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Beto orourke is heading back on the trail and says his time home after the el paso shooting tells him a senate run would be a mistake. That would not be good enough for this community. We must take the fight directly to the source of this problem. That person who has caused this pain and placed this country in this moment of peril, and that is donald trump. Back to 2020 in a moment. But we begin the hour with a big and dramatic move today by israel. A spokesman for Israels Foreign Ministry saying the country will forbid two sitting u. S. Congresswomen from traveling there. The two congresswomen, ilhan omar and Rashida Tlaib have expressed antisemitic sentiments on multiple occasions and support a movement to boycott israel. But the timing is what exacerbates things here. Israel has elections just around the corner. Prime minister netanyahu is trying to hold power. Add in a planned visit by the congresswoman to a sacred muslim site but sits on the temple mount. The temple mount long been disputed. Conservative voices in israel worry a palestinian escort to the landmarks might be seen as legitimizing palestinian claims to the site of the other big factor, though, the president of the United States. President trump tweeting just earlier today israel letting omar and tlaib in would, quote, show great weakness. Oren liebermann is live for us. This is a big decision by Prime Minister netanyahu and his government. Why . Reporter unprecedented for a number of reasons. First, weve never seen President Donald Trump dictate what israels Foreign Policy should be in quite this way, essentially telling israel you shouldnt allow these two in. And then a short time after that, we got the official decision of the officially government from a spokesman for the Deputy Foreign minister, but since then the interior minister and of course Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying they have decided to ban these two congresswomen from visiting. That is also unprecedented that israel would not allow a sitting u. S. Congressperson into the country. And in his statement, netanyahu seemed to reference that, saying that israel has tremendous respect for not only the United States but also for the american congress, but then he went on to try to explain his decision saying israel cannot allow these two to enter the country because of their support for a boycott of israel. He accused them of trying to damage israel in their trip. As an example said the listed destination of their journey was not israel, it was palestine. For those reasons netanyahu decided to ban along with some of the other israel officials their entry into the country which was scheduled to start just tomorrow. Again, there was no statement on when this decision was made but it was certainly announced right after trumps tweet saying israel would be showing great weakness by allowing them in. So this decision after a day of contemplation has been set, john. Youre absolutely right to point out the Political Considerations here. Netanyahu has an election hes facing. This may sit well with his rightwing voter base as he has a tough reelection campaign. The bigger risk, has he just created an even greater fracture between israel and the democratic party. Well stay in touch as the elections play out in the days ahead. With me here in washington to share their reporting and their reporting, eliana johnson, jeff zeleny, matt visor and laura lopez. Lets start here in the sense that it is unprecedented for a president to tweet at a Foreign Government do not let democratically elected members of Congress Come and visit. Yes, they have said quite controversial things. But this country gives billions of dollars in economic and military aid to israel. It is supposed to be two democracies that are willing to air their differences and have their debates. What does it say that the president of the United States would decide, you know what, im essentially going to tell, using twitter, my friend bebe dont do this. Yeah, i think the president s direction is whats anomalous here. To take a step back, israel would be and is fully within its rights to deny entry to the two women, to the two congresswomen because they support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement which aims to isolate israel and if followed through would cripple the israeli economy. But a month ago the israeli ambassador said they planned to let the congresswomen visit. So whats changed . Either bebe got poll numbers suggesting that this was popular, as oren suggested, or hes responding to pressure from trump. Now, american president s or both. Or both. And the timing of this, which President Trump tweeted and then about an hour later the Israeli Government made the announcement. The Israeli Government and the American Government are typically careful and the Israeli Government, particularly chafes at the suggestion that it is acting according to the dictates of the u. S. Government or that its the lapdog. Thats usually a pejorative term of the American Government. So the greatest issue here is, is bebe acting under pressure from trump. I think the optics are troubling. Because the president has, and its been quite enclosurcle trying to drive a wedge between israel and the democratic party. Hes trying to use these democratic congresswomen as part of that effort. Prime minister netanyahu now helping him. There are two things i think weve gotten used to, which is President Trump sort of, you know, going against tradition, which is key politics at the waters edge, and republicans sort of going along with him. This precedent