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>> why don't you try do resolve this in a not so public fashion? you're coming into the briefing room. you're obviously trying to flex your muscles of this administration. what would you say to the lehman who says, why is president tssi? >> it's not a question of president trump messing with the canadian. we believe the canadians violated legitimate practice and to the degree we're correct in that, it should be corrected. just like steel dumping from china or any other trade infraction. we make it public all the time. it's just that there has been so much general public interest engendered by ...

For that matter with dairy, with canada, that really has no wearing on the chinese relationship at all. >> it seems to me the object of the 25% tariff on soft lumber coming out of canada is not to raise wood prices, it's to save and create american forestry jobs and loggers who are losing their jobs right now as a result of the dumping. has the administration does a study to know how many jobs are going to be saved by this tariff? >> well, it's quite a lot of board feet of lumbering. lumber sells for about 38 cents per foot. so if you take all these large amounts, there are about 47 million bo...

Adviser. katie pavlich is the editor at townhall.com and a fox news contributor. katie, the hot topic, michael flynn, and they seem to press on no matter how many times mr. spicer said hey, look, that was a long time ago, these papers happened before he came to the white house, basically we don't know anything. >> i think it's becoming increasingly clear that michael flynn should have never been hired by the administration. he was very dishonest in a number of ways. when he filled out his background check forms which is alarming considering the closeness he had with president trump. he served ...

Family houses. we do not think that the price of lumber will go up by anything like the 20%. but there may be some small increase in the price of lumber for the housing. >> how can prices be increased in the united states due to that access? >> not necessarily. you're talking such a small amount. and the biggest part of most home prices in any event is the land value, not the lumber value. lumber is a pretty small percentage of the total cost of a house. >> what provoked this? as you mentioned, it's been a long running dispute, subject of conversation between the u.s. and can nadia. is this pa...

They are generally a good neighbor. that doesn't mean they don't have to play by the rules. >> what do you mean by generally a good neighbor? >> well, things like this, dumping lumber, that's not a good neighbor. there's a feeling in the dairy industry that they are abrupt in the action that they took the week before. >> each time the case was brought to an international court, canada won its case. what do you answer to this? >> i had nothing to do with the prior cases. i'm confident that this case is a good case. the problem with dairy isn't that they're dumping dairy products in the u.s. the...