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Speaker 1: Stateside Rich and Arnold morning twenty for somebody else tariffs

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Speaker 1: here we go.

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Speaker 2: No, that's only money, right, Yeah, there is swift retaliation

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Speaker 2: from this country's major trading partners to the Trump order

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Speaker 2: for tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. Those tariffs are

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Speaker 2: to take effect from Wednesday, your time. Where as you say,

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Speaker 2: twenty five percent tarify on US neighbors Canada and Mexico,

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Speaker 2: except for Canadian energy products, where the tariff is said

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Speaker 2: are ten percent. Same for China, you know. Trump says

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Speaker 2: the reason for the move is to stop the flow

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Speaker 2: of fentanyl and to tighten borders. So why Canada. Most

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Speaker 2: of the fentanyl comes from China, which is facing a

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Speaker 2: lesser tariff and has virtually no border issues Canada, So

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Speaker 2: what's the deal there? Trump says, there might be some

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Speaker 2: price spikes for people in this country.

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Speaker 3: There could be some temporary, short term disruption, and people

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Speaker 3: will understand that.

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Speaker 2: People will understand prices spiraling. Well, one third of you

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Speaker 2: is import come from these three countries. Their products include vegetables, fruit, meat, oil, cars,

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Speaker 2: car parts, electronics, toys, clothing, would beard spirits. Some suggest

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Speaker 2: that car prices already at record high as could increase

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Speaker 2: by more than ten thousand dollars a vehicle. Petrol prices

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Speaker 2: already went up yesterday. In fact, some sixty percent of

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Speaker 2: oil imported to the US comes from Canada. People already

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Speaker 2: have been complaining about the price of eggs, which have

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Speaker 2: risen to record levels because of bird flu. I just

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Speaker 2: saw a funny little meme for I guess Valentine's Day

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Speaker 2: coming up, and it has a guy leaning down on

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Speaker 2: a beach with a carton of eggs saying impressive with

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Speaker 2: something expensive. Yeah. Anyway, A looming trade will with Columbia

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Speaker 2: was adverted, as you know, only a few hours into

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Speaker 2: the thing last week when Trump put tarifs on that

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Speaker 2: country for burring a couple of military planes carrying some

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Speaker 2: Columbians who were deported. Columbian's buckle Canada, Mexico and China.

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Speaker 2: They were saying they will retaliate in force you've been

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Speaker 2: talking about Trudeau will. The Canadian Prime minister delivered this

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Speaker 2: direct response to Americans. He's part of what he had

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Speaker 2: to say.

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Speaker 4: This is a choice that yes, real harm Canadians, but

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Speaker 4: beyond that, it will have real consequences for you. They

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Speaker 4: will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery store,

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Speaker 4: gas at the pump. They will impede your access to

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Speaker 4: an affordable supply of vital goods crucial for US security.

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Speaker 2: Talking about minerals and so on. There are US small

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Speaker 2: business rip says of this.

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Speaker 5: I think people are going to be truly shocked at

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Speaker 5: the pricing they're going to see on the cars. I'm

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Speaker 5: a lumber on the clothes, on the food. This is

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Speaker 5: going to be a mess.

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Speaker 2: Canada already as proposed for talientry terrace on a number

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Speaker 2: of US goods, targeting especially Republican run US states.

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Speaker 4: It might mean opting for Canadian rye over Kentucky bourbon,

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Speaker 4: or foregoing Florida orange juice altogether.

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Speaker 2: So it's not clear who wins in any prolonged trade war. Initially,

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Speaker 2: those who benefit are what government gets more import duties.

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Speaker 2: There might be a spur for big business to stick

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Speaker 2: within US borders over a longer term. That's not a

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Speaker 2: simple thing. The banks are getting super wealthy. Credit card

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Speaker 2: interest rates here are twenty plus percent right now, haven't

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Speaker 2: moved much in recent months. Regular folks have been paying

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Speaker 2: these exorbitant interest rates to try to tame inflation. So

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Speaker 2: on the backs of working folks, but those interest rates

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Speaker 2: still are stratisferic, and tariffs could lead to a new

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Speaker 2: jump in inflation. Something saying, so, is this what was

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Speaker 2: promised in the last elections? Inflation spiking credit card rates

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Speaker 2: off the charts, and the prices of everything from tomatoes

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Speaker 2: to houses and cars beyond reach.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting. So Guantanamo Bay, how are

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Speaker 1: they going to make that work? Can they make it work?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's a good question, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You know, difficult to know when the things is that

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Speaker 2: the new president says are just talk, and when you

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Speaker 2: know they're going to act on these things, they will

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Speaker 2: try to actually do something. What are those is the

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Speaker 2: shappy signed memo that the President just gave instructing the

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Speaker 2: Pentagon and Homeland Security to prepare thirty thousand beds at

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Speaker 2: Guantanamo Bay on the tip of Cuba to house deported immigrants.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'd be the GITMO as a reporter, mind you,

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Speaker 2: not for any other reason. The main detention site there

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Speaker 2: is a supermax prison. At the height of its use,

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Speaker 2: they had eight hundred a queued terrorists in there. There

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Speaker 2: are fifteen left, including Karli Shaemuhammed, a key plotter of

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Speaker 2: the September eleventh attacks. You know, one, I have seen

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Speaker 2: these cells. There are no windows in the building at

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Speaker 2: Gitmo has some beautiful rainforests around actually, and there are

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Speaker 2: tons of unexploded devices. However, in the harbor and a

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Speaker 2: round about. Since Gitmo was open for this purpose, it

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Speaker 2: has cost around nine billion dollars US. So are there

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Speaker 2: beds for thirty thousand people? Not that I saw. There

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Speaker 2: are some military barracks, and there's the courthouse on the hill.

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Speaker 2: So the US would pay to fly thirty thousand people

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Speaker 2: to Gitmo, then pay for housing and food for how

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Speaker 2: long a week? The year four years it's been now.

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Speaker 2: The new Homeland Security chief, Christine Nome, the one who

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Speaker 2: shot and killed her own dog because it was troubled,

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Speaker 2: says there would also be legal avenues open to detainees.

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Speaker 3: Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantanamo

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Speaker 3: Bay will be an asset to US and the fact

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Speaker 3: that we'll have the capacity to continue to do there

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Speaker 3: what we've always done. We've always had a presence of

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Speaker 3: illegal immigrants there that have been detained. We're just building

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Speaker 3: out some capacity.

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Speaker 2: Just building a few more huts are Republican lawmakers who've

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Speaker 2: gone along with most everything Trump has put forward, going

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Speaker 2: to sign the blank check for that, it would seem

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Speaker 2: there are one or two hurdles.

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Speaker 1: We will see Wednesday. Appreciate it very much. By the way,

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Speaker 1: my favorite Trump story over the weekend is he took

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Speaker 1: so much they're going to have to hire some more

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Speaker 1: stenographers that can't keep up with an inauguration Day twenty

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Speaker 1: two thousand woods. And then when he went to North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: California last weekend, there were another seventeen thousand woods. So

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Speaker 1: they've got burnout already.

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