leader kevin mccarthy sent a message to congressional republicans seeking to buy president trump sterrettn from former reagan economic adviser art laffer. how should these terrace be implemented? >> well, i don't think they should be implemented very much. i think they are basically a negotiation stance for the president to allow him to renegotiate nafta and the other treaties especially with europe as europe is awful on this stuff. nafta needs to be renegotiated badly. i think this is his ace in the hole to threaten tariffs to get them to come up to the table and make a fair or even trade deal we really need badly. charles: does it hurt his negotiations to have so many republicans and establishment republicans screaming at the top of their voices that this is going to start a trade war almost the same way that we would lose a trade war or that other countries have. >> he's been criticized by everyone on so many policies. he has not buckled under any of them and has been the most successful president i've ever seen in the most successful president ever in the first four years of office le