Friday Headlines： March 7, 2025
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Summary
Trump signals an interest in a new nuclear deal with Iran. President Trump also this week modified tariffs on Mexico and Canada to exclude parts, assembly and farm products as American manufacturing and farming makes a comeback. The White House announces a new 25% tariff on goods that do not satisfy the USMCA, the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, and a 10% tax on potash imports from Canada and Mexico that fall outside the agreement.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, March 7th.
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Happy Friday, folks. We all made it through another week and it's almost time to start the weekend.
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President Trump revealing this morning on Fox Business that he's ready to start nuclear negotiations
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with the radical Islamist regime of Iran. Go figure.
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President Trump saying he hopes they negotiate because it's going to be a lot better for Iran in the long run.
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President Trump sending them a letter saying the other alternative is that we have to do something
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because you can't let another nuclear weapon be produced.
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The letter was addressed to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who has not yet responded publicly.
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President Trump says there are two ways Iran can be handled, militarily or you make a deal.
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President Trump says he would prefer to make a deal because he's not looking to hurt Iran.
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You may recall President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 during his first term in office.
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President Barack Hussein Obama at the time had sent them billions of dollars in cash
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and they hadn't turned over one weapon or even agreed to stop making or mining or attempting to produce nuclear weapons.
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President Trump looking for a real nuclear deal, a non-Obama era nuclear deal.
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President Trump also this week modifying tariffs on Mexico and Canada to exclude parts, assembly and farm products
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as American manufacturing and farming makes a comeback.
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President Trump, of course, finally resuming his tariffs against Mexico and Canada and, of course, China
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under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act demanding they cut the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into America.
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With this, President Trump has brought in nearly $2 trillion in investments in the United States manufacturing industry,
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including recently from automaker Honda, who announced it would produce its next-generation Civic Hybrid
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in the United States instead of Mexico to avoid potential tariffs.
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Now, reciprocal tariffs are set to still start on April 2nd,
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President Trump noting while implementing the tariffs this week on Mexico and Canada,
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President Trump signed an executive order placing sweeping reciprocal trades on every country
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that charges the United States taxes or tariffs on imported goods.
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According to the White House, this is what the structure looks like for the tariffs.
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A 25% tariff on goods that do not satisfy U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, the USMCA.
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A 10% tariff on those energy products imported from Canada that fall outside the USMCA.
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A 10% tariff on potash imports from Canada, Mexico that fall outside the USMCA.
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No tariffs on those goods from Canada and Mexico that claim and qualify for USMCA.
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And while situations at our northern and southern border continue to require appropriate action
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from governments of Canada and Mexico, our American automotive industry,
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which provides American jobs, should not suffer significant disruption
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just because of the structure of the supply chain.
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So, President Trump not playing any games with these folks.
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President Trump also not playing any games with those folks at the law firms who came after him
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under Hillary Clinton, under Joe Biden, under Barack Hussein Obama.
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In fact, just yesterday, President Trump stripped the security clearances of employees
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You recall Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid Perkins Coie more than a million dollars
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to hire OPPO research firm Fusion GPS to peddle the bogus Trump-Russia dossier,
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Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled over a dozen memos
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and that his associates were conspiring with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election.
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Those memos were made into a largely debunked dossier
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that was eventually published by BuzzFeed in 2017.
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Perkins Coie and Hillary Clinton were behind the hoax.
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And these folks were continued to allow their security clearances
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and were allowed to do work, national security work,
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anything they wanted to do with no repercussions.
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including our good friend over here, James O'Keefe,
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Republican lawmakers have targeted the organization
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after at least seven senior officials departed.
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This is, of course, reporting from the New York Times.
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It says that the law firm is shredding executives
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Folks, please be sure to join us each and every day
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twice a day for the Great America Show midday updates,
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He's the founder and CEO of the 501c3 Marco Polo.
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He joins us later on today on the Great America Show.
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We're going to be taking up the Hunter Biden laptop,
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Joe Biden in Ukraine, just how deep the story goes back.
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This is something that's been going on for over 10 years
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with the Biden crime family and their influence in Ukraine.