right now all eyes on the White House as the president is set to meet with the
President of the European Commission who's looking to de-escalate trade
tensions the visit comes less than two weeks after the president brand of the
European Union a faux on trade yesterday President Trump tweeted this the
European Union is coming to Washington tomorrow to negotiate a deal on trade I
have an idea for them both the US and the EU drop all tariffs barriers and
subsidies exclamation point that would finally be called free trade free market
and fair trade hope they do it we are ready but they won't fox business
networks blake berman is live at the White House now with the latest this is
a big meeting coming up kind of a fly-on-the-wall type meeting Harris it's
certainly gonna be an interesting one coming up here keep in mind not only did
President Trump in the recent weeks described the European Union as a foe of
the United States but he also said that there could potentially be quote
tremendous retribution coming to the EU now President Trump is set to sit down
in the Oval Office face to face with the head of the the President of the
European Commission jean-claude Juncker we were told that he just arrived here
at the White House minutes ago leading up to this meeting the president on
Twitter this morning tried to position the US as the one winning the global
trade tit-for-tat riding at one point on Twitter quote negotiations are going
really well be cool the end result will be worth it
the president's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow this morning set a pretty
low floor as it relates to the expectations for this meeting
expectations are so low that I believe it is possible I don't want to predict
it is quite possible that people may be very surprised on the upside now the big
issue here is auto imports cars from the US that go into the European Union get
hit there with the 10% tariff on the reverse cars that go from the EU into
the US only two and a half percent President Trump very publicly has said
he could jack that up all the way Eightfold to 20% the Agriculture
Secretary sonny Perdue saying this more that autos are indeed the big one Cu has
a huge economy and they only import a smidgen from the United States we are
capable of producing a product their customers want and president Trump
simply wants to level the playing field all those are a good example and that's
the that's their juggler by the way speaking of Agriculture the president
after this meeting with Yunker later this afternoon four o'clock here at the
White House will meet with about a dozen or so Republicans members of both the
Senate in the house who represent states and districts that have a heavy
agriculture influence as you know Harris not just the EU but also Canada Mexico
China because of these retaliatory tariffs have specifically targeted
agriculture industries here in the US and this ongoing tit-for-tat or as some
would put it trade war well and the president wanted to ease some of the
pain of that as we kind of weighed out what the strategy will yield real
quickly Larry Kudlow talked about a surprise on the upside what did he mean
by that he is always positive Larry Campbell is
known for that look I mean the expectations are so low going into this
the president had possibly talking about increasing the auto tariffs eight volt
who knows if it's going to get there there is still an ongoing investigation
as to whether or not the administration will move in that direction
you've also floated 0% so you've got kind of two extremes here I guess and
this is the first face-to-face meeting between the two heads here all right
thank you very much good to see you today you too
Republican congressman Sean Duffy of the House Financial Services Committee so
you know they're talking about this it's money
congressman great to see you from the great state of Wisconsin always that's
good I want to talk about the concept and you just heard our reporter refer to
it trade war being discussed on your committee is it real or not I'm just I
think we're in a trade war before Donald Trump even took office I mean we have
for the most part in open economy and other economies around the world have
barriers and tariffs Donald Trump for the first time is a
president who says I'm gonna push back I want to make it fair for the American
worker and listen there's some pain in the process because those countries
around the world they go after what they perceive as a weak spot because we
export a lot of Agriculture and it consumes a lot of the American Midwest
and so if you can put tariffs on American egg they think they can get
America to buckle and we won't actually strive for free trade between our
country and theirs that's what the president's now come out and saying I'm
gonna support with 12 billion dollars share our egg industry so we can get
through this fight and actually win and make it great for America yeah you know
your state has skin in the game on this I mean some of the veggies on the planet
in Wisconsin lots of dairy farmers there and and so obviously you're watching
this closely what are your immediate concerns right now I get the twelve
billion dollars to offset but we don't have a timetable on this this will go on
or not so my farmers they think they want to sell their product they don't
want a government subsidy let's be clear on that
but a lot of these farmers are Trump supporters and they understand the
unfair trade that we have with other countries and so they want them to fight
it they're a little bit nervous because they don't know how long they can last
