until now no one else in their view has been willing to address. >> yes. . and i already hear in the director of office of trade framing it as, yeah, you should be upset about all of this and look to china for -- don't look to the president. he is trying to fix this. listen to how they are spinning it. >> what we have is they have been punching us in the body for years. all we are doing is defending ourselves. the way they expect us to react is to punch us some more and basically try to hit american farmers most directly. and i don't think the american people will respond very well to those kind of threats. >> what do you think of that? will american farmers blame china because the u.s. has been their punching bag or will they blame the president for this tariff escalation? >> people ultimately vote with their pocketbooks.