Team,
Some thoughts on the incredible breaking news yesterday from the Senate Judiciary Committee about my legs arrest and imprisonment.
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Just extraordinary stuff here.
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Joining me now,
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the man himself,
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White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing,
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Peter Navarro.
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Peter, great to see you.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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And I’m so grateful that you landed on your Chanel’s and are able to talk about this now.
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Peter, what was your reaction to what you heard from Grassley yesterday?
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You wrote a whole op ed about this and the operation to surveil you and follow you
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was much bigger than you initially expected.
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And you thought initially, right?
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Yeah, it was quite a morning.
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Six armed FBI agents come at me in a gangway.
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I wind up in handcuffs,
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leg irons,
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wondering why Comey didn’t get the same treatment when he was indicted.
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But that’s another story.
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But this these documents that Chuck Grassley released yesterday show this much
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bigger operation.
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You had nearly a dozen FBI agents doing their like Clouseau stuff.
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Navarro leaves his residence at 702 or whatever.
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And what’s extraordinary about this is really the bigger picture here.
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Senator Chuck Grassley,
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almost single-handedly,
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is getting more and more documents that reveal this vast conspiracy.
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And I don’t use that word very often, but it is.
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It’s an eight-year-long conspiracy conducted at the top levels of leadership at the
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Washington field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
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where Comey and then Rae
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were part of this,
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but you had Clapper,
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Brennan,
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Page,
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Strzok,
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a whole cast of characters involved in this.
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And the reason why my case is important,
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Maria,
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besides its constitutional issues,
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it’s still on appeal.
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is that the agent,
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Walter Giordino,
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who’s the one who put me in handcuffs,
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seems to be at the center of all of these operations that were designed either to
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overthrow the Trump government once the president was in or to stop him from
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winning elections.
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Walter Giordino, he was the guy...
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who basically greenlit the Steele dossier as legitimate when we all know it was
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fake,
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as Comey and Giardino and all those others knew.
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That begat Crossfire Hurricane,
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the Mueller report,
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Crimson River,
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and then we’ve got the Arctic Frost one,
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which was a big topic of conversation today.
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yesterday,
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and that was just a license to surveil and subpoena and get records and go into
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people’s emails and phone records.
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And Republican senators were targeted by that.
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So here’s the bottom line.
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If we don’t hold them accountable, Maria, they will do it again.
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And they may start doing it again as early as 2026.
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If Democrats get back control of the House and subpoena power, that’s what’s at risk.
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And it was it was chilling to me sitting in the hearing yesterday morning and looking at.
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at the right side of the table there of senators who were all on the far left.
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And you had Dick Durbin having the chutzpah to say that it was us weaponizing the
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federal government.
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They put me in prison.
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They put Bannon in prison.
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They tried to put Donald Trump in prison for 700 years.
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They bankrupted Rudy Giuliani.
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They took away the bar cards of Jeff Clark and John Eastman.
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These people, they have no shame with their talking points.
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And then you go around the room, and it’s like, I sat really close to Schiff.
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The slime was getting on my suit from that guy.
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That guy, that guy is the guy that belongs in prison for lying to Congress.
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So the big thing here, Maria, is accountability.
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It’s time.
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for investigations, subpoenas.
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Chuck Grassley is going to take us to that promised land.
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And Pam Bonney finally yesterday got some people appointed, confirmed by the Senate.
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There was 100 people that got confirmed yesterday.
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And one fell, so a lot of them were justice people.
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She’s been shorthanded.
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But now’s the time, Maria.
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We’ve got to accelerate this accountability,
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do the investigations,
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give people fair trials like I never got.
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memo to the courts and hold them accountable.
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They’ll do it again.
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That’s the problem.
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Well,
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I mean,
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it’s just extraordinary the levels that they stoop to to shut down any dissent and
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really to shut down President Trump and his team putting you in jail and
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surveilling all these people.
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I’m really stumped as to why Arctic Frost targeted the senators that they did
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When they were investigating Jack Smith,
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investigating January 6th,
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I mean,
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Lindsey Graham,
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Marsha Blackburn.
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Yeah.
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You know, I mean, I almost can understand Ron Johnson.
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I mean, it’s absolutely wrong.
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It’s unconstitutional and it’s criminal what they did to all of them, including Ron Johnson.
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But Ron Johnson was a was a, you know, a needle in their side.
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He was investigating them.
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What was Marsha Blackburn doing?
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Right.
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Well, this is all because they were they were allies to Trump.
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And then look at it.
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Look at the surveillance timeline that they had on you.
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Almost a dozen agents involved.
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I mean,
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you initially thought it was just a swarm of five agents ambushing you and your
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fiance at the airport.
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And you made a great point.
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You lived right next door to the FBI.
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They could have just knocked on your door,
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but they wanted to make the stage a whole theatric thing and a full blown public
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arrest when you were at the airport.
