Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2018

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier August 27, 2018

For his part up until a short time ago President Trump did not issue a formal statement that changed late this afternoon and the flags of the white house went half the staff and full. Fox team coverage. We will be told what mccains death does politically and what it means to the president. Mike emanuel live on capitol hill, good evening. Good evening, the death of john mccain was not a surprise after a lengthy battle of brain cancer. His colleagues here on k say his passion was secondtonone. Is more than 30 years as a senator he never failed. He had a razor sharp wit. A big part and of course a fiery spirit. John mccains death has been covered and a memorial tribute. We can try as he did to put country before party. We can try as he always did to speak the truth, to power. There is also a push to change the Office Building to mccain where his office and the Armed Service committee chaired are located. Fellow senators are reflecting on mccains role as a mentor and his leadership particularly on foreign policy. It is hard to fill the void without any question. John mccain believed and american exceptionalism. He used that some of the perch of american exceptionalism to challenge his fellow senators to look beyond themselves. Following memorial events in arizona senator mccain will lie at the u. S. Capitol with a formal ceremony that morning. On saturday National Memorial service will be held at the National Cathedral with families, friends, congressional colleagues, staff and some World Leaders invited. Former political rivals, george w. Bush and barack obama are expected to you to lodge e. In maryland were mccain will be laid to rest. The friction between mccain and President Trump has continued even after the senators passing. Fox news has confirmed President Trump decided against releasing a official white house statement following his death. Chief of staff john kelly and press secretary Sarah Sanders were among those pushing for a message from the white house praising mccain for decades of service that would have called him an american hero. And said the president opted to send a tweet saturday night and today he ignored questions. Reporter mr. President , any questions on john mccain . I respect senators john mccain to service to our country and in his honor have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at halfstaff until the day of his internment. Part of the mccain legacy was a willingness to work with senators on both sides of the aisle, that was before the word compromise became a dirty word. Brett lets tag what the next steps politically after senator mccains death. Correspondent peter doocy is in arizona tonight. Good evening peter. Good evening brett, there has been a ton of talk about cindy mccain possibly being appointed to succeed her husband in the senate and a spokesman for the family deflected questions on whether or not she wants the job. They did say that the late senator mccain favored a different demographic. I think a hispanic woman probably wouldve been his pick for a successor if he would have lived long enough to of had the opportunity. Arizonas governor said he will wait until after mccains funeral to name a successor. Brett there is also a primary tomorrow to replace retiring senator jeff flake. Yes, the candidate whose polls numbers were once so high, one of the reasons why he decided to retire, kelly ward is taking he tonight because she wrote on facebook that she would suggest that the announcement about mccains canct ending was tied to her campaign. She views her that message can be misunderstood but denied these sentiments. I was there was a efforts out there to turn everything that we do back to the negative. If you look at the press and you look at social media at the last three years since i started running again senator mccain. I ran against him not because i dislike of him as a person because i dislike his policies. I dislike his votes. The front from runner, congn kirsten cinema. I know the price of freedom, while we were in harms way uniform christensen them i was protesting us in a pink tutu and denigrating our service. President trump is not made an endorsement in this race but he has part in one of the candidates, sheriff joe who insists he would be the most different and retiring senator flake. Im not going to go in front of the senate and start bad mouthing our commander in chief. I will not criticize him for everything he does, that is not going to happen with me. If i have a problem the president will go to the back door doug about it. Brett turned on the local news and arizona and there is no talk about the primary, it has been flipped by coverage celebrating john mccains life. The lack of attention might not make much of a difference because the Secretaries Office tells us that the majority of ballots of artie been mailed in. Brett. Brett live in arizona, President Trump is cutting a new trade deal with mexico and trying to wrap up negotiations with canada. The president is ditching the nafta name saying the new pact with mexico is simpler. John roberts has details tonight, from the more thon, good evening. Good evening, white house officials tell us this is just the first shoe to drop, the president additions to a day wants to cut lines with canada. With japan, the European Union and then take on china, the biggest of all. Him i believe the president is on the phone. Henrique. It was another oval oval ofe first, he was on speakerphone to announce a new trade deal with their neighbor to the south. They used to call it nafta, we will call the United States, mexico trade agreements. Well get rid of the name nafta. It has a bad connotation because he had as it was hurt very badly by nafta for many years. Outgoing mexico president was enthusiastic as the deal is President Trump, he even said he would like to give President Trump a big hug. He acknowledged getting to an agreement was tough. Very grateful mr. President. A negotiation that has taken months. It is been difficult, complex. Ed has been a hard negotiation altogether. The biggest change of the trade relationship as rules of origin for cars, 75 of components used to build cars must be made in either mexico or the u. S. 40 to 45 of auto content must be made by workers earning at least 16 an hour. The biggest loser in this deal, china. Which is been skirting existing nafta rules by funneling cheap car parts through mexico. The deal also increases trade in agricultural goods, leaving tariffs at zero. It puts much more pressure on canada to make a deal. Canada was involved in three way talks with mexico in the u. S. Before President Trump decided to deal with it oneonone with mexico first. As canadas foreign minister is headed to the white house to meet with Jared Kushners book wins that we will continue to work towards a modernized nafta. Will only sign a new nafta that is good for canada and good for the middle class. President trump insisted labor production has made is a good deal for American Workers. But not everyone is convinced. And a statement Ohio Democratic congressman marcy kept her said, the details in the fine print matter more than a hasty selfproclaimed victory. To someone who was bought with all i had to prevent naftas passage in the trauma its brought to American Workers, i know the devil is in the detail details. Brett President Trump