the melissa china, thanks for joining us. we started in the us where the race for the white house has entered the home stretch on the last weekend before tuesdays presidential election . the 2 candidates had been criss crossing the country, making their last appeal to voters. they are focusing on swing states that will determine who will become the 47th president of the united states in georgia's capital, atlanta, democratic candidate, comma, la harris, repeating her pledge to be a president for all americans. later she is due to attend a rally in charlotte, north carolina, former president donald trump is also campaigning in north carolina, which is marking its last day of early voting. he has promised to crack down on migration and cutting tax or my president. let's take a listen at what comma harris and donald trump told voters. and we have an opportunity a, unless the election said turn the page on the oh. of donald trump trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. we're done with that. i have done today with the

and other monetary ways to encourage them to make the chemicals, there are not people dying in china for melissa here we lose hundreds of thousands of people a year. >> 90% of the deadly fentanyl comes from china. >> at least. >> beijing produces dozens that used to make the lethal drug. it is killing more than 200 americans per day in the economic and social cost added up to a trillion dollars a year, this is an unusual avenue to pursue but it serves as a form of economic justice, the u.s. trade representative tells us they are reviewing the petition and they have until sunday to decide to initiate an investigation and after that you can get tariffs and maybe china will respond when you hit them in the wallet. stuart: serious stuff, the state department is reportedly hosting therapy sessions after trump selection when they are supposed to be nonpartisan. airbnb owners while other host to join them in blocking out dates around trump's inauguration in washington, d.c., that story is next. ♪ since 2019, john deere has invested more than $2 billion in our american factories. today, we're nearly 30,

china. that could cleed to sparring matches over foreign policy within the trump administration. melissa>> thank you. i think the mention of elon musk is a very interesting one because he is the ceo, the only foreign automaker who has a fully owned factory in china. and there must be a reason for that. there hussle be some sort of goodwill towards tesla. he was able to clear that hurdle. so to could he be a tempering affect? >> i don't know. you think about what president-elect trump has said abt taiwan and reluctance, and i'm choosing that word to potentially back them up, god forbid something happens, they have to pave their way. marco rubio has been a china hawk before covid, i think, as eunice said, sanctioned twice, barred from the country. you put those three people in a room and i don't know what this sort of game plan is in terms of china. i'll say this. i think if you think it through, tariffs are probably more robust than people think, which i think is inflationary, which i think is one of the reasons bond yields continue to go higher. >>> i think the cpi number tomorrow, which

>> well, melissa, i think we've been talking a lot about tariffs, sort of us to china and what may happenat worries me is a larger trade war that is not just what we intend to do to china but what are the retaliatory steps china may take, and what i'm not hearing a lot of is also this broader look that the trump campaign spoke about with 10% across-the-board tariffs which, melissa, will hit allies like our european trading partners. if we lock at germany, for example, germany's economy is already on life support. if they are hit, we'll have additional concerns about what's happening in the eu in all of these countries, china as well as our allies and partners will respond with their own set of tariffs and we'll have this global trade war that i fear. >> focusing on china, though, first, what sort of retaliatory measures -- we've always talked about sort of tit for tat, they will do something commensurate. is that a bad assumption in this new scenario? >> commensurate may not be the way to look at it. they have things with the agriculture sector, how they control minerals and may be able t

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