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The trade stuff. trump promised to negotiate nafta. these are all pro-corporate agreements. they never consider workers. he came out with his proposal. it was another corporate trade deal. two years ago and we have fought and fought and fought. speaker pelosi and the senator from oregon and i with the labor movement to get strong labor standards, labor enforcement. trump continued to resist, and we won on it, so this trade agreement now in spite of trump has the strongest labor standards we've ever had. >> you were -- both of you were on a tour that you did at the sort of beginning of this ele...

Very interesting anomaly. market watch with jonathan cortina with all of that on the new york stock exchange. you know jonathan, it gained particular steam in the last 20 minutes. we were up a lot already come of the markets ignoring the impeachment stuff and hopeful about the trade stuff, what did it? what got us over this latest milestone? >> neil that's exactly it. the market is ignoring any impeachment talk. we are watching and paying attention but it is not market moving and we don't think it's going to be for quite some time. trade talk clearly has an effect on our market, we've seen it ...

The u.s. is similarly targeting number of chinese investments they want to limit in the united states, including looking to delist investments and limit how much government-run pension funds can have in them. this continues and the impeachment fight. we'll update that. i want to go to jim jordan, republican from ohio, on the house judiciary committee. a lot to discuss, congressman, i appreciate you maybe weighing in on this trade stuff. the president added couple doozies that might be warranted, but the market interprets that as no trade deal likely. do you agree with that? >> jim: we'll wait ...

Regulation. do you remember that number? it was fascinating. so trade, even though we are talking manufacturing a small part of the economy, all this trade stuff could really impact -- >> but keep in mind, trade hasn't disappeared. we are importing much more from vietnam. >> neil: what do you make of that? >> i would say to both of your points, really it's about confidence. and i understand a business leader saying come i don't know what to do. what if i had plans to build a manufacturing facility in china and now i have to reroute. >> neil: by the way, it's not that they can't but just at the...

All right, i can get out, the flooding is a problem but everybodiry thing is honky dorie and back to normal. it's not, is it? >> no, it's not, neil. glad you brought that up. when you start the expectations with a category five storm in the bahamas but a lot of people that were harmed. we had a couple of deaths in north carolina. more than 30 overall. there's a lot of structural damage, people displaced from their homes and we have to get to the work of recovery is that righting today. >> neil: i'd like to switch gears. we talked about the federal reserve, the chairman, had a chance to address...