that will be fun. where s miko. psycho joe? these are pretty good. we should fill up the board fox & friends is going to be covered up in five minutes. definitely. cryin , not sure about that. fake news is in there. crooked hillary for sure. up next, we ll dive much deeper into president trump s possible trade war with china and whether he s winging it. steve rattner has charts that s exciting. and gop congressman jim renaci, a member of the house budget committee, will join us on that and we ll get his take on administrator scott pruitt as a number of republicans voice concern over his growth list of ethics scandals. we ll be right back.
gave honest answers when he was asked. gives honest answers and he s i think he s done it s not easy to be in there, that s for sure. take a very difficult position and tried to balance it and reassure the markets, hey, we re just posturing, this is just we re negotiating right now. which is what the markets need to hear. joining us now for this conversation is congressman jim renacci of ohio. good to have you with us. we also have steve s charts ahead. but congressman, we found a fiscal conservative. so we brought you in, you actually did vote against the biggest spending bill of all time that nobody read. well, again when you get a bill the night before and it s 2200 pages it s difficult for me to vote for something like that. one of the reporters walked up to me and said did you know such and such was in the bill? i said look, i m not sure what was in the bill. there were good things and bad things but i can t read that fast. that s what we conservatives
passing appropriations bills. we re not getting a budget passed. we re doing it in the house, the senate is missing the boat many, many times and in the end, we have to be able to tighten this down. it s our job and then give them the dollars they can spend, but that s not happening. well, congressman, thank you very much. thank you. did you get through all the charts? there was one more. there was? i want to see it. the last one really, so we talk about what we can do and i would respectfully disagree with the congressman, this idea of starting big and pearigoing bac. they own $1.2 trillion of our treasuries with 20% of the foreign holdings and imagine what happens if china wakes up one day and says we re going to put 100 billion of these on the market and see what happens here to your interest rates and to your treasury market. what would happen? interest rates would go up a lot. a fair amount f okay i don t of
this right-leaning district but is being challenged by jim renaci, self-made millionaire running on the idea of capitalizing on the fact that a lot of people in ohio aren t happy. reporter: absolutely. that is his first, second, third and fourth argument about why he should be in office and not the democratic incumbent because of the very, very bad situation. it was already bad here in ohio and especially in that district and over the past year, for example, unemployment has doubled in that district in eastern ohio. but, you know, it s very interesting. still, he is using the play book that we hear nationally from republicans, talking about the fact that nancy pelosi and the house speaker, and the president don t represent that conservative district. that s why you heard the incumbent democrat saying he s taking the votes, not some congresswoman from california. we wanted to ask the challenger what would you do different, specifically on the issue of
caller: it s very difficult. this time because the fire was moving so quickly, people understood and got out very quickly. we had people coming to the evacuation centers earlier than wily do. i think they got the sense with the winds the way they were how serious this is. we ll be watching this story along with you, barb. if you get anymore information or any number get updated, do me a favor, pick up the phone and call me again. barb, we thank you for that. i also want to turn to cnn s own jim spellman who is also out there watching this thing. and jim, i m so struck by how fast this happened and how quickly it has moved. reporter: yeah. i tell you, brook, yesterday i was camping a little bit north of where the canyon where the fire is yesterday when this broke out, and the winds were just whipping through these canions. it was almost like a dry hurricane. it was blowing our tent around and everything. and yesterday when the fire started, it spread so fast, by the time mid after