also i don't think we expected bob lighthizer, the u.s.be in that initial meeting. it's interesting he wasn't there. >> absolutely. president trump earlier today said bob lighthizer would be there. the feeling is light here is is not supportive of using tariffs for immigration purposes. maybe there was a reason he was not part of the conversation as you mentioned. connell: former deputy secretary of defense retired lieutenant general general boyken is with us. on that point jackie brings up whether tariffs can be used as a foreign policy tool to get what you want out of the president of mexico, is that something you would be okay with? >> i am. i know a lot of friends who are not in favor of it. economics is one of our elements of national power. used judiciously, it can be effective. we see it in the sanctions? north korea and iran. connell: be congress hasn't acted, there are not a lot of other options. some suggested a fee orre -- a fee on remittances coming back. >> i think this is what it looks like. the president is fed up with the c

probably the white house location, but to negotiate with our people, it's headed up by mike pompeo, bob lighthizer, mike pence is involved, so we have a great group. mexico, look, the drugs coming in, the people coming in unchecked, they're swapping over, coming up by the millions, mexico could stop it, they have to stop it, otherwise, we just won't be able to do business. it's a very simple thing. i think they will stop it. i think they want to do something. i think they want to make a deal. and they sent their top people to try. we'll see what happens today, we should know something. >> thanks very much, everybody. if you could step back. announcer: president trump now forels to normandy, france a ceremony honoring the 75th anniversary of the allied de-day invasion. -- d-day invasion. our coverage begins life there's eastern -- live thursday at 4:30 a.m. eastern. nancy pelosi held a news conference and talked about immigration and possible tariffs on mexican imports. this is 25 minutes.

probably the white house location, but to negotiate with our people, it's headed up by mike pompeo, bob lighthizer, mike pence is involved, so we have a great group. mexico, look, the drugs coming in, the people coming in unchecked, they're swapping over, coming up by the millions, mexico could stop it, they have to stop it, otherwise we just won't be able to do business. it's a very simple thing. i think they will stop it. i think they want to do something. i think they want to make a deal. and they sent their top people to try. to we'll see what happens today, we should know something. >> president trump meeting earlier today with the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, the president is overnight in ireland tonight, then traveling to normandy, france, to help mark the 75th anniversary of d-day tomorrow. he'll meet with french president mack ron. we will have -- macron. we'll have live coverage of the d-day ceremony at 5:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. president trump returns to washington on friday. >> once, tv was simply three giant networks and a government-supported service called pbs. then in 197

probably the white house location, but to negotiate with our people, it's headed up by mike pompeo, bob lighthizer, mike pence is involved, so we have a great group. mexico, look, the drugs coming in, the people coming in unchecked, they're swapping over, coming up by the millions, mexico could stop it, they have to stop it, otherwise, we just won't be able to do business. it's a very simple thing. i think they will stop it. i think they want to do something. i think they want to make a deal. and they sent their top people to try. we'll see what happens today, we should know something. >> thanks very much, everybody. if you could step back. >> president trump now travels to normandy, france for soma -- the ceremony honoring the 20 -- 75th anniversary of the d-day normandy invasion. sunday in american history tv in c-span3, we continue our coverage of the 75th anniversary of d-day. listen to past american presidents who travel to honor the fallen. starting with jimmy carter. he is followed by ronald reagan in 1984, bill clinton in 1994, george w. bush and 2004, and barack obama at 2014. elm -- them

so usmca is a trade discussion back ongoing that's why bob lighthizer's meeting with mexican counterparts, is an immigration matter in the church supper. we hope we sold one but we hope herself both. the two are not interactive. we believe usmca is a great deal to the united states of america, we also think it's a good deal for mexican and canadian partners and we hope congress will pass it. we believe very firmly that if nancy pelosi would give it about it would pass. because it is a good deal. we put that in one category and immigration, the situation of the southern border is a different issue in the national security issue and will deal with it separately in the usmca. >> you talk about immigration. a lot of people said because the president even today has been treating saying will happen here if this goes on is companies in mexico will decide they don't want to pay the tariffs and move back to the u.s. crating more jobs here. the flipside, then a lot of mexicans lose their job and the concern that a lot of them come over the border to the u.s. in the whole injury results is it brings

