will talk to resident scholar derek scissors. this is bloomberg. ♪ kathleen: i'm kathleen hays in new york. haidi: and i'm haidi lun in sydney. you're watching daybreak australia. china is reiterating its opposition on curbing investment in the u.s. is white house officials tussle over trade policy ahead of the deadline. joining us now is american enterprise institute scholar derek scissors. derek, we were just saying a couple of minutes ago that things change so rapidly and so quickly with a tweet or comment from one of the white house officials that you don't necessarily want to get attached to any given outcome. what is a likely outcome here? will you assume cooler heads will prevail? derek: it depends on what you mean by cooler. i think we will get the $34 billion in u.s. tariffs. it a lot of time to head that off. inclinationt has an toward terrorists and the administration wants to show that it is tough on china after backing off a step on investment and export control. i think we will get the $34 billion, that's not a lo

derek scissors, thank you for joining us, much appreciated. >>> let's take a look at the big board for you. we got about 21 minutes, thereabouts, before the close. coming up next, bitcoin bombing. the cryptocurrency falling below $6,000 over the weekend, but has it finally bottomed out? where does it go from here? the ceo will answer that question and more exclusively when "countdown" comes right back. polk county is one of the counties that you don't think about very much. it's really not very important. i was in the stone ages as much as technology wise. and i would say i had nothing. you become a school teacher for one reason, you love kids. and so you don't have the same tools, you don't always believe you have the same... outcomes achievable for yourself. when we got the tablets, it changed everything. by giving them that technology and then marrying it with a curriculum that's designed to have technology at the heart of it, we are really changing the way that students learn. and i can't wait for ten years from now when i get to talk to them again and see, like, who they are. ♪