moves are expected to create additional leverage in upcoming trade talks. joining us, news desk editor dave waller. good to have you with us. let s talk about how the president s move is being received abroad and on the hill. a lot of surprises this president after seeming to send signals they wanted to avoid a trade war has slapped tariffs on chinese goods. that s a big part of it, the fact that signals a week ago were that the trade war was ramping down. we were not going to see tariffs back and forth in the near future. steven mnuchin putting things on hold. there are european countries that want to take on china on unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft. what they re seeing is haphazard strategy from trump, he veers back and forth between peace and trade war and they re worried
that s not something you d expect from a president who ran on a hard line immigration policy. he also wants to have a deal on daca. you take that aside, you think, okay, maybe we re in a position to get a deal. the problem is there s four big issues outstanding on immigration alone in terms of border security. chain migration, visas and then daca. we re not really any closer on those four issues and we re coming up on a deadline january 19th for a government shutdown. democrats say we can get deals by then. that seems like a long way to go in just a short period of time. dave, let me ask you something that came up yesterday in the meeting because the president that actually brought this up and kind of struck people. the idea of bringing back ear marx or pork barrel spending as it s pejoratively known. what are the pros and cons of bringing this type back into legislation, or dealmaking? yeah, this is something that was being discussed in kind of hushed voices, right. president trum
stay on at the news site. and that he supports the trump agenda. now, bannon is leaving breitbart, but not expected to leave politics. citing a washington post report, bannon has told associates that he plans on creating a 2018 political operation. and a source close to bannon tells nbc news that bannon believes president trump is transactional, and that they will have a relationship once again. joining us is deputy news editor for axios, dave waller. give us what you think is there do progress, with the sticking points with the president saying i ll take the heat for it, if we want to make changes here. what are your take-aways? two big takeaways, first, president trump is in a really good place in terms of his rhetoric. he said he wants a bill of love.