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The republican pushback on the presidents' tariff proposal is on full display this morning. house speaker paul ryan says he thinks the president has the righted in, but needs to hone it a little more. >> there is clearly abuse occurring. clearly there is overcapacity dumping in trend shipping of steel and aluminum by some countries, particularly china. but i think the smarter way to go is to make it more surgical and more targeted. so i think 232 is too broad. and i think it is more prone to retaliation. and so we're encouraging the administration to focus on what is clearly a legitimate probl...

From the tariffs. joining me now is republican congressman warren davidson from ohio. he's called the president's tariff proposal a big mess. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> so you actually have some rare first hand knowledge of the effects of the steel and aluminum tariffs. you have a background in manufacturing. you managed one of your family's companies which dealt with metal stamping. so people think about spoons, if you think about brackets on, as you said, ikea furniture. lots of stamped metal products out there. that was your wheel house before getting inv...

And the trump administration by surprise. >> this is not new for the president. we expected that show that he put on, that apprentice style show he put on with dianne feinstein so-to-his left and senator cornyn to his right, you knew that wasn't real. that was for the cameras and the president has a tendency to do that. i don't believe anything he said about guns. set that aside, i'm more troubled with the chaos he set our economy not just the u.s. economy but the global which he through when he introduced this tariff proposal via twitter. he didn't have the support of mnuchin or the support o...

President. we expected that show that he put on, that apprentice style show he put on with dianne feinstein to his left and senator cornyn to his right and you could see both of their faces. you knew that wasn't real. that was for the cameras and the president has a tendency to do that. i'm more troubled -- i don't believe anything he said about guns. set that aside, i'm more troubled with the chaos he set our economy not just the u.s. economy but the global economy through when he introduced this tariff proposal via twitter. not only was it reckless but he didn't have the support of ma nuchen...

With that tweet that kelly just read. he's treating the european union like it's some sort of adversary. we would think we wouldn't punish people who we cooperate with every day but this is president trump and anything goes. >> all bets are off. okay, josh. i know that you've written about how the president's tariff proposal will hurt the manufacturing industry, even though the president says, no, it's actually going to protect them. talk about that. why is that? >> so it will protect certain jobs directly in steel and aluminum manufacturing. it will allow american manufacturers to charge high...