is potentially dangerous here that republican members of congress, who have not really spoken up against this order from the president , where the president is telling a Foreign Government to not allow democratically elected members of congress to enter an ally, that country of israel. So i think that the precedent is potentially dangerous. You would think that republican members of congress would sort of stand up for the institution of congress. That its important for members regardless of party to travel to foreign countries. To what matt said, it is a very stunning move by the president. Its unprecedented. A day prior, kevin mccarthy, the minority leader, did side with hoyer and say that he thought that israel should allow these two women to go into the country but we havent heard from many republicans after trumps tweet. Its also striking considering that personal pleas were made with the israeli ambassador to the u. S. By jewish members of congress, jewish democrats, who dont agree with tlaib or omar on their policies. A lot of democrats dont agree with netanyahu and his policies. A lot of them dont think that hes actually trying to move forward on peace. How this plays out should a democrat win the white house, depending on what the leadership of israel is is a whole other ball game. But in the here and now of the politics, Elizabeth Warren tweeting today israel doesnt advance its case as a tolerant democracy or unwavering u. S. Ally by barring elected members of congress from visiting because of their political views. This would be a shameful, unprecedented move. I urge israels government to allow the two congresswomen in. The government has since said it will not. Will the president , forgive the frame, but will the president get his wish . Will this create a divide between democrats and israel that the president believes he can use to his political advantage here at home . Its always been his hope to keep this fight alive with those two members of congress and others. Its been a few weeks since theres been a skirmish back and forth. He has a rally tonight. Id bet a dollar he talks about that at the rally tonight. But i think there are so many other issues that drive democrats to support a broader and larger policies here, so i would be surprised if hes successful driving a wedge long term. But i think it just looks like bebe is weak here, hes following President Trumps lead. To me, the stunning part of that is on his side more than on trumps. Its not surprising President Trump did this at all. It will be fascinating to see how that plays out because netanyahus calling card is strength. He had the elections narrowly won and has to go back because he could not get a coalition government. What would happen if two republican members of congress were banned. To jeffs point on bebe appearing weak, the president put him in a really tough position by saying it would be a weak move. Bebe was really damned if he did and damned if he didnt. Either having the president criticize him as weak or appearing weak by doing what the president wanted. So trump put minimum in a tough spot. Now hes made his choice. Up next for us to the economy. Investors try to recover from a volatile few days on wall street and theyre looking to President Trump to signal his next move. And if you have any questions for us today on todays political stories, tweet us. Use insidepolitics and well try to answer at the end of the show. Well be right back. They make everything better. Like our strawberry poppyseed salad and new strawberry summer caprese salad. Order online for delivery. Panera. Food as it should be at tmobile, for 40 line for four lines, its all included for the whole family, starting with unlimited data. Use as much as you want, when you want. 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The president s twitter account is often part of the volatility. A few highlights here just from yesterday where he played a heavy round of blame game. Our problem is with the fed. Raised too much and too fast and now too slow to cut. The president bashing, quote, clueless jay powell and the federal reserve. And the crazy inverted yield curve. We should easily be reaping big rewards and gains but the fed is holding us back. Mark zandy joins us live from westchester, pennsylvania. Mark, lets set the tweets aside for a second. We now have now a very real, more real prospect of recession. On noneconomic terms, are there pieces on the chess board that the president or any other policy maker can move to prevent that, or are we getting close to the point where the snowball is going down the hill and you just cant stop it . Yeah, sure, the president could tweet that he had a call with president xi of china and they came to some kind of arrangement and theyre going to wind down the trade war. I dont think it will be a substantive agreement, nothing that will change the grievances that we have with china but it will be a facesaving arrangement and i think that will be enough to quell the uncertainty and keep the economy moving forward. But having said that, to your metaphor, i think with each passing day that the president doesnt send out that tweet, the more likely hes not going to be able to turn this thing around and the recession will take on its own dynamic and no matter what he does, he wont be able to turn it around. Do you have a clock for that, a reasonable clock saying that you better calm things down by date x or else were at the point of no return . I think its in the next few months. I think the key here is what businesses decide to do with all of this. If they they have already cut back on their investment. That