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Helsinki, and i think a big cruise ship just came in. i want to switch now to another big story last week, and that is -- there you see -- the trade war between the u.s. and countries around the world. i want to put up some numbers. this month, this month alone, president trump has hit china with tariffs on 34 billion dollars of imports and set in motion tariffs on another 216 billion dollars of chinese goods, beijing is retaliating. we've also imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium from canada, mexico, and the european union and they are striking back. here's pushback from house republican sp...

Of the agreements. chris: but susan, you know, speaker gingrich brought up this issue of the economy, the fact is, this trade war, if our other -- our counterparts and other countries don't back off it is going to cost a lot of jobs. it certainly has roiled the markets. how much heart burn are all of these tariff battles causing for republicans in congress who were planning to go into these midterms campaigning on the idea of a strong economy? >> campaigning on the idea of the tax cut bill which got overshadowed by the debate over tariffs. you know, senator coons mentioned this bipartisan meas...

His tariff policies we just had a striking hearing in the senate on thursday, on a bipartisan basis, many senators of both parties questioned whether the trump administration's national security-based tariffs against vital nato allies, like canada, or germany, or the u.k., weakens our alliance. these are folks who have suffered combat deaths. more than a thousand nato troops have died fighting alongside us in afghanistan. i think it is important that we strengthen the alliance and not distract our vital allies from our shared efforts against russia on security and china on trade. chris: senato...