the trade war. and the markets are reacting badly. >> all in all a very difficult day for the stock market. that having been said, we are one tweet away from a rally. >> leader of the pack, joe biden leads big in a new early state poll built largely on success with black voters and the perception gnat he is the democratic most likely to defeat donald trump. >> biden surge we have been seeing nationally evident in south carolina, as well. among african-american voters, biden doing 20 points better with black voters than bhiet voters. >> don't speak. donald trump goes on the attack against former white house counsel don mcgahn following reports he twice said to trump no to requests to publicly state he did not believe the president obstructed justice.

>> good day. where wall street is reeling from the escalating trade war, let's start this monday with the market melt down. it was sparked by the president's twitter feed and china retaliating with $60 billion -- after the president began his morning by pouring more gasoline on this fire with another round of tweets predicting the economic pain he is going to heap on the chinese and claiming there is no reason for the u.s. consumer to pay the tariffs, dismissing the reality acknowledged by the director of his national economic council just yesterday. >> in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in these things. of course, it depends -- >> if it is a tariff on the goods coming into the country, the chinese aren't paying. >> no but the chinese will suffer gdp.

>> u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay. >> yes, to some extent. i don't disagree with that. >> joining me to talk about this, nbc white house correspondent kristin welker and david jolly. matt mccarty and msnbc's ali velchi. things weren't looking good frankly before the tweets. the conversations had fallen apart. now you have retaliation from china. this is really a mess. >> i think last year we were having a splendid markets year until the trade war started. then we started this year off and it was going very well. now we have lost four percent in the last week. to lose four percent in the last week is a fairly serious matter. half of all people say i have nothing to do with the markets. what kudlow admitted to chris

wallace saying i largely agree. you have to 100% agree. when you impose a tariff on goods from another country, the country pays nothing to you. companies pay the tariffs and pass it on to consumers unless you are a remarkable company that doesn't pass on the expenses to your consumers and some very wealthy companies with a lot of cash on hand can maybe hold back and not do it. we saw that happening last year with a few companies saying we are not going to pass things on just yet. it is farmers and people like that. >> look where these new tariffs are going. they are targeting agriculture. >> those farmers have to decide what they are planting. these are decisions that have to be made. you might like a trade war or think that china deserves what it is getting. let's not kid ourselves about who pays for this. the american consumer is paying for this. at this moment in time the interest of the american consumer and american worker are

misaligned. >> the president seems to want to have this fight as some of this closest advisers in the white house know they admit the tariffs will hurt consumers across the country, not even to take the next step which is the economy is his number one most positive talking point for reelection in 2020. >> i asked the president if he was going to run on the economy. he said i will run on the economy. that's part of what makes this such a risky stratstrategy. a lot of the farmers who would be directly impacted are in trump country, the areas that help to win the white house. of course, it's not just american farmers. it is various industries and consumers will get hit by everything from big ticket items to washing machines and sneakers. the president striking a defiant

note. president trump tweeting there is no reason for the u.s. consumer to pay the tariffs which will take effect on china today. this has been proven recently. president trump continuing to double down despite the fact it has been countered publicly by his own top officials. behind the scenes i can tell you that their argument is the economy has never been stronger. the president feels as though he is never going to have a stronger bargaining position. so he wants to use this leverage right now while he feels as though the economy can take this hit. >> the flip side of that is the 2020 is coming and the chinese know it. this is not a secret. they know that the president is in a box. they know he can't afford to have ineconomy tathe economy ta put yourself in the shoes for a minute. how frustrating and concerning

are the tweets we have seen over the last couple of days to the point where you have people saying another tweet could turn the whole thing around? >> this is a serious matter. this is a shift in global trade. china and the united states are the two largest players. make no mistake about it. the president i think did make a mistake raising expectations that there was going to be a deal and now that there is not a deal, you see the reaction in the market and so forth. there is no doubt that larry kudlow had it right on the tariffs and that there would be pain on both sides. there is rleverage on both side. it is a lose/lose proposition at the moment. >> you know what it takes to win a congressional race. how difficult are these tariffs going to be for republican incumbents to defend? maybe the bigger question is can you break from a president who has a 90% approval rating among

g.o.p. voters? >> depending on how it is framed it elicits different responses. it is a message about the american worker and american industries. >> can a populous message even from the greatest communicator work if what you are seeing is every time you go to the store your bottom line is higher? >> it worked in 2016. to your point, trade wars inflict a lot of pain. what we are seeing now is a unilateral trump tax on the consumer. this is a tax that the president is imposing upon consumers. and when you move in that direction, when you try to adjust global trade policy, what he is hoping for is that there is necessarily wage and economic growth in domestic industries to compensate, to overcome that additional cost to the consumer. the reality is we are not seeing that. the basket of goods, they are not seeing increase in wages that match that.

