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Domestic companies, dealers and autopart makers, asking the president not to move forward with the penalties. a bipartisan group of nearly 150 lawmakers urging the commerce secretary to back away from the tariffs. we're back with bill, mary, and jason. so bill, there's a school of thought that says -- has said for sometime, the president's trade threats are really just a negotiating ploy, that he will back away at the end and it won't go ahead. i'm increasingly of the belief that he really wants this kind of a tariff war, and he really wants to stick it to german automobiles. what do you think...

Producers like makers of motor psycho's jeans and whiskey and this is a countermeasure allowed under the rules of the w t u and of course the european union has also filed complaints with the board trade organization to sue the united states because the using all these tariff war is illegal. do you think brandis is going to work to keep european steel prices stable. well this is the one million dollar question of cause you used to the market is already on the road before all of this happens says e.u. commission and it's not clear how this measure measures will effect the market america the eur...

Issues, of the implications of his policies. he acts on gut instinct and impulse and he has had anti-free trade impulses for quite a long time. but this is deeply irrational from the standpoint of somebody who's leading a country who wants to have a strong economy, who wants to protect his constituents, who wants to get re-elected because of the damage in the midwest. if he goes ahead with the national security-linked auto tariffs he's talking about. the agricultural midwest, iowa and other places if he sticks with this tariff war. it makes no sense economically. and it's also counterproductiv...

Who wants to protect his constituents, who wants to get re-elected because of the damage in the midwest. if he goes ahead with the national security-linked auto tariffs he's talking about. the agricultural midwest, iowa and other places if he sticks with this tariff war. it makes no sense economically. and it's also counterproductive politically. nevertheless, the president's doing it, and it makes you wonder is he actually acting rationally while doing this? we don't know. >> and nura tanden, the president's statements on trade were not very specific during the campaign. it was all about just...

United states for international leadership and good stewartship of these major security and trade issues. so they are. they're becoming embolden to push back. look, he can make the case that in the waning years of the obama administration there was concern about u.s. leadership overseas, but president trump hit the accelerator on that and made it even more stark. and they are, they are beginning to believe that they have no other choice now, john, but to push back on the united states and to counter some of our moves. >> what does that end up looking like? play this out for us. justin trudeau ...