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Howard Lutnick: “That $235 billion trade surplus, that they're selling more…”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Is that how you want to leave people to feel like they haven't been ripped off, but they're part of the sort of team? Yeah. If you get the sweet spot. They knew that you had to change those numbers, that, That $235 billion trade surplus, that they're selling more to us. You know, it's just not sustainable and it doesn't make any sense. So they knew that Donald Trump was going to fix it. So could we fix it in the maximizing way? (26:45–26:50)

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Reiterates that Europe has a $235 billion trade surplus with the United States.

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