they don't have the discretionary income going up at a rate that is greater than what it is going to cost them to provide for the household. this is an opportunity for democrats to message around that. donald trump will message his populous message saying he is fighting for it. >> one of the things that the president said is no pain no gain. the long term benefit is what is really going to drive the future economy. how big a risk is that? >> it's a big risk. if you are mad about trade because you are a working american or maybe a not working american who is seeing their manufacturing job disappear, you are right to be mad. >> i don't think anybody thinks china is not getting a good -- >> the world would have been united on the fact that china is not always a fair player.

so right now you have canada that is not as hostile toward china as america would like it to be. the other thing, if you are restricting trade because you are bringing those manufacturing industries or whatever it is back to america and you are seeing those products made in america at a higher cost, but you are seeing wage increases, that's a trade off. your wages are higher, your costs are higher. if you just see costs rising but not seeing those jobs come to china, we are paying more for goods manufacturing in china, then you are just seeing higher prices for the same goods. it's a sophisticated argument. the president is not wrong to say china requires talking to. if we can figure out a way to retrain or create industries that would build the very things we are buying in china, that would be interesting. we are not going to build bo

bicycles in america. that's where the problem lies. >> as we inch closer and closer to election day, do you think the white house is already or will be getting inundated with phone calls from republicans who see the reelection chances at risk? in many states you don't get reelected with just the republican base? >> i think they have already heard that leading up to the talks. i think that's why the president hoped they might be successful. there is no question that i think the pressure will intensify particularly not only from a consumer standpoint which both have spoken about. but from an agricultural standpoint for sure. exports are crucial to those heartland agricultural producers. this is a big political issue. more fundamentally, this is a moment in time of the world trade system that this is a big issue. >> how much of this on the white house staff side is let's just

wait and see if this plays out to the president's benefit? we still have time. >> i think there is an urgency here. i think they are watching the markets very closely. they under the politics of this. >> he loves to say how great things are when the markets are going well it is all about him and the policies he put in place. i don't see him tweeting about this and taking responsibility for it. >> reporter: i don't think you are going to see that. that is absolutely watch. they are watching. one official says we are not just going to watch the markets drop without doing something. i think there are conversations going on behind the scenes about trying to set up the next round of negotiations. when will that happen? what will that look like? at what level? we know kudlow said robert lighthouser had been invited to go to beijing. he said he believes it is possible that president trump will meet with president xi jinping at the g-20 summit next

month. >> let me ask you, david jolly, if you are in a position of running for re-election or somebody who has sort of the ear of the white house and you are hearing people like a former fed chief saying this could increase the chances of a recession, most are saying this is a recession but could increase. how do you play that? how do you play that with this white house? is there absolutely no play with this president? >> there is no play. you are hoping to run out the clock. you are worried about a fragile economy. a major shift in macroeconomic policy, trade policy and we saw it in the '90s, moving to a free trade environment, service-based economy in the united states. they built political consensus around that move. they understood the detractors and knew it would take a decade to see the benefits of that. with this president, if you try to deconstruct his justification over the weekend of his economic and trade policy, you cannot

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in a rapidly expanding field of 2020 democrats packed with diverse candidates, it's the familiar faces dominating early polls in key states. there is this new poll, south carolina. joe biden way out in front of the pack, widening his lead since launching the campaign. the surge driven by support from african-american voters. since south carolina unlike iowa and new hampshire has a very diverse electorate, that state is going to be a very critical early test for democrats. joining me now "washington post" opinion writer and msnbc contributor. heidi who is nbc news national political correspondent and steve kornacki at the big board.

