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Speaker 2: Howard Lutnik on Place to Say The Common Secretary Howard

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Speaker 2: Latinik joined US Now from Washington Day Say, mister secretary,

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Speaker 2: welcome back to the program. So always appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: If we could just take a step back and set

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Speaker 2: the table, what are the stakes for today's matting between

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Speaker 2: you and Canight and officials.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the stakes today if you take a

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Speaker 1: look at.

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Speaker 3: It from the big picture, is the United States said

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Speaker 3: we need to have steel and aluminum domestically in America

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Speaker 3: in national security. You need medals to make bullets, you

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Speaker 3: need metals to make munitions, you need metals to make everything.

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Speaker 3: And Donald Trump is very focused on let's make sure

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Speaker 3: the key ingredients that are necessary to defend America are

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Speaker 3: made here in America. And these other countries they just

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Speaker 3: don't pay attention. I mean, how many times do I

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Speaker 3: have to say national security isn't important? And if you do,

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Speaker 3: like the EU, and you respond by putting a terrify

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Speaker 3: on Kentucky bourbon, which used to piss off Mitch McConnell,

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Speaker 3: which doesn't really matter anymore, you gotta wonder, really.

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Speaker 1: Really do I have to deal with this stuff. But

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Speaker 1: alas we.

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Speaker 2: Do, miss the secretary, let's get to Europe in a moment.

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Speaker 2: Let's just stay on Canada and then will work our

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Speaker 2: way to the EU if we can. For the Canadians,

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Speaker 2: as you know, they've put tariffs on around twenty one

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Speaker 2: billion dollars of US goods. Well, that changed your approach

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Speaker 2: to today's mating.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean take a look at that again. Let's

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Speaker 3: take a step back. National security. We put a tariffon

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Speaker 3: stealing aluminum to make sure the dumping countries of the

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Speaker 3: world stop and we can build up our stealing aluminum

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Speaker 3: in America. And what does Canada do They put a

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Speaker 3: tarifon sports equipment. I mean, really, this is just its

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Speaker 3: tone death. Listen to the president national security matters. When

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Speaker 3: he calls out things like semiconductors, he calls out pharmaceuticals,

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Speaker 3: he calls out autos. These are things that matter to

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Speaker 3: us as a country. And if you're going to respond

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Speaker 3: to us with sports equipment, you're just not listening to

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Speaker 3: President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Savatary Lnik.

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Speaker 4: How much are the conversations today actually about bringing up

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Speaker 4: the negotiations when it comes to USMCA.

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Speaker 3: Well, USMCA, we set aside USMCA. So the United States

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Speaker 3: made a deal with both Mexico and Canada that said,

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Speaker 3: if you have enough US content in certain products or

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Speaker 3: it's actually made domestically, they can trade between our countries

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Speaker 3: tax free.

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Speaker 1: That remains intact.

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Speaker 3: What is outside of that is both things that don't

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Speaker 3: have that American content that are imported from other countries.

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Speaker 1: So that has a tarrify on it.

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Speaker 3: And now the President has said, look, there are certain

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all understand that.

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Speaker 3: So why not allow the greatest country in the world

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Speaker 3: who completely feeds Canada. Canada exists completely feeds off of

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Speaker 3: the amazing economy of the United States of America. Let

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Speaker 3: us build up our steel and aluminum so that we

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we.

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Speaker 3: Protect Canada, I think Canada's got sixty planes. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're really gonna protect themselves. They're really They're the lowest

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Speaker 3: I mean, everybody is so used to picking off America,

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Speaker 1: If they can't even stop.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is here to say, we need to be

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Speaker 3: treated fairly, and we need to be treated fairly.

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Speaker 2: Now do you think this approach, if you articulate this

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Speaker 2: to the Canadians today, will help bring down the temperature?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 3: I think once you actually breathe and think steal and aluminum.

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Speaker 3: American needs steal in aluminum. I mean, if you respond

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Speaker 3: like the British didn't respond, the Mexicans didn't respond, you

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Speaker 3: Canadians who are in elections, so you have no idea.

