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victoria guida reviews president trump's use of tariffs to achieve policy goals. c-span's washington journal, join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. thursday morning, president trump joins lawmakers on capitol hill for the annual national prayer breakfast. live coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two, c-span now, and online at c-span.org. >> welcome back. joined by represented julie johnson a democrat of texas and a member of the foreign affairs and homeland security committees. >> great to be here this morning. >> tell us about your background and what your priorities are. guest: i, from the state legislature so i have served three terms in the texas house, judiciary, and focusing a lot about health care policy. unfortunately texas leads in the nation in undesirable statistics. we lead the nation in maternal mortality, in infant mortality and lead the nation in persons without access to health care. that was something i focused a lot on in the legislature and i hope to do that in con

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victoria guida reviews president trump's use of tariffs to achieve policy goals.-span's washington journal, join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. thursday morning, president trump joins lawmakers on capitol hill for the annual national prayer breakfast. live coverage begins

conversation with the trade subcommittee chair, representative adrian smith and my political colleague, victoria guida. thank you very much. [applause] >> congressman, thanks for joining us. delighted to have you here on tariff day. could not be better timing. so, yeah, i want to jump right in. we have some tariffs taking effect. we have the north american tariffs still sort of entrained but delayed for a month for now. my first question is, what is congress' role here? mr. smith: the new administration has outlined even before the election they wanted to move on some tariffs. and these are, i think, to be expected. what we have seen over the last few days, canada and mexico responded with a posture of cooperation. and i think that's a step in the right direction. and i have long said i am not a huge fan of tariffs. i understand there needs to be a tool in the tool box and we need to come to terms with the fact that president trump is going to use those tools. this is after four years where it was unclear what our trade policy was, even though the previous trump administration was very active, very vi