will tee up a full house vote we believe on thursday of this week. but in the middle of that, as the impeachment inquiry, which is like a month old now, as it starts, you know, turning on the runway lights and planning its approach, now we ve got this one gigantic dangling thread in terms of what exactly they re investigating and what it s going to make of the articles of impeachment here because it really does appear like hiding in plain sight that the president did this not just with ukraine, he did this with two countries. it is at least worth asking about that because here, i ll show you, here s peter navarro, aka, ron vara, right, the author death by china. the architect of the president s china trade war. being asked about this very issue by cnn s jim sciutto. watch how navarro answers. you don t have a right to know what happens behind closed doors in the administration, and the only way i think the american people have a right to know. hey when politics entered tr
trump administration, with their hiring policies and their excellent vetting, that is who you re going to get as the top china adviser to the president. right? get me the death by china guy. and he has now become the actual architect of a real trade war that our country is waging with china and as a result of that, u.s. manufacturing is in an actual recession for the first time in years and the federal government is giving direct bailout payments to u.s. farmers to compensate them for the economic devastation the china trade war has caused u.s. farms. those payments to u.s. farmers at this point are already more than double what the u.s. government paid out during the great recession to save the whole u.s. auto industry. but don t worry, peter navarro has it all in hand. he knows what he s doing. ron vara told him not to eat the chow mein so, you know, death by china, we re confronting the dragon. so it s all nut, but now, this
ripping off the u.s. the president had choice words for a lot of people tonight. president trump: china has become very spoiled. the european union has become very spoiled. other countries have become very spoiled. they always have 100% of whatever they wanted from the united states. we can t allow that to happen anymore. reporter: just as the second round of trade talks got underway, president trump took s aim at beijing s thing the chinese can and should cut millions from their trade surplus from the u.s. b-2 we have been ripped off by china, and evacuation of wealth like no country has ever seen before. reporter: among the negotiations, the treasury of commerce, the president s chief economic advisor and a pair of trade officials including peter navarro who authored the best-selling book, death by china which is said to have upset some chinese negotiators. for the president, a steady
let s bring in cnn senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny live at trump s maurg resort. reporter: he called it an attack on humanity. he did that as he was meeting with his securitied a vieds y a yesterday as well as a set of generals. we re getting a sharper view of donald trump s economic policy, particularly who will lead that. peter navarro was named to a new office inside the white house focusing on trade policy. he s a harsh critic op china, someone who donald trump seized on his words throughout the campaign. he believes that china is waging an economic war here in the u.s. and he wrote a book death by china. so donald trump took a lot of his ideas from the campaign from peter navarro. we are also learning this morning that the trump
they fear it would ignite a trade war. sources differ on whether talk of tariffs is serious or a trial balloon to gauge reaction. part of the negotiation. we do know that donald trump s plan to save american jobs will start with his new white house national trade council. the goal? stop the exodus of u.s. jobs to places like china and mexico. donald trump has picked peter navarro to head that group. he is a long-time china hawk. his book is called death by china. with a chinese knife. and was an architect of the trade policies. like trump, navarro believes the chinese don t play fair on trade. he will do the buy america program. he will cut regulations by 10%. eliminate the $500 billion trade deficit and expand energy