ClydeR
03-04-2018, 09:14 PM
The two most interesting things from the Sunday shows this week..
First, Lindsay Graham made some observations about Syria..
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you know where the president's red line is on chemical weapons which the Assad regime continues to use?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: I thought it did. But I don't any longer. Clearly he did use chemical weapons yet again. What I would like to see is a no fly zone inside of Syria where people could go back to Syria from the surrounding neighborhood, and we would train Syrian Democratic Forces to take Assad on. And tell the Russians and the Iranians if you bomb these people you do so at your own peril and try to level out the chaos in Syria go to Geneva to get a peace agreement. You'll never get an agreement in Geneva as long as Assad's winning on the battlefield. Our policy in Syria is a complete mess. We're AWOL when it comes to containing Russia and Iran and Syria as a real threat to the region.
More... (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sen-lindsey-graham-on-face-the-nation-march-4-2018/)
Second, Peter Navarro, Trump's chief trade advisor, predicted that no country would retaliate against the new tariffs and said that the media..
WALLACE: The other concern is that prices will not just go up, but that other countries will retaliate and slap tariffs on U.S. exports to their countries.
President Trump tweeted this on Friday about responding to U.S. trade deficits with countries: Trade wars are good and easy to win.
And here's what you said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NAVARRO: I don't believe any country in the world is going to retaliate for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in the world.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Mr. Navarro, do you really believe that?
NAVARRO: Yes, I do. And let's give it some perspective. We have the lowest tariffs in the world. We have the lowest nontariff barriers. We are the free-tradest (ph) nation of the world.
And what do we get for that?
We don't get fair and reciprocal trade. We get every year a half a trillion dollar trade deficit that transfers our wealth to other countries and basically offshore our jobs and our factories. And all we are asking for is fair and reciprocal trade.
Now, in this particular case, we are defending national security, but more broadly, these countries that we are trading with, they understand they'd be getting a very good deal for many years, all the president is doing, he's been saying this for two years now, actually for 20, that America first, we want a fair deal, we want reciprocal trade. And I don't believe, you heard me say this --
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: If I may ask a question now, you may -- that may be your argument, but the European Union, for instance, doesn't believe it. They say that they have already assembled a package of tariffs, 25 percent tariffs on $3.5 billion of U.S. exports.
The head of the European Commission said this: We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans, Levi's.
Question, is he bluffing?
NAVARRO: Well, they already have tariffs on that. If you go to India, for example, there's 100 percent tariff on our Harleys. But --
WALLACE: I'm asking you about the European Union. Do you believe he is bluffing when he says they're going to impose new tariffs?
NAVARRO: I think what we need to do here -- what we need to do here is keep the rhetoric down. It would be helpful if the media didn't have all these crazy headlines about trade wars, and just look at the facts. Facts are, we are the biggest market in the world.
WALLACE: Wait a minute.
More... (http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/03/04/white-house-trade-adviser-makes-case-for-tariffs.html)
There were also two honorable mentions that I did not quote above. The first honorable mention was that Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, got a little upset, right after the part I quoted, when Navarro said the media should stop using over-the-top rhetoric like "trade war." The second honorable mention was that Chris Christie said on ABC's This Week that Jared Kushner should resign. That is interesting because when Christie was a federal prosecutor, he sent Kushner's father to jail.
First, Lindsay Graham made some observations about Syria..
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you know where the president's red line is on chemical weapons which the Assad regime continues to use?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: I thought it did. But I don't any longer. Clearly he did use chemical weapons yet again. What I would like to see is a no fly zone inside of Syria where people could go back to Syria from the surrounding neighborhood, and we would train Syrian Democratic Forces to take Assad on. And tell the Russians and the Iranians if you bomb these people you do so at your own peril and try to level out the chaos in Syria go to Geneva to get a peace agreement. You'll never get an agreement in Geneva as long as Assad's winning on the battlefield. Our policy in Syria is a complete mess. We're AWOL when it comes to containing Russia and Iran and Syria as a real threat to the region.
More... (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sen-lindsey-graham-on-face-the-nation-march-4-2018/)
Second, Peter Navarro, Trump's chief trade advisor, predicted that no country would retaliate against the new tariffs and said that the media..
WALLACE: The other concern is that prices will not just go up, but that other countries will retaliate and slap tariffs on U.S. exports to their countries.
President Trump tweeted this on Friday about responding to U.S. trade deficits with countries: Trade wars are good and easy to win.
And here's what you said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NAVARRO: I don't believe any country in the world is going to retaliate for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in the world.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Mr. Navarro, do you really believe that?
NAVARRO: Yes, I do. And let's give it some perspective. We have the lowest tariffs in the world. We have the lowest nontariff barriers. We are the free-tradest (ph) nation of the world.
And what do we get for that?
We don't get fair and reciprocal trade. We get every year a half a trillion dollar trade deficit that transfers our wealth to other countries and basically offshore our jobs and our factories. And all we are asking for is fair and reciprocal trade.
Now, in this particular case, we are defending national security, but more broadly, these countries that we are trading with, they understand they'd be getting a very good deal for many years, all the president is doing, he's been saying this for two years now, actually for 20, that America first, we want a fair deal, we want reciprocal trade. And I don't believe, you heard me say this --
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: If I may ask a question now, you may -- that may be your argument, but the European Union, for instance, doesn't believe it. They say that they have already assembled a package of tariffs, 25 percent tariffs on $3.5 billion of U.S. exports.
The head of the European Commission said this: We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans, Levi's.
Question, is he bluffing?
NAVARRO: Well, they already have tariffs on that. If you go to India, for example, there's 100 percent tariff on our Harleys. But --
WALLACE: I'm asking you about the European Union. Do you believe he is bluffing when he says they're going to impose new tariffs?
NAVARRO: I think what we need to do here -- what we need to do here is keep the rhetoric down. It would be helpful if the media didn't have all these crazy headlines about trade wars, and just look at the facts. Facts are, we are the biggest market in the world.
WALLACE: Wait a minute.
More... (http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/03/04/white-house-trade-adviser-makes-case-for-tariffs.html)
There were also two honorable mentions that I did not quote above. The first honorable mention was that Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, got a little upset, right after the part I quoted, when Navarro said the media should stop using over-the-top rhetoric like "trade war." The second honorable mention was that Chris Christie said on ABC's This Week that Jared Kushner should resign. That is interesting because when Christie was a federal prosecutor, he sent Kushner's father to jail.