has flatlined since the trade war began a little over a year ago. They are starting to become more cautious in their hiring. Job growth has slowed quite sharply since this time last year. If they step back a little further on hiring and unemployment starts to rise, then thats the fodder for recession. I think under Current Conditions if the president does nothing with regard to the trade war, well probably hit that point of no return sometime this fall. And the president says this is jay powell and the feds fault. There are a lot of people who say, no, its a much more complicated discussion, there are global factors. But if you want to blame one person in the United States, it would be the president and his unpredictable tweets. Which would you pick . This is not complicated at all. This is President Trumps fault. The fed, poor fed, theyre trying to follow this guy around. Hes gone from here to there and everywhere else and created all this uncertainty and the fed is trying to calibrate monetary policy, interest rates, to offset the bad policy hes putting in place. So it has nothing to do with the fed. This has everything to do with the very poor trade policy that the president is pursuing. Mark zandi, appreciate your insights. Stay close to that camera in the weeks ahead as we get closer to your deadline out there. Joining our discussion here in studio, damien polette, gina smilek of the new york times. To follow up on what mark was saying, youre in this moment now both from an economic standpoint which matters most to the people watching at home and the president s political standing, which is you do not want a recession heading into your reelection year, thats quite obvious, what policy levers are there from the u. S. Perspective . You know, if germany tips into recession, theres nothing the president of the United States can do about that. You saw the bad numbers out of china, bad numbers out of the uk in recent days. But what policy levers are available to the president of the United States . Thats a great question. Usually the stimulus is more spending and tax cuts. The white house has already done that so thats not in their playbook anymore. The big fear for the white house, mark just talked about Business Investment pulling back. As soon as Consumer Spending pulls back, then youve got a real fiasco because thats the thing thats been dragging this economy along is Consumer Spending. If consumers decide we cant take anymore of this stock market stuff, well wait out this holiday season, then the white house has a real problem on its hands. And the president , you heard him, everything is great. The president often says i just want to show a few things. Number one is u. S. Job growth. This goes back to 2008. It makes a number of points. Number one, that the boom we have started in the back half of the obama administration. The current president doesnt like to an knowledge that but the job growth in the Late Obama Administration is greater than the job growth in the Trump Administration. But notably as you think about the possibility of recession, job growth has slowed somewhat. If youre a president running for reelection, you can say the Unemployment Rate is 3. 7 . Look at that line since trump became president , thats great. However, if we get at or in recession, thats going to start to go up. Yes, absolutely. And i think that is a huge risk for the Trump Administration as we approach next year because its not at all clear that we arent going to enter a recession before that. I do think as mark was saying one really important lever that the white house has to pull here is removing the uncertainty card. If they give businesses a little bit more of a certain backdrop to invest and spend within, that could do a lot to stabilize this economy. By that you mean cut a modest deal with china and forget the bigger issues. To the president s credit, he has brought to the table that other president s were unwilling to pick the fight. Intellectual property, chinese structural issues. Other president s have shied away for this reason because the chinese have a longer view, they dig in and it causes political problems for us at home. And democrats support his tough approach with china. What they have been objecting to is this herkyjerky oneday tariffs, the next day delay, thats freaking the market out. If there was some consistency everyone would breathe easier but right now having these decisions announced on his twitter account and thats caused people to pull back. If youre a political advisor if youre Peter Navarro and the hawk on trade, you say president , hang in there, well be okay. If youre his campaign manager, i think youre saying mr. President , get out of there. Fix this as quickly as you can. Thats right. Hes certainly hearing that from his Political Team but also a lot of his economic advisers who are saying when it comes to tariffs that these tariffs are going to hurt American Consumers more than theyre going hurt the chinese. For that reason the chinese can wait him out. And i think thats why you saw the president delay the tariffs from september 1st to middecember. His trade team sat down with him last week and said that they were hearing an outcry from american retailers who said if he imposes these tariffs in september, it is going to crush holiday sales and really send both consumers and retailers into a panic. I think that really would have hurt his reelection chances. So he did agree to delay them until december 15th. Now, whether they will go into effect december 15th, i think well see a whole new round of negotiations and speculation around that date at this point. It will be fascinating to watch. Appreciate you guys coming in. 