steve, this isn't just any lead. this is a huge lead in south carolina. so what's going on for joe biden? >> very interesting numbers in this poll. we talk so much about iowa and new hampshire. south carolina, the first test for democrats where african-american voters play a major role. overall, more than a 30-point lead in south carolina for biden over sanders. we can say that bounce we have seen for biden we have seen it in new hampshire, very much a factor in south carolina. we mention that question of african-american voters, of race in south carolina. check this out. when you look at white voters in the democratic primary -- in the most recent primary about a third, 35% of the electorate was white. pete buttigieg in second place among white voters on the democratic side in south carolina. black voters in the last presidential primary, more than

60% of the south carolina electorate. joe biden 20 points stronger right now, nearly at 60% with african-american voters in south carolina. pete buttigieg zero. zero percent. that is something we have been seeing in other polls, in other states and nationally that there is support for buttigieg but it has been demographically narrow so far. when you get to a state like south carolina if you are buttigieg, 61% black, that has to change in a big way or else yo awill not be a nationally viable candidate. >> look at the numbers. biden's popularity with black voters in the south, even with this diverse field of candidates. what does he have here and what does he have that they don't see in a kamala harris or cory booker? >> what they see is experience. this is the third time vice president biden has run for president.

he spent eight years as president obama's vice president. people of south carolina as a result of those two things know joe biden. they know his history. they clearly feel comfortable with him. >> can i interrupt you there? i thought it was fascinating they quoted elijah cummings as saying i don't think people should underestimate the significance of this older white guy playing the role of a second supportive second to a young man who is african-american. >> right. that was seen as a move by president obama to bring some heft and foreign policy to the ticket. but for african-american voters as loyal as vice president was to president obama and it wasn't just a matter of loyalty that went one way. it was a two-way street. i think when you look at the eulogy that president obama gave for vice president biden's son who passed away, it was clear to

the nation that this just wasn't a president/vice president. these were two men who were very, very close as friends. the two of them and their spouses. so you then translate that to a 2020 race where now vice president biden is running for the democratic nomination. again, you couple that with experience. do not underestimate the role of his experience and also his age playing into why south carolina voters and african-american voters in particular stand strongly behind him at this point. >> heidi, that quote from elijah cummings comes from a political article that talks about pulling for a biden kamala harris ticket if biden gets the nomination. thai they think it would be a powerful ticket. i can tell you being out over the weekend for example in north

carolina, there is a sense if it is a biden, there has to be a balance. could that be a dream ticket? >> what's old is new again. this was actually the formulation that was discussed in the very early stages of biden considering a run that the only way that he could be really successful would be to pair him with his opposite, his demographic opposite and kamala harris's name came up early. we are back to this point be we are seeing what is happening is biden really breaking away from the others. he is really benefitting from the fact that this is such a crowded field and you have so many good candidates that it is hoard for any one of them to really break through at this point. to jonathan's point we are seeing a microcosm of what we are seeing nationwide. he has the natural constituency among black voters. his lead is across

demographic groups. and in south carolina it's the same story here. why? because they see in him, plaque vo -- black voters, white voters, something the polls show us voters want. 46% say experience and ele electability is the most important thing as long as biden can continue to convince people he is the only thing standing in the way of a second trump presidency then he wins. and he can also bring in that piece of the obama coalition that was missing for hillary clinton which is the fired up african-american base. if he reaches out and potentially has a minority whether it is a man or a woman on his ticket. >> over the weekend, there is a lot of attention to mayor pete. he warned about democrats playing identity politics. i want to play what he said. i'll get your reaction on the other side. >> i'd like to comment on one of

the buzz words of our time, so-called identity politics. no wone knows what to make of i. it is true we can see in our identity the reasons we are misunderstood and say you don't understand me because you haven't walked in my shoes. i may be a part of the lgbtq community, but being a gay man doesn't tell me what it is like to be a trans woman of color in that same community. >> he got a lot of positive feedback for that in the progressive community in general, in front of the human rights campaign. you heard them cheering. what odo you make of zero percet in south carolina? >> to take the speech in las vegas, the reason why i believe mayor pete got applause in what he said was he is talking about identity politics and the walls that people build up as a

