And we have video of the chinese communication has been an issue, tax reform is hard to vice premier meeting with u. S. Communicate. Dagen wrote trump is his own communicator, he is the best trade representative lighthizer communicator. Right now, only video, american maria see you soon, have a great day, varney and Company Begins now. Video of the meeting. Treasure secretary Steven Mnuchin joined for dinner, this stuart history about to unfold deal pauses tariffs Going Forward but still 250 billion on varney and company. In chinese import under 25 dignitaries assembled in the tariff and another 120 billion under 7 and a half percent until white house for the formal signing of the china trade deal. It will be quite a show. The president , Vice President , cabinet, members of congress, Top White House officials will all be there and so will phase 2. He will consider releasing chinas toplevel delegation. The vice premier, the commerce tariffs as part of phase 2. So theres, nothing to do
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Is say solely rejected the bipartisan bill and lawmakers really dont know where to go from here you know youve been around washington a long time do you think is does he has any strategy to it is do you think he shrewd or he just doesnt know or what. I think he does whatever feels good at the moment he thrives in the adulation of the crowd even if its a crowd of one whos before him and so hes not an idealogue and i actually thought that was a positive thing when he was first elected i thought he could you know get through all the the tribal partisanship in washington but so far every time he veres towards the center the hardliners in the Republican Party pull him back and we end up exactly where we were before so. I cant i cant predict where its going to go on Immigration Reform i fear the hardliners will win once again for all the years i knew him and there will be thirty he was a centrist right. What do you make of this just playing to the base. He was a registered democrat i think h