we have with us curtis ellis, a senior policy adviser on trade. president was very friendly to the president of mexico who is a left winger. he said, that this president is helping him a lot in culting back on the -- cutting back on central americans going through mexico on their way to the border, that might at same time he talks about possibility of shutting border and tariffs, an oughodd place to be with mexico right now with trade deal hanging in balance. >> the same way president trump targeted tariffs in china, the auto industry is key for mexico. threatening tariffs again the auto industry, is a real leverage point, a pressure point you can get response. david: do -- forgive me, do you think that is why mexican president is being so helpful right now? because he was concerned about this? >> that is part of it. they want the new nafta agreement as much as president trump and our people in america want it. mexico did not do well under nafta. a few of the elites did. the people who owned auto parts plants did, but the mexican people as a whole

curtis ellis, former trump campaign manager, is with us.wouldn't hire somebody for the job if they didn't read the job and understand it. the job of the intelligence committee, intelligence oversight committee to provide oversight of intelligence agencies make sure what they're doing, quote, in conformity with the constitution and laws of the united states. stuart: okay. >> you have to go right back to the founding of these committees in the 1970s, 1977, followed the church committee. u.s. senator frank church, a liberal democrat, had conducted an investigation into abuses of the intelligence agencies where the fbi and cia were conducting wiretaps on american citizens against the law. where they were circulating derogatory information in order to discredit people they didn't like, steele dossier, anyone? stuart: okay. >> when they were running informants into campaigns illegally. as a result of all these abuses being uncovered they said we need to set up legislative oversight committees to make sure these intelligence agencies are not break

joining us, curtis ellis, former trade and jobs adviser to the trump campaign. ompanies and institutions really do need to rethink their relationship with china, looks like they are getting the message. >> they certainly are. ashley: why is it so important? >> china is a totalitarian dictatorship that poses an existential threat to western industrial democracy. they are subsidizing their industries, using the money they earn from walmart and every american consumer to fund a digital surveillance state, imprison religious minorities, and basically spread this form of authoritarianism around the world. they are pressuring american companies into what to say, when to say it, how to say it. so their authoritarianism does not end at the chinese borders. the message is now getting through. for 20, 30, 40 years we believed as china grew more prosperous it would grow more democratic and more free market. that's over. that illusion has been disbursed. now we are seeing people like jamie dimon, ceo of jpmorgan stanley saying i didn't support tariffs at first but now i unde

joining us now, curtis ellis, former trade and jobs adviser to the trump campaign.rning to you. are we going to get a deal with japan ahead of china? can we get something done? there's quite a bromance between abe and president trump. >> it's in their interest the make a deal with us. they realize that china is not their friend just like china is not our friend. and mr. trump, president trump is talking about a 25% tariff on imported automobiles which, of course, would be -- you kneecap the japanese economy. they've made their fortunes on selling toyotas and nissans. so we want to export more agricultural product to japan, they want to keep their auto market in place. the wild card here -- ashley: important market for u.s. producer, japan, is it that big? >> they have been keep our farm products out and that is the key to this whole thing. as you talk about auto tariffs, don't forget about truck tariffs. we have a 25% tariff on pickup trucks and that's the healthiest sector of the american auto business. ashley: more china trade talks this week. the south china morn

curtis ellis is back with us, former trump campaign aide and jobs adviser.ll, is this up to speaker pelosi whether there is a vote on this thing or not? >> she actually does have the option of not bringing it to the floor for a vote. stuart: what do you expect? >> i expect she will. i'm here to deliver -- stuart: she will put it up for a vote? >> i'm here to deliver a warning to the democrats. they bottle this thing up or defeat it at their own peril. remember, it was president bill clinton who signed nafta. president trump as candidate trump hung that around hillary's neck and as a result, he won michigan, he won pennsylvania, he won ohio because the industrial workers of america, the labor unions, understand that nafta was a disaster. it destroyed the automotive industry in america. it destroyed so many other jobs. if the democrats now want to stop the revision of nafta because president trump has delivered on his promise to improve this deal, this is going to create thousands of automotive jobs, billions of dollars worth of investment in the automotive an