Howard, would you say we have to be able to use tariffs to fight people that use tariffs on us? I mean, If we didn't have that power of tariffs, we wouldn't. We would economically be destroyed as a country because they will destroy us. Other countries will destroy us with unchecked tariffs. We can check them when we have the use. They tried to take that power away from us. (49:50–49:58)
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