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Include televisions which were left off the list this time. those go up 25%. we're seeing this with washing machines right now which the president did put tariffs on earlier this year. the price has gone up. we will see, in our own pocketbooks, the effects of these tariffs if they escalate wide enough and if they get to a wide range of products. >> i don't think folks at home realize how much stuff they buy, right, even if it doesn't have a made in china thing. at the same time this is happening, lo and behold, ivanka trump, the president's daughter, was granted seven new trademarks in china r...

Strategy thing. it just doesn't stand up to the facts because going back years, president trump famously praised china for its crackdown in tiananmen square. this was back in the '90s. he was not in negotiation with any of the chinese at the time. he wasn't involved with any specific negotiation with vladimir putin in recent months or even during the campaign when he described him as a strong leader in comparison to obama. >> and he did this with the leader of the philippines, right, who massacred thousands of drug dealers. essentially said this was a great way to prosecute the war on drugs he...

People, he understands the. of course he's strong. he's calling him strong with a positive spin on it when they're strong in the worst way, are they not? especially for an american president. >> that's what i mean, they're strong in the worst way. i'll let the president address his own comments, but i think you and i agree they're strong in a very despicable manner that makes the world a dark and dangerous place rather than supporting any positive aspect of life. >> congressman chris stewart, i appreciate you taking the time today and taking the tough questions. >> thank you, sir. >> enjoy the...

Retaliate. are we in a trade war? >> we're certainly in the early days of what could be a trade war. the president says we have $30 billion that will go into effect on july 6, i believe, and sometime after that we'll have another $16 billion that will happen. that's real money, and the chinese will retaliate in turn, and then the white house is now considering more tariffs that they could do if china follows through with its retaliation, and that's what a trade war looks like, when you just escalate over and over. >> the u.s. and china in 2016, they traded about $16 billion. is that a dollar f...

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