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Orourke spent the past two weeks off the trail, back home in el paso. That time away important time to help his Community Heal after a horrible mass shooting and for the former congressman to rethink his so far rocky 2020 bid. Today he said the violence that hit home is the big reason hes staying in the president ial race and what orourke sees as the spark for that violence, what he calls President Trumps open racism, one of his big new cam pe campaign themes. We have a racism in america thats as old as america itself. We have always tried until now to change that. Until this president , who so openly speaks in racist terms. Orourkes other big new motivator, guns, and a proposal that puts him on the left, very left of the democratic field. Not only do we need universal background checks, not only do we need redflag laws that would stop somebody when they pose a danger to themselves or someone else, not only do we need to end the sale of assault weapons and weapons of war that were designed for the battlefield and have no place in our communities, but we must as a country buy those weapons, take them off the streets altogether. You rule nothing out and a lot of people have said since this tragedy back home he seems more animated, more personal, more agitated. Is there room for a beto reset . Potentially. He has found his voice in a way that hes lacked over the two or three months. Hes been struggling a little bit. Hes had different resets, though, in the past where he started off saying immigration was going to be a big issue that his campaign would be about. He changed later to Climate Change was going to be a big issue his campaign was going to be about, and now its gun control. But you do have a sense that hes really animated in this and is pivoting toward taking it to President Trump more aggressively than he has in the past. In his senate race he wouldnt contrast himself with ted cruz or trump. He wouldnt mention trump a lot of times. Now he is and thats giving him a new focus. Weve got almost six months until anybody votes so well say this a lot. Ill be a broken record. We dont know whats going to happen. Theres a lot of time and a lot can change. Beto orourke has qualified for the next round of president ial debates so he has every reason to stay in the race and give it another shot to see if it works but the math is just not great. Back in april he was at 6 in iowa. 6 not a stunning number. The most recent poll has him at less than 1 . I hate to be crass, but the numbers matter. For sure, which also raises the question why isnt he taking that message he gave in el paso today to a speech to iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina or nevada. So hes grown frustrated by what his aides see as the frivolity of this campaign. A lot of his democratic rivals were Walking Around the iowa state fair. He could have blown to iowa and given a serious speech about guns. So he is choosing to go kind of against the traditional nominating process and calendar here because hes frustrated by not being able to break through. He was criticized at the beginning for jumping on counters. But the reality is he in a substantive way has not broken through. I think what matt was saying, hes had a lot of different messages. Now he has this message and it is a right moment for that but it doesnt look like hes going to the places where this contest is playing out. You know, a lot of attention on iowa. A lot of attention on New Hampshire. Like it or not, thats how the rules of the Monopoly Game are played. It looks like hes going to try to go a reverse strategy. It hasnt worked for anyone before. There are always complaints about the process, always, but the process is the process. Thats how the democrats get delegates. The process is the process, like it or not. The question is can he find a way. Right. And i think that he needs to be focusing on the early voting states, all of them do. So again to jeffs point, its not that the message wont resonate, because ive heard from a number of democratic strategists and activists that they feel there is still a void within the field of a democrat who will really take it to trump and who will talk very explicitly about race and about White Supremacy and about White Nationalism and so there is an opening there for him. But if hes giving that message in places that arent going to boost him in the primary, its hard to see how long hes going to last. The Houston Chronicle on sunday saying get out, get into the senate race. He has until december 9th to make that decision. He said, no, i want something bigger. The question is what. I guess the question is, is he playing to win the nomination, which he has a lot of serious advisers, or is he playing to enhance the beto brand here . I think thats what well see play out as he travels across the country. He has a lot of good people on his team. Lets just let this play out for a month or so. As you said, he is on that debate stage. Several rivals would love to be in at least that position. I think theres also a fundamental question with him as to how much political advice he is willing to listen to, and thats always been the struggle for him. He never did it on the senate campaign. At moments hes sort of looked to Bobby Kennedy and liked that Bobby Kennedy went to the indian reservation or went to places where there werent primary votes and he did it for a reason. And you can see that a little bit in him choosing to go to mississippi. But again, political advice is not that. Thats not probably the wisest