can win any trade war. america has less to lose than its trade adversaries here. christine romans, appreciate the by the book numbers there. the president does believe the economy is roaring, we can get through this. the question s he hasn t listened to republican members of congress. he hasn t listened to business interests. will he listen to farmers? or is the president s view, check in a year and a half, don t worry about the next several months? i wonder if he needs a bad midterm to listen. somewhere like iowa. i m sure members in iowa you have already zbljodi ernst, chu grassley. a couple house seats in place. and down south where a lot of those car companies are based. i m sure he ll start hearing from them too. maybe he needs results to see this is maybe a bad call for people. the best scenario he can hope for is things end up fairly