meet bob lighthizer and let's try and move this thing on and reach a conclusion.ou talked to bob lighthizer or mentioned this to president trump when he was in london? >> i did talk to the president about this trade deal and woody johnson your ambassador here in london. my up tension is before the summer is out, to get a team of people across to d.c., and let's get talking. david: the word from the united states was they would accept you even though you hadn't been officially appointed as a trade rep for the u.k.? >> i got some warm noises and i have every reason to believe we can have these conversations. the british government is mired in political crisis. everyone said there are no alternatives. i believe we can create a good positive alternative that says the u.k. and america have a great future together. you know what? we can do a whole lot more business together. and the sooner we start talking about this the more the european union will realize we do have alternatives to being governed by those bureaucrats. david: the french think you still owe them $40 bil

in the president has said, for months and months, it is ok for bob lighthizer, his lead trade negotiator, and others, to talk to their chinese counterparts. but as he contends, it will always come down to himself and president xi. we have seen these talks [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> "washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. we'll leave this and take you live to the house floor for a series of votes.

but i think bob lighthizer, he argues quite accurately this is an agreement with bipartisan appeal. are things in it that republicans will like and things that democrats will like. so right now they are focused on a few narrow issues. these gaps are bridgeable. if we're going to have a bipartisan success this year, i think this is the place where we're going to start where we're going to see it go forward. our message right now is that you can't be pro-business and not be for this agreement. paul: my take right now is that -- what i'm hearing, the votes to pass it for a majority are not there yet so it's going to take heavy lifting on both sides and particularly on the business community if you're going to get over the top. i think that's fair. >> it is. and we're going to do whatever it as to get there and that's our message, that members of congress, whatever your party is, you don't get a pass on this one at the end of the day. yes, we need to take the democrats' concerns seriously. there's no jamming that can be done here. but we can bridge these gaps and move forward in a way t

and in fact bob lighthizer is meeting with mexicans this week.ike pompeo is meeting with mexican representatives this week along with mr. kushner i believe and we will talk about specific things they can do and they know these things. they can secure their southern border. their southern border with guatemala and most of the people are coming in through mexico now are not mexicans, they are from guatemala and el salvador, other countries south of mexico. that border is only a quarter as long as the border with the united states. they could secure that border. they could go after their domestic terrorist organizations, their criminal organizations were in the business of moving people across mexico. keep in mind at any one time there's 100,000 migrants in mexico making their way up to the united states and lastly they could make mexico a safe place for these people to claim asylum. ordinarily when you leave a country like el salvador and you claim asylum, you do that in the first safe country in which you arrive. mexico is safe, the people should

bob lighthizer they are both right, tariffs worked.ying right now we have to take advantage of our strong economy to force china to play fair. we have a little bit of a buffer to absorb some of the impact let's say retaliatory tariffs as chinese shown with targeting key areas that are trump, president trump's support base, soybean farmers in the heartland of america. charles: right. >> the more education that happens, the more americans understand what is at stake, what the national security implications are, the more americans are supporting president trump's ultimate agenda, america first, playing with fair, free, and reciprocal trade. charles: chris, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, charles. charles: a new poll finds more americans than ever call immigration our top problem. president trump gave congress two weeks after delaying the nationwide i.c.e. raids? can they pull it off because lawmakers say they're skeptical that they can work together to find the ultimate deal? that's next. ♪ is where people first gathered to

. >> i talked to bob lighthizer. i don't believe they will get a deal done.t a good actor. they are not a partner. they are not trying to play within the rules of the world trade organization. so why are they going to change? americans are to and up and stop bying chinese products until they walk away. here is my experience as a business guy. when you do a deal and you go down a path and people agree to thing and you walk away, it will never happen. i can't think of all the deals in my business career where they walked a way. i personal hi don't trust china's negotiation strategy. i don't think they have been fair and honest with americans. i don't see how we are going to get a deal done. when you buy a chinese product, you are helping the chinese military eventually try to defeat it. whether it's militarizing the south china sea. the worst is in our hemisphere helping maduro who is killing three-year-old kid starving to death. it breaks your heart. blake: always good to see you, sir. coming up. we have late-breaking news on the half brother of kim jong-un. t

