00:01:26.480We're focused on the same issues as we were at the start of the week, as we will focus on next week.
00:01:32.240It's a confident country moving forward, and I think that's the core message.
00:01:37.260Yes, we're a great partner for many countries around the world, including the United States.
00:01:41.600South of the border, Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin told CBC the House controls tariffs and will take action once the Democrats take over the House.
00:01:51.240We're going to put an end to these tariffs.
00:01:53.640Congress controls taxes and tariffs under the Constitution.
00:01:57.280Congress regulates commerce internationally and domestically.
00:02:00.720And so we're going to do everything in our power to make it very clear
00:02:03.960that we have not imposed 50% tariffs on our democratic allies and friends in Canada,
00:02:10.080that we want to have free and fair trade with Canada like the rest of the world.
00:02:13.320So that's going to be very much on our agenda.
00:02:15.160We're going to be talking about it through the end of the year,
00:02:17.360and I would hope it's something that we move very quickly within the first 100 days,
00:03:43.940But they have given that power to the president for the last at least 40 years.
00:03:49.760And I guess they can probably try to take it back.
00:03:52.920But I honestly, I've never seen a Democrat that doesn't like a tax or a tariff that it didn't that they've never seen one that they didn't like.
00:04:03.480I don't see them taking the opportunity to reduce money coming into the country to pay for their expensive programs that they want.
00:04:11.120It would be all theater, smoke and mirrors, if they did anything at all.
00:04:15.040I suspect it won't get very far anyway, because anything that they will put on the president's desk that he doesn't agree with, he is going to be done.
00:04:22.440Is Trump more likely to strike a deal with Canada, less likely, or just the same?
00:04:27.400Has nothing really changed from his vantage point as a result of what just took place in the midterms?
00:04:32.020He's been wanting to make a deal with Canada since January of 2025.
00:04:40.420okay when he took office um he thought he had a deal in august of 2026. they didn't understand
00:04:47.380in washington why uh the canadians were not negotiating them for the better part of a year
00:04:53.220um and i think um what's actually happened all this talk you have to understand that the prime
00:05:00.180minister has a democratic operative sitting in his office with direct lines to the democratic
00:05:05.700party in the united states and the liberal party of canada and the prime minister so whatever
00:05:11.220they're doing is a single focused activity based on what they've plotted out together this is what
00:05:19.220is happening i mean if anybody doesn't believe that well okay i'm sorry you'll catch on maybe
00:05:24.100when it's too late so the democrats are doing a job for the for the liberals in in the u.s by
00:05:31.700talking like this about how they're going to fix things for canada carney waited until after the
00:05:37.140midterms uh was waiting until after the midterms hoping that the democrats would win because then
00:05:42.900he could say not not because it would actually change anything but the trump guys have been
00:05:47.460trying to talk to them as i said for a year and a half almost two years now um so now when they
00:05:53.780actually do cut a deal you can say you see it's because they lost the midterms it's because the
00:05:58.500Democrats are threatening them and he'll make it look like they got a deal okay because of this
00:06:04.900change which is what they've been maintaining all along but the fact is that they were talking
00:06:10.340weeks and weeks and weeks ago at the request of Prime Minister Carney if you recall just roll
00:06:16.020your mind back probably three months or so he reached out at that time to be in to resume the
00:06:21.620talks with the u.s um so how i see this happening is that they're going to claim they got a deal
00:06:28.980and he's of course gonna carney is going to of course tell everybody what a fabulous deal they
00:06:34.660got the best deal they could have ever gotten but we don't know if this is a better deal than the
00:06:40.340one they offered them in august or not because nobody has put out the true story maybe when
00:06:46.660this is all over the republicans and president trump and his trade team can do a side-by-side
00:06:53.220comparison of what the canadiens got i don't know i mean i honestly don't know what was in the other
00:06:57.940deal the only people that know are the people that were directly involved on the president's team
00:07:02.740because they don't talk about these things publicly they were respectful of canada by not
00:07:08.020outing them on what they offered so um of course the respect doesn't go back two ways unfortunately
00:07:15.140But that's actually, you know, the situation right now.
00:07:20.820Is it possible that he walked away from that deal in August for political reasons?
00:07:25.200He didn't want to give Trump a boost going into the midterms.
00:07:28.800So he stormed off saying that this was an attack on Canada's sovereignty and French language, all this stuff.
00:07:36.200And afterwards, I mean, the Trump team, you know, they were very perplexed.
00:07:43.020Howard Lutkin saying, I don't know what they're talking about as far as
00:07:46.220sovereignty or the French language. We don't care what language they speak and crack.1.00
00:07:51.340I mean, isn't it likely even that Kearney knew that this would help Trump and decided
00:07:59.260he would not sign onto that deal at that time in order to help the Democrats?
