we know peter navarro's thoughts on china and trade in general. peter navarro said, he's quoting someone else who said the last mile of a marathon is the toughest part of the marathon. so at least from the viewpoint of peter navarro, he still thinks this could potentially be the toughest part. as it relates to your question, susan, the president talked about i.p. theft, certain tariffs, though he did say quote, this will be an epic deal if it happens. >> blake, liz peek. it does seem like everybody wants this to happen. reporter: right. >> i guess the question is do we know, is there an appointment on his book at mar-a-lago for a summit? do they have to actually sketch out the calendar? reporter: it doesn't seem like it, because as we heard from the president, you know, he said there needs to be a deal first and he thinks there is potentially four weeks until they can even get to that point. you know, there were some headlines today that the president could announce a summit at that very meeting. i was told repeatedly throughout the day that that

trade in counterfeit branded good white house trade advisor and reputed anti china hard liner peter navarro rejected any link between the memo and the china trade talks but in an opinion column on counterfeiting published yesterday mr navarro accused us based e-commerce companies amazon e-bay and china's ali baba as middlemen for counterfeiters. in one other china item the u.s. state department said today that they will not send high level officials to summit on china's belt and road initiatives later this month china's foreign minister called criticism of b r i prejudice and said that forty world leaders will attend the summit. and joining us from our new york studio to help give us an outlook on what could be the dust of this trade war is richard wolfe professor of economics emira at the university of massachusetts amherst richard thank you so much for joining us. glad to be here kristie such a negotiations between u.s. and china are due to restart today in washington and negotiators from the two of the world's largest economies are aiming to resolve the dispute over technology among othe

bipartisan panel, not peter navarro, not the white house saying this is actually going to add some jobs kevin hassett says this analysis doesn't even include gains for us in intellectual property protection in the deal. i think what could have been terrible maybe is not terrible. maybe it's even good. i hope this report is accurate. >> i mean, i'm looking at 0.35%. that's the gain to gdp after six years. i need to change the prescription on my glasses to see this. >> look, i'm glad to have a deal. i'm glad business leaders can make decisions going forward and have does ability. the president was talking about this as the worst deal in the history of human civi civilizat. i don't know how you go from that to a trump deal and you're getting 0.35% after six years. david: go ahead. >> i'm going to go right between james and jack on this. i agree with james. look, it's great that, you know -- the government steps back a little bit. it would be great if we don't have to have the agreements. it was just free trade. but i'm with jack. the effect on this, you talked about the effect on the gdp.

. >> reporter: white house economic advisor peter navarro says that the last mile of a marathon is always the hardest that's where we are and as the trade talks continue tomorrow, as the u.s. office the president is actually going to the mexico border in california. he's going to look firsthand at some of the new border wall that is going up. the president also pushing mexico to do more. liz? >> liz: thank you, edward to homeland security secretary kristen kirstjen nielsen at the arizona border today meeting with border patrol, i.c.e., and local law enforcement facilities there are dramatically over-capacity and one estimate has they're over-capacity by 280 % and thousands of migrants there, president trump will visit at the border in california to have a round table discussion with officials there. let's get right to fox news at the border in el paso, texas. casey? >> liz, talk of tariffs or a partial border shutdown, an entire border shutdown, all of it frankly, has people living in border communities like el paso, texas where we are. very uneasy and watching very closely, because this

that run-up, the president went around the room and talked to each of his advisors including the peter navarro, and the trade adviser, both made comments in the oval office that were substantially more descent cal than the president's remarks were. >> navarro selled that the end of a mare lot still left to agreed to. the vaeders that were ahead on a totally sticking tone. >> he brought up two he said one was intellectual prospectory and the idea of the chinese dealing american ip and ultimately tariffs and those are the core things of this negotiation and two things and it gives you a sense that there is still a lot to achieve here the president said the talks are going well and hu sitting right behind him and to his right seemed optimistic and buoyant at times and a friendly smile on his face so this is an administration that feels like thicngs are goin well and careful toe suggest we're not there yet. >> was there any talk of any enforcement mechanism and i would think that would be a major sticking point, we're see being a turn in the chinese data and i don't know if they have a center to g

peter navarro, the trade supervisor has confirmed that.is been previously telegraphed? is this something we knew was happening? >> yes, particularly opioid drugs coming in pack js through china through online retailers what this does is directs homeland security to work with federal law enforcement to stemming the tide of counterfeit drugs and goods. that's something that's already been under way, but the effect of the memorandum is to alert them that the administration i watching this space carefully. navarro and his op-ed said he hopes they're placing their own efforts and these are not coming through the system. >> does it impact anything with regard to trade talks with china? >> no. they said they're clamping down on fentanyl and production there. that's been a big piece of the china trade talks, but this is a september issue. to look at this administration's sort of hostel toward amazon as a company and jeff bezos as a ceo as one sort of animating factor in the mix, they've talked a lot about the idea of counterfeit goods and drugs co