bob lighthizer and steven mnuchin would be in a better place to clarify that. >> it seems like two or three months ago -- >> it does sometimes. if we had a hundred points that we were trying to hammer out with the chinese, we thought we had agreement on 92 of them, and lighthizer will tell the story, he remembers walking into a meeting in chickna and they had white board of the list of things they had agreed to and about 40 of them had come off the board. and they said, we never really agreed to those in the first place. that's a major set back. and i don't know if they've made much progress on that since that conversation at that level. so i do not see the president's meeting as a deal closer. keep in mind, stranger things have happened. but i think this may be a way to see if we can get things hard wired again. >> pretty good vote of confidence from this group. >> thank you. i'll tell the boss. >> speaking of the boss, how did he read the reneging. what did it tell him? what did it tell you? >> good question. let's put it in a private context. when we sold our family business and i

trade representative, bob lighthizer.e secretary of state, i believe, is traveling in europe, but the idea of approaching the president's opponents on capitol hill before candidly talking -- you know, the president has extended an olive branch. he has said we could get an agreement with mexico, and they've listed three fairly simple things that mexico could do. lou: as much of an insult as they have delivered here, his own party and mitch mcconnell are doing them far better in the way of an insult, actually threatening the president, the chamber of commerce, the principal business lobby in this country threatening him with lawsuits as he is dealing with a national emergency, and they have the arrogance and ignorance to actually threaten a sitting president with a lawsuit to stop the his policies that he deems necessary to secure the national interest. and that group of senators, republican senators, the republican conference in the senate betraying the president, and they mean, you can tell, they mean what they're saying.

trade representative, bob lighthizer.lieve, is traveling in europe, but the idea of approaching the president's opponents on capitol hill before candidly talking -- you know, the president has extended an olive branch. he has said we could get an agreement with mexico, and they've listed three fairly simple things that mexico could do. lou: as much of an insult as they have delivered here, his own party and mitch mcconnell are doing them far better in the way of an insult, actually threatening the president, the chamber of commerce, the principal business lobby in this country threatening him with lawsuits as he is dealing with a national emergency, and they have the arrogance and ignorance to actually threaten a sitting president with a lawsuit to stop the his policies that he deems necessary to secure the national interest. and that group of senators, republican senators, the republican conference in the senate betraying the president, and they mean, you can tell, they mean what they're saying. they're going to try ever

mike pompeo, bob lighthizer, mike pence is involved. we have a great crew. but mexico, the drugs that are coming in, the people coming in unchecked, they are coming up by the millions. mexico could stop it. they have to stop it. otherwise we just will be able to do business. it's a very simple thing. i think they will stop it. i think they want to do something. i think they want to make a deal, and they sent their top people. we will see what happens today. we should know something. thank you very much. >> melissa: okay. like i said before, we don't know if he's really done preliminary liu and on a couple things and we will see marie are here. he was just talking about the various terrorist fights going on. talking about mexico and saying they could do a lot more, that he could put the carrots in place for that's important. i'm sorry, vice president pence. and pompeo, they are together talking with the foreign minister, about the plans in mexico unless they take action on the migrants on the south border. he was talking about trade with ireland as well, and

in the president has said, for months and months, it is ok for bob lighthizer, his lead trade negotiator, and others, to talk to their chinese counterparts. but as he contends, it will always come down to himself and president xi. we have seen these talks stall, as they usually do with the chinese. he is not the first president to think that there is a deal and then the rug is pulled out from under them in the 11th hour. we will see who else is in the room. i expect lighthizer, may be larry kudlow, and maybe john bolton. that is interesting when you have larry kudlow, who is a more gop establishment, and then john bolton, who is a hardliner and expects china to come very far to the american demand. that does not seem very realistic. and how much will the president give, face-to-face with the xi,ident -- with president and will that hold as they leave whatever room they are in and their staff gets back to the business of trying to implement anything they come up with? these deals are so complicated that the devil is in the implementation. you want to verify certain things. and the chinese

i want to do is get together a team of industrialists, entrepreneurs, come out to d.c., meet bob lighthizernd let's make some progress with this. it isn't just good for our economy, it's a good bargaining chip and leave in the european union as well. trump has been generous, he wants to help, we should work on this. >> shannon: keep us up-to-date, great to have you. our midnight hero is next, taking a risk he says for freedom. she's not a baker. she wears that apron to sell insurance. nobody knows why. she's the progressive insurance lady. they cover pets if your owner gets into a car accident. covers us with what? you got me. [ scoffs ] she's an insurance lady. and i suppose this baker sells insurance, too? progressive protects your pets like you do. you can see "the secret life of pets 2" only in theaters. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed now from $899... senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. so you can come out swinging, maintain your inner focus, and wake up reste

