Pre Nafta News Today

Deadline getting closer, i suspect people and markets will react. i spoke with senator mitch mcconnell this past week, actually, on usmca. there are some people who do not think nancy pelosi is going to bring this to floor at all. i asked mitch mcconnell about that. listen to this. >> i cant bring it up first in the senate. if i could under the procedure, i would, and it would be ratified here in the senate. if it has to start in the house. i dont think we ought to walk away from nafta if we can...

Said were leaving and left for the holiday. yesterday, president trump had dinner at the vice presidents residence not only with mike pence and mick mulvaney but with his son-in-law as well. he is at the white house as his family, including melania, travel to mar-a-lago for the new years eve holiday. with the president alone at the white house, we get tweets. yesterday, he tweeted out a threat to shut the border between the united states and mexico. it is unclear how serious the president was wi...

Include any funding for the presidents border wall. hes been active, as you noted, on twitter this morning. i want to point out this tweet because the timing of the tweet is interesting. he writes, quote, well be forced to close the southern border entirely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to build the wall and change our ridiculous immigration laws. hard to believe there was a congress and president who would approve. it goes without noting, kate, that if the southern bo...

Do in 2019 is resolve the trade dispute with china, gept through the tariffs, declare victory, whatever the deal might be, and say look, i want businesses to get back to business as normal. i dont know if hes going to do that, but stocks would be happy if he did. >> one thing also happening is the president is saying this morning if he doesnt get the border wall funding, hes threatening to shut down the southern border completely. its a political threat, yes, but what could the real economic fal...

Trudeau and outgoing mexican president nieto, they signed the usmca at the g20. >> we get rid of nafta. it has caused us tremendous amounts of unemployment and loss and company loss and everything else. that will be terminated. so congress will have a choice of the usmca or pre-nafta which worked very well. >> each countrys legislative bodies needs to approve the agreement before it goes into effect. roger stone insisting he has never been in touch with julian assan assange. stone facing quest...

The president did not say what the tariff level would be. in addition to the temporary truce with china, justin trudeau and outgoing president nieto signed the usmca. >> we get rid of nafta. it caused tremendous amounts of unemployment and loss and company loss. that will be terminated. so congress will have a choice of the usmca or pre-nafta which worked well. >> each countrys legislative bodies needs to approve the agreement before it goes into effect. roger stone says he has never been in t...

Of unemployment and loss and company loss and everything else. that will be terminated. so congress will have a choice of the usmca or pre-nafta which worked very well. >> each countrys legislative bodies needs to approve before it goes into effect. european markets opening higher and asia with 2% gains. roger stone insisting he has never been in touch with wikileaks founder julian assange. stone facing questions if he knew ahead of time if wikileaks planned to release the hacked e-mails durin...