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Trying to be diplomatic, but he is leading the republican opposition to the president's steel and aluminum tariffs. a threatened trade war dividing the president from the business community, from agricultural states, from much of the republican base, as well as his closest allies. joining me, ron klain, former white house senior aide to president obama and former chief of staff to presidents biden and gore, and rick tyler, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. all those years after the gore, ross perot nafta debate, did we ever think we were going 20 some years later, going throug...

Retaliation, than any jobs that will be saved in the 18th district of pennsylvania. >> well, look, i do think this may just be a political bluff by trump to get through the special election in pennsylvania. he changes his mind about everything. he may change his mind again. >> seems pretty determined on this. >> here's what i would say. aside from the dramatic economic impacts this could have, actually this will have very negative political impacts for this reason. the most important promise he made on trade during the campaign to the key states was to revise nafta. it was nafta that really wa...

>> steve mnuchin today saying they will negotiate waivers on steel and aluminum for canada and mexico and do bilateral deals if they end nafta. we have heard promises of bil t bilateral deals with all of asia before and they have not materialized. those are very hard to negotiate. >> trade wars are not easily won and the people who pay the price are consumers. ron makes an excellent point. secondary to that point is jobs. let's pretend it all worked and they decided to build new steel mills in the united states. steel mills today are modern and automated. they don't have thousands of employees...