in romania now for the latest let's cross over to washington and our correspondent helen humphrey helena donald trump says he's a terror of man is the commerce department telling the president what he wants to hear. right christopher you're right to point out the fact that president trump is a self-proclaimed tariff man but he's also a self-proclaimed deal maker and you've got to look at this and its context the united states and europe have long been locked in negotiations over a trade deal they are somewhat sluggish perhaps the president thinks that this is his leverage this is his way of dangling a threat of up to twenty five percent increase of tariffs on european car makers of getting the best deal for the trumpet administration we understand that privately he said that he used the same tactic when dealing with the canadians in the negotiation of a trade deal so perhaps what we see is leverage in president trump's modus operandi helena nobody on this side of the atlantic is buying the argument that terrorises on european cars would indeed be a matter of national security how is that argument res