump as a punishment against china. president biden has said standing up to china is a major line of his foreign policy. how do you weigh those two things, trying to cut costs to american consumers and american manufacturers by lifting tariffs, or is that a favor to china? that's a balancing test that's been -- so far been resolved in favor of being tough with china. good change if the pressure keeps mounting on inflation. >> folks can't get christmas trees. john harwood, thanks very much. that worsening supply chain crisis means american consumers...

The supreme court addressed this issue in 1977. didn't decide it, but they said the former president actually does have potentially a limited interest in exerting executive privilege, but they also said that in the majority of cases, the current president is going to be the one who's in best position to make the decision on executive privilege. if you look at precedent, we have seen current precedents exercise. george w. bush did it for bill clinton. barack obama did it for george w. bush. however, those cases were different because the prior presidents weren't objecting and going to court. pr...

And as i said earlier it's been chipped away at, it's been defined a little bit. but we have a lot of things we haven't seen before really in combination. we have an ex-president. seeking to block information, not just from his close government circle but from people who were never in government like steve bannon and to the extent he's seeking to do a preliminary or preemptive block, that's not exactly what executive privilege is about, it's about a balancing test, looking at the actual information requested and balancing it against congress's need for the information. it was really a jeff ses...

Income tax rate like capital gains will not go up as much as the president called for. that is a balancing test and that is a tradeoff. but what they see is movement down the field. the question is can they get all the way into the end zone and we'll find out over the next couple of months. because time is an enemy in this process. you lose momentum, you lose the ability once you get into 2022, the midterm elections to advance your agenda. so they have to keep their democratic team altogether and so far the biden team has been able to do that with fits and starts and i think they're cautiously...

From the white house, about extending these evacuations and this deadline, or is it done? >> i think there is flexibility, jim. the president said yesterday that he'd asked the military for contingency plans in the event they need to extend the deadline. but overall, it is a balancing test from the point of view of the white house between achieving as much of their mission as is possible, doing the best they can to get people out, 82,000, as you indicated, over the last 11 days, and avoiding catastrophe as a result of the threat stream you alluded to at the beginning of the segment, either for...