. >> appellee's spending money in the us to bring jobs and you know their services here, but no, theyhina. i think this is the president trying to reach out to influential companies like n-uppercase-letter-- apple and get them involved in the trade discussion so they can gain leverage with the chinese government. lauren: couple rode a candid statement to the us trade representative saying you are hurting consumers because these proposed tariffs will affect the iphone yet, that would be tremendous because it's such a moneymaker for the company, but a host of other apple products, the home pot, mac mini, earbuds. apple is warning you will hit american consumers with these tariffs. do you think the administration is listening? >> i think the administration is cognitive of the fact that tariffs are inflationary and raise prices, but they also want to make sure there is jobs in the us. it's a populous administration as we head into the midterm elections and the president was to rally the gop base around that fairness or america in global trade. lauren: you also have the forward side of the