states. they went populous. voters are happy. americans are happy with the how the economy is doing. look, at the end i agree with larry kudlow pre-trump administration. the tariffs are a tax hike. if people start seeing prices going up, they re not going to be happy. the trade debate, this is the only issue where trump has been consistent throughout his life. this is a completely different deba debate. free trade helps american workers. and the farmers.
equity with tax cuts, deregulatory policies where the support seems to be solid from the people that supported them in the past and they re cutting him some slack and see how this trade debate and trade december contribution will play out over matter of time. i ee surprised by it. neil: as you repord as well, the chinese offered a first opening salvo here to buy $70 billion of u.s. agricultural replated products. we ll see. when you look what s going on here, the view that we face a blue wave here, the democrats were going to gain a lot of seats, t balance of power in the house or senate, less likely the senate, possibly the house and then come an improving economy and a good jobs report and now they re not so sure what is the latest read? the economy s improvement and the steady strong economy has
semi finished goods that goes into these products. you wind up killing jobs upstream in all the industry s that provide the inputs. solar panels is another great kpac example. we raise tariffs. you ll kill lots of jobs in the rust belt that provide the auto parts that go into the cars that are assembled in canada and mexico. the united states pulling out of this summit. give me the triangle. how does china play this? does it help our trade debate or push us further away. i think they are con tent to watch this play out. donald trump was trying to have a bilateral meeting.
it s like 20 times faster than what most people have. i d of said. i d of said you re dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. the president s trade team and chinese officials are meeting today again for negotiations behind the scenes sources tell us it s getting pretty tense among members of the president s own team. peter navarro and steve mnuchin not getting along. there was cursing and shouting and this all happened in beijing earlier this month. jeremy diamond part of the team breaking this story. what have you learned? reporter: they ve been on opposite ends of the trade debate for as long as they ve been in this administration but those tensions hit a new boiling
itself in this trade debate right now. can you tell me what happened with h.r. mcmaster? we heard he was fired, we heard he was on the way out. he s still there. we hea tillerson was on the way out three mthago, that it was imminent. he s still there. what happened with mcmaster? it s called impulsiveness. when the president turns on somebody everybody reacts. at one point he turned on tillerson, now tillerson is okay. he never liked mcmaster, he thinks he s too much by the books, there s other people who don t like mcmaster. who the hell knows? what about jared? who the hell knows? he could be around for another year. well, thank you jim vandehei for that clarity. what about gary cohn? who the hell knows? what about the president? the president is here to stay until he s not. until he s not. well, a lot of people ask why do we get the best reporters on