rob portman talked about the negative impact of stalling trade negotiations.happens with these china negotiations, according to our own emma chandra, everything we talked about concerns china and trade with the u.s. guest: sure. we do think that president trump and president xi will meet later this year ahead of that tariffs deadline on march 1. more than likely we are going to see some kind of high-level deal come out of that meeting, and it is probably going to relate to things we've already seen like u.s. exports,ore particularly in agriculture -- china buying more u.s. exports, particularly in agriculture. they will leave the more complex aspects of that trade deal to others to work through in the course of quarters, perhaps even years, because that structural element is the part that is so complex. things like forced technology transfer, state-supported industries. all of that is part of china's 2025 plan. it is not going to be resolved as easily. vonnie: if we don't get a deal by the end of this month, what kind of hit could the economy experience from t

we will talk with cinda rob portman -- senator rob portman of ohio. this is bloomberg. pres.n't blame china for taking advantage of us. i blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. ♪ david: the business world watched the state of the union last night with the kenai on how much encouragement the president would provide -- pres. trump: i have great respect for president xi and we are now working on a new trade deal with china. it must include real structural change and unfair trade our chroniceduce trade deficit and protect american jobs. [applause] david: we welcome now senator rob portman, republican from ohio and a member of the finance committee. sen. portman: great to be on with you again. david: you were a trade representative. it was striking to me that he said structural change and fixing the deficit. those are two very different things. addressing the trade deficit would be much easier than structural change. if you want structural change, what does that do to the odds of getting a deal? sen. portman: i think both are necessary. our top

senator rob portman is here.tually happens with -- suddenly we're back to europe and canada. i was all focused on china what's the end result here, do you think? >> i think something gets worked out. the question has always been how comprehensive is it? the deal with the structural problems, not just buying more american products which i think is likely. and finally, you know, what is the way to keep it accountable in other words, sometimes china agrees with things and doesn't follow through i think what you'll see are good discussions this week. the vice premier is in town meeting. they're going to agree on something with balancing more trade. trying to reduce the imbalance of the trade deficit and then property that's significant on licensing agreements joint ventures and more. and then i think there'll be something on subsidies on the state enterprises in china which are unfairly trading with us because they have the subsidi subsidizati subsidization. and create some way to have consequences to china doesn't f

ask senator rob portman. >> greg: why? was he on backpage? >> dana: no.d down because of the human trafficking issues. i think you're right. i think the human trafficking part, if you want to focus on that a new take the other part away. >> kennedy: then you create an even darker black market and that's the problem. when you are forcing it deeper and deeper into the shadows and you criminalize the activity, the black market grows. that's not a good thing. people are going to do what they are going to do. you're not going to affected because because it's the world oldest profession because the demand is there. >> juan: i think the violence and the kind of threats and abuse and the larger sex trafficking we saw in the bob kraft case in florida. >> kennedy: allegedly. tlaib. i think that's what we have to go after. i was struck to see "the new york daily news" here in new york, say we agree with kamala harris. take away the intimidation, take it out of the dark, people who are of the consensual bond to do with they are doing but to go after the people settin

senator rob portman is here.he white house says we're on strong legal ground in this case. >> probably. there haven't been supreme court cases since the national emergency act. there are some cases previously that people talked to. under the new law probably in my view the courts end up saying it's a political question to be worked out by the branches. >> bill: mercedes schlapp said this. >> we feel we're in strong legal ground. we know the realities of judicial activism as you've seen with the ninth circuit. but at the same time the president didn't want to have to choose this route. he wanted to see if congress would negotiate a better deal. they, of course, fell short. >> bill: she is echoing a bit of what you are suggesting here. what they would argue the president has an obligation to provide safety to the people living in the united states and you think they win on that argument. >> i think the court is likely to kick it back to us and say under the national emergency act we can vote on it. the president's

