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A protectionist and immigration where he is a restrictionist. everything else, he's transactional. this trade policy violates every core tenet of what we stood for as republicans. i thought that was a core principle, not this crony capitalism that protects the few at the expense of the many. >> the trade area, he has advanced the thinking of republicans. we were a party of free trade at all costs. >> tariffs on canada? >> and so what president trump has said is, basically, i'm going to make sure we don't just have free trade, we're going to have fair trade. if we don't get treated fairly we wi...

At all. i think he's completely transactional with the exception of two issues, trade where he's a protectionist and immigration where he is a restrictionist. everything else, he's transactional. it's obvious to all of us. this trade policy violates every core tenet of what we stood for as republicans. i thought that was a core principle, not this crony capitalism that protects the few at the expense of the many. >> i think trade is an area where he has advanced of thinking of republicans. we were a party of free trade at all costs. >> and so what president trump has said is, basically, i'm go...

>> peter, we should make it clear, it's not like he's asking them to fund the wall. usmca is not necessarily a huge leap for them. it's basically nafta 2.0. it's not a huge point of contention, not like other issues. >> that's exactly right. obviously there's been a lot of frustration between democrats with anything the president's been doing. there's real frustration about the tariffs. they've been laying into the president saying he's squandering a good economy that was provided to this administration by the obama administration. last week the president ended those tariffs on canada, specifi...

Declares a state of emergency so he can do it by fiat. imagine who americans would be tra freaking out and appropriately so because they would be announcing this as insipient dictatorship in america. i think that's worrisome. >> it's a national -- if he says it's an national emergency for health care, therefore by fiat, i'm going to do it. >> they would go crazy. this is why we have separation of powers. this is why the president needs to get the consent of congress. donald trump may try to go around that to get out of this government shutdown that he created. >> so we have the muslim ban, rig...

>> so we have the muslim ban, right? mark talked about sending troops to the border as a stunt for the midterms, tariffs on canada and other countries. he is constantly trying to use national security to get something that he wants politically. that's a dangerous trend, isn't it? >> it is. it's absolutely dangerous. he's already misused that rationale to send troops to the southern border for no purpose, when they were thousands of miles from this caravan, which in turn was no threat. now he's trying to look to see how he can use the military to build this wall, which congress refuses to fund....