result, but people applauded because it wasn't about the walls that were being built up and segmenting people off and not being able to see each other. what he was saying is we are all very complex people. and as a politician, i want to make sure that i see all of you. so if you are that transgender woman, auto worker in arkansas or nebraska or ohio, i see all of you. in that crowd that he was talking to, being seen by a politician is very, very important. when it comes to mayor pete and his lack of support among african-americans, that goes to show how much work he has to do in order to build support. he's got to go to south carolina which he maz done and which he will continue to do to make it clear to those voters that he is someone they should consider because i think steve brought this up in his -- when he was at the big board, none of these

candidates can go anywhere if they cannot garner african-american support. mayor pete rising in the polls broadly, if he cannot get on the board among african-american voters he is not going to go anywhere in south carolina. >> thanks to all of you. coming up, don versus don. president trump slams don mcgahn saying he was never a big fan of the man who refused to play defense for him with robert mueller. over the last minutes we have been on the air, the dow going further into the negative down 650 points. you are watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. a mitchel reports only on msnbc. this is the couple who wanted to get away

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the latest family feud between the president and former staffers has reached the boiling point, this one between trump and his former council, gangon kgangon -- don mcgahn writer i was not going to fire bob mueller and did not fire bob mueller. in fact, he was allowed to finish his report with unprecedented help from the

trump administration. never a big fan. this week came after reports that at least twice in the past month white house officials asked mcgahn to publicly say he did not believe the president obstructed justice but mcgahn said no. joining me now is elliot williams and danny wise, former chief of staff to house speaker nancy pelosi. so elliot, nbc news confirmed that the trump administration pressed mcgahn to get on message with the president concerning obstruction, but he wouldn't do it. how do you interpret the request from the white house? >> what is remarkable is it tracks completely the conduct that we saw in section two in the report on obstruction. if you notice, there was a portion that specifically lays out the president trying to enlist don mcgahn to spin stories with respect to the firing of mueller.

this was essentially a continuation of that. it's the same conduct. could you charge the president or anybody with obstruction or tampering or something for this attempt to reach mcgahn? probably not. it gets back to this question of was it sound judgment to have the white house counsel and try to enlist him into being a press advocate to spin a story that was bad for the president? it's just really bad judgment. we have seen a lot of bad judgment from the president. i just think it is unfortunate. i don't think mcgahn's hands are clean in this. i think it is unfortunate that his role got existed by the president. >> he has had to say no. speaker pelosi she thinks the president is self-itmpeaching. what is the speaker's play here?

>> the speaker is relying on the committees at the moment to carry out a thorough oversight effort. that's really critical. it's critical that congress be able to conduct it's legitimate constitutional oversight responsibilities. that's what they are trying to do here and they are going to give enough time for the white house counsel and the white house to negotiate with the committee lawyers. hopefully they will reach a resolution before may 31 and don mcgahn will testify. in my opinion, i think he will testify before the committee and he should testify before the committee. there is time for the house democrats to use all of their resources to conduct oversight and that's really critical. when you look at this in a larger issue, it's the contempt that the white house is showing for congress is just like the contempt that they are showing for the american people.

they want -- it's in specific regard to health care. not only are they wanting to with hold legitimate information and inquiries from the congress, they are trying to take away people's rights to coverage from preexisting conditions. that's the same kind of contempt. this is all one part of one activity. >> and there is a difference between illegality and what you call a bad decision. president trump says and he has said for a long time it was part of his campaign before he was elected. he only hires the best people. and then the washington post just today compiling this list of the 17 best people that donald trump has hired and then attacked. what do you make of this? this just goes on and on. mcgahn being the latest that includes ray, sessions, tillerson. >> i think chris ray is the

latest. i said it on television about a week ago and felt bad about it in saying i thought chris wray would be the next one under the president's watchful eye. now he is on the outs, too. consistently individuals who tell the president no, people who challenge the president on these basic and most fundamental rule of law questions all seem to be on the outs. there is a striking consistency between mcmaster and wray and sessions and all of these individuals who simply told the president no or by no or recusing as was in the case of jeff sessions. what is unfortunate is that public servants -- it's not a partisan point. these are highly partisan people. people seem to be on the outs. i think the fbi director is the latest casualty of that. >> great talking to both of you. coming up, playing it safe, joe biden's team keeps the candidate on message. can that last?