and so they want them to win it but win it quick and I'm gonna tell you what the
Harris but to the negative side if if you see farmers starting to lose their
farms those one-time Trump supporters they'll turn on a dime and they will be
in opposition to him so the president has to watch that as he's negotiated in
navigating trade deals the dollar figure of twelve billion as you I mean because
you see this in your state so you know what it really costs to help those
farmers keep from losing their farms and and their animals and and their
livelihoods is that the right amount and is it a slippery slope in your
estimation and I know they're saying trade over aid right listen I don't I
don't know what the right number is but I'll tell you this that that the
administration is gonna prop up our farmers this is this is not a shock to
me I've known this for months that this was
the administration's plan because we knew that Europe China Canada and Mexico
would go after American egg that's that's how they try to take us down this
is I think economic terrorism in a way they want to shock us into submission by
going after our egg instead of saying you know what let's reduce barriers
let's make this free and fair and may the best producer at the lowest cost
with the best product actually win sir at the lowest cost with the best product
actually win they can't do that because they know
well B times they want to protect their products and in the end here it's when
did we say enough is enough I look at this president and if you were to be
politically maybe smart maybe that's not the right way to say it but you wouldn't
take on a fight like this now because you might say that could affect
Republicans in the November election and it could affect me as a president in
2020 well I never saw it but Donald Trump doesn't care about elections he
cares about fighting for the American people he's a patriot he is looking
forward to a long term success story for America and need a strong business
leader like Trump to actually fix this for our country so I love that he's not
playing politics he's playing for America and that's what I think in the
end he's gonna win here I wrote it down economic terrorism that is a subject
that I bet will burst today after you have put it on the landscape I would say
this the EU president right now at the White House with our President of the
United States talking about tariffs and really free trade it will really be
interesting to see what comes out of that meeting congressman Sean Duffy
thank you thanks Harrison major fallout now over the leaking of a secretly
recorded conversation we're going to talk more President Trump and his former
attorney Michael Cohen does this mean that Cohan has officially flipped on the
president secretary of state Mont Pompeo is about to appear in the next like 90
minutes or so before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he is expected
to face serious questions on North Korea Russia and Iran we've been talking about
it with senators on the Foreign Relations Committee both sides of the
political aisle now the powerpanel stay close
back out to one of our Fox top stories president Trump's the legal team firing
back over the leaking of a secretly recorded conversation between then
candidate Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen the audio appears to show
the two men talking about buying the rights to a story of a former Playboy
model who claimed to have an affair with Trump here's the president's attorney
Rudy Giuliani first of all the major point is it's outrageous that someone
would tape this client serve justice Lee and number two it's also foolhardy for
them to try to kind of yell and scream and they believe what's on the tape I
agree with you the tape it's a little bit hard to hear but I assure you that
we listen to it numerous numerous times and the transcript makes it quite clear
at the end that President Trump says quote don't pay with cash also getting
some reaction from the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence untruthful
when he said Trump didn't know to goal was to kill story before election so
campaign motivated three regardless of cash or cheque whole point of phony Corp
was to hide campaign expenditure powerpanel now David Webb host of david
webb show on Sirius XM Patriot Fox News contributor literally ran across the
Senate here Lesley Marshall a syndicated radio talk show host and Fox News
contributor to David Webb what say you great to see you what I say
is they're making a lot about nothing because in the end shifts kind of
specious argument to throw campaign expenditure in there doesn't point to
anything that actually meets the FEC guidelines so far based on what we know
as a campaign expenditure Leslie I don't agree as the judges said
and we talked about in the green room earlier about Paterna politics opposing
my guest before I know what happens at the green room supposed to stay in the
green room yeah I'll keep it there the bottom line is here you're talking about
actually two potential areas with regard to campaign finance you know violations
it's a five-year statute we have some time there
some other tapes that will be up to Muller one it exceeds the amount if its
contribution by the Enquirer to whether it was a cash or a check if it was
campaign funds used for that purpose and it was not disclosed that is campaign
Ryan and those are alone violation that is criminal those are a lot of ifs it's
so far based on what we know and that's what I said there's nothing there by the
way on the case of Mueller this was turned over to New York so therefore
