it s a fox news sunday exclusive. then, the president s trade war with china causes a rift among republicans. we ll discuss the impact the president s tariffs are having on the economy and u.s. farmers with gop senator pat toomey. plus, joe biden now up double digits against bernie sanders in the latest fox news poll. we ll ask our sunday panel how solid biden s lead really is. and our power player of the week, one of america s greatest historians on his life s work. i feel unless i see it, really understand it, i can t make the readers see. chris: all right now on fox news sunday. and hello again today from the gym at stevens high school in claremont, new hampshire, home of the cardinals and tonight the site of our town hall with mayor
as a bailout to farmers. here s the president s message that he sent to farmers this week. they ll be plant, they ll be able to sell forless less, and they ll make the same amount of money until such time as it s all straightened out. chris: but you call this plan, quote your words very bad policy. why? yeah. i think it s bad policy to, you know, start just sending checks to farmers or any segment of the economy. what i think we ought to be doing is working with allies, working with friendly countries, finding more markets, opening up more markets, taking down trade barriers and creating an opportunity for our farmers to sell their products around the world rather than sending them a check from the taxpayers. chris: generally speaking, it s fair to say you re a free trader. you were a former president of the club for growth. what are your thoughts about the president s trade policy and his willingness in an effort to try to and he says that, to try to bring down tariffs, to r
authenticity and he can be a champion for folks. i think ultimately the reason he s doing well and others are sliding, probably at this point has more to do with his name i.d. than anything else. but others are going to have to start moving in the right direction if they re going to catch up to him. he s looking really, really strong. chris: ben, how strong do you think obviously he s looking strong right now. but as senator klobuchar pointed out, there s an eternity, we haven t had the first debates yet. any doubts about buy accident s staying power. the only question that emerges is how much his lengthy history of previous decisions and positions will be a problem for him in a field with a lot of new faces to it. democrats tend to like the new faces, inspirational figures who come along, you re going to have mayor pete tonight to be one of those figures. i think the problem for biden is going to be navigating all of the previous decisions and
getting bolder, that what we ve seen is a dress rehearsal. yet, any attempt i ve made with the security elections act which is a bill i have with conservative senator langford that would say let s get backup paper ballots, let s get audits in place so we don t allow a foreign power to invade our election again. they didn t do it with tanks or missiles. they did it with a cyber attack. theyed stopped that in the their tracks. the white house made calls to stop the bill despite strong republican support for the bill. that s what s right in front of us. barr is talking about whatever he wants to talk about politically. what he should be doing is protecting the integrity of our elections and our democracy. chris: as you know, new hampshire, where we both are, although in different parts of the state, is among the five states with the highest rate of opioid related deaths in the country, twice the national
won t solve all of those problems, and the tariffs are absolutely painful and dislocating. but if in the end we end up with an agreement that gives us a meaningful reform of china s most egregious behavior, we might look back and say this was worth the price that we re paying. i look at 232 tariffs can and tariffs on canadians and europeans and mexicans chris: but those are national security tariffs, right? that s correct. and i put those in a very different category. but i think the president is right to challenge china and to think about this in the broader context such as what vice president pence laid out in a famous speech where he made the case of how aggressive china has been. chris: now, farmers are among the folks that have been the hardest hit so far by the u.s. tariffs and the response from the chinese. but the white house says, well, they re got a plan, and they re talking about up to $20 billion