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The most stunning reveal in those documents,
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Maria,
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was there was a checkbox on the form that the whistleblowers released.
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And it said, is the subject armed or dangerous?
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And the check was no.
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So there’s absolutely no reason to take me down in the way they did.
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But those documents were hid in discovery in my actual court case,
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which is another example of how you simply can’t get a fair trial.
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And with respect to why they’re surveilling,
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I mean,
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you have to understand the culture of the FBI going back to Hoover.
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It’s always to get dirt on congressmen so that they can bend the congressmen to their will.
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I think that’s what’s going on.
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But this is all ultimately about getting Trump.
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I would be remiss here.
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not to point out that people can read about all this in my book I went to prison so
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you won’t have to I only mention it here because I went to prison so you won’t have
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to is supposed to be a wake-up call for the American people if they can do it to me
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or Bannon or Trump they can do it to everyone watching this program now and what I
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saw yesterday is they will do it that I’m telling you these people that you from
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Mondami to Schiff and everybody in between they they are
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where they will use political power to have their way with you,
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and that way is not the American way,
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and that’s the problem here.
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Yeah, I mean, it’s just incredible, Peter.
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I’d like to see whether or not we actually do see more charges on Jim Comey and
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others who he worked with and those charges around conspiracy,
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because everyone I’ve spoken with lines up this timeline of a 10 year conspiracy.
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And, you know, it also crescendos around the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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Who was behind the Mar-a-Lago raid?
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What were they looking for?
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Why would they raid a former president’s home?
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And so,
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you know,
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it certainly feels like there could be,
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you know,
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reason for a conspiracy charge.
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But we’ll wait on that.
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We don’t know where this is going.
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What’s interesting about that,
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Maria,
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is that if you just simply look at,
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like,
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the legal theory and framework that Jack Smith brought,
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it’s OK.
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They just use what they used against us, and how can they complain?
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So there’s no question there was a conspiracy.
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I don’t use that word lightly.
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There’s too many conspiracy theories.
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No, because you look at the documents we’re getting.
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It starts in 2016 with that Steele dossier, runs through Walter Giardina and Comey and Ray.
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And Ray,
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by the way,
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that guy needs to be held accountable as well,
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because all that stuff happened.
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Yeah.
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on his watch and i was in prison with a lot of guys on rico charges who got got
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charged because they should have known yeah the feds will know what i’m talking
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about there let’s get to the bottom this maria you’ve done a great job just a
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beautiful job keeping this in in the public’s eye and when this all started they
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laughed at us but now we know from all these documents it’s it’s just
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too true very serious can happen here in america and that’s why we’ve kept on it
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it’s very serious we’re going to stick to our principles here uh but let me move on
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and ask you about uh trade since you’re with us this morning peter because
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president trump welcomed canadian uh prime minister mark carney yesterday to the
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white house they talked about trade tariffs and foreign policy uh watch this we
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want canada to do great but you know there’s a point at which we also want the same
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business we’re competing for the same business
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That’s the problem.
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There are areas where we compete,
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and it’s in those areas where we have to come to an agreement that works.
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But there are more areas where we are stronger together, and that’s what we’re focused on.
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And we’re going to get the right deal.
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So so Jameson Greer told me last week that they’re going to look at these bilaterally.
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You’re going to look at Canada and the U.S.
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trade.
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You’re going to look at Mexico and U.S.
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trade, not USMCA, which is was a was a three country deal.
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Can you tell us anything about that, Peter, and your reaction to the meeting yesterday?
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Sure.
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We are just broadly in the most beautiful place for the American people we’ve been,
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I think,
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ever with respect to trade.
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We’re engaged.
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President Trump is engineering a fundamental restructuring of the international
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trade environment so that we are no longer penalized by the rules of
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of the world trade organization which fundamentally skew against us that’s the big
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picture what the jameson greer howard lednick scott bessin myself behind the scenes
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are doing is using a template with every specific country that deals we look at you
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know what’s the tariffs that we’re getting screwed with and candidates like things
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like lumber and dairy what’s the non
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tariff barriers that countries erect so that we can’t sell into their markets.
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What’s the currency situation look like?
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And then there’s then there’s like a national security issues.
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How can they help us shore up our supply chains and the things we need to survive?
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So that’s how we’re approaching it bilaterally.
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That’s where we’re strongest from a negotiating point of view.
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And this is delivering.
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I mean, you look at the trade deals we have.
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It’s just, you know, Europe.
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From Europe to the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam.
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I mean, it’s just it’s a beautiful thing.
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We’re waiting for the president’s meeting with Xi Jinping expected at the end of
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the month on the sidelines to discuss more on the China potential deal.
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Peter, it’s always a pleasure to see you.
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Thanks so much.
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You take care of yourself, Maria.
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And to you, Peter Navarro.