this is not a Mueller case right now this stays with Cohen and in New York
Andrew Napolitano says the door can be opened on that though because what he
called civil fraud and all of this wipes away the attorney-client privilege we'll
see what happens with that I just want to get this in so I was mentioning
previously as we were talking about the economy and tariffs that the president
right now is meeting with the EU president Juncker at the White House the
pool the media pool that was in there has come in and out and we're getting
some notes apparently the president not responding to shouted questions on the
very Michael Cohen topic so David I come back with you real quickly or to you
some of this may be less about whether or not there was a crime or fraud or any
of it it is a distraction right now and one
side at the table would love for that distraction maybe to be and that would
be the damage s they would because this is the politics of it at a time when
you've got significant political activity around primaries you look at a
primary win last night with Brian Kemp with a president door so you have the
fact that the GDP numbers are coming out at the end of the week so the Democrats
strategy and I do get some of their emails is to target anything that can
distract you from the fact that when we get high GDP numbers and we see a
growing economy this is a problem because voters in the Midwest voters in
you know not on the wings of the country they're voting on their kitchen table
issues so the politics without the crime is important for the Democrat Party you
know what's interesting you talk about those GDP numbers and and I'm not going
to profess to be able to get down into the weeds on this but it is a hard sell
for Democrats to go against like a 4% GDP or higher
that's tough along with all the other gains in the economy and not when you
have a few other things an issue is trust ties in to these tapes and other
areas with regard to the president let's stick with the economy for just a bit I
think to me it's not just what the numbers are
it's what people feel do people actually feel those numbers we saw this actually
during the Obama years I mean we know the holding that I'm saying when you saw
it going down when you saw when you saw more people getting jobs right now if
the people feel that it could go in their favor but the polls not showing
that they're very concerned just as much about economic issues as there are no is
health care right it's a medical issue and in social then economic they don't
look at it connected to GE connected on Obama versus this on the economy the
difference is who's getting the jobs and the type of jobs that are happening now
also when you look at the economic numbers today you have more jobs than
people available to fill them you didn't have that during the Obama years they're
doing better the industry's middle America they're making more money and
when you add the the change in who's entering the workforce people
re-entering this is a remarkably different economy than the Obama years
is the White House are Republicans and I have to cut myself off because remember
the president just met with the EU president and now we can take a look at
the fresh tape coming out of the White House over the years the United States
has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars with the European Union and we
just want it to be a level playing field for our farmers for manufacturers for
everybody and we also want a big beneficiary frankly to be the European
Union so we think it can be good for everybody and that's what we're here to
discuss mr. president thank you very much for coming thank you know
because I wanted to thank you bargain pages if you invite me to the White
House we are close partners allies not enemies we have to work together we are
representing half of the world trade one trillion dollar is to try to figure out
between us and so I think that we have to talk each to another that's another
and that's what we do today I do think that we should focus on reducing tell
this little increasing them and that's what we have to do that's a lot of well
I agree and if we could have no tariffs and no barriers and no subsidies the
United States would be extremely pleased we have many countries we won't say a
European Union we have many countries where they have massive barriers and
they have massive tariffs and we have to follow and you could call it retaliation
but I'd rather just say that we want reciprocal so whether it's with European
Union or others it has to be reciprocal in nature at a minimum and we're working
on that and I think we're making tremendous strides we're doing very well
with Mexico we're doing very well with a lot of countries actually right now and
but this is something as Yount Lord said together as a unit we make up actually
more than 50 percent of the world trade that's a big number
that's a big number so we expect something very positive to take place
but you'll be the first to know thank you all very much appreciated
thank you very much thank you very much
thank you very much
this part so the president and the EU president are there and the EU president
Juncker says that they are willing to focus on reducing tariffs on a day in
which the president said can you why call wipe away all EU tariffs that's a
big topic of conversation the media though in the room and we know because
we had people there to shouting questions at the end that you could kind
of make out a little bit they were asking about this tape with his former
attorney Michael Cowen and you hear someone say any other tapes mr.
