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sachs you heard ezra say that he feels this administration is being a bit chaotic in the approach here what's the
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counter to that maybe you could clarify what your position is this is a very unrealistic view of politics when we've
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had a bipartisan consensus in washington for decades that unfettered free trade is a good thing no matter how big our
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trade deficits got no matter how rich and powerful china got no matter how unfair the trade practices got no matter
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how many millions of our jobs and factories got exported overseas this has been the bipartisan consensus in
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washington and larry you're right that it started before the clinton administration and the george w bush
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administration definitely accelerated it but there has absolutely been a bipartisan consensus in washington that
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this sort of unfettered free trade policy was good for the country now how do you change that you can nitpick this
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and you can make all the process objections you want but donald trump has changed the conversation he was one of
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the few people and the few public figures in america who was right about this that throwing open our markets to
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these foreign products without thinking about the consequences was a mistake i think most people today would say he was
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right about