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these tariffs and trade wars are undermining it and that's a shame. >> we'll save the tax cut conversation for another time. i want to stay focussed on this. you talked about undermining consumers. we have for 40 years plus as we have seen greater trade, as we have seen the world's gdp going from 20% being trade, we as consumers get better goods for less money. over that same period of time, workers at high wage countries like america have suffered. to them they see that they are standing up for their rights while undermining rights as consumer. while you are a manufacturing worker and a consumer you are on both sides of the argument. >> the benefits of trade, free trade, are dispersed to tens of millions, hundreds of mill dwrns. you just eloquently laid out the advantages. there are concentrated pains. when the monthly jobs report
almost 250,000 folks. a lot of folks want to do that, and we'll mobile that later on this week. i want to talk a little bit about a pesk issue being trade. the president actually upping his rhetoric. >> the problem is is that you've got a bunch of export producers in china who like the system as it is. and, you know, making changes are difficult for them politically. i get it. but the united states and other countries, i think, understandably, feel that enough's enough. >> interestingly, the export producers in china tend to be u.s. multi-nationals who invested in china, who are exporting, and then are lobbying our own congress saying to president obama and the rest of them, you better not change these rules, because you're going to screw up ge, walmart, or whatever it might be. >> and i have friends who work in intelligence who have said to me, they said, look, i know that basically boeing lobbyists are largely china lobbyists. that china can come and directly