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Regard. congress has been our ally and our friend and now they are told that their steel and aluminum anymore exports represent a national security threat. that is an abuse of section 232 of the trade act. i'm so glad that congress is finally, finally pushing back on this. we have neglected our constitutional role. >> this is an abuse of presidential authority. it's never been used by any president ever. >> this is a misuse of section 232 of our trade law. section 232 is supposed to be invoked when there is a specific threat to america's national security. let's consider the case of steel. the...

Tailoring this to allow fairly trad traded products to go forward and for the president to hit the tarkt -- the target he is rightly trying to hit. >> the president argues this is about national security. make the national security argument for me then. >> well the president has made the case we need a strong steel and aluminum industry in america to meet our defense needs. we agree and we think, too, that again with the right tailoring of tariffs we can strengthen our economy, and we can aaddress the national security issue and continue to grow our manufacturing base all across the country, w...

Have turned the region into a tinderbox require the islamic republic of iran not to be complacent about the country's defense needs and then it goes on to say the president will have to bear full responsibility for all the consequences of what they call his rogue behavior. so certainly some very strong words there coming from the irania iranians. it looks to us as though two factions that have been quite divided here in this country. the moderates and the hard liners seem to be uniting so if president was trying to push them apart it seems like the opposite is happening here in iran. >> all ri...

Speemac, joe this is the iran answer for that matter the iranians as a proxy for the chinese and russians testing a new american president? >> i think the iranians in this case they've had a missile program for a long time. they're looking at this not from a chinese or russian perspective, but from their view of her their own defense needs. we may think it's crazy for them to have missiles, think the fewer the missiles the better. the reality is, iran was a victim of a missile attack. saddam hussein launched missiles during the iran, iraq war. and iraq war. and not surprisingly they think they...

Our national debt, long-term, is driven by mandatory spending programs that need to be reformed. these reductions in defense spending with not just unsustainable, they're dangerous, reckless. every time this country has undertaken massive reductions in defense spending it had to come back later and undo them. we're on par to have the oldest and smallest air force ever. an army about to cut another 40,000 positions. there is a budget calls the gated budget, a bipartisan commission that looked at the defense needs and said this is what we need to spend our money on. the defense needs are the mos...