i tell you what, this was a great victory for us and again from a deal-making standpoint we are all much better off the way it turned out because i really believe if the democrats want to we can do a tremendous amount of great legislation. paul: that was president trump wednesday calling the outcome of tuesday s election a great victory despite democrats winning control of the house for the first time in 8 years, the president saying he s ready to make deals with the newly elected democratic majority. so how should he approach the new power balance in washington, we are back with kim strassel, bill mcgurn and wall street journal editorial board member alicia finally, kim, let s start with you, cut deals with democratic house than house republicans does that strike you at all plausible? no, if donald trump thought working with republicans was hard he s seen nothing yet. look, it s good that he is offered a hand and that this is a way he s going to this new
to be taxed. we are back with dan henninger, jason riley and wall street journal editorial board member allysia finley. what did they do in case? it overturned two precedents, 1992 and limiting states from creating sales tax from remote retailers, those outside of their borders. paul: okay, why did they feel the need to do this because, look, amazon has been collecting tax, most retailers already 19 out of the 20 biggest online retailers collect tax. paul: what s the problem they were trying to solve? exactly. they are going to create more problems than solving them. paul: what s the reasoning for them the policy anthony kennedy was trying to clean up after his juris prudence from the decision. paul: he made mistakes.
aerospace, robotics, manufacturing and auto industries, we are back with dan henninger, mary kissel and wall street journal editorial board member allysia finley. identified right problem but wrong solution, by taking unateral action under u.s. trade law, the united states foregoes in concert wh allyies multiple provisions that we could have used here to punish their intellectual property violations, to punish them for state subsidies, exports and all manner of things. i think by doing this, trump risks first of all a trade war that would hurt u.s. consumers but he also isolates the united states, look, european allies, asian allies, they think they have the same problem with china as well. so let s get them on board with us and let s act together against china, let s not go it alone. paul: allysia, you have been looking at the list of products that are targeted by the trump administration and now china
aerospace, robotics, manufacturing and auto industries, we are back with dan henninger, mary kissel and wall street journal editorial board member allysia finley. identified right problem but wrong solution, by taking unilateral action under u.s. trade law, the united states foregoes in concert with allyies multiple provisions that we could have used here to punish their intellectual property violations, to punish them for state subsidies, exports and all manner of things. i think by doing this, trump risks first of all a trade war that would hurt u.s. consumers but he also isolates the united states, look, european allies, asian allies, they think they have the same problem with china as well. so let s get them on board with us and let s act together against china, let s not go it alone. paul: allysia, you have been looking at the list of products that are targeted by the trump administration and now china
3.8%. we are back with bill mcgurn and james freeman and wall street journal editorial board member mary kissel in london, so mary, you re over there, what s the reaction been from our allies and they are allies in europe, canada and méxico to this unilateral trade action? well, i think it s what you would expect, paul, it s complete disbelief that the united states would punish such close an important trading partners and i think the individual country reactions so what you wowd expect. the german were pragmatic and the british were measured and the french disdainful and eu announced that they would take immediate counter action, look, the eu supplies about 17% of steel import to the united states, a lot of it is high-end going into cars in detroit, they will take counter action and you have to believe that they will put their money where their mouth is, they will file a wto