>> i could never having a show having political influence. >> thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you cnn talk is next. for u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. i don't think we've ever had a better relationship with china. the only thing that can get in its way is trade. >> china retaliating against the u.s. announcing new tariffs on american goods. our shared objective is to reduce the trade deficit. we're not afraid of a trade war. >> the idea that people are coming here to take advantage of daca is completely wrong. >> this is how trump negotiates. this is him pushing things along. >> so you were fired. >> i did not resign. >> the white house pushing back insisting the secretary step down. >> it adds more confusion.

he didn't leave on his own accord. he was canned. that's what the donald does. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day". chris is off. i am jim shuuto and john avlon joining me. what a fun hour we have had. okay. let's continue. china makes good on its promise to strike back, slapping tariffs on $3 billion worth of u.s. exports in response to president trump's penalties on imported steel and aluminum. the retaliatory move heightening fears of a trade war. meantime, president trump declaring no deal for dreamers and threaten to go pull out of nafta unless mexico does more to protect the border. new reporting about what is fueling the president's hard line on immigration. all of this as david shulkin tells cnn he was fired while the white house still insists he resign, setting up a fight over

his successor. the we have it all covered. let's begin with ivan watson live in beijing with our top story. >> reporter: hi there, jim. china has retaliated for the trump administration's tariffs that were imposed on imports of steel and aluminum last month. the chinese finance ministry said that seriously damaged chinese interests. it has singled out 128 different u.s. imports to china and slapped sanctions on them -- tariffs, rather. 15% on items such as fruits, nuts, wine, steel pipes. 25% owe pork and recycled aluminum. this amounts to $3 billion worth of u.s. goods coming to china. that's a drop in the bucket when you compare it to overall is trade between the two countries, which is close to $650 billion. but if you're a pork producer, a hog farmer in the u.s. right

now, this may be very worrisome. the national pork producers council said china is the u.s.'s third largest market for pork exports. it's a $1.1 billion industry. and somebody who may have a container full of pork chops in a chinese pork, they just lost 25% of their value. the trump administration has threatened additional $50 billion to $60 billion worth of goods, tariffs coming from china for incidetellectuaintellectual. president trump vowed over the weekend that there will be no deal on dreamers. he also threatened to exit nafta in a series of tweets. what prompted this? kaitlan collins is live with more. >> reporter: it had been a few

days of relative silence from the president. after he spent the weekend with a series of fox news hostsis and allies, he went on a rant on twitter essentially declaring no deal for daca to get legal status and threatened to pull out of nafta if mexico doesn't start doing more for border security. president trump spending the easter holiday weekend venting about immigration. in a series of combative tweets he is saying they are pouring into the u.s. because they want in on the act. >> they want to take advantage of daca. we'll have to see. >> reporter: the president confused about the program. it only applies to those who have lives in the u.s. since 2007. meaning no one crossing the border now would be he eligible. president trump also blaming democrats for fail to go broker

a deal to protect dreamers, he despite it was his idea to end the program in the first place. in stark contrast to these earlier promises. >> very, very tough subject. we are going to deal with daca with heart. >> it should be a bipartisan bill. it should be a bill of love. truly it should be a bill of love. and we can do that. >> reporter: the president's outburst prompting criticism from members of both parties, including ohio governor john kasich who tweeted a true leader preserves and offers hope, doesn't take hope from innocent children who call america home. the president threatening to pull out of mexico if they don't curtail the flow of undocumented immigrants. >> mexico has got to help us at the border. they flow right through mexico and send them to the united states. can't happen way any more.

>> reporter: mr. trump using that argument to stress the need for his border wall. sources tell cnn it comes after he had a number of conversations over the weekend with fox news allies. his base believes he's softening on immigration. multiple people pointing to ann coulter calling trump a disappointment. all this as the trump administration continues to insist that ousted veterans affairs secretary david shulkin are signed rather than being fired. shulkin denying this claim, saying he never submitted a resignation letter. >> i would not resign. i'm committed to making sure this job was seen through to the very is end. >> so you were fired? >> i did not resign. >> reporter: he has been on quite the media tour since he resigned or was fired. the president is continue to go tweet following up on his tweet storm yesterday saying, quote, mexico has the absolute power to