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Speaker 3: You think it's about a trade war. This is their

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Speaker 3: way of getting election votes. And the EU, you know,

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Speaker 3: the EU is just so many years treated us so harshly.

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Speaker 3: They just can't stop. Look, their tariffs are way up

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Speaker 3: Let us balance it. We are your largest most important

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Speaker 3: little balance. And Donald Trump is out there saying balance, balance, Balance.

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Speaker 3: April second, he's going to describe his balance. We're going

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Speaker 3: to do it together. We're going to describe our trading policy.

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Speaker 3: We're going to describe our balance. But remember semiconductors we

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Speaker 3: And steal in aluminum come on America. Oh and lumber

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Speaker 2: And want of champagne.

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Speaker 1: Things for our national security.

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Speaker 2: And the one of champagne.

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Speaker 1: So don't forget the why champagne this?

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Speaker 3: Come on, that's just that, you know, if you make

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Speaker 3: him unhappy, he responds unhappy. But come on, let's get

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Speaker 3: back to the core basics here, which is a trading

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Speaker 3: policy that says America has allowed the world to lean

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Speaker 3: on us, to take from us, to grow off of us,

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Speaker 3: and now it's time for a little balance. We've got

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Speaker 3: a two trillion dollar budget deficit. We want to bring

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Speaker 3: certain jobs home. Let the President do the right thing

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Speaker 3: for America.

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Speaker 1: He will respond after.

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Speaker 3: We're done organizing things to make sure the world grows.

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Speaker 3: But today, just remember he's the president of the United

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Speaker 3: He's going to take care of American workers, and it.

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Speaker 2: Is time, missed the secretary. I just want to make

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Speaker 2: sure that the audience is in on our little joke

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Speaker 2: there because they might have missed the post forb the

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Speaker 2: share it with them and then come back to you

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Speaker 2: in just a second. So the President of the United

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Speaker 2: the European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive

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Speaker 2: taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, which has formed

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Speaker 2: for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States,

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Speaker 2: has just put a nasty fifty percent tariff on whiskey.

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Speaker 2: If this tariff is not removed immediately, the United States

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Speaker 2: will shortly place a two hundred percent tariff on all wines, champagnes,

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Speaker 2: I imagine you are aware of what the President said

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Speaker 2: based on our conversation just now. Have you given the

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the President has made it crystal clear

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Speaker 3: that he finds this tit for tat really abusive and aggravating. Right,

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Speaker 3: His objective is steel and aluminum tariffs. Let him build

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Speaker 3: his steel and aluminum business in America because that's important.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, they say, okay, we're going to

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Speaker 3: tax whiskey. And look, I find all this back and

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Speaker 3: forth really off the topic. The key topic is rebalancing

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Speaker 3: American trade. We're going to spend lots of time together,

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Speaker 3: you know. But the President was totally annoyed that the

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Speaker 3: back from someone who emotionally cares about America. He cares

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Speaker 3: And why are Europeans picking on Kentucky bourbons Harley Davidson motorcycles.

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Speaker 3: You're saying this is an emotional respect it's disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: Are responsible?

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Speaker 4: We see, well, we see two hundreds and wine, champagne

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Speaker 4: and alcoholic products before April second, when the President says

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Speaker 4: it's the big one and we're going to get the

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Speaker 4: reciprocal rollout.

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Speaker 3: Well, the joy of my job is that Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: makes the decisions right and the people around him.

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Speaker 1: We talk to him and we advise him.

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Speaker 3: April second is when we do reciprocal tariffs, and he

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Speaker 3: just he's called out these products. He wants these countries

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Speaker 3: do not respect America's ability to build it steel an

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Speaker 1: Which is vital for national security.

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Speaker 3: Whereas you watched Mexico and you watch the UK, be

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Speaker 3: with them is going to be better. So these are

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Speaker 3: just black and white things. Why would you put against

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Speaker 1: It's just illogical.

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Speaker 3: I think the President is saying, look, I am going

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Speaker 3: to respond bigger and always stronger. We will talk together,

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Speaker 3: you know, he wrote that tweet this morning.