political move, but theres an aspect to him that likes it for that reason. And it is tough for candidates like beto who have shunned political advice and it worked for them. He had a Successful Senate run against ted cruz. This is what happened to trump in 2016. He discarded all of the conventional political advice and ran a successful campaign. So for beto, i think he thinks i did this successfully once, now i know what im doing. He did lose, however. Same goes for the president. I think thats what his advisers would counter with. Trumps advisers likewise would say, well, you lost the popular vote. Many would argue he won in a scenario that is highly unlikely to play itself out in 2020 or ever again perhaps in american history. So but i think the candidates themselves always attribute it to their own special political insights. We shall see. The volatility is still out there, but again the calendar is the calendar and no candidate can change that. 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The twoterm colorado governor wont commit today but he is seriously looking to run for senate, challenging cory gardner. Hickenlooper has resisted to run for senate in months. At recently as this past sunday right here on cnn. Every time weve beaten an incoumbent president of either party, its been with a governor or former governor. And i feel thats you know, were the ones who have to balance the budgets. Were where the buck stops. Ive done, ive achieved the big progressive goals that washington has been incapable of. Used to be that was a message you could sell in all president ial politics. George w. Bush, ronald reagan, Michael Dukakis lost but won a nomination. Bill clinton won a nomination and won the presidency. What does this tell us, hickenlooper was never able to put it together, that governors dont have the cache they used to have, all of the above . I think its all of the above. I think you have to place responsibility and blame on the candidate himself. He says the right words a lot of people wanting to hear. Hes not the sexiest salesman. The reality is in this era of donald trump, in this era of a diverse democratic field of candidates, he looks like one of the many. His message actually is different. His message actually was like hold on, democrats, you are about to fedex the election to the president. But i spent a decent amount of time with him out on the road behind a bar in des moines, a brew pub. Thats how he got his start before he was the mayor of denver. He actually does pretty well or did pretty well in the retail space but he didnt ever really elevate that. The crowded field. Had he been the only governor, the only outside of washington figure perhaps. But as we go forward looking to the senate, im told hes much more open about this than he was months ago. People around him believe that he actually is pretty close to saying yes to this. In the president ial race, part of the problem for the moderates is that biden sucks up a lot of that space. A lot of democrats who identify as moderate or more centrist voters are with the vice president. Steve bullock, another governor, is struggling. He sees hickenlooper getting out, he sees his own struggle and he says, party, wake up. Well, i do worry were on our way to losing this. You worry democrats are on their way to losing the 2020 election . Before we even begin. Why . Well, look, the core of the word progressive is actually making progress in peoples lives. Watching that last debate stage when the attacks are saying things like essentially beating up on president obamas legacy or saying that its republican talking points not to disrupt the lives of 165 Million People getting private health insurance, weve got to have somebody at the top of the ticket that can actually help red states. I mean if youre if your name isnt biden and youre not very well known and youre running as a moderate, youre not doing very well in this field. The ones that are are ones like buttigieg and beto a little bit who fashioned more of in between moderate, in between the leftwing zone. Klobuchar has been staying in there quite a bit, but other than that, i mean biden is the one whos dominating that lane. So far no one other than Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and kamala harris, who have very different viewpoints from biden are coming close to touching him. This is from 2016 democrats who showed up at the caucus and the primaries. 25 sawere very liberal, 36 somewhat liberal, 32 moderate and 7 conservative. Theres a space there between somewhat liberal and moderate. Biden is holding so much of that will the other moderates come around if and when he does come back to earth. The party does seem headed toward this epic clash of those viewpoints. I think bidens shakiness in some of his early debate performances does give an avenue toward a moderate alternative to biden in that space, just like warren and sanders are duking it out on the progressive lane. The question is who can emerge in that way. I think hickenlooper was an imperfect messenger for that. Bullock is trying to fill that space. Jay inslee is trying to fill that space. There are other accomplished people who are scratching their heads on why they are not catching on. Part of that is biden and part is the crowded nature of the field. In iowa last week there was just sort of a thirst for the field to narrow. Theres too many candidates for anybody to focus on and get to know and dig through the policies of these people. So maybe hickenlooper getting out will help narrow that. It will be interesting to see what the conversation is after the next round of debates and as we get past labor day and towards the end of the year. Well be right back. 