natures rob portman and corey gardner told the snpt nournl review they will back the president as thembent in 2016, both opposed trump's nomination with portman reis inning his endorsement of trump following the release of the infamous acce"access hollyw tape. trump tweeted thank you for the early and warm endorsement. we'll all win in 2020 together. >>> let's get a quick check on your weather with meteorologist bill karins. luckily for me i was overseas when this country was hit hard with winter weather. >> are you happy about the warm up? >> let's go the west coast. this is where the problems are. now a second one has moved in. overnight. all the yellow and red, very heavy rainfall and the biggest problems are the burn scars and where we had the fires in the fall. worry about debris flows. snow in the mountains of the sierra nevada. highest elevations you can get impressive snowfall totals. june lake, 70 inches of snow this weekend. up to almost six feet of snow. on top much that still under a blizzard warning today for the second round that's coming in. flash flood watch is up for

>> this is senator rob portman of ohio, not a trumpy kind of guy. he gets it.ut he also knows a lot of republican supporters so he gives an answer like this. >> i think the court is likely to kick it back to us and say, in the national emergency act there will be a right to vote on this. then there's also funding with the d.o.d. that he can use without declaring an emergency. i think that would be safer gru ground both in terms of the courts, but also, it would help us avoid this in the future. but i do support trump on securing the national border. >> they always add that last part. >> they can look at the numbers and see that voters do not think a wall is popular. they can also look at the numbers and see that president trump is popular. nae if that's a decision he makes, you see so far they're sticking with him, although the democrats think they may be able to get the skeptical republicans over to their side. but the president thinks this government shutdown really helped push the country to his side about building the wall, even though that directly contrad

little bit because of that, but i've known him on trade law issues, i sat with him and bob dole and rob portman in the finance committee, he used to work for dole as a staff -- he might have been staff director, i'm not sure. i talked to him monthly in the first few months, i talked to him weekly as nafta negotiations got more intense. i talk with him daily almost for periods of time. we haven't talked as much since the agreement has fallen so short on labor enforcement. >> the agreement meaning? >> the nafta 1.6. >> okay. >> and that's because he thinks that he's done the best he can and i assume he has, but it's just simply not good enough for most democrats if not almost all of us, it's not good enough for labor, it doesn't work, it's not good enough for organized lane, -- labor. after nafta passed and i led the opposition of the freshman class five years later i went to the mexican border, i flew to texas and i went to -- i don't remember where i went, but went across the border and i went to a mexican auto plant that looked just like an auto plant in cleveland except it was newer, it was m

so that's going to take everything from the bill that senator rob portman and i passed to do somethingth our postal service. they're actually allowing these things to come in unfettered, and to make sure, working with our law enforcement, that we cut down on that. you know, prince died in minnesota from opioids and his addiction, and that's something we still can't get over in our state. but we also know it's not just famous people. it is people like your story. it is people, our champion swimmer, one of our champion swimmers in minnesota went in with a disease, got hooked, turned to heroin and died. so the illegal drugs is a piece of it too. the third part of it is what i just talked about, and that is treating addiction. there is just not enough funding going into addiction. i see it as a money saver in the long haul because so many times when people get hooked, they under up breaking into things, committing crimes. i saw this in my job. so how do you pay for it? well, i got a good first start, and that is why don't we pay for it by getting money from the very drug companies that got

it is when donald trump was not at table, senators such as rob portman of ohio, amy klobuchar of minnesotast voters don't appreciate it, a shame they don't, how well-intentioned, sincere almost every senator and congressman are who come here. they do not come here to fight. they do not come here to be on tv. they come to get things done. something in the process renders the sum weaker than the parts. connell: we joke about it, tv coverage, lights go on, like really hostile time? or big-time issue they have to almost pretend to fight, that what you're getting at? >> media is certainly a part of it. what you have within both parties, real energy is within the extremes and base. they can leverage social media and leverage tv to lead their parties to raise the most money. most extreme left 5%, against the most extreme right 5%, are very much driving so much of the narratives of the frustration to the middle. connell: bruce, ruining everything. we had all the stories everything is disaster. he says it is not. we appreciate you coming on. >> thank you. melissa: general motors making a big announ

