he trying to change the subject from the staff shake-ups in announcing this? it seems to be that. there will be questions at the briefing in the next hour. >> we'll take it next hour, jeff. teeing me up for the big discussion. chris cillizza, rachel bade, political analyst from politico and rick newman, columnist for yahoo! finance. rachel, let me dig in on jeff's point on what we heard in the report sent out from the speaker's office today. you have paul ryan, republican leadership essentially saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, mr. president, this is a terrible idea. what are you hearing from capitol hill and what recourse might congress have to stop him? >> basically they are making a hail mary, a last ditch attempt to try to walk the president back from the brink on tariffs. as you know, tariffs in general go against the fundamental principles that the republican party has long held dear -- free