I said that we've been abused by other countries at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We were losing three to $5 billion a day on trade. We were losing a trillion and a half to $2 trillion a year. Not sustainable. They were taking advantage of us like they've never. I could have left it that way. And at some point there would have been an implosion like nobody's ever seen. (07:04–07:10)
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Asserts that the U.S. was losing $1.5 to $2 trillion annually.
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