Peter Navarro on Tariffs: The Mission Is To Save Our Aluminum and Steel Industries

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GRAHAM: "On trade you correctly identified the problem of China dumping steel throughout the world destroy the American steel industry. Your solution is let China off the hook, it’s only going to hurt American consumers and their allies. Please reconsider your solution."
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DOOCY: "OK. There you have Republican Senator Lindsey Graham with his opinion warning the president’s steel tariffs only serve to let China off the hook."
KILMEADE: "Peter Navarro is director of the White House National Trade Council often thought to be the most fervent in support of these tariffs. Peter, what’s your response to Senator Lindsey Graham and others who said, if you let China off the hook and you're going to hurt South Korea and Canada more with these proposed 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum."
NAVARRO: "Brian, the mission here is to save our aluminum and steel industries for the purposes of the preserving our national security and economic security. That’s what this is all about. And we got imports coming in across the globe that are threatening those two industries. As the president said, we can’t have a country without aluminum and steel industry."