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The value-added tax china. >> in the grand scheme of a $500 billion trade deficit, the things that have been achieved thus far are pretty small. >> candidate trump vowed to redress the deficit. >> we turn it around. we have the cards. we have a lot of power. >> president trump saying in beijing that he doesn't blame china but his predecessors who allowed the deficit to grow. >> after all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens. i give china great credit. >> last year, the world's two largest economies traded in an estimated $...

But i don't blame china. [applause] after all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? i give china great credit. spewing president trump talked a lot about china on the campaign trail in the early months of his presidency talking about it here in beijing. the trip in japan and going to south korea come here to beijing, now president trump today is off to vietnam and then the philippines. let's bring in the panel. charles hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times" ." matthew continuity, and michael crowley. your thoughts...

♪ >> bret: that wraps up our show from beijing and it actually wraps up special report on the road in asia as we follow the president's trip, i plan to be in washington, d.c., to anchor the show friday, we'll see if all the travel cooperates. speaking of travel, it's on exec lee easy to get here to the great wall, it's about 40 miles by car from beijing in the drive is kind of interesting and traffic. once you get here, you have to get on a shuttle bus up the mountain. once you are off the shuttle bus, then you have to walk up the hill a bit to get either a gondola or a ski lift for people w...

Ask your doctor about neulasta onpro. ♪ >> bret: morning traffic here in beijing. it is rush hour. 7:30 eight in the morning. welcome back america's national anthem the focus of a lot of attention coming under fire again. for what some are calling racist lyrics. national correspondent william la jeunesse reports on the controversy over one of america's biggest patriotic tributes. >> written in 1814, president woodrow wilson recognized "the star-spangled banner" as the national anthem in 1916. congress later affirmed it. though heard all the time, the song itself really drew much attention un...

More of the details come out, it seems like there, getting things more than simplifying things and there are people who will see their taxes go up instead of going down. that's a disaster, they would be better off -- and there's still this high probability that they might fail, but if they're going to fail, they may as well go big and try to do something huge and feel on that and won some sort of victory rather than this modeling, complicated, tax hike and tax cuts for some people and something like that. >> bret: you guys are so optimistic back in washington. thank you, panel. when we come ba...