like a trade agreement or framework with china to come home with? i think he s under a tremendous amount of pressure, especially given the news from general motors earlier this week. there are cracks that are beginning to form in this economy. you know, the stock market has slid down quite a bit from its high a few months ago. and i think with this, you know, new mexico/canada agreement the president signed today, he s under a lot of pressure to have something he can deliver to investors and to americans from china. he s been ratcheting up pressure on china for a year. china is clearly unhappy, and china wants to cut a deal, and i think the president is under a lot of pressure to deliver something. do you think that means he s going to give a little more than perhaps he would have had the events of the last 24 hours not transpired here at home? there s a good chance. the president approaches a lot of these things like a real estate deal. you start off way off in one direction and
so involved in taking a look at the movement of money and some of the allegations of money laundering, et cetera, we re just looking. and so we thought we d better ask whether or not there was any suspicious activity that had been forwarded to fin sin. so it was not specific. it was general. are your suspicions heightened based on the news that just broke about a whistleblower fearing that something was scrubbed. absolutely, absolutely. and i think the treasury secretary is going to having to answer to this question. and i want you to know that i think that the ethics officer that directed it to mueller and said to him, this may be relevant to your investigation is absolutely correct. and he did a good thing. you re saying the office of government ethics that referred the president s payment. i have another question about that disclosure form the president signed today. which disclosed a year late that payment. it also says i think the trump hotels brought in about $40
and he did a good thing. you re saying the office of government ethics that referred the president s payment. i have another question about that disclosure form the president signed today. which disclosed a year late that payment. it also says i think the trump hotels brought in about $40 million in the past year. is it problematic to you that the president and the republican party use and promote this hotel, the president is so clearly benefiting from? well, absolutely. and you know, questions have been raised about that. and i think one organization that looks into this kind of thing have asked for investigations into whether or not there s a violation of the constitution or whether or not laws have been broken because obviously, it appears that the president is you know, helping to direct business and he s making money on it. and that there are those who are coming from foreign countries who are glad to comply with this request to stay at the hotel
watched with dismay as the republicans failed to pass obamacare. do you think this is as good as we can expect on any sort of reform on healthcare at this point? i think you ll see continued efforts like this from president trump. look, from the beginning, president trump was laser focused on repealing obamacare because it doesn t work. also, he s focused on lowering costs for families and giving families real choice for their healthcare. you see the move he s taken today. he s helping small businesses have some of the same bargaining power as large companies. association health plans have always been something i have supported and i thought was good policy. our bill would have done a lot of that. we passed it through the house. it was disappointing that the senate couldn t get it done. now you re seeing president trump saying, i m not just gonna wait. i m gonna start acting to help families lower costs for healthcare. i applaud the president for doing it. dana: executive orders ar
also let me interrupt for a second. a lot of economists cite that as wishful thinking. but let me get to the executive order that the president signed today. federal agencies should buy american. so let s say they buy u.s.-made steel and it s a lot more expensive than imported steel. that s simply going to raise the deficit. it s going to cost the u.s. more for that kind of steel, right? well, listen, i want to make sure i have a vibrant u.s. steel try and if i have other countries that are subsidizing their steel and dumping it into the american market, i m okay supporting american workers and american industries. and and to think that you d have such wide fluctuations that it would have a huge impact on a $20 trillion debt isn t realistic. if there s price differentials i m going to side with americans and american industry. what if the price what if the price differentials are very significant? you still want to buy american? well, if that was the case, these businesse