President had the meeting that they were going to hold the announcement until next week, but the president let it be known to some of his advisers last night that he wanted to get the news out today and get it out there he did. Saying next week the United States will be slapping punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum being dumped into the United States. Listen here. It will be 25 for steel, it will be 10 for aluminum. It will be for a long period of time. Reporter you heard it. 10 for aluminum, 25 for steel. Something the president has been talking about since the days of the president ial campaign, saying he wants to revitalize the American Steel industry. Also framing it as a National Security issue because in a time of war, he said, the United States cannot rely on foreign steel, particularly from china, to build ships, tanks and other weapons. The Steel Industry appears very happy about the announcement. Listen to what one ceo said after the meeting. Speaking for the Steel Industry, were convinced that we will see very quick action, definitive action and action that is meaningful and longlasting. While we have not received any of the specifics, we are confident that it will be a good conclusion to the 232 and it will happen very quickly. Reporter now, the 10 and 25 isnt necessarily hard and fast. It could change between now and next week. Of course, dana, youre an expert on trade because you answered so many questions about the World Trade Organization when you were the press secretary here. There are some people who are complaining that the president , in fact, has declared a trade war. Robert lighthouse, the u. S. Trade representative, said such talk is absolute nonsense. This is not a trade war. Dana . Dana i wanted to ask you two things. At the White House Briefing that was scheduled for 2 30 p. M. Do you expect theyll have somebody from the trade world to come in and explain this . Or are they going to try to wait until next week . I wanted to ask you about hope hicks stepping down and then the new controversy with Jared Kushner. Reporter i dont necessarily know theyll trot somebody out today. This wasnt supposed to happen until next week. We were getting conflicting information this morning. The president wanted to get the word out. Now in terms of personnel changes here at the white house, the person who is the closest to the president , other than family, at least for the last three years, hope hick, is departing the white house. The president losing hicks is going to lose one of his closest adviser. Shes literally been at his side all during the campaign and since his time as president. She has been talking to a small group of people saying she was thinking that it was time to leave the white house. Im being told her departure had nothing to do with the statement that she made to the house skpwrepbls committee yesterday about the fact that from time to time she tells white lies on behalf of the president. And then onto Jared Kushner. Theres an article in the New York Times that says the Kushner Companies got hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from Apollo Global management and citi group after Jared Kushner met here at the white house with the ceos of those companies. The white house has stayed silent on this, referring any comment to outside groups. Spokesman for the kushner, for kushners attorney, abby lowell, telling fox news he has no role in the Kushner Companies since joining the government and has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for the companies after that. Spokeswoman for the Kushner Companies telling fox news in the 33 years Kushner Companies have been in business, we have done tens of billions of dollars in transactions and loans with all the top lenders and continue to have a good working relationship. To say that we do business differently than we have in the past is made up and without substant kwraeugs. Heres another case of Jared Kushner and his complex business dealings being in the news at the same time he is in the news for having his security clearance downgraded because of all the complications associated with the investigation into his security clearance. Dana . Dana all right, john. Thank you. For more on the new tariffs the white house announced today, we bring in rob portman of ohio, a member of the finance home land security and Foreign Relations committee. Sir, i wanted to ask you, as we watch the dow jones, down about 487 after this announcement. Do you agree with the president s proposal to add these tariffs next week . Well, dana, well see what it is. Im also a former trade representative and been involved in lot of these negotiations over time. It depends what countries might be exempt, what products might be exempt. We dont know the details yet. I understand that will come out next week. The president preempted it with his comments today. I have argued that some industries do need mediate pretech shun. Its for National Security reasons. Electrical steel is an example. We have one manufacture left for this important steel that goes into transformers thats needed for our electrical grid. They tell me theyre going to go out of business unless they get some relief. Theres a National Security concern there. We need it. Also in some of our oil products. I do think we need some relief. We also need to keep being aggressively administering our trade laws because the more long Term Solution here is to ensure that countries dont dump or subsidize which is illegal under National Rules by