CNN’s Jake Tapper hosts Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Ashley Allison, and Shermichael Singleton to discuss President Trump’s comment that tariffs might cause shortages of children’s toys.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN: I don’t know who in his life has 10 or 30 baby dolls. I don’t even know… REP. CHRISSY HOULAHAN: Well, gender stereotyping aside and the ridiculousness of that, I don’t think that the American public is cool with ruining Christmas, full stop. And as a person who came from industry before, the manufacturing industry, you can’t fix supply chains in three months. It takes, in some cases, years and years. And people have put in orders for things like baby dolls months and months ago. They’re possibly on the water right now, if they even got off the shore, off of — out of China because of the tariff threats. And so what’s happening is, we’re seeing an enormous threat, I guess, to the fact that everything on the shelves, consumer products, will no longer be there, because vendors are scared, because consumers are scared, because it’s just going to end up being kind of a disaster. And I think that the American public is not patient. They should not be patient with the idea of tariffs. And I think, unfortunately, that’s what our president is asking us to be.
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