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Make this move, i may be leaving too. >> yeah. do you think, josh, this was in some way a warning of a, of a you know what storm if trump pulled the trigger on axing rosenstein? >> well, it's a good question. i think it's hard to predict anything until things actually happen and you have people pulling out, but there's certainly a lot of consternation at doj with the president. his moosings about firing rosenstein, his several attempts to oust jeff sessions. that's part of the obstruction inquiry by the special counsel. and he's very frustrated with the fbi and doj. it's been a recurring theme...

Free trader. and the republican party used to be for free trade but donald trump isn't. >> the truth is with donald trump you can probably find him saying a lot of different things on almost any different issue and point to that particular moment. the most consistent thing he has said, of course, is the free trade agreements of the last quarter century or so have been bad for the country, have been poorly negotiated, and that he plans to rip them up or change them to the benefit of the united states. not exactly the message that larry kudlow was sending today. larry kudlow was trying to reassu...

Time, i believe in free trade. but it has to be reciprocal trade. he always qualifies it. >> that's not what larry kudlow said, larry kudlow said, he is a free trader. and the republican party used to be for free trade but donald trump isn't. >> the truth is with donald trump you can probably find him saying a lot of different things on almost any different issue and point to that particular moment. the most consistent thing he has said, of course, is the free trade agreements of the last quarter century or so have been bad for the country, have been poorly negotiated, and that he plans to r...

Is his talk about ripping up the iran deal, ripping up nafta, pulling out of syria, how much of this is intentionally maximized in order to gain advantage in negotiation in which his good cop/bad cop staff pulls him back from some seemingly extreme version of events to something more tenable that the allies and other partners have to meet him more in the middle? that's an interesting question that i don't know we really have a good answer to. >> anita, i'll ask you to answer this. how much of this is -- i'll throw out a bush-era word, tra stingry? i'm for protectionism, i'm against trade, whic...

Because what he has done is pulled out of the tpp, which was designed to contain or at least limit china's commercial sort of growth in the region. and he has cleared the space for china to redefine asia around its own commercial and economic objective. so in literal terms, china has its own alternative to the tpp which it created called the regional comprehensive partnership, if it's approved later this year, it will be the largest trading block in the world. and the united states will not be a part of it. by pulling out, we have really sort of cleared the way for china. >> so is this the way...