embarrassed on either side but frankly the number of issues that were resolved by president trump and bob lighthizeras very impressive. the idea of a three level appeals court system, there are lots of innovative things that president trump deserves a lot of credit for. on the chinese side i really worry about whether they will sign something and then cheat. charles: sure. >> the cheating in 2020 when it would be embarassing in our election period. charles: sure. michael, great hearing from you. it has been a while. we appreciate your expertise. you have been spot on. we appreciate your guidance. thank you. >> you should do more long programs on chinese history. charles: this is a long history. it is not overnight event, right? >> that's right. >> someone wrote a book about that. hey, while the trade dispute appears far from being settled, huawei are taking a beating. the company says the u.s. ban will cost them a revenue drop of $30 billion over the next few years. u.s. chip-makers, are reportedly lobbying quietly to end it all. connell mcshane got a first look at huawei in shenzhen, china, where h

. >> larry, hey, listen, there is a trade team the treasury secretary, bob lighthizer, and many others, but the president, about an hour ago, an impromptu press conference in the white house lawn said i'm holding up the china deal literally, he said i'm the one that's holding up the deal what exactly, maybe china is watching this right now, what does he want that will get a deal done? >> look, the president is the leader he's the final decision maker. that's an easy one what does he want? i think ewe'd like to go back, mentioned earlier, to where we were a month ago, where we had a very good basis. we had progress, not completion, mind you, not completion, but we had good progress on ip theft and ownership of companies and forced transfers of technology and agriculture, tariff and non-tariff barriers coming down, non-farm barriers coming down, cyber space, hacking, and perhaps most importantly, enforcement. that was not a completed deal. there was more work to be done, but it seemed like good enough beginnings so as you recall, the president was going to suspend tariffs on the $200 bil

trade rep bob lighthizer.exico's foreign minister, a question is can they come to some kind of an agreement, before the tariffs kick in on monday, june 10th? if anyone steps up to the microphone, we will bring it to you live. keep it right here. >> general electric, proud huge american company, right? just announced they're closing another plant in wisconsin, moving it across the border to canada, so more canadians can have good jobs. look, their bottom line is, if they can make a nickel, by sending your jobs somewhere else, they will do it. well, i will tell you this, those giant corporations, they may not care about american workers, but i do, and i'm willing to fight for them. [cheers and applause] david: senator liz warren unveiling a new campaign theme that at times sounds a lot like president trump's america first policy, but with a slightly socialist twist to it. she calls it economic patriotism. that's a phrase she appears to have lifted from a 2012 speech by president obama. the difference between pre

trade representative bob lighthizer and the vice premier of china, china was said to ask for a balanced deal, something it has asked for in the past and i'm told by two sources that ambassador lighthizer responded a balanced deal is not possible because of all of china's past transgressions today we saw reporting first in the "wall street journal" that china wants certain things as part of its deal negotiations. it wants the u.s. to roll back a ban on huawei business in the u.s. and roll back all of the tariffs that the u.s. has already put in place it also wants to lower the dollar figure of goods that it would buy from the u.s. as part of a deal. donald trump, the president, has said that he actually wants to double or triple the amount of goods that china would potentially buy. there's a lot of ground here to make up, scott larry kudlow, speaking for the administration earlier this morning said that there are are no preconditions to talks this week and he said there's still a plan b if the two sides don't reach an agreement, that the u.s. would still go forward with the tariffs. hear

john, i saw at one of the dash i guess a video of the folks that sit around the table, i saw bob lighthizerwho's been working and working and working on this china issue now for the last year. he wrapped up the nafta redo in the usmc a. but was working simultaneously with the chinese and the concern was that the last time they met they had agreed to a whole bunch of new changes to china's trade behavior and that the forced tech transfers -- they basically agreed in principle to a number of items, but then by the time they got back to washington, turns out that they weren't really going to make changes to their laws after all. they were going to be agreeing in principle and that's when trump says we are going to hold off on this right now. we will see if that changes later today or tomorrow. >> and this has been very frustrating for american negotiators. steven mnuchin said at the other day when he was in bahrain, larry kudlow said of this morning on fox news but they believe that there were 90% of the way there and then china all of a sudden said no, we don't want to do this. now we are hea

