his former united states representative alan grayson, a friend of mine, always a pleasure to see that face has been too long. congress grayson, it seems like some had hoped that the bite administration would back off on the trump tariffs. but that doesn't appear to be the case. what do you make of the current state of trade between the 2 sites, either by demonstrations, during a standard democratic presidential trade policy. it's the same as we'd see. going back to the carter administration and maybe further than that, it wasn't really affected by the fact that trump departed from republican orthodoxy by hitting china on trade. ha. but he did so in such a clumsy way that it had no real effect. i in fact the trade deficit ballooned. ah, the trade of china ballooned under trump. ah, it went from 300000000000 a year to 400000000 a year. and then because a coven went down to where it is now, which is roughly where it was when trump started. and, and so what he, what you're going to see is to be determined. but frankly, nobody seems to want to come to grips with the real issue here, which