more nationalistic. here's what the president had to say about all this. >> we're having a little squabble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many, many decades, for actually a long time. and it should have been handled a long time ago, and it wasn't, and we'll handle it now. chris: senator, how worried are you about the escalating trade war with china? >> chris, thanks for having me. listen, i put china in a distinct the category separate from the rest of the entire world. and i do that because of the facts in the case, right? china's the world's second biggest economy, it's a revisionist power. it's now, for the first time, attempting to be the able to project force, it's intimidating neighbors, it's disrupting american institutions, and it's engaged in some egregious economic behavior; the theft of intellectual property in various ways. so i actually think the president is right to challenge china.