Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiDemocratic senator to party: 'A little message discipline wouldn't kill us' Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with 0 drug coupon plan Overnight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds MORE (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE was right to challenge China's trade practices, adding that it may not have been done the right way.

"They cannot continue to violate our trade relationship. I think the president had to do something about it. I’m not sure he went the right way,” Pelosi said in an CNBC interview. “I think we should have done it multilaterally, with the EU and the rest.”

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"Whatever path he wanted to take to improve a trade relationship, do not empower the other side to hurt your farmers and your consumers,” she added.

In the escalating trade war with China, the president has imposed tariffs on more than $500 billion in Chinese goods and Beijing has retaliated with levies on U.S. products. U.S. industries such as agriculture have been affected by the tariffs.

The countries are expected to hold talks in October, and CNBC reported that they are also expected to discuss issues this week.

Trump said Tuesday that there could soon be a deal with Beijing.

“There’ll be a deal maybe soon, maybe before the election or one day after the election,” he told reporters. “It’ll be the toughest deal anybody’s ever had to make from the standpoint of China, and they know that."