let these large caravans of people enter their country. they must stop them at their northern border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through our country, which has no effective board laws. he is continuing to tweet about this. it is unclear if they actually represent a change in policy for this president or him venting after watching cable news. >> okay. we'll talk about that. >> does that happen? >> thank you very much. here to break down all of this, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. we have no effective border laws? >> he said that his administration is a huge success at cut canning illegal immigration. you know, be i think it's a mistake to parse these too carefully for logic and factual accuracy. but they are good windows into what he is actually thinking. and he is is worried that his

base thinks that he is getting soft on immigration. >> we do now know the genesis of this change. it was a fox and friends segment. the president loves watching fox and friends. my friends over at the weekend show, tkpwregriff jenkins was i with a caravan with a reporter in it trying to get from honduras to the u.s. border. here is what the president watched. listen to this moment. >> an army of migrants is marching or riding or making their way from honduras? >> most all of them from central america. the big question is what happens when they do arrive in the u.s.? i know they want to seek protection.

but they won't necessarily get that? >> no. they're going to be arrested. you can't illegally come to the united states. >> will they, though? i don't know. >> if there is a small migrant army marching to the united states peacefully but wants to cross our borders, how should it be handled? >> what a good question for the fox audience. >> a migrant army. this is an army. it speaks to an invasion of brown people, right, from central america. this is the implication. and you do have a direct pipeline from that broadcast. >> the president tweeted shortly after that. listen, that's a talking point on fox and friends weekend. we used to do these all the time. you talk about the news. you don't report the news. you talk about the news and you sort of opine on it. but when i was in the show, president obama wasn't forming policy, i don't think, based on my blatherings. but, margaret, there is a direct link from that airing to then the president's tweet.

>> well, and the president knows there is a key component of his base that watches the same programming and may want him to respond to that also. look, it is not exactly clear whether this was weekend twaoert and we will shift to weekday policy or whether there is a potential shift. we have been hearing they are going to be able to work this out on nafta and the president has been committed to taking care of the daca children. the march date passed and here we are now. at 2:00 this afternoon on his public schedule is larry kudlow to replace gary cohn.

>> let's just talk daca one more minute. 800,000 people whose lives and fate are in jeopardy here. you know, we talk about them as if they are just a political issue. they are actual human beings who lived the the vast majority of their lives in the united states the president keeps making up stuff, acting as if he's the one that wants to protect them. >> what we are seeing from that clip, though, that i think is significant is the moment of inception. when he says what do you think, he might as well say what do you think, mr. president? because he is going to get a tweet in real-time. so it does end up dehumanizing the people we're talking about, the human beings. it is a sound bite designed to create fear among a certain

element. >> it is a pure political calculation. kaitlan collins said the president does feel, as you were referencing, jeffrey, the president is worried he is softening on immigration. therefore, he is sending a message directly to the base with this. >> and ann coulter. we saw the reporting this weekend. she said without a wall she is a former trumper. that's the deal breaker for her. is this another tweet? >> yes. there is a dot, dot, dot. the president continuing. congress must immediately pass border legislation, use nuclear option if necessary, to stop the massive in flow of drugs and people. border patrol agents and i.c.e. are great but the weak dems laws don't allow them to do their job. act now congress, our country is being stolen. the president's political point is clear. >> yeah. he's invoking the nuclear option and talking about how

countries's borders are being stolen under his watch. he has the capital to pull a nixon in china on this issue if he wanted to. there were outlines of the bargain that could preserve the dreamers, which in the past he said he wanted to, and increase border security, which is a priority for him. buff he seems to grandstand than govern. that is a loss for the country as well as for his political base. >> there hasn't been a single time in the trump president is seu when he has done a nixon to china. when he has done anything, any policy except that which pleases his base. that's the bet he's placing on his presidency of being a hard line conservative and keeping his base happy. but, you know, kwraoel see how that works out in the midterms. >> it is say doubling down barreling towards the november midterm elections. if you start invoking the nuclear and then your chamber

terms. >> people who don't know the link going, it means ending filibusters in the senate. they would operate by majority role. >> on legislation not just judges. >> and not just nominations. but there is no one in the senate who wants that. mitch mcconnell doesn't want that. so the idea that, you know, the nuclear option is going to happen is just a fantasy. >> and if democrats take control, a big if. >> very quickly, margaret. the president is often influenced by whomever he just had dinner with. here's his weekend guests. jean nine pirro, shawn hannity, bill shine, don king, bernard kerik, and the pillow guy, mike lindell. margaret, what are we to make of that cast?