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Speaker 1: We will talk together. If that's what he wants to do,

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Speaker 1: we will do that.

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Speaker 3: But the answer is, April second, a thoughtful approach to

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Speaker 3: We're going to increase our domestic production of those and

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Speaker 3: have a reciprocal model, and hopefully when I talk to

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Speaker 1: Take these things down.

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Speaker 3: Cool these things out, let's properly negotiate.

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Speaker 4: Do you have plans to speak to your European counterparts today?

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Speaker 4: Of course, like who are you speaking to, say, Ursula

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Speaker 3: Generally as the Commerce secretary, I speak to the trade ministers.

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Speaker 1: That's totally out cost a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of companies also, And I know executives have been

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Speaker 4: calling you, Sarah, not correct. They're looking for exemptions. Exemptions

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about exemptions for a moment.

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Speaker 3: Steel and aluminum tariffs went in in twenty eighteen, and

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Speaker 3: granted four hundred and ninety thousand exemptions imagine four hundred

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Speaker 3: I don't know that our department could actually collate forture

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: So yesterday what we did is we just got rid

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Speaker 3: of all the exemptions.

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Speaker 1: That's all we did. The stealing illuminum tariffs were already on.

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Speaker 3: We just said, look, let's just build back our steal

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Speaker 3: an aluminum industry in America to protect America.

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Speaker 1: It's so logical, it's so important.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then all we get you get some countries

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Speaker 3: who understand, in some countries who just go right back

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Speaker 3: deal with them with strength and with power, and he's

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Speaker 3: remembered that they like to respond with a just go

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Speaker 3: The fact is April second, we're going to go April second,

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Speaker 3: we're going to go with reciprocity, thoughtful global process.

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Speaker 5: The Secretary, it's going to take a while to actually

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Speaker 5: get those tariffs in place after all of the appeals process, etc.

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Speaker 5: After April second. And in the meantime, as all of

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Speaker 5: these discussions around tariffs continue, a lot of businesses are

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Speaker 5: just halting investments. You're seeing consumer sentiment decline, you're seeing

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Speaker 5: their spending activity decrease. Can you give them a sense

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Speaker 5: of when they'll have certainty?

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Speaker 3: If they want to lower them reciprocal tariffs mean take

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Speaker 1: You know, China is always a separate thinking.

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Speaker 1: They sell to us. They need to sell to us.

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Speaker 3: The fact is America is going to build up its

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Speaker 1: Let's say it over and over again. We got it.

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Speaker 4: I think it could maybe be a bumper sticker for you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, the President runs his agenda, but from

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Speaker 5: Meet Secretary Lutnak or just two minutes away from the

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Speaker 3: You know, the American economy, right, a twenty nine trillion

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Speaker 3: So the real way the world works is, for sure,

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Speaker 1: Start to produce those jobs, start to bring back trade craft.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have the greatest training program ever because

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Speaker 3: I'm going to bring in because Donald Trump has created

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Speaker 1: Under Donald Trump, it's going to take less than six months.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you've seen this report in political it says

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Speaker 1: About the the fake news.

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Speaker 4: Please go, I want to give to respond to this.

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Speaker 1: It's the fake news. I don't want. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to respond when you read fake news. Okay. I spoke

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Speaker 3: He said, why do these people write this fake news?

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Speaker 3: team is one, we are together as one.

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Speaker 1: We get along incredibly well. We speak to each other all.

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Speaker 3: The time, including yesterday for an enormous amount of time.

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Speaker 3: Every day today again it's gotta stop. I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: these these lousy, you know, media outlet. They try to

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Speaker 3: create something so that you'll talk about and think about it.

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Speaker 1: They got you to talk about them. I don't even

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Speaker 1: want to say their name.

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Speaker 3: They don't deserve to be read because it's nonsense.

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Speaker 2: Out of respect for you said, we just wanted to

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Speaker 2: give you the opportunity to respond in your own way.

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Speaker 2: I think you have. Missus Secretary, thanks for being gracious

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Speaker 2: with your time. You've been very generous.