you don t have a mature policymaking apparatus within the white house. largely because you have a president who is so impulsive. and we is saw that with this policy rollout. so when wilbur ross, the secretary, says he ll change his mind and that will be the policy. for our allies who are already reeling trying to figure out what america stands for anymore in the global order, especially when you have china going in this authoritarian direction, you have businesses opposed to this. what do they want? has the president forgotten the health care bait did he bait? the president is trying to protect an industry, that the wall street journal points out today, you can put tariffs to try to help the industry. it doesn t mean they re going to hire more because they can do a lot more with less. the industry has changed
attendees, i like chaos. it really is good. now the question everyone keeps asking is, who is going to be the next to leave? steve miller or melania? and taking a jab at his embattled son-in-law, before i get started i want to apologize for arriving a little bit late. you know, we re late tonight because jared couldn t get through security. the president also joking that vice president mike pence starts out each morning asking everyone, quote, has he been impeached yet? mr. trump making light of china s decision to scrap presidential term limits in a conversation with donors saturday. he s now president for life. hey, look, he was able to do that. i think it s great. we want to give that a shot some day. reporter: now the president and the first lady will welcome the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu and his wife here to the white house today and it s worth noting that there are no scheduled photo opportunities at the moment but one thing to keep your eye on is if jared k
kind of tariffs, broad tariffs without any harmful retaliatory measures that will have real effects on american workers and consumers is folly. part of what s so upsetting to mainstream economists about these tariffs is not the fact that trump imposed tariffs at all but how broad they are. these tariffs hit mainly hit u.s. allies. if you look at importers of steel to the u.s., two of the top three are canada and south korea, both u.s. allies. china isn t even in the top ten. if you look at the aluminum tariffs, they hit canada hardest. they hit russia harder than they hit china. so part of the frustration here is that it s this ad hoc broad brush approach that isn t even really going to hit the countries that most deserved to be slapped with tariffs. trade imbalance.
aluminum industries are dead. time for a change. but appearing to leave room for the president to change his mind stphrfplt whatever his final decision is. i have no reason to believe he will change. the trade wars dividing us from our allies makes no sense. china is winning and we re losing. you re letting china off the hook, punishing the american consumer and our allies. you re making a huge mistake here. reporter: the president making light of the taou multitelling attendees, i like chaos. it really is good. now the question is who is going to be next to leave? steve miller or melania? and taking a job at his
embattled son-in-law. he said before i get started for being late. you know, we re late tonight because jared could not get through security. mr. trump making light of china s decision to scrap term limits in a conversation with donors saturday. i think it s great. maybe i should give that a shot some day. reporter: the president and the first lady are going to welcome the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. there are no photo opportunities scheduled at the moment. but all eyes will be watching to see if jared kushner is involved in that meeting after she was stripped of his top secret security clearance just last week. thank you very much. let s bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and david gregory. david gregory, the simple read on why the president is doing