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Chinese even though they're very young. they were taught. arthel: allison barber joins us live from the white house with the latest. allison. >> reporter: china according to the u.s. secretary of ag agriculture committed to buying an additional 10 million metric tons of u.s. soybeans during the meeting in the oval office yesterday. sonny perdue said it is proof the strategy is working. he called it a show good faith by the chinese, an indication of more good news to come. president trump expressed optimism at yesterday's meeting. at the same time the u.s. trade rep, robert lighthizer said ther...

Reading the tea leaves. how is it looking for a new year's rally? >> well, i suspect as peter indicated, we may have found a bottom at the end of last week. you had a bit of a recovery. but if i knew how to predict what was going to happen in the stockmarket, we wouldn't be sitting here, none of us. but i do think that we're not going to get a lot of legislating out of washington. >> you don't. >> i don't expect there's going to be a lot of cooperation out of nancy pelosi and the president. so i think the question is limiting damage from unnecessary events like inabout stability at the white h...

I'm hopeful it will and i have been talking to the u.s. trade rep for months and months on strengthening the labor enforcement. we will still get there. >> it's fascinating because this is like immigration on the president's issues. republicans and democrats are more prepared than ever to push back. >> and look, he may want to change it, but under the rules, they are fast tracked and that means they cannot change it in congress. they have to either take it or leave it. if they leave it and trump appeals and steps away from the nafta agreement, do we go back to the prenafta times? that raises a...

This doesn't live up to the promise that the president said by stopping outsourcing. it doesn't do that yet. i'm hopeful that it will. i've been talking to the u.s. trade rep for months and months on strengthening the labor enforcement. we will still get there. >> let's talk about general motors. you slammed the company for, quote, corporate greed at its worst, after announcing it's laying off 14,000 workers, including almost 2,000 in ohio after the trump administration imposed sweeping tariffs, which you have supported. gm told the commerce department in june that increased tariffs could lead...

Usmca? >> the work is not done yet. i understand the president said it's final. the president needs to talk to congress on this, and we can go back to the table with the mexicans and the canadians and do stronger labor stuff. mexico hasn't even passed its promised strengthening of labor standards and labor law it said it would do in the negotiations. there's now a new mexican president who is more pro-worker than the outgoing president that signed the usmca. i'm hopeful with the house of representatives where it is, with the labor movement, with labor, with workers all over the country telling...