-- among some of the ceos in the room, trump did impose tariffs on china, renegotiated nafta to get usmcaat a second trump term -- would it be good for free-trade, international trade? or would it be more tariffs, protection as we saw in the first term? >> whoever becomes president, my concern is that the president's are taking more authority away from the house and senate because the house and senate is not doing their job. the more you allow that to happen, it's bad for america in the long run. what i try to invite president trump is, if you want to become president, it has to be about rebuilding, restoring, and renewing america. if it's revenge, you want get the opportunity. i find that if you focus on a few small things, energy, make us be competitive. you have to deal with the border , regardless of who you are and where you're sitting in the office today. trade. prior to him becoming president, i think most of the country had a different opinion of what china was doing. when people look back, even if they didn't like him at the time, they say, he was there. if he enters president ag

the mexican example already through the usmca is a great example. but this is all jeopardized if foreign investors believe that their land can be taken. that they can be invaded by the mexican military, that decades of providing jobs and investment can be taken away at the whim of the individual who is president. we're seeing a historic shift in global supply chains right notice. that could be to mexico's advantage, but if mexico continues on the kind of behavior that senator hagerty and i are discussing today, mexico will fall short of this is opportunity that is right at its doorstep. i support the state department's efforts to advocate for u.s. businesses in mexico, including making clear to the mexican government that their treatment of vulcan and other companies will undermine u.s. and international confidence in that country. i urge the government to refrain from moving in this counterproductive direction. and i thank my colleague from tennessee, senator hagerty and others in this body who are focused on this issue, i thank them for maintainin

he helped us with usmca and a lot of things. on this, the most geopolitical issue, he's wrong.their argument basically is, look, if you invest more in china. do you more business with china, they are going to become like switzerland that exactly the view that the clinton administration had. >> laura: it's ridiculous. >> by the way, at that time you and i both said it was nonsense. that was the reason we gave china the favored trade relationship. it was because of this notion. now we are 23 years later. we have transferred probably $10 trillion to them. they are more authoritarian. they are more aggressive. they are more anti-american. they spy on us more. they send over, as you just showed. 24,000 penal. just for -- give you a frame of reference. that's about two army divisions that we know of. right? that doesn't even count. >> laura: bob, china is -- let me just say china has all sorts of structural problems they are dealing with. real estate, you know, collapse. all sorts of other issues. why would mchenry and why would any republican, let alone any elected official want to

cuellar worked on usmca, a many better deal, and best workers in the world here in the united states a reliable farm bill safety net, which we are working on and have to as the chair lady knows, we have to get the next farm bill done so we can provide stability in the ag economy and critical infrastructure. mr. cuellar have worked on new payment models for rural hospitals that provided greater access for these hardworking folks and now we've gt this artery from laredo through my hometown of plain view. i grew up not even a mile from i-27 and to think that this project has come to fruition on the texas and new mexico side and connect those dots all the way to canada, we are going to bless generations of not only folks in laredo and great western texas area, but americans all over this country. we have the lowest spend in terms of discretionary spending on food and a big part of that is that our producers and another piece is critical infrastructure. i say hats off to henry cuellar, my democrat co-lead and thank senators cruz and cornyn, the leads in the senate. representatives pfluger