00:08:03.660A hundred percent, because if they had signed that to the deal,
00:08:06.540a whole tariff structure would have changed right yeah the whole tariff structure would have changed
00:08:13.580and they would then have been um i think uh dealing with a different situation uh you know
00:08:22.220electorally the americans in the northern states would have had the relief from no tariffs or
00:08:28.540lower tariffs or whatever they negotiated and it wouldn't have been that talking point that they
00:08:33.340use they couldn't have used it in states like kansas and other places this was very carefully
00:08:38.540planned by the democrats and by the liberals together they were a team yeah i mean if the
00:08:43.580deal was all that bad why did they get to the 11th hour before walking away that's the one
00:08:47.660thing i don't understand i mean if it was bad it never would have got to the point where trump
00:08:51.980himself was saying yeah it looks like we got a deal you know he talked about how carney called
00:08:56.300him up and said yo we were ready to bend on this issue and that issue this is what he said you know
00:09:02.300just on that day on the thursday i think it was the thursday other and then the friday he just
00:09:07.900walked away and it was actually called him on a tuesday right okay and then three days later
00:09:12.780at four o'clock in the afternoon they were still ready to sign on that friday
00:09:16.140it was seven o'clock friday night when the trade guys got the call that they were canceling
00:09:22.940yeah figure so if this was an attack on canada's sovereignty how does it get to that point you know
00:09:28.300where it's almost on the you know you know what they say i call bs
00:09:34.460that's that's me would you describe trump now as a lame duck president and exactly what does that
00:09:42.400mean okay so he's not running again in 2028 despite all the hoopla out there from the
00:09:49.180conspiracy theorists he's not running again he has two years during which he doesn't have to
00:09:55.240worry about a re-election he does i mean kind of need to keep in mind that he doesn't want to
00:09:59.640make it harder for the next guy or woman who's going to run in his party right um right now it
00:10:06.560looks like only guys i haven't seen any women stepping up but you know uh that being that being
00:10:11.160the situation it still is the kind of thing that he will be able to fulfill the promises he made
00:10:17.060to the american people within the bounds of his executive authority which is very extensive it is
00:10:23.660not like canada where the prime minister actually controls everything there are no co-equal branches
00:10:30.020but the president does have very very large powers in the u.s he controls the whole executive branch
00:10:35.840which is every single um cabinet secretary and their department is under him and a lot of other
00:10:42.720things as well so he has an opportunity to get a lot of things done that he wants and i expect that
00:10:49.680he will okay uh but there's going to be impeachment proceedings oh well yeah that will happen and
00:10:58.540you know is it possible that he will be convicted in the senate and then turfed out of office no
00:11:04.680he doesn't there's not enough votes in the senate to convict him they need two-thirds um he there's
00:11:10.720no way they will ever get to that uh even even if there were renegade republicans there still
00:11:15.360aren't enough because there aren't enough renegade Republicans. That being said, they would do it
00:11:20.260just to annoy him. But I think at this point, this is the thing. He's a lame duck president. He doesn't
00:11:24.040care. So go ahead, waste your time. I'm going to be, you know, I'll say, oh, look at the bouncing
00:11:29.880ball over there with those guys. And he's going to be meanwhile doing stuff over here that they
00:11:34.120can't control. The bigger problem is they may go after people like Pete Hexeth, which could be a
00:11:41.620problem they may refuse to uh at well they will guarantee refuse to approve um any of his choices
00:11:50.260for judges or whatever which is why someone today said get back call off vacation and approve every
00:11:57.940single one of 135 judges that are there while you've got majority right mark lee said that0.59
00:12:05.540but they need i guess thune seems like a lame duck himself well he is a lame duck he's finished0.85
00:12:11.540Yeah, he's done. I saw something that Ted Cruz wrote which was0.58
00:12:18.320fantastic about this whole situation but there are a number of other people that
00:12:22.700have been saying pretty loudly and one of them, Ron DeSantis. Interestingly, Ron
00:12:28.160DeSantis used to be a congressman and when I was talking to people in
00:12:31.760Washington about DeSantis and saying how much I admired him as our governor here0.99
00:12:36.500in florida um they said to me you know the leadership thought he was a pain in their ass0.98
00:12:43.380okay and that's because he kind of is an independent thinker and he has standards and0.98
00:12:49.320he and he was you know how come you're not doing this stuff because he's a get it done kind of guy
00:12:55.120well if you listen to what he said yesterday i heard him talking about the leadership in the
00:13:02.780senate and in and in the house of representatives as failures that they did not do the things that
00:13:08.580the president asked them to do they did not support his agenda fully um and important things that
00:13:13.940would have mattered for this election did not get done um so you know i i think that there's going
00:13:21.380to be a reckoning and those people who are attacking president trump i mean like he made i
00:13:26.400think some messaging mistakes the biggest one being doing exactly what joe biden did in 2024
00:13:32.080which is to say what what do you mean inflation there's no inflation that was joe biden and the
00:13:38.120president consistently saying to the american people the economy is great which is true on
00:13:42.620the underpinnings but what people are feeling and seeing is it is not true they they they look at
00:13:47.560gas prices every day they go to the grocery stores every day and prices are higher than they were
00:13:52.280okay there's no question about it and to deny it is to say don't believe your own eyes well and
00:13:58.860that makes people really mad um and that in combination with a media that isn't exactly
00:14:03.700trump friendly you know putting the message out every chance they get right yeah garbled message
00:14:09.320yeah um last question if two years is going to go by quickly yes you mentioned desantis uh who do
00:14:18.900you like right now who's your early favorite for being the republican standard bearer in 2028 my
00:14:26.620My early favorite is the same early favorite that I had in 2016, Marco Rubio.
00:14:31.260The difference, of course, is it's many years later, 10 years later.
00:14:35.280He has a tremendous portfolio and experience that he's had with Trump.
00:14:40.800Trump did him a huge favor to show actually what a capable, intelligent, well-spoken, thoughtful guy he is.
00:14:52.600I also have a very warm spot in my heart for my governor who's leaving soon, Ron DeSantis.
00:15:03.020I think that the problem being, of course, are both in Florida, but the two of them together would be unbelievable.
00:15:09.940You have someone who's an international kind of expert, and then you have another guy who understands the nuts and bolts of making things work right.
00:15:17.580And they're both very focused on government doing its job and nothing else, not getting involved in other stuff that's not important.
00:15:25.140I think they would be just wonderful together.
00:15:27.360I don't think it'll happen because they're both from Florida.
00:15:29.720And the political people, you know, we have to worry about regionality, blah, blah, blah, and all that.