The White House Economic Council Director is defending President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 50% tariff on copper imports.In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Director Kevin Hassett pointed to the importance of the U.S. being self-sufficient when it comes to key resources."The bottom line is that if there is a time of war, then we need to have the metals that we need to produce American weapons," Hassett said on the show on Sunday."And copper is a key component in many American weapon sets. And so as we look forward to the threats that America faces, the president decided that we have...

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