president a lot of thank-yous the president was on topic with the tariffs
and David you said this says a lot about what this is a lot about politics and
distraction but your point about the terrace is remarkably important when you
look at shift in the European markets you look at the Frankfurt market
tech-heavy you look at some of the other European Mac is the CAC Courant you look
at the foots in in Great Britain you look at the changes in economic factors
the value of our trade with them versus the trade deficit which is down north of
I believe hundred and fifty three billion dollars annually you look at the
millions of dollars we put into France on a daily basis in exchange in trade
and in economic activity if you want to really have as the Democrats call it now
there now suddenly for fair trade and open trade then let's take the tariffs
out of the picture and rebalance based on goods and valuation interesting
information and all of it important the questions though that were shouted were
about Michael Cohen and and this is what Democrats are pointing to and then some
media in the room why well first of all because I think they were baiting the
president of bip he's not one to just say thank you casually and talk yeah I
you know I can see that look you have the president he's standing there get
whatever you can you're gonna you know you're gonna try and get that headline
you know for whoever you work for and that question is definitely gonna get
the headline there isn't much to talk about with this yet oh that's at stake
that David said well no because this is high we've just met this is what we plan
to talk about it isn't they come out of the room and he said I told them and
asked for no Terrace and the other guy said no deal and you know they're
looking the other way and they're all you know this has been part of a lever
game being played with the President on the tariff issue for months so it's not
a new David I disagree with you when you said that the demo when you said the
Democrats will finally come on board cuz I want to remind you for decades the
Democrats have been pro-union and for decades the unions have been
talking about not just China but talking about this trade deficit and talking
about what it's done to it like steel and aluminum what it has done to the
workers in this country they were talking about the president are there
more tapes where are we going with this go to middle America and ask them what
they care about ask them what they care about in Romeo Michigan in Dearborn
Michigan or in Racine Wisconsin they care and they will vote in the midterms
on their kitchen table the Reagan question are you better off today than
you were before they're not going to vote on Michael
Cohen or the president's tweet I would agree they're gonna vote on Michael
Cohen but it's a big it's a big picture it's not only one issue for this as it
sounds personal well but it is personal for some people
13 of those seats that need to be flipped in order to take over control of
the house for Democrats are in the state of California where I live and
immigration is a bigger issue for say for example in California than it would
be in Wisconsin there was Michael Cohen wasn't quite there some of the people
out there that I've spoken to on my radio show that voted for the president
and want to believe the president believed he didn't know these women
believed there was no affair believed that these people one of them was a
president correct yeah you have 34 seats that are effectively considered toss-ups
for the house which even if you wipe them out would leave the GOP at a 202 to
199 ratio of those 34 if you take 13 you still don't get there you have seven
seats as toss-ups in the Senate Senate not likely to flip it and you say the
issue is really economic and polling sensitive issues our kitchen table and
at the kitchen table is how will I protect my family with health
their insurance how expensive some of the unknowns with that I mean those are
all kitchen table issues you also have a kitchen table issue right now of
everybody focused on what's gonna happen in the economy with the tariffs wow
that's a lot and still they ask about Michael Collins Americans thank you
great to see you both hopefully right back
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