spoke with Justin Trudeau earlier today, the president is really putting the squeeze on china saying that if United States cant reach a deal with canada, it is prepared to slap significant tariffs on canadian made automobiles. John thank you. A big day on wall street, the dow surged almost 260 on word of this trade deal. The nasdaq finished ahead at 72, those two are record highs. Joni is not to talk more about the u. S. Mexico trade deal and what is ahead, u. S. Trade representative robert lighthizer. Thank you for being here. As john just reported, the devil is always in the details. What are the details here . This is a principal agreement, not a sign to deal yet . That is because of the nature of the wall. The trade promotions, which requires us to have an agreement of principal. This is thousands of pages long, this is not just some idea. We have negotiated all the detail, but the way that works, you have to announce and wait 90 days and then congress has a chance to review. It is an agreement, this is not a general idea, this is very specific. Brett but as of tonight it is a trilateral deal . Nafta is still in place technically . Yes. Nafta is in place but what we have renegotiated is the mexico part of it. A lot of the provisions are the same. We expect eventually to set up a notice to congress, we are going to say we have an agreement and principles. It is a technical term with mexico. Brett what about the prospect of that . I understand canada is kind of itching to get in with negotiations. Do you expect thats because of this that opens the door with canada . It is our hope. We had a year of negotiations with canada. We had trilateral negotiations for months and months. We had thousands of people at several rounds, the last few weeks we decided, the president decided lets focus on mexico. Lets get a deal done with one. The truth is he is right, it is very difficult to negotiate. When negotiated with mexico and we had a great feel for them. Now it is time to canada. Brett we read some of the bullet points in johns piece about automobile specifically, 75 of automobile content will be made in north america from the current 62. Other specifics, u. S. Point of view, some were sitting on the couch at home, how is this just so much better than what we have had in place . That is the essence of the question. First of all, the difference in the rules of working for automobiles which is 200 billion trade, it is a huge part of this deal. The difference is even more than that. We change the way we calculate things. Weve made it cleaner and easier and we will have much more regional content in these cars and much more essential u. S. Content in this cars. We have created a situation where there are more u. S. Jobs but there also will be more mexican jobs because we will squeeze out people who were not in the region. It is a big, big win for manufacturing. In this sort of world of modernization we have made the best improvements ever and intellectual property. And trade and financial services. This will be the new paradigm. Brett can he put a dollar figure on what this means . Is there a dollar figure . We still dont have one and some people will come out with one. It is billions and billions of dollars, for both of us. I believe there will be an improvement from United States point of view and lots of jobs created by this. Lets remember this has been a bout an agreement, the president is exactly right. This agreement is bad that it has led to large deficits. It led to the loss of manufacturing jobs. It needed to be modernized. Brett ive heard some people, the president s supporters saying that the money made in this renegotiation essentially will pay for the wall. I dont have anything to say about that. Brett what about china . Listen with the president said. We are working with other countries. China is one, they want to talk and it is not the right time to talk to be honest with you. It is too onesided for too many years and too many decades. It is not the right tempo talk. Spewing out the right time, but you have been talking with china . Has this been all aimed at china . We have an 800 play dollar trade deficit in the president realizes it is not sustainable. You try to correct it one step at a time, nafta is important. There is no bigger trade agreement in the history of the world than the nafta agreement. The fundamental problem in United States is china. We have a very, very unbalanced situation. We have 375 billion worth of trade that we have lost. We lost millions of job because of chinese practices which i believe are unfair. We have to figure out a way to change the relationship with china. It is not against china, it is that our relationship has to change. The president is very focused on that. Brett you work with the president s on la Jared Kushner on this deal . I did. Ive worked with him on many things. He is a dream to work with. He is a complete patriot who is working 40 and he was very effective last thing brett you mention farmers, what you say to these farmers and some of these lawmakers representing them who say listen, we are taking it on each end here. How long is this going to last . The president focuses a lot on the farmers and every meeting we had with trade he talks about the workers and the farmers and the ranches. Every single one. We are doing things to make it better for farmers but lets not forget, we should be selling much more product in an open market to china and to a lot of other places. The farmers had been treated badly. We have to do something to change that paradigm. The president has made up his mind, we are going to change it and the people that will benefit literally, among the most will be american farmers. They also are very patriotic, they are tough people who realize we have hurt a little bit in order to really benefits in the long run. Brett you think that paradigm is shifting, can you sense that china saying what is going on . I dont want to project what they are saying. I dont think ive ever seen anyone who stood up to them like this. And saying we cannot have the situation continued on my desk to change. The president is putting in place tariffs, hes doing Everything Else he can to make sure that American Workers and farmers get treated fairly. That is a fundamental rule for him and he is fighting for these people. You will get a change. The one robert lighthizer, thank you for being here. Up next a horrific and tweet video tournament in florida. 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This was the moment someone in a video game tournament opened fire in jacksonville, florida, the shooter identified as 24yearold david katz of baltimore, maryland, was trying to qualify for the next round of the mat a football competition but when he lost he went outside and came back minutes later, killing two and wounding ten others before turning a hand gun on himself. Authorities say his parents are cooperated with investigators and searching his room on in tr baltimore home. While the crime scene is cleared where the shooting took place. This is a very intense and active investigation at this point. Motive in this case still remains an investigation. Chris mcmullen was grazed in the head. People are being shot at in a space where they felt safe. I think it is something that will affect me for a long time whenever i may around a large group of people. He spoke after visiting with survivors. 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