it was a somber day, as you know, the entire day s news coverage was moving here now. as we waited to go in the oval office, we watched them carry scenes of that service and then the motorcade. the president was in very good spirits, welcoming, wanted to talk economy, politics, and a lot of issues. his social media director and sarah sanders joined us. and i would say he was in a great mood. very eager to talk about his sposture, that he will double down when it comes to trade and naf
at least $500 billion. and when you add incident recollectu intellectual property it s much bigger than that. at the same time due to our unique nature with canada and mexico, we re negotiating right now nafta. aspect of the deal, and if we re making the deal on nafta, this figures into the deal, and we won t have the tariffs and canada, mexico. if we don t make the deal on nafta and terminate nafta because they are unable to make a deal fair for the workers and fair for our farmers we love our farmers and fair for our manufacturers, then we re going to terminate nafta, and we ll start all over again, or we ll just do it a different way, but we ll terminate nafta, and that ll be it, i have a feeling
we re going to make a deal on naf nafta. i said it for a long time. make a deal or we terminate, and if we do, there s no tariffs on canada. there s no tariffs on mexico. some of the countries we are dealing with are great partners, great military allies, and we re going to be looking at that strongly. the tariffs do not go effective for at least another 15 days. we re going to see who is treating us fairly, who is not. part of that is going to be military. who is paying the bills, who is not paying the bills. we subsidize rich countries with our military, they pay not 100 cents on the dollar or 50 cents on the dollar, and they are massively wealthy countries. we have to stop that. this enters into the equation also. very interesting, i saw a tweet that came in from elon musk who
wants to get out of nafta. i wouldn t be shocked if nafta in the next few days looks like it s on really thin ice. and here is on irony, who is hurt the most by getting out of naf nafta, the agricultural community in midwest where trump needs votes. those are electoral college votes that he could perhaps lose. what the president needs to weigh in on after he talks trade is what the wall street journal calls the roy moore mess. because it is clear, roy moore is not getting out of this senate race, zach. and republicans, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, on down the line called for him to get out, even sean hannity said on his program last night that roy moore has 24 hours to clear up some of the inconsistencies, including why his latest accuser had a yearbook signed by roy moore when he was a 30-year-old d.a. what is the best case scenario for republicans and how do you expect the president to weigh in? i mean, republicans need to have a republican in that seat.
we re going take you out in our next election. how could a national candidate oppose this deal and survive? i think a national candidate would not just survive, but would thrive. all you ve got to do is point to naf nafta. this won t be any better. what is the rush for us to do a lot of trade with vietnam and brunei? does president obama s position surprise you on this? not particularly. you know, i guess we re kind of fallen to the point where we have the corporate party and the corporate like party. there s nothing wrong with corporations, but they ought to play by the rules. they ought to pay taxes like us small businesses do. they ought to protect the environment like small businesses should do. but when they get their way by buying congress, it means