bringing these trade cases and winning them. We passed laws making that easier. Dana one of your colleague tweeted lets be clear. Protectionism is weak, not strong. Youd expect policies this bad from a leftist administration. Thats strong. I also wanted to ask you because you and i both worked in the bush administration. When president bush put forth trade tariffs it was considered counter productive. Why would it be different this time . I understand the politics are different. Are the economics any different . Again, it depends what he does and what he exempts. Can those be exempted . We dont know that yet. Well have to see. Youre right. During the bush years, there were tariffs put in place. They were broad based. They increased the cost of automobiles or other manufactured products made with steel, steel or aluminum. It needs to be balanced. Weve got to be sure we have a Steel Industry in this country. The difference between now and when george bush did this is that china decided to essentially be the dominant player in the Steel Industry. At that time, china probably had 20 of the production of steel in the world. Now they have more than half of the production in one country. Its overcapacity. They dont need it for their own country. Yes, they are providing steel to other countries in addition to sending it directly to us. We do need to be careful that we still have a strong Steel Industry in this country. Dana i want to talk about opioids. I do note china is 11th on the list of our steel exporters. Are you saying the exemptions might be for more of our allies like canada, south korea, brazil . Yes. By the way, the canadian steel goes to other countries then comes to us. Korea is an example. Korea doesnt have a single oil rig yet theyre sending us pipe and tube made from chinese steel. Some of that is going at the lowest cost which is the definition of dumping. This is an issue that we have to address. We have to do it carefully. Dana let me ask you about the opioid bill you have put forward with several other members of the senate, from the bipartisan background. Im very interested in you have for the particular interest because of ohio. What in the legislation youre putting forward do you think would actually have the most dramatic impact on helping ohio deal with this . Yeah. Two things. First of all, we have a huge problem in ohio. Its an epidemic across our country, but in ohio and several other stateses were seeing increase in overdose and death at a time where its already the number one cause of death, of crime. Weve got to do something. The legislation, theres a couple things that are really important. One, you recall in the budget agreement, there was an agreement to put additional money against this opioid crisis. Weve got to make sure its spent right. We dont want to just throw money after the problem. We want to make sure it goes to programs that focus on prevention and education. For people addicted, more effective treatment and longer term recovery and helping our first responders. Theres also another part of the bill that goes to the core of this issue which is more and more people getting addicted from prescription pain pills. If that continues to happen the overprescribing issue has been addressed in some states more aggressively than others and by some in the profession more than others. The fact is we still have most people who die of an overdose starting on prescription drugs often legally prescribed. Dana theres some great things in here for financial impacts and also for veterans and the veterans core issue. Thats important. I am curious. Because not everybody is getting addicted because of a prescription. Is there anything in the bill that would deal with sort of just the supply eurb owe show sorry, the demand issue. Its not always coming for the prescription. First time use might be heroin or fentanyl. Fentanyl is the bigger killer in ohio. Yes, we focus on those drugs. You know i have separate legislation dealing with fentanyl and the supply side of that. Its crazy its coming in mostly from china and the u. S. Mail system. We need to choke that off. This bill focuses on the fact that addiction is a disease. We need to treat it like it is a disease. Which means weve got to get people into treatment, longer term recovery. Their chances of success are greater. Weve got to do much more on the prevention and education front. We have 9 million set up for a national campaign. Its time to go back to that. We have a situation now where everybodys affected. Every community. No zip code is immuned. National chamber of Congress Talking about the impact on work force. Businesses need to be more engaged in this issue as well. Dana im going to look that up. I want to learn more about that. You also had some Forward Movement about bills to combat online sex trafficking. We will follow up with you on that. Thanks, dana. Take care. Dana republicans facing a fight to keep control of congress in the midterms. My next guest said republicans may be very well positioned in a couple of states. Plus President Trump raising eyebrows talking gun control yesterday. Now some on the right are pushing back. Like this guy. The police saw that he was a problem, they didnt take any guns away. That could have been policing. They should have taken them away, whether they had the right or not. When you combine ancestrys dna test with its historical records. You could learn youre from ireland. Donegal, ireland. And your ancestor was a fisherman. With blue eyes. Just like you. Begin your