>> if the mike lindell is helping the president get a good night's sleep, that's good. >> good pillows. i have one. >> it will be the best broadway play. >> i'd watch that for sure. >> thank you all. president trump's inner is circle shrinking. who has the president's ear now? we'll ask a former trump campaign adviser michael caputo. that's next. ...and infused with air. for 100% conditioning, with 0% weight. strong is beautiful. new pantene. foam conditioner. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs.

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president. should we take the president on his word? >> i don't think the president, at least president trump has ever really done negotiating until a deal is done. i think the president shows in this tweet and some of the other things he tweeted and said in recent days that he is tired of the democrats on daca. he wanted to make a deal. he talked about doing something that everyone could be happy with. the democrats would not give on any of the other items he wanted as part of that deal as if they were in the majority. >> how do you back up that argument that this is all about democrats here? there have been proposals going back and forth from both parties here. how does he get away with putting this all on the democrats's shoulders? >> i don't think he puts it all on the democrats's shoulders. >> he did there. >> in this tweet he does. but this is something that lies on the desks of congress.

i think the democrats in congress have made sure that that deal isn't something the president would want to sign. i think they have rejected some of the items he insisted on having. the president controls the white house. the republicans have the senate and the house. the democrats are acting as if they're in control. they're not. the president is trying to get them to the table for the final time. >> john avlon is with me and wants to pipe in. is this all about money for the wall? the president was disappointed. t republican ma skwrorts in both houses. is that really what the president is looking for? you said he is not done negotiating. would he be satisfied is if he got money for his wall? >> the president believes people who are allies that without a

secure border, in this case the president views the wall that fixing immigration is impossible. the democrats disagree with that. >> democrats have been ordering more money for border security. you acknowledge that, correct? >> yes, sir, i do. >> we also are a long way from the bill of love. you admit that, right? >> certainly i admit that. at the same time we're nowhere near the bill the president wants. the democrats are in the minority. >> when the president tweets, as he did this morning, that the democrats want no borders, that's factually false. you can see that right? >> i can see what the president's rhetorical point is there.

in comparison to donald trump and the people who agree with him, the democrats in comparison do not want a strong border. the president believes that's a down side and he is insisting on something a lot more strong. >> the president is not claiming a rhetorical point. he is claiming this as a factual point. let me ask you, michael, if i can -- >> when do democrats take rhetorical points. >> you want to get to the president's position on this. that's what is key here. people talk about doubts about the president's word. based on his own statements has changed enormously. you may be aware of that. but for the sake of viewers, let's have a listen. >> i will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive order on immigration.

immediately. >> it's a very, very tough subject. we are having a deal with daca. >> it should be a bill of love. truly should be a bill of love. and we can do that. >> what is the president's actual position on daca? explain it in one sentence. >> i believe the president wants to create a final solution for the people under the daca ruling. i think he wants a solution that is one of love. he wants classified people to stay in the country. i believe he would do that if democrats came around. what you heard on the first part of these clips were campaign rhetoric, something he was seen as he was barn storming america. he believes that this program would be overturned. he canceled it and said let's

get-together and fix this for good. yet we haven't been able to do it. >> he came up with the phrase bill of love. that's his own rhetorical position on this. why the evolution away from that public offer? >> because the democrats, in his mind, and i think in mine as well, have been playing politics all the way along. they're not giving the points the president wants. he controls the white house and the administration. the republicans control the senate and the house. they are acting as if this is their time. it's not. they have to compromise to get a solution for daca. >>ed point john avlon made, the democrats have offered more money on the wall. i just wonder if at the end of the day, this is about the president taking messages from the app coulters of the world. here he is now saying daca is dead. those are his words via twitter

moments ago. i wonder if this is about a little bit indication negotiation and more about the president more worried about his base going into the midterms and 2020. >> ann coulter has never moved the president in one direction or the other. >> why did he spend the weekend with shean hannity and jeanine pirro? that's who he spent his weekend with. >> i'm palms up about why people are worried that the president chooses to make friends with people from fox instead of cnn. if you are worried about his dinner partners -- >> how about folks outside the television news business. >> i don't know. the president comes from the television news business. this is where he comes from.