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the supreme court found a way to impact how much we pay for apps in the app store. pete williams joins me now with the details. tell us where the justices fell in this particular case. >> where they stand is the

customers of apple's app store can sue. they started it in 2011. that's how long this thing has been bouncing around the courts. apple said they shouldn't be able to sue us. we are just a market place. apple said we charge a 30% commission but we don't set the price so you can't sue us if you are arguing that the app store is a monopoly. today the supreme court said yes customers can sue. they buy their products from the app store and consumers are arguing if it was an open market instead of a cleezed system that perhaps there would be more competition and prices would come down. it was an interesting lineup on the court, 5-4 with brett kavanaugh joining with the courts liberals to say the lawsuit can go forward. there is a lot at stake for apple here. the average app only costs 99 cents, but because there are so many of them sold, apple earned $11 billion in the app store in

the most recent year for which the numbers are available. and so if the consumers can go ahead and that market is in any way affected there could be a lot at stake for apple and could emboldin other lawsuits against other arrangements like this app store. that is why other tech companies were urging the supreme court not to let this case go forward. it will probably be another couple of years before the actual merits of the case can get through the courts. for now, it's the green light for the lawsuit. >> eight years so far. maybe it will be an even decade before this thing is figured out. and with joe biden appearing to grow accustomed to his 2020 front runner status, the former vice president is making his first campaign stop today in new hampshire. and so far one of the biggest questions about him which is can he stay on message was answered with the "new york times" headline. biden has avoided major gaffs.

as some new hampshire voters are telling us, it's way too early to assume anything. >> i love joe biden, but i think he is too old. ooi i think we need the younger ones to come in, the up and coming progressives, the younger ones coming in. i feel that if we have joe biden in there that it will just be the same old same old. >> i like joe biden a lot. i have loved joe biden. i'm waiting to see what he comes through with some more ideas and how he thinks he will pull everybody together. >> joining me now by phone because joe biden is just about taking the stage at the event in new hampshire is nbc news political reporter. jeff mason reuters white house correspondent. there has been so much talk about this. can biden run a clean campaign? are they doing anything differently in this third run to avoid controversial moments? >> it's interesting. joe biden just taking the stage

as we speak for the first event here. this is a full circle moment for me. the first time i covered joe biden he was a senator from delaware and trailing in the polls here in new hampshire. back then as you would expect for a candidate not in the front runner position, he was very available to voters and reporters. he entered as the front runner showing him with a very clear lead over the field. what you are seeing is a front runner strategy. he is limiting his engagement with the public. he is taking only a handful of questions from local media. they are trying to protect that lead. that is going to begin to change here in new hampshire. just spoke with campaign advisers who said we will hear him take voter questions here. you also have the house party where he will do the same. that is unique to new hampshire with they expect that kind of

personal interaction with the candidates. it is clear that they are running a different campaign than they were. >> if you don't do that one-on-one in new hampshire you will pay the price. i want to read a little bit about what the "new york times" writes about biden. never met a stranger persona without exposing him to an environment where he may commit a gaff. so far they have struck a safe if precarious plans. i guess answering questions is part of the plabalance. are there others who believe he is just a major gaff away from blowing it? >> what's a gaff in 2020? >> there is that question. that's a good one. that is certainly something that has been an achilles heal for joe biden in the past. so much has changed in the political landscape. he has been able to say things that previous paul tishzs would never have gotten away with politically and this president

has. whether or not those new rules apply to biden is something i guess we will see in the coming weeks and months. so far he has managed to get through his roll out and the first few weeks of his campaigning without committing major gaffs. of course, the campaign doesn't want that story line to be the dominant one. so they are working hard to prevent that. he seems to be working hard, too showing discipline on the trail. >> i don't know if you saw it, the piece about why bernie sanders and joe biden need each other benefitting both of the 70 something candidates and spells frankly potential bad news for the rest of the large field. they certainly have the most name recognition and have a lot of experience. what do you make of the whole idea that that can sort of push some of the lesser known candidates so far behind that they never catch up? >> i think it's an interesting

