to avoid a trade war. trump threatened tariffs on chinese imports last week. really important here, the timing. china is also the u.s.' biggest foreign creditor, just ads the government plans to -- just as the government plans to sell $294 billion worth of debt this week. look at that. that's the highest amount of debt issued since the financial crisis. china owns more treasury bonds than any foreign country. the sale is to boost federal revenue because of trump's tax cuts. companies are paying less into the treasury coffers. that means, government still spending a lot of money, that means the united states has to borrow $300 billion this week to stay in business. >> hard to believe we are talking annual deficit trickling near a trillion annually under republican control. >> democrats losing their mind. breaking story moments ago. stormy daniels' attorney asking a federal judge for permission to depose president trump. michael avenatti wants the president to share when he knows about the hush money agreement