brought a lot of people and energy into the republican party. now, we do all of course remember 2015, 2016, rubio called trump a con man, said trump would be a disaster for america. how do you how do you view this? because, look, he s running for re-election, marco rubio. i don t see any political upside to attacking trump. i actually appreciate that rubio was upfront. he s a florida voter and i want his vote. don t dance around that he wants trump s support. and that he brought energy. rubio is highly popular, especially with the cuban community in southern florida. but he needs trump s vote. you don t win florida as a republican without trump s support so i m not surprised by it at all. ivanka decided she wasn t going to run, so the field is open for rubio. the former president has held a fund-raiser for marco rubio, but all of us remember that debate. do you remember that debate where rubio said, and you know what they say about guys with
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it or is it, perhaps, meant to help create an opportunity? i think it s meant to tempt trump s murcurial side, here s a chance to have a social needing. also it s president macron trying to take the global lead in dialing down the tension in the gulf and showing some leadership in the overall process to try to break the logjam between the u.s. unbreakable position and iran s position, you know, they re at an impasse. so something extraordinary has to happen to break that. uh-huh. so, steve, while france, you know, may have caught, you know, some of the world leaders, you know, off guard with this invitation, president trump also kind of surprised so many when he was pushing to allow russia back into the g7 summit, if you recall. take a listen. i think it s a work in progress. we have a number of people that
saying in principle there s an agreement with japan. is that the president s attempt at making up for these great losses as a result of, you know, increased tariffs from both beijing and the u.s. toward china? i m not sure we ve had greatly increased losses so far. we ve had losses, to be sure, but i m not sure we ve had greatly increased losses. but, yes, of course, mr. trump wants to show he s a free trader. any capitalist wants to show he s a free trader. we want free trade. adam smith, the father of free market economics, said we do better with free trade. there s no doubt about that. tariffs are a very blunt instrument to use to try to get free trade. tariffs are an idea like locking people up in prison to make theme free. it doesn t work very well. we ve got to get an agreement with china whereby we re not straddling them. they re not straddling us. we re just dealing with them on a base of an open hand and friendship and i believe it can be done. china is incredibly important
leaders said that. and they expressed support for president trump. all right. joining any right now, economist ben stein, so, ben, you just heard, you know, larry kudlow there argue that all world leaders are in support of the president and then you also heard boris johnson, i m just going to rearticulate what he said, i want to congratulate the president on everything the u.s. economy is attaining. our view on the trade war, we re in favor of trade peace on the whole. so how do you internet the reception of the president s trade war? well, i don t think the american people are really too concerned with what boris johnson has to say. i don t think you and i should be that concerned about it but i think the whole world should be concerned about the idea of a global world trading war and we are begging for a recession if that happens. trade is an enormously important part of the economy.