he also has dinner with developers. he's not a politician. he's not going to dine with people from the democratic or republican party. that's just not the president we have. >> that is the team of advisers in his white house. >> listen, i'll tell you. i understand. television news tends to find people who are experts in their field and has them on as commentators and even hosts. that's where larry kudlow comes from. he is not a television commentator as much as as an economic adviser. i remember him standing in the room with me and jack kemp. same thing with jim bolton. he's a man with years and years of experience on the national security apparatus. i think you are summarizing their resumes incorrectly. >> you are saying sean hannity, who he spends a lot of time with, he's an expert on these issues?

>> of course i'm not saying that. i'm saying sean hannity is his friend. he is a commentator, he is somebody from radio and television. but you can't paint them with the same broad brush just because they come from the rival network. >> inside his own cabinet, regardless of who he meets with on the weekend, he is surrounding himself with more agreeable folks. >> i certainly hope so. the president deserves a cabinet and a white house full of advisers that he wants. every president deserves that. the fact that we see mike pompeo, larry kudlow shows the president is assembling a team that he desires. and i've got to tell you -- >> i get the point, michael. >> the fact that you are on tv

disqualifies you either. >> if he would take my calls, i would call him back. >> michael caputo, thank you for taking the tough questions, as always. >> here's what's fundamentally wrong about the point that michael is making. it is not that he shouldn't surround himself with people that he likes. it is not people who in flame his worst instincts and challenge him. it is they surround themselves with a team of rivals. true during lincoln where the book kicoined the phrase. people who are not actually issue experts being the last people on your ear on policies that effect people, those two things are real problems. >> not only that, i want to correct one thing. he said the president comes from the world of tv news. "the apprentice" is not tv news. it's tv. it's not tv news. that's not right. >> every president has a

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ousted veterans affairs secretary david shulkin left the administration last thursday. he says he was fired because of his position on privatization. so what does this mean for veterans going forward? joining us is is former veterans affairs secretary dr. david shulkin. thanks for being here. >> good morning, alisyn. >> you say you were fired. the administration says you resigned. the reason this is important is there is a law, there is

protocol that if you were fired your deputy needs to be put in place in an interim position. but that's not what happened. is protocol being broken right now? >> it is a complex piece of legislation. i think there's not complete clarity on what happens next. that is something that the administration will need to figure out and i'm sure they will do the right thing. >> were you fired or did you resign? >> well, i came to washington with the commitment to make our system work better for veterans. that's the commitment that i went to work every day. ive continue to feel strongly about that. there was no reason why i would resign. >> so why not just say you were fired? >> i think that's the alternative to resignation. i received a phone call saying the president wanted to make a change. that is certainly his prerogative to do that, and that's what happened. >> you received a phone call from chief of staff kelly who

fired stpwhru general kelly gave me a heads-up. >> so the tweet fired you? >> yes. >> do you think that you were fired because of your views on privatization? >> every cabinet member serves at the pleasure of the president. i think the president needs to have around him that he feels comfortable with. this is his decision. i don't know exactly all the reasons that went into that. that's not something that is really that important to me. there's no doubt there were people around the president advising him that the v.a. needed to go in a different direction and that he needed to have different leadership in place in order to achieve his policy goals. >> i know you're not parsing what happened, but it is certainly important for veterans. do you think because of your viewers on privatization, you had to go? >> this is all about the

veterans, alisyn. there's no question. look, i feel strongly that we were making very significant progress. we had bipartisan support fixing the v.a., transforming it. we had improved wait times. we got 11 bills through congress. i don't know any other area that had so much progress. we were fixing the v.a. to many people it took their ability able to say we need to privatize the v.a. >> senator bernie sanders was on on yesterday and he said he thinks the v.a. will move in the direction of privatization. here he is. >> i would strongly suspect if you get rid of shulkin and put dr. jackson in, that is what his mission will be. i will do everything i can not to approve any nominee who is not going to strengthen the v.a. and who will oppose

