and theeshue of hong kong as part of a negotiations in any trade palkct? certainly they need to know that we stand with them and fehr going to purp trait a repeat, they will be isolate frud from democratic world. we can find areas of cooperation. now obviously the current strategy, i m not even sure you can call it a strat ag. the current pattern of poking china in the eye isn t working. it s crushing american soy bean farmers and other farmers and american consumers. we re already estimated to be paying 500 to $1,000 more, americans, because of this trade war. i dont know where we re going to get spl of that kind of money. what are we suppose toad to do r
we re in to forstall going to ba bankruptcy. it s against the economic interests of the american people to keep going in this direction. further morer the president tax on every single issue. in my view it no longer malters what the president says because that may be the first ramble or thought but you can be assured there will be a second and 3rd thought, all of which are different from the first thought. i remember during the obama years a lot of conservatives criticized because all these big ideas you re talking about is creating instability in the business kmunlt. it s clear the reason for the slow down is the business community is suddenly nervous because they don t know how the trade war is going to turn out. as i mentioned earlier, the key to understanding this is
the president flirting with this tweet directed at america s business community. our great amare companies are hereby ordered to start looking for an altern toov china. the dow plunge more than 600 points as the president headed to his meeting with world leadersers already nervously eyeing a slowing world econaim threatened fr threat furtherer by trade wars. for better or worse has delivered and now real questions are being raised about whether the united states can be counted on to provide the leadership the world has come to expect since the end of the second world war. getting a lot of money in tariffs. reporter: as president trump meets with u.s. allies, his own volatility is raising questions about his ability to manage theworld s largest one. the president is ratcheting up his trade war with china, threatening to raise taxes on chinese goods.