my sense is it is all going to come together fairly quickly toward the end of the week, when bob lighthizerecretary steve mnuchin land here. they will go into a preparatory meeting a bubbly early on friday, possibly late on thursday -- meeting probably early on friday, possibly late on thursday. alix: you mentioned the chinese response, the comers head talking about it being a two-way street. they have to come to the table as equals, all of that. is that something the u.s. has to buy into, and will they do that? shawn: that is a really interesting question, and it is hard to see the u.s. giving much ground here. both sides, when these talks broke down in the middle of may, have pointed the finger at each other, and have been doing that ever since. they really haven't talked much sense. the chinese were saying today that we need to meet halfway. there needs to become a vase on both sides. the trump administration -- there needs to be compromise on both sides. the trump administration has really been holding the line on this demands. one of the big differences we have between this meeting and

the white house location, but to negotiate with our people it's headed up by mike pompeo and bob lighthizer and mike pence. they sent their top people we'll see what happens today >> so we'll await that meeting to start in about 30 minutes time a senior administration official tells me this is the starting line of negotiations, not the finish line. sara, wilf >> if this newfound optimism is well placed and, say these tariffs never come in to play, to what extent has it already done significant damage with other trade negotiations taking place that make it harder to reach a deal with the chinese? >> well, these are two very different situations on one hand, the u.s. is trying to get mexico to make some immigration progress, some border security progress that it feels mexico has not made before and so it's introducing or planning to introduce tariffs that are relatively small compared to what it has already introduced with regard to china. those tariffs would be 25% they would be on $300 billion. the remaining imports from china in just a few weeks time, although trump and xi are still expect

bob lighthizer testifying yesterday and today on capitol optimisticling he is nancy pelosi advance theor a briefing on the two americans john identified. the tension we saw in that orlando video. those people feel the elites have the game. how does chairman powell speak to america and not the stereotype that he is only managing for the elites? julia: that is a tough challenge, and chair powell has tried to do that more conscientiously, both talk to the public, doing town halls and listen events, recognizing the public needs to understand their mission and what they are doing as well as the market. tom: i get more mail on this than anyone else. there is a huge body of america that feels underemployed. can any central bank effect change? julia: the only way they can effect it is to let the labor market stay as strong as it is for as long as possible, to reengage those people. the stronger the labor market is, the longer it runs strong and the more the people who lost out the most will gain training and jobs and real wage gains. , to is the job of the fed keep this recovery going. francin

to meet bob lighthizer and let's start working on this.r it will be. not just for both of our economies but it also gives us a very powerful negotiating chip against the european union. maria: you've set that meeting up already with lighthizer? >> that's what i intend to do over the course of the next few weeks. i think we need to move this on. let's stop talking about it as a theory, let's turn it into practice. >> nigel, it's robert wolf. a couple questions. where do you sit with respect to the prime minister vote coming up? number two, what's your view of a no brexit exit, which most people think would be negatively impacting the economy of the u.k. and you'd see new tariffs? number three, i know you're excited about a u.s./u.k. trade deal but that means there wouldn't be a u.k.-e.u. trade deal because you would likely have to be part of the wto. i think that would really push this trade deal with the u.s. kind of on the back burner. so i know ideal i idelisticallye saying some great things. the idea of transacting -- >> when we talk ab

i told bob lighthizer that last night when i saw him.hink it's clear that we will never get a deal done with them, because they -- think about this, stuart. when you are negotiating a deal, if the other side negotiate a point, you agree and the other side backs off, you lose all the trust, that's exactly what they did in this deal. there will never be a deal with china. we have to stop buying chinese goods. stop buying them. all americans have to say they are our enemy, they are not supporting us, they are helping maduro in venezuela, they are doing all sorts of things that impact our economy, and impact our way of life. stuart: hard line senator rick scott, republican from florida. thank you very much for being with us, sir. we appreciate it. >> thank you. stuart: yes, sir. now this. billionaire tom steyer's need to impeach campaign is spending a lot of money. he's trying to ramp up pressure on house democrats to get the impeachment ball rolling. we will have that story for you. >>> my take on political circuses in washington is next. f

in the president has said, for months and months, it is ok for bob lighthizer, his lead trade negotiatorand others, to talk to their chinese counterparts. but as he contends, it will always come down to himself and president xi. we have seen these talks stall, as they usually do with the chinese. he is not the first president to think that there is a deal and then the rug is pulled out from under them in the 11th hour. we will see who else is in the room. i expect lighthizer, may be larry kudlow, and maybe john bolton. that is interesting when you have larry kudlow, who is a more gop establishment, and then john bolton, who is a hardliner and expects china to come very far to the american demand. that does not seem very realistic. and how much will the president give, face-to-face with the xi,ident -- with president and will that hold as they leave whatever room they are in and their staff gets back to the business of trying to implement anything they come up with? these deals are so complicated that the devil is in the implementation. you want to verify certain things. and the chinese a

