the depths of the south china sea. but guess who's going to try to beat them to it? the cpac of course. speaking ofn which, on the eveve of china's hosting o the games in beijing, some house republicans think it's a good time to go soft. the washington examiner reporting in a letter to house mccarthyleader kevin and a bipartisan group of lawmakers including 60 repub urged president joe biden's top trade official to expand tariff exclusions on chinese goods. joining me now is elbridge kolby, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic strategy and force development under president trump is alsoegeg me the author of the strategy of denial elbridge . this doesn't seem like the right time to be takingg economic pressure off china now that we just learned we had a onee trillion dollar overall trade deficit last year. lldeyour thoughts? great to be with you, laura .