lou: congressman ron desantos joining us now, that is quite a hearing. and i have to say, you you republicans acquitted yourself well, questioning him, producing the ground work for what became the answer he gave congressman jordan, that talking about the dossier, finally getting permission from fbi to tell the truth for once. >> yeah, look, lou, i think that peter strzok came across as very smug, and arrogant. a lot of his explanations for his text-messages, as inspector general has said are not credible, he said what i really meant is the american people will not vote for him, bull. he was doing this in a haughty tone. he was u up staged by behavior f democrats, you have a democrat saying because strzok was testifying and we were asking him hard questions he deserved a purple heart, how absurd to say or suggest that. lou: dems trying to out absurd one another through out the hearing, i am sure you were frustrated by their conduct, behavior, language. i mean, stalling, obstructing, trying to stop strzok from saying anything. >> right. lou: it done work

you are a patient man ron desantos. >> i had no idea you were ready for paul ryan to go. why didn't you tell me that sooner. lou: i forget to send you the memo. i hav have a man of nuance thati maintain my reserve. congressman great to talk with you, the best of luck. >> thank you, lou. lou: breaking news, trump administration announcing -- this is quite a development. this breaking news, more tariffs on there way, trump administration anointing another $200 billion in tariffs on chinese exports to united states, they will go through a two month process, as is required. we now have $2 34 billion in tariffs again the chinese, first 34 billion of goods to place tariffs, to place friday. the next round is expected to apply 16 billion dollars of tariffs on chinese goods, it will be imposed shortly, president threatened as well to implement tariffs a half trillion dollars of chinese imports -- excuse me. chinese exports to the united states. last week china imposed itself own dollars billion retaliatory tariffs gain the united states, i think you can take it, that president is

. >> everyone knows my husband ron desantos is endorsed by president trump but it's also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kid. >> build the wall. >> he reads stories. >> then mr. trump says you're fired. i love that part. >> that's a real commercial. here to break it down, nancy cook, white house reporter for political, phillip rutger, "the washington post." what do we make of it? i mean, it's not your everyday run of the mill political campaign, but it also, i guess you could argue, does what commercials is supposed to do, which is grab attention. >> yes, and it makes people talk about it. we're talking about it 24 hours after the ad was released. but i think it speaks to a much larger point we're seeing in the midterms in which the president is really playing an increasingly important role in giving his imprint to certain candidates and giving them a huge boost. you know, desatnis, for instance, was behind in the polls. trump supported him in a series of tweets. and now he's up ahead of his opponent, putnam, who really, you know, is a longtime office hold holder, a florida p

doing so to support ron desantis congressman running for governor now in a primary against adam putnam, the ag commissioner. he's jumped into this race and they are good news for desanto'sm up 12 - this is the influence of the president and the public and voters listening to the present. watch your. >> you are seen with energy of the republic party is right now and it will be behind the president. as he's endorsed in these races you see a shift for the candidates that he supported. reporter: by the way, stuart, there's a huge race and stay in florida and that's for the senate, a new poll out today shows that the florida governor, rick scott, leaving the governors mansion now leads the current senior senator, bill nelson. that seat is currently blue and could potentially go read in the president hosts a really tonight in florida. stuart: that is bethany. blake, thank you very much indeed. president trump says he is willing to meet with iran's president and let me call that tape. >> i ended the area deal. it was a ridiculous deal. i believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet and i'm ready to meet anytime they want to. i don't do that from strength or from weak