china talks, with the e.u., and now with mexico. but because of what it means for the greater economy. i think the biggest ease in this president s hand has been the strength of the economy. there are a lot of economic indicators that would suggest if you get into these trade wars, if you get into tariff discussions, you could have a pretty significant economic impact when it matters most. i think most republicans are pretty eager to get to the backside of this discussion and hopefully we can resolve it sometime soon. melissa: in the comments coming from the mexican foreign minister yesterday as he was doing the press conference, he feels like we are going to get there. we notice the president didn t set specific parameters of what the mexican government needs to do in order for this not to happen. getting criticized for that, but i think that s intentional in order to give him room to go back. republican senators i want to play this sound for you they are very much up in arms ov
personally and president trump was equally strategic in imposing imposing the tariffs on chinese import because he purposely avoided taxing consumer goods that would harm consumers at the lower end of the economic scale, he imposed them on imported industrial goods and chinese cars, chinese manufactured cars, he s trying to increase american jobs not harm the american consumer. heather: there are also other things that chinese apparently agreed to concede today label fentanyl, synthetic opioid, cited in thousands of drug deaths, they will do it as controlled substance, also that we still need to talk about intellectual property damage, also technological theft along with all tariff discussions. yes, i m glad you mentioned fentanyl, i forgot to bring that