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Proposal to lay 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminum. this was opposed by some members of his own white house and a lot of republicans on the hill. but the president here is doubling down on social media. he says we must protect our country and our workers. he's single out the steel industry which he says is in bad shape. if you don't have steel, you don't have a country. the white house saying the president is not as concerned about the drop in the stock market, concerned about the fundamentals of the economy that are strong and he wants to protect these industries. he believes protecting...

Congressmen and senators and say we're not going to take away the second amendment, but they're killing us out there. we've got to raise the age to 21 to get a rifle, get wrrid of bu stocks. he could gain popularity and get something done. if he doesn't, it won't happen. >> you can say some of his constituents actually are morale lined with him and support him more than they do the nra. the question is will he act on it. >> bianna, among your many skills, you're a terrific financial reporter, also. this tariff announcement -- it's not an announcement until it becomes official next week. >> his...

About it but they didn't do anything about it until "the daily mail" reported the facts on mr. porter. so i think way beyond they didn't cover themselves in glory, they really let this problem fester. they didn't do anything about it, and i think that, you know, it shows a white house that's really not functioning properly. >> kelly joked yesterday -- and i ask you this because you're a former white house chief of staff -- that his job is a punishment from god. what do you think of all the chaos that's currently surrounding kelly and so many others in the west wing? >> look, i think everybody ...

Tax cuts, it is a traditional republican platform that a lot of people, when you see so much chaos in an organization, an administration know there's some consistency there. gary kohn, if he leaves and you have someone like peter navarro who is very much in favor of tariffs and very much a protectionist and very anti china, if you somebody like that come into the flay, you will see a lot more uncertainty. there comes a point where you have allies, you have rivals around the world who dismiss what the president says or maybe next week he'll be different, up until a point. then they start acting...

Stock market yesterday. and then key u.s. allies like the u.k. putting out statements saying that they're reviewing this to see exactly what they're going to do in response. because this could absolutely spark a trade war. you saw the president trading earlier this morning that trade wars can be a good thing and that they're easy to win. that's obviously unnerving the markets even more and could potentially have the kind of repercussions that people are warning about. people inside the president's own camp are warning this could be a problem. gary cohen, the president's top legal adviser, had ...