journey at ancestry. Com dana President Trump hosting lawmakers at the white house to talk School Safety and gun control yesterday and shocking many in that room and watching at home on tv when he talked about seizing guns from people like the Florida School shooting suspect. Take the firearms first then go to court. By the time you go to court it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early. Like in this crazy mans case that just took place in florida. He had a lot of gun. They saw everything. To go to court would have taken a long time. You could do what youre saying but take the guns first, due process second. Dana karl rove is a knox news contributor. Dana lash at the nra, she had this to say in response to that. One of the things the nra leadership stressed to the president on sunday is that due process must be respected. Dana then tom tellis, the senator from North Carolina said, i dont think he was saying theres a place where you suspend the constitution and suspend due process. I just dont believe that. I know you heard the words. I just dont believe in my heart of hearts thats what he meant. Hes got a legal scholar. Karl, one of the special things about these free flowing meetings that the president is having, you get to see some initial reaction, some spit balling, some ideas. What the president said might not sound outrageous for people who think, how else are you going to prevent these types of Mass Shootings . Youre right. We see a lot of top of the mind, shoot from the shoulder, shoot from the hip comment. There are ways administratively for the police to, in these so called red flag laws, to be able to obtain weapons temporarily from somebody who is troubled. But they have to be able to show sufficient grounds and have enough evidence that would lead them to believe that this is a necessary step. This is better done within the law and not just simply by impulse because what would happen if we did it without due process is that people would be denied their rights and those rights would be affirmed by the court. So do it the right way when you do it. Dana what is your experience and now your gut instinct tell you about where possible legislation is going . I think its unlikely at the federal level that theres no chance of an assault weapons ban. Last time this came up in 2004, it was defeated in the senate by a vote i think of 908. There was overwhelming lack of enthusiasm. Remember, columbine happened midway through the experiment with an assault weapons ban. Dana yeah, 99. 1999. The assault weapons ban basically said were going to take guns that look dangerous when in reality, every gun is dangerous. I think theres a good chance if people stay focused on this of having the cordin murphy bill. This is sponsored by john cordin, by chris murray to fix the problems and the National Crime registries so Law Enforcement has this is reliable. Remember we had what was it, 7,000 air force personnel who should not have been able to buy weapons as civilians and yet were able to because the problems with federal registry. This fixes those federal registry problems. I think thats likely to happen. Dana you wrote a column in your wall street journal weekly piece that theres good news for republicans. I wonder if this gun debate fits into that. Ill show you the terence group that did a poll for the National Republican senatorial committee. It is partisan leaning but a good poll nonetheless, from its methodology. It shows kevin kramer in north dakota, 49 over 44 for heidi highcamp. He just got into the race last week. Is there because theres momentum for republicans in these states where trump won but you have a democratic senator whos up for reelection . I think each one of these states like north dakota and arizona that i talked about in my column, its not a general upward momentum. Its a specific state momentum. Kevin kramer is a very popular member of congress. He and heidi high camp went to washington at the same time. She was at the senate in 2012 and him to the house in 2012. What happened in those elections is, she won by. 09 of a percent and he won by 13 points. He ran ahead of President Trump last year by considerable margin in north dakota. North dakota was i think a 36 win for President Trump. So hes a very good candidate for north dakota. Theres great contrast between he and heidi highcamp. He and the states very popular senior senator have been over here and shes been over there on virtually every major issue. The good news is weve gotten really good candidates in north dakota and arizona given specific advantages in those states. Dana all right. Karl rove, thank you. Thank you. Dana fox news alert. The dow is down big time today after the president announcing new tariffs on steel and aluminum aimed at china and other nations. Some economists warned this could mark the start of a trade war with china. Russia sparking nuclear concern, claiming it has new weapons that are invincible. How will the u. S. Respond . Plus president targeting unfair competition. Not all u. S. Solar companies are happy. Whos complaining and why . Alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. And help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks ill take that. Yeeeeeah ensure high protein. With 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. Ensure. Always be you. Thats it girl get it, woo, yeah mom my games over. Parents arent perfect, but then they make us Kraft Mac Cheese and everythings good again. 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