Posted on 08/11/2019 1:47:23 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Leland Vittert interview with Peter Navarro goes off the rails
A Saturday afternoon interview between Fox News weekend anchor Leland Vittert and White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro ended on a contentious note as Navarro accused Vittert of being “very overbearing” and consistently “interrupting” his attempts to answer questions.
The “America’s News Headquarters” conversation on U.S. trade policy toward China began with Vittert pressing Navarro on the “serious consequences” that will occur should China manipulate their currency.
“There’s no threat, Leland,” said Navarro.
“What are the consequences?” asked the Fox News host.
“For China,” Navarro responded. “What’s happening with China now as we have methodically put tariffs on as China has basically refused to negotiate in good faith. We have seen China lower their currency. Since tariffs have started the Chinese yuan has gone down 12% offsetting much of the tariffs that we imposed, so China’s bearing the burden. The other thing China does is lower prices, so we have seen virtually no inflation.”
Vittert interrupted Navarro when the White House assistant tried to bring up a list of promises President Trump has made and kept.
“Here is the question, what would you — if China continues devaluing their currency which, as you point out, to offset the tariffs, what tools would the United States respond with?”
The Fox News anchor interrupted Navarro several times on the topic of currency manipulation as he tried to get his answers out.
“I don’t understand that, the hostility here,” said Navarro, seeming surprised. “It’s really simple, when China manipulates currency, they go in and intervene in the currency markets so they buy dollars … ”
After another bout of crosstalk during which Vittert insisted U.S. companies pay the balance, Navarro said, “You’re wrong, sir. You are absolutely wrong here. [another interruption] You can’t keep doing this. You’re being very overbearing and demonstrating a lack of understanding of the dynamics of this situation.”
“What are you doing here?” Navarro said after more interruptions. “Are you going to give me a chance to respond?”
“Go ahead. Please,” said Vittert.
“So, China lowers the value of their currency and that translates to a lower price so it totally offsets any kind of tariff impact. They are also cutting their prices, so you’re also talking about a paper transaction, when in fact China bears the burden through the lower tariff. You put a tariff on at 10% and they lower their currency by 12%, right, are consumers hurt? Absolutely not. We have raised 35 billion worth of tariffs … they’ve borne the China burden.” (RELATED: ANTONI: How Trump Is Winning The Trade War With China)
“You’ve got to back off here,” said a clearly irritated Navarro after another interruption about farmers who say they are hurt by the policy.
“I’ll try to roll off the set,” joked Vittert. “I ask the questions, you answer them. You’ve just said the farmers were made whole.”
“You know, this hostility is personally to me …” said Navarro after another series of crosstalk.
“Usually people ask questions and they get an answer,” said Vittert.
“All you keep doing is interrupting me,” said Navarro, getting angry. “That’s all you do here. You roll back the tape here – all you do is when I start to ask a question.”
“Clearly not an answer, just a filibuster,” Vittert said. “Gotta run …”
“‘Gotta run,'” Navarro mocked, “After you interrupted me probably 30 times. This is shameful sir.”
I was shocked to see that punk back on air today. I was cringing yesterday as I watched him make a Liberal Jackass out of himself. So glad Navarro shot back.
He is unwatchable. No more weekend viewing for me, Fox News. But I guess you don’t care.
Has he ever been interviewed by Hannity?
That explains a lot.
I cherry-pick Fox shows on YouTube. Hannity and Dobbs are unwatchable.
Then you get Hannity with his long endless monologue looping the same old crap night after night for the last two years, and interrupting his guests. He should just get cardboard cutouts of his guests.
The yuan is an inherently weak currency. It is not accepted as payment in international trade ( with the exception of Iran that due to sanctions is forced to accept yuan for any oil it manages to sell to China). The value of the yuan of course depends on the well being of the Chinese economy which is export oriented. Even if China accumulates US dollars, trading partners still view the yuan with suspicion. Its value can be adulterated by the Central Bank which is in turn controlled by Communist Party officials. If the Chinese economy weakens due to a decline in exports to the US, the yuan weakens. When it weakens Chinese workers will be pay more for essential goods and their standard of living will decline. There is only so much weakening of the yuan China’s central bank can engineer before domestic prices rise ( negating any export advantage to foreign buyers) and there is significant, socially disruptive inflation. Tariffs are a crude weapon but eventually the Chinese will experience the pain Trump wants to inflict.The Communist Party does not want domestic difficulties especially in view of the problems they are having in Hong Kong. Then again American farmers and consumers are also feeling the effects.
Leland Vittert has proved himself to be a gigantic @$$.
Over and over again.
No excrement Mr. Holmes.
Leland and that female gem, Arthel Neville or quite the pair on Fox when they’re teamed up. May as well watch MSNBS.
I used to like Dobbs but now he just will not let anybody talk anymore.
Extremely tedious.
I like Emac’s new show. Once she settles down she’ll be fine.
Leland is wearing a purple tie. Clearly a young man with issues.
Absolutely yes. This is no secret. They are liberals. Their wives are progressive liberals too and were instrumental in getting O'Reilly canned.
The two sons claimed to have been embarrassed on FNC's position on climate change.
I quit watching several years ago after they took over and I saw a decidedly Leftist shift in the programming and anchors and hosts.
just watched them. LV was over the line.
We must have the same brand and model of remote.
Mine does the same thing. Which saves it from being thrown through the television.
THAT’S why I stopped watching fox news about 5 years ago now.
It was uncomfortable and not enjoyable to watch and not enlightening at all anymore.
Just a lot of yelling.
I’m Italian. I could go to a family party for that.
Yeah Hannity grows old really fast. You could listen to or watch a show 2 years ago and it’s the same shtick. Unfortunately that’s also the same way Trump does his rally’s. He really needs someone to make them more entertaining. DJ if you are lurking contact me. I’ll make your rally’s must see TV!
Vittert behaved exactly like Shepherd Smith. Is LV gay also?
He disgraced himself and Fox News in the subject interview. He was not asking questions to seek information that would be interesting to his audience. He came with an agenda and he was determined to prove his position regardless of what his guest said.
Leland thinks he’s smarter than the experts and that its his job to negotiate on behalf of our adversaries.
Somebody is paying big money for anti-Tariff youtube ads. My son saw one in here in Florida last week. I didn’t catch it but suspect it is Chamber of Amnesty or other big donors attemption to cost Trump votes in 2020. There is big money behind defeating Trump’s china policy and the Fox anchors like this dope are happy to play for Team Anti-America.
White bread frat boys like Leland have no hope a career in “media” unless they show allegiance to the progressive agenda. Priority in hiring is given to “POC” and the white boys are left to fight for scraps.
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