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The trade deficit is much more serious and a possession theft and abuse of the trade rules, but this is bigger, this is a cold war, we wanted to stop it from being a real war, which means they have to keep up the pressure. >> martha: final thought. >> what the president can do his pocket to the few concessions that the chinese have made of him. they have written that he is the smartest american president in history, they have made some small offerings to him, he can thank them in some sense for that but go ahead with the tariffs, that's what i suspect will happen. >> martha: thank you very muc...

Fareed, i don't like tariffs, i am a free trade guy. but china has not been playing by the rules. they are becoming more mill tarristic. they have been becoming a cheater in terms of the trade rules and the protection of our intellectual property. and i think donald trump has basically said, enough, we can't go on with this kind of relationship, and i tend to agree with him on that. china is stealing a lot of our intellectual property. fareed, you know more and more of what we produce in america is are intellectual property. trump is basically using a club against china to try to get them to l...

They're approaching the united states in terms of the size of their economy. and where i think trump has it right, by the way, you're right, fareed, i don't like tariffs, i am a free trade guy. but china has not been playing by the rules. they are becoming more militaristic. they have been becoming a cheater in terms of the trade rules and the protection of our intellectual property. and i think donald trump has basically said, enough, we can't go on with this kind of relationship, and i tend to agree with him on that. china is stealing a lot of our intellectual property. fareed, you know more...

Lives immediately instead of going back to zero. that deal is better than a month ago, but he could have lifted them immediately. that would have helped because it would have allowed us to work with our allies. including the ou. along with canada and mexico and we could focus on a country that's not playing by the rules, which is china. >> i understand the frustration about a concern grouch people that see a lack of progress and the tie donald trump made to that being about unfair trade rules. bernie sanders did similar things during the election. how much have disaffected american workers and...

He said the deficit coming down $50 billion. he claimed that has added 1.2% growth overall. >> when you cut the deficit, it does add to growth. that's something that adds to the complicated complication of gdp. it's the broadest measure of an economy's health. when you can shrink the deficit, it adds to growth and jobs. the sustainability of this is the big question. some of the export growth we saw was a soy bean rush. it was a sugar rush. it's not going to last into next quarter because they were selling goods and equipment overseas to get ahead of the president's trade rules, trade policies...