point. i think it is worth repeating all the time we talk about this that it is still early. so some of these other candidates who may not be doing really well in the polls have a chance of coming up higher as we get closer to the actual voting day and meet voters and gain traction. certainly, it's an attractive place to be where joe biden finds himself now. >> i'm wondering what you're looking for. it's way too early. we heard what some of the new hampshire voters had to say. what are you looking for in terms of signs that some of the democratic establishment, maybe some of the democraticfluencers, let's say some of the obama people who have been standing on the sidelines, that they're starting to be a coalescing behind joe biden even at an early stage? >> well, we talk about the things that led people to endorse barack obama in 2008,

the things that were attractive to a lot of people. they are the kinds of things you wouldn't associate with joe biden today. we were talking some of the new hampshire voters this morning. they do say almost to a person that that is the number one issue. i think what we are seeing from a lot of former obama staff and supporters is they want to make sure that if joe biden does continue to sort of get through this opening series of events without much of a gaff, you will see them begin to rally around him. biden has the big kickoff rally next saturday. that will be an important moment in terms of trying to get everyone around his candidacy. >> let's listen to joe biden at his first stop in new hampshire. >> i get criticized for saying that i think we have to unite the country. we can't get anything done in this country without a

consensus. it's the way our constitution is written, we are in a situation where you have to be able to generate a consensus to get anything done. if you don't do that, you end up with a president who can divide the country based on the ability to garner more power for himself or herself and be in a situation where you just can't get anything done. when things don't get done, that's when executives reach out and claim more power than they are entitled to. so the folks -- my dad used to have an expression, your job is about more than your paycheck. it's about your dignity and your place in the community and being able to look at your kids and -- >> joe biden doing what arguably he does best on the trail and that is talking like a real person to real people. we will continue do lis to lto in. >> why palestinian leaders say the trump administration is not playing fair while trying to

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♪ palestinian leaders say all they need to do is follow twitter to see the trump administration has aligned itself with israel and that america's favoritism has undermined its role as a credible peacemaker in the middle east. an nbc news analysis of more than 1,500 tweets sent by president trump's envoy found that greenblatt tweeted 187 times about acts of violence or terrorism accounting for roughly 12% of his tweets. he never criticized israel but he preys on benjamin netanyahu. joining me now josh ledderman who broke this story. if the u.s. is serious about being some sort of broker in the middle east, why do you make

preemptive concessions, why do you recognize the golan heights. you talked to jason green ballot, what did he tell you? >> he says their role is not to be the judge. it's to be a facilitator. it shouldn't matter the steps they've taken that are perceived as being very aligned with israel, moving the embassy to jerusalem, recognizing the golan heights, that it shouldn't matter what they say on twitter. because at the end of the day they're going to put out a peace plan and the contents of that peace plan should be viewed in and of itself. they're saying, all of this is noise, don't pay attention to that. wait for the peace plan and look at that in a vacuum and decide whether or not it's fair. >> in your article, you wrote, greenblatt, a real estate

attorney had no formal diplomatic experience. his prior experience on israel issues was mostly personal. as a young man, he studied in a jewish settlement and wrote about a family trip to israel. they are spearheading this peace plan. did they give you any insights into what it is or what it looks like. >> they did not, just like they haven't given anybody much of a sense what's going to be in this plan other than to talk about timing. jared kushner say they plan to release it after the end of ram ma don. they really think that is what is going to help, that they've been so under wraps about what is in this, and they think they're following a process that makes it more likely for it to work out. >> thank you so much.

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and that's going to do it for me. andrea mitchell will be back here tomorrow but for now, ali velshi in for "velshi & ruhle." good to see you again. >> good to see you. and have a good afternoon. hello, everyone.

stephanie is on assignment. it's monday, may 13th. let's get smarter. >> the white house's top economic adviser acknowledges its americans who will feel the brunt of those massive new tariffs on china. >> the president says that china pays the tariffs, they may suffer consequences, but it's u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay, correct? >> yes, to some extent. i don't disagree with that. both sides will suffer on this. >> the president telling a different story, tweeting, we are right where we want to be with china and the china government will bear the burden of the tariffs. >> the stock market is donald trump's favorite barometer. >> negotiations over time stop, go. the speed may be fast or slow. you got to do what you got to do. we have had unfair trading practices all these years. in my judgment, the economic