come on in senator rob portman of ohio.y be a compromise in that bipartisan committee is looking at funding for a border wall. if we get a deal, compromise deal, do you think we get 60 votes in the senate to actually get the wall built? >> i do. i don't think you're that far apart, nor have we been. except in rhetoric. the president's plan is a reasonable plan talking about 234 miles of additional barriers of some type. some fencing, some are barriers for vehicles. the president said it should be done consistent with the border security improvement plan. that's what democrats are asking for. the experts will decide what kind of barrier and where. it's hard to believe that we couldn't figure out a way to come up with common ground and move forward with better security. >> stuart: speaker pelosi is backed into a corner by his far left. it wouldn't allow will a wall or structure, fence, or any funding of any kind. you have to get over that hurdle, as well. >> that is part of the rhetoric. the problem is, the experts on the bor

aftermber writing a story in october 2016, after the access hollywood tape came out, after rob portman pulled his endorsement on paul ryan, the house speaker, said he couldn't defend this anymore, there was discussion, maybe we need to go big, maybe we are thinking too small. after "access hollywood" we could pick up a scale of 6, 7, 8 seats. this could be a total wipeout. trump wast was finished. time, i was writing this article in october, talking about the optimism among some democrats, schumer. -- schumer was the voice of reason. throughout his career, he has been a poll-focused politician, and he saw the polls and argued within democratically circles to keep the resources on our top-priority races, let's not expand into ohio and some of these other states. so i think he knew it was going to be close even though i think he thought hillary was going to win. he likes to consider himself the real expert. he pays a lot of attention to these races. a couple of weeks later schumer was elected the democratic leader in the center. we had a great meeting and i'm truly humbled and honored to

after rob portman pulled his , thesement and paul ryan house speaker, said he could not defend the president anymore. there was discussion and maybe this was in harry reid's office, we need to go big. we are thinking too small. after "access hollywood" we can 5, 6, 7,n the scale of eight seats. the mindset in washington when that tape came out was that donald trump was finished. at the time i was writing this article and not over and talking about the optimism or bullishness among some democrats, schumer was the voice of reason. throughout his career, he has been a very poll focused politician. he kept a laserlike focus on the polls. thoughtugh the pundits donald trump could win. he saw the polls and argued within democratic circles -- keep our resources on our top rate -- top priority races. i think he knew it was going to be a close one even though i think he thought hillary was going to win. back to the tactician that you say he was. >> he liked to pay attention to these races and considers himself the expert. later,uple of weeks senator schumer was elected that democratic leader in the s

corporate america as well as lawmakers here on capitol hill i just got out of a meeting with senator rob portmanive himself who believes the administration is making progress and that he hopes they make enough progress to delay that march 1st deadline without any escalation of tariffs. he says the enforcement will be key and he expects any deal would see a purchase that would right size the trade deficit and potentially even continue relaxing joint venture rules we'll look for that. apple's ceo tim cook told npr last night he's also optimistic. he said both sides are talking, and i always think that is the essential thing to reaching an agreement. it's in both parties' best interest to come together. the president didn't talk much about a deal or talks with china in his rally in el paso last night. but he did highlight the fact the administration as of late has taken an even tougher stance toward china listen >> my administration has taken the toughest ever action to crack down on years of china's abuse and practices have been unfair and i have a lot of respect for president xi but he's represen

. ♪ ♪ ashley: ohio senator rob portman says if congress cannot reach a bipartisan agreement on bordera government shutdown. roll tape. >> border security should not be a tough issue for to us address. there are so many opportunities to strengthen border security where we agree including barriers which is always been something democrats supported in the past, also more cameras, of course. you want better screening at the ports of entry. if all that is in there, stuart, there is more border protection, we pass the other six appropriation bills agreed to on bipartisan basis in the senate at least, i think it will get more than 60. i think it will get more than 70. ♪ stuart: this is a subject we cover a lot on this program, that would be e sports, gaming. we cover it a lot, because it is exploding. the global e-sports market is expected to surpass a billion dollars this year. that is e-sports, that is not just video games, this is just the sport of playing it. a billion dollars would be 27% increase for the previous year, thanks to the help of brand sponsorships, okay? let me have a look.