and with senator pat toomey, i am sorry, senator bob casey, he told me he wants mr. lighthizern u.s. cma and will die get past. influence is of an representative lighthizer is having in terms of the debate, and in terms of what is going on in the white house? does he have the year of the president? kevin: u.s. trade representative height laser has been at the forefront of having to negotiate with democrats, especially in the democratic-controlled house of representatives he has been the point person dealing with house speaker nancy pelosi as they build some type of bipartisan coalition across the finish line. he has had to work and negotiate with more progressive members, who have argued, this is not a progressive enough deal as they would like. this will be front and center. vonnie: can i ask you about the tweet on mario draghi and ecb earlier, kevin? what is washington saying? -- president trump trump taking on a new central bank? kevin: absolutely. party have really been pushing the president to go against for quite some time and this is the president pushing back against la

the white house location but negotiating with our people, set up by mike pompeo, bob light highsers and mike -- lighthizer is involved and mike pence w very a great crew. mexico, the drugs coming in, people coming in unchecked. they're coming up by the millions. mexico can stop it. they have to stop it. otherwise we won't be able to do business. it is very simple thing. i think they will stop it. i think they want to do something, to make a deal. they sent their top people. we'll see what happens today. wee zoo what happens. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> [inaudible]. neil: you heard the president make a lot of news there with the irish prime minister, talking about the fact he is very confident that a successful conclusion to brexit will be had ireland will not be harmed. a lot of problem brits having to get into ireland and and and getting back into britain. he talked about this, we'll get into this in a second about the on going tariff talks going on with the secretary of state, vice president of the united states and the finance minister of m

: pleasure of having ambassador lighthizer with us, sworn in as the 18th united states trade , may the 15th, two years ago. members of this committee have got to know bob well in the past couple of years. i have known them for the last 39 years. we have a lot to talk about today so i will dispense with all of your credentials. please proceed with your conversation. >> thank you. thank you.ghthizer: it is a pleasure to testify on the president's agenda in the new negotiated united states. i shouldn't -- before continuing, there are some parts of the senator's comments that i do not entirely endorse but i entirely endorse the senator. [laughter] to. lighthizer: i would like begin by noting that the united states economy has added 5.8 million jobs since 2016's election. notably more than 500,000 have been manufacturing jobs. the real gdp rose at an annual rate of 3.1% in the first quarter of 2019. the past four quarters have seen the fastest growth rate in gdp since 2015. the unemployment rate at 3.6% is the lowest rate in nearly a half-century and has been at or -- for 15 consecutive months. wages and hourly rates were up in the last 12 months. here tod

pleasure of having ambassador lighthizer with us, sworn in as the 18th united states trade representative. may 15, 2 years ago. members of this committee have gotten to know bob well over the past couple years. i've had an opportunity to know him for at least 39 years. because we have a lot to talk about today, i'm going to dispense with all the credentials. so proceed with your conversation. >> think you very much mister chairman. ranking member and members of the committee, it's a pleasure to appear before you today to testify on the president's trade agenda, and the newly renegotiated us-mexico canada agreement. i should note before continuing that senator wyden's comments that i don't entirely endorse, but i do endorse senator wyden. >> [ laughter ] >> so i would like to begin by noting, that the u.s. economy has added 5.8 million jobs since 2016 election , notably nearly 500,000 have been manufacturing jobs, the real gdp rose at an annual rate of 3.1% in the 1st 1:45 thousand 19, the past 4 quarters, i've seen the fastest growth rate in gdp since 2015, the unemployment rate at 3.6% is the lowest rate in nearly half a century, and has been at or below 4%

in the president has said, for months and months, it is ok for bob lighthizer, his lead trade negotiator, and others, to talk to their chinese counterparts. but as he contends, it will always come down to himself and president xi. we have seen these talks [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> "washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. we'll leave this and take you live to the house floor for a series of votes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> by direction of the committee on oversight and reform, i submit a privileged title. the clerk: resolution recommending that find attorney general of the united states and wilbur l. ross in contempt of congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas issued by the committee of government oversight and reform. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house. pursuant to house resolution 4 or 5, the chair declares in the com