trade front, it cos help, but there are other factors that are hurting. this is just one. in 30 seconds or less, is this trade war solely of our making? it s not. i mean, china has been stealing intellectual property for decades. they have also been forcing u.s. companies to transfer sensitive technologies if they want access to their market. those are legitimate issues. the trade war, as it s constructed under president trump, is i think counterproductive. we could have used our allies to our benefit. we could have used the world trade organization to our benefit. trans-pacific partnership which would have isolated china and given us more leverage. the trade war as constructed is our problem. the issues we have with china are theirs. this is why you always have a home here. ron insana joining us again tonight. coming up, he is a multi-millionaire. he is a former presidential candidate and newly minted u.s. senator. and he s got nothing to lose when you look at it that way. bil
is shutdown we lose 1/10 percent of 1 percent of gdp growth. how else will this be bad for the president? how else will donald trump come to dread any of what you just said if it comes true? well, to the extent that this decline is not over, it becomes more and more problematic for him. now, he was advised last week to solve the china trade war, to reopen the government, to do some other things, stop fighting over the wall, stop tweeting so much about certain things. if he heeds that advice, you might see some progress. in fact, chinese and hong kong markets are up tonight because there are scheduled trade negotiations early next week that are going to be underway between the u.s. and china. whether or not you solve what is a 215-page complaint by robert lighthizer, one of the president s top trade advisors, by march 1st is an open question. if there is real progress on the trade front, it cos help, but there are other factors that are hurting.
helpful to romney in certain places? absolutely. in certain places absolutely. do you think that s true, michael steele. what, that he can be helpful. absolutely he can be. i think he has a number of points that he cos help romney make out there on the campaign trail, which will benefit him. absolutely. the only problem is that president bush, as you know, was the architect he and hank paulson of the financial bailout and the architect of the automobile bailout. he said he would have done the automobile bailout had he remained in office. those are sticking points. the architect of our despair according to some folks perhaps in the white house. anyway, you are looking live at youngstown, ohio where vice president biden is expected to address jobs and the economy. then again, when you re joe biden, expected has a very different meaning. he s going to be unleashed. as the governor says, he will be unleashed. we ll discuss that next on now. ahh, now that s a clean mouth. i