privatization. >> dr. shulkin, do you think that's the direction the v.a. will be moving in? >> i certainly hope not. i understand senator sanders concerns. look, we have bipartisan support, great leadership to make sure the v.a. is there for men and women who go off and protect our country. we have the veterans themselves, the veteran community who knows it is essential to have a strong v.a. you can work with the private tech sore. that's the direction i was moving in. it is essential that we work together and make this the very best that our veterans deserve. and i think the country recognizes in the past we just haven't done it. we are well on our way to doing it. i hope we keep this in the same direction we have been moving in the last year. >> does it concern you that your replacement does not have any managerial experience for the second largest agency in the country? >> well, i have comfort because i know dr. jackson.

dr. jackson is a very honorable man who wants to do the right thing. and he's going to need to build a team to help him do this. this is a big job. the second largest agency in the federal government. $200 billion a year. very c very complex organization. building the right team, having the support of the president, the congress, and the veteran community is what dr. jackson will need to be kefl. >> an agent of $370,000 people, do you think they can be run by somebody who no managerial experience? >> there is no doubt that it is a challenge. this is a leadership position. it is very complex management. i think it's our job to support the nominee the very best that we can. and i have said i'm going to do everything i can to help support dr. jackson because it is essential that the v.a. continue to make progress. it is essential we transform this organization. we owe it to the men and women

of this country who have defended us. >> last, very quickly, what is the answer for the v.a.? it has been so riddled and rife with problems. what is the answer for veterans? >> i think the answer for veterans is to modernize the system. i think it is to restruck is sure so it's not as complex and bureaucratic. to make the proper investments in the right places. i don't think there has always been investments in the right places for the v.a. and i think it's continuity of leadership. this constant turning over of top leaders of secretaries and other leaders doesn't help when you're trying to make these types of systemic changes. >> dr. david shulkin, thank you for coming on and giving us your thoughts on all of this. >> thank you. second instance for fired by tweet in a row for the cabinet

official. the president has a reputation of you're fired. direct conflict. the this president doesn't like direct conflict. firing someone by tweet is like breaking up with somebody via text. >> the other thing is the white house is clearly not telling the truth about the departures. he was a presidential appointee. he is saying i did not resign. that directly contradicts -- >> and i wanted to stay. >> it directly contacts a new fact. alternative fact. bill cosby is again facing sexual assault charges. but the world has changed since his first trial. how the me too movement might affect his retrial. that is next.

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the jury. we don't know how long it's going to take. on the one hand, we are here in montgomery county. this is where bill cosby has been loved and adored for decades now. but on the other hand, the pulse of the country has changed dramatically since last june. >> survivors unite. >> reporter: is with the momentum of me too. >> survivors united. >> reporter: and public a accusations against hollywood. >> i have been silenced 20 years. >> reporter: only one major holiday has been charged with an offense. america's dad, bill cosby. the comedian and tv legend's retrial begins now. >> the atmosphere has shifted. it is not a favorable time to be defending yourself against accusations of sexual assault. >> reporter: charged with three counts of felony aggravated in decent assault, the 80-year-old cosby could face a decade in

prison if convicted. prosecutors say in 2004 he assaulted this woman, andrea constand. at the time the director of women's basketball operations at temple university in philadelphia. diana parsons is her sister and said it took a year before constant said anything about what happened and went to police. >> she said that she just knew she had to lie down. and she said bill cosby helped her to the couch. she said she couldn't walk on her own. >> constand told police cosby drugged and sexual assaulted her at his home in montgomery county, pennsylvania. cosby denied the allegations. the district attorney said the case was weak. >> did i think i could prove beyond a reasonable doubt, no, i didn't. >> reporter: no criminal charges against cosby.

constand then filed a civil suit. cosby testified in a sworn deposition before they reached a can confidential settlement. fast forward to 2015. that deposition was unsealed, revealing cosby had admitted giving drugs to women he wanted to have sex with. prosecutors reopened the criminal investigation and days before the statute of limitations ran out, cosby was charged in criminal court. pennsylvania defense attorney brian mcmonday gal represented cosby from the beginning. he pleaded not guilty. a first trial last year ended in a hung jury. >> she's entitled to a verdict in this case. >> reporter: now a new trial with some big differences. a new defense team for do's kos by led by tom mess row who got an acquittal for michael jackson in his child monthlyestation trial.

mess row told cnn how he would question constand. >> what's more important for you, monday or principle? did you do it publicly? >> one other woman who said cosby drugged and assaulted her was allowed to testify for the prosecution. kelly johnson. >> i remember waking up in a bed with mr. kocosby naked beneath s robe. >> in this trial, the judge said five prior accusers can take the stand. one who has been subpoenaed, former super model janice dickinson.

