but we could have this about entitlement reform and education reform, military reform, this cuts across. what charles said about caterpillar can withstand a little of the hurting, coca-cola said they have to raise prices. there s individuals, harley-davidson, they re struggling with the economic choices that president has made. nobody can dispute the 4.1% gdp growth. i m not sure the tariff war is the way to go here. why not? charles, if they re charges a tariff or a tax on our stuff and we re not doing it on their stuff, it s not fair. i ve been saying it the whole time. i came up as a free market guy and consider myself that. i m not going to be boxed into a set of rules. i m wearing my gloves. my opponents have brass knuckles. we have to fight this a smart
mnuchin is a free market guy. if it opens up space, so be it. just to come back to the main point, the purpose of sanctions is to change putin s behavior. putin s behavior has not changed. when you lift sanctions before he changes his behavior, that sends a pretty powerful signal you re not serious about wanting him to change his behavior. ambassador michael mcfaul, who s been in the eye of the hurricane often not by choice, thank you for being on tonight. michael cohen saying the tape may be tampered with, and what s rudy trying to do? a break in just 30 seconds.
trying to curtail the closing of certain coal and nuclear plants in this country. again, the president campaigned on the idea of supporting some coal jobs. we ve seen decline in coal jobs for ery long time in america. it s just not really a big, growing economy of ours. does it concern you, as a free market guy, that the government s getting involved in how we determine our portfolio of energy? the government is using the same rationale, and that is that it s a national security concern, to make sure there s enough coal production. well, you agree, right, that grid security is a national security concern. yes. and the other thing you ll large subsidies for renewable energy generation, like wind and solar. the problem with wind and solar is that it gives you lots of energy when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining, and other times, it doesn t. the problem is we ve moved increasingly towards these more variable ways to generate power, the kind of steady stuff that you need to
steve: ambitious. the numbers are in. he cut 22 for every new one put on the books. it is the largest reduction in the federal registry in american history. even bush who was a free market guy supposedly. the federal registry grew under bush and obama and clinton. for those of us who have understood that have been american business less competitive, rulation is the true tax on american business. steve: i can t tell you how many people i know in business lovhe fact they are cutting red tape. makes us more competitive internationally. hard to see upfront but you see when a business has less compliance costs. these deal with less lawyers and regulators, that s when you will see the economy moving again. steve: 500 days in historic economic success you look at it 223,000 jobs added in may. 3.2 labor position. g.d.p. 4.7%. by the atlanta fed. the new york times said it best we have run out of
masters at using tax loopholes not to mention jeff bezos himself owns the washington post and uses that as battering ram over politicians in d.c. every day. no one wants an unflattering article in the washington post. first and foremost, stop subsidizing this. mark: let me ask you this, what are they monopolizeing? some people make the argument they are monopolizing online retail transactions, they have 40%. exxonmobil controlled 42% of all domestic oil kind of transactions. how did the domestic steel industry controlled 70% of steel production. right, we could put forth claims towards the different categories. as a free market guy, focus on the government contracts first and foremost should. not get corporate handouts, especially one from the department of defense, $100 billion over ten years, and the