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War, we still plan to negotiate. and then steve mnuchin said into c cnbc. >> tariffs will take some period of time. there will be public comments. so while we're in the period before the tariffs go on, we'll continue to have discussions. but there is the potential of a trade war. and let me just be clear, it is not a trade war, the president wants reciprocal trade. >> reporter: voicing the market's worst fear that the trade war is actually possibe. he also avoided questions on whether the two sides were in negotiations, something the markets had been banking on and china didn't help matters ei...

I think that's the unanimous view of journalists and political strategists and certainly of the republican national committee. and i don't know if dan even needs to track down john spicer because his boss rance preibus lambasted c cnbc for their performance. >> we've got that. let's listen to it. >> i'm proud of our candidates for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. i was very disappointed in the moderators. i'm disappointed in cnbc. i thought maybe they was bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight, but i think it was one gotcha question, one personal low flow after another. it'...

>> i'm the only guy that's going to be moderating this next panel. they tried to distinguish themselves from each other. at this debate tonight. i want to bring in the author of "i should be dead -- my life surviving politic, tv and addiction." amanda carpenter, ryan liza, washington correspondent for the new yorker. van jones, former obama administration official and karla bernstein author of "a woman in charge -- the life of hillary rodham clinton." and that's all the time we have for this particular panel. i just want to go around the horn here to see who you guys think won this debate. >> ...

Sticking together, i'm very disappointed in the moderators and i'm very disappointed with cnbc. >> gloria borger, have you ever seen the rnc react like that after a debate? >> no, but if i was reice preibus i would be okay with all of this. the debate had the effect of uniting all the republicans against the media, which is something that works really, really well with the base. that's one of the reasons why donald trump didn't come out and blast the debate, even though he called some of the questions nasty during the debate. he didn't have to. it was already -- all the other candidates were d...

[ booing ] >> see, they know. >> that is absolutely not true. you know that that is not right. >> all right, so dylan, this is a common conservative tactic, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. >> yeah, that was the tip of the iceberg. right, so attacking the media is a tried and true conservative tactic. it's red meat for the conservative base but look, this took it to a whole new level. cnbc and the mainstream media generally just got to hand it to itself. we vntd seen anything like this, this cycle. it's certainly called to mind some of the more robust media attacks of the 2012 cycle, ...