. >> three years ago i interviewed roughly of the dozen of cosby accusers. it's he said/she said. why didn't they tell anybody when it happened. that conversation is so outdated because they did tell people when it happened, nobody believed them. it's not he said/she said. it's he said/she said, she said, she said. >> the lawyers are saying this new cultural evolution makes it more difficult for them to get a fair trial but if the cultural evolution is toward justice and conversations and behind closed doors, that's actually a different challenge they need to confront. it's a fascinating moment. >> yes. thank you both. the judge sending a clear message in the government's courtle to block the mega merger

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the high stakes media merger trial set to resume in hours. the justice department is suing to block at&t's proposed merger with time warner. that's cnn's parent company. so what do we expect in the trial today? let's bring in brian stelter and had a das gold. what's going to happen today? >> today we might see the rest of the closed session with that comcast executive from last week and he was the one the witness from the government side that surprisingly hurt their case when he said he didn't think there would be any problems in negotiations if time warner and at&t would come together. he think he'd still be able to get time warner content just

fine. today we're also expected to see from -- but he previously was head of distribution for turner and so he was in charge of negotiating all of these deals with all of these other distributors. we should expect to hear from the government lawyers asking him how did you leverage having channels like cnn and tnt when you were negotiating with other distributors to air that content because the government lawyers are arguing that time warner and at&t would use this content sort of an unfair way when negotiating with distributors after the merger. >> brian, here's a business friendly republican president who is standing in the way of a merger that is gotten approval fairly easily, the implication being there's something personal going on here. you see the president's attacks on amazon, "the washington post" coverage of him, a possible factor in there. >> we have to picture a trial on two tracks. the actual trial that's taking

place every day in d.c. is about marketplace competition. it's really interesting issues here about how much power an individual company should have and whether content, distribution should be allowed to merge. nbc and comcast did that almost a decade ago. there's a debate over how well that's gone. here we have this actual trial going on and the other track is this trump question about whether this is politically motivated, whether jeff sessions, justice department is at all trying to please the president knowing the president doesn't like this channel but trying to punish the at&t-time warner deal. the dual tracks, it's true about amazon and "the washington post" as well. if there's government action against amazon as the president seems to want to have happen, is he somehow encouraging this because he's mad at "the washington post" because jeff bezos both runs amazon and owns the "the washington post." this is a case where words matter. it casts a cloud of doubt over what could be really important

business processes, really important antitrust action. >> john? >> following up on that, we know the president's attacks on amazon seem excessive on twitter lately. he says they're costing the post office money. >> right. >> the political difference between the actions the dojs taken against time warner merger and that's very much in the news. >> sinclair is trying to buy up more stations. it's been reviewed by the fcc which has a trump appointee running the fcc and so far that seems to be on a pretty easy track for approval. so two very different cases but it raises that question of whether there's politically motivated and what i think is curious in the courthouse, this is not being talked about. the trump factor is off the table. what is on the table is how much muscle these companies have, so it really say two-track situation. >> but it is casting -- even though we're not mentioning

donald trump in the courtroom, everyone's talking about it and there's a lot of analysts there, a lot of media and they're saying -- they're wondering what the government track is here because there is a path for the government to win this case but it's pretty narrow. another thing that people keep noting is that, just as brian was saying, the difference between how this is being treated by the administration versus other mergers that we're hearing about, have we heard the president say anything about 21st century fox and the disney merger, we haven't. >> we will count on you tomorrow to bring us up to speed about what's going on in the courtroom. we're following a lot of news so let's get right to it. >> it is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world. >> the chinese government slapping tariffs on $3 billion worth of u.s. exports. >> we should have gotten the world together and taken on the chinese for diplomacy. >> a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of daca. can't happen that way any more. >> this is the kind of tweet

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