CNN Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer August 23, 2019 22:08:00
Moment. but first, let's talk about how president trump has retaliated now against china with these increased tariffs of his own. can the country afford an escalation like this in this trade war? >> brianna, we cannot. the president's strategy is just not working. here are the facts. for the first time in ten years, the manufacturing index shows that manufacturing is actually contracting in this country. the president saying we need to do these tariffs or we'll bring manufacturing back, but manufacturing is declining. and the reason it's declining is because the uncertainty he has created has ...