what he thinks and i feel like he s communicating with me. actually, you re right. even in that there is a profound change because he s completely changing, he s ripping away the false benefits. it s like when your favorite movie starts to take off their makeup. you re rubbing off all this great makeup and then you get to see what s underneath and it s not so pretty, but it s real. last time i was on your show i said this. we are finally seeing how it gets made. floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it s always been this ugly. you and i very much have been pushing this argument. the china argument.
he s communicating with me. actually, you re right. even in that there is a profound change because he s completely changing, he s ripping away the false benefits. it s like when your favorite movie starts to take off their makeup. you re rubbing off all this great makeup and then you get to see what s underneath and it s not so pretty, but it s real. last time i was on your show i said this. we are finally seeing how it gets made. floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it s always been this ugly. you and i very much have been pushing this argument. the china argument.
you being with us. you put together that exemption for mexico and for canada. you get to 25% of the imported steel into the united states is now exempt from these tariffs. are you okay with that? you re for the tariffs. are you okay with the carve-outs? yes, canada and mexico are our allies and i trust the judgment of wilbur ross and the trade ambassador. the big problem here is china has with its government-owned steel companies has overproduced for 20 or 30 years and conducted a trade war against us and we re responding. leland: i get the china argument. china represents a whopping 2.2% of steel imports into the united states. in a lot of places you d call that a rounding error. why have all of this, why risk a trade war for 2.2% of imported steel? we re not risking a trade war because we know from experience, from past tariffs and from the 2002 tariffs on steel, which
and we re going to have to figure out a way to acknowledge it first. and then have a grown-up discussion with the rest of the american people on how we address climate change without destroying our economy because there s absolutists on the left but don t we as republicans have to acknowledge climate change is real and it s a very possible threat. if the communists in china are recognizing it against their own interest in studies isn t it time that republicans in america recognize it? good luck with that. the china argument in come par season is i ve heard from some folks, we re not walking around in washington, d.c. and new york and los angeles with masks on because the smog is so bad. so china argument is one that falls flat for at that lot of folks in terms of making the case since in their argument, their view china has tone nothing. we footed this bill and carried this argument.