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We disagree with representative omar and tlaibs for the antiisrael and antipeace bds movement along with representative tlaibs call for a onestate solution. We also believe every member of congress should be able to visit and experience our democratic ally israel firsthand. This from the democratic leader in the senate. Democratic Chuck Schumer saying denying entry to members of the United States congress is a sign of weakness, not strength. It will only hurt the u. S. israeli relationship and support for israel in america. No Democratic Society should fear an open debate. Many strong supporters of israel will be deeply disappointed in this decision which the Israeli Government should reverse. So apac, which again has been critical of both of these congresswomen, essentially saying, yes, have the debate but why not have them come. Essentially saying to the Israeli Government, what are you afraid of . Thats the most interesting statement to me. You have somebody whos kind of aligned with President Trump and republicans and their arguments against these congresswomen, but is expressing the viewpoint that they should be allowed to go. Israel should not be scared to have them in their country. They should welcome the dialogue and the debate. Well, the question now is how many other republicans come out, which we referenced earlier, now that maybe they feel like they have some cover from apac because a lot of them are closely aligned with those viewpoints. But do they come out and criticize or as weve been on the broadcast the president tweeting again that omar and tlaib are the face of the democratic party. Theyre not the face of the democratic party. They dont have a lot of influence legislatively. The president is trying to make them a political foil. Prime minister netanyahu helping him on this day. Exactly. Once again he has grown a little weary of the many democratic president ial candidates so he wants to elevate these back bench members of congress. Yes, they are important new members but they do not have legislative sway, they are not the leaders of the democratic party. He wants them to be for these purposes here. I think well see again how the president elevates this at his rally tonight in New Hampshire. Look, had the president not inserted himself into this issue, i dont think democrats like Chuck Schumer would be as eager to then insert themselves into it as well, because they would not be going facetoface with the president , they would be going up against an independent israeli decision. I dont think theyre particularly eager to do that, given the positions that some of their own members, including omar and tlaib, have taken. 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Jeanne shaheen is up for reelection next year and most top New Hampshire republicans believe lewandowski would be a disaster as her republican challenger, but the republicans also acknowledge the president s blessing would hold considerable sway with gop voters. Listen here, its the president on the radio this morning. I like everything about him. I think corey is a fantastic guy. If he ran in one, hed be a great senator. He would be great for New Hampshire, hed be great for the country. He has got a tremendous drive, and that drive would be put to the people of New Hampshires benefit and the countrys benefit. So i havent heard that hes running yet, i know hes considering it. If he ran, i think hed be number one. Ruhro. I say that because this from a political story. A number of prominent New Hampshire republicans, the governor, concerns, john gregg, hes a thug. Dave carney, a political hack. Most Top Republicans in New Hampshire think this is a recipe for disaster. The president clearly thinks just the opposite. To be fair, all of those people would have said the same thing about donald trump in 2015 and did. And i think trump shocked the world when he won New Hampshire in that primary and defeated jeb bush and marco rubio and others at that moment. He views Corey Lewandowski as a key to that. Lewandowskis ties to New Hampshire. So i think thats explaining a little bit of President Trumps favor. What committees does he want to serve on, foreign affairs, defense. I mean does he really want to be a senator or does he want to be Donald Trumps man on the senate. Look, we should not discount the possibility of this, because who knows with President Trump on the ballot, boy, that is a big help. But its a pretty big gift for jeanne shaheen, the democratic incumbent. There arent all that many potential republican pickups on the 2020 map. And so to cede one to a candidate whos perhaps not the best possible candidate i think is tough, but also there are a lot of trump allies who are hoping that he does run so he wont be around to put bugs in the president s ear and potentially derail his reelection bid. The concern from local gopers is they dont think that he could beat shaheen. He doesnt expand the base beyond the voters that are already with trump. Shaheen has proven shes a survivor. Shes had tough races. It will be a fun one to watch. Thanks for joining us, see you back here tomorrow. Dont go anywhere, a very busy news day. Brianna keilar starts right now. Have a great afternoon. Im Brianna Keilar live from cnns washington headquarters. Under way right now, the president openly calling on israel to ban two American Democratic lawmakers he has previously lobbed racist attacks against and israel complies. First, he blinked on tariffs. 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