More than 36000000000 president plan for new tariffs on steel and aluminum has got the beer industry and other u.s. Manufacturers worried about a trade war it's Friday March 2nd and this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. I'm Ari Shapiro at a spike in suicides among very farmers low milk prices have left many struggling financially. You know. Black school teacher in Chicago says what's missing from the conversation about arming teachers is the issue of race. And with March Madness almost upon as we look at allegations of bribery and fraud in men's college hoops 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer in the aftermath of the Florida school shooting the Broward County sheriff is facing mounting criticism of his leadership but as N.P.R.'s Joel Rose explains supporters of Sheriff Scott Israel are are rejecting calls for him to quit more than $100.00 people gathered at a church in Pompano Beach we've come out today to say that yes we support sort of Scott Israel. Event 30 from across Broward County was supposed to demonstrate grassroots support for the embattled sheriff and praise sheriff Israel for being transparent and accountable the sheriff stayed for just a few minutes and left without speaking to the media outside the church Republican lawmakers in Florida say Israel should be suspended because of questions about how his deputies responded to the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School and how they handled previous tips that the alleged shooter might pose a threat Joel Rose n.p.r. News Parkland Florida Amtrak has suspended rail service along the Northeast Corridor and several airports have had to close as a fierce storm moves up the East Coast as N.P.R.'s David Schaper reports heavy wet snow a near hurricane strength wind gusts forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and knocked out power to more than a 1000000 homes and businesses with wind gusts topping 50 and 60 miles an hour in many cities along the East Coast and one gust clocked at close to 80 miles an hour in Cape Cod this nor'easter storm is making all kinds of travel difficult New York's La Guardia Airport grounded all flights for several hours and the powerful winds briefly forced the evacuation of the air traffic control tower at Dulles outside of Washington d.c. One flight arriving there hit turbulence so rough that most of the passengers got sick and the pilots nearly did the strong wind gusts of knocked over trucks on highways and bridges and wind whipped waves are flooding coastal roads on the rails Amtrak has canceled all service between Washington and Boston until tomorrow because of hazardous weather conditions David Schaper n.p.r. . News it looks like what's been an unusually viral and flu season is finally starting to wind down u.s. Health officials say their data shows this year's flu outbreak peaking last month and falling since then with a number of people going to the doctor with flu symptoms declining dramatically over Dr Lisa fray with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says as flu seasons go it's been a tough one this season was one of our more severe flu seasons in the activity got so high that even though no we're decreasing we're still higher than we were some earlier seasons in previous years 32 states reported having flu traffic last week down from 43 a month ago one reason for the high levels of flu was that the vaccine proved less effective this year another tough day for u.s. Financial markets which in the past 2 days been battered amid concerns about President Trump's trade policies the Dow dropped 70 points 224538 The Nasdaq was up 77 points the s. And p. Gained 13 points you're listening to n.p.r. . 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News I'm Ari Shapiro and I know the Chuang a defiant President Trump declared today trade wars are good and easy to win Trump may have fired the opening shot this week when he announced plans to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in this battle as with any war some people get the spoils while others get caught in the crossfire N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports the terrorists are intended to protect America's domestic steel and aluminum industries which Trump said ruefully used to be a lot bigger Scott Paul who runs the Alliance for American Manufacturing knows steel employment has dropped more than a 3rd in the last 2 decades while aluminum jobs shrank nearly 60 percent in just 3 years the thing about those jobs is that they're hard to replace in those communities in the industrial Midwest it's likely that the workers who lose those jobs will never find another job or if they do it will be in a much much lower paygrade Paul's group has been running t.v. Ads urging the administration to crack down on imports he was delighted by the president's surprise announcement which calls for even bigger tariffs than the Commerce Department recommended It's been a crazy $36.00 or so but while u.s. Steel and aluminum makers were buoyed by the president's move much of the rest of the economy was rattled by the prospect of higher prices for products that use steel and aluminum as well as retaliation by America's trading partners the White House downplayed the effect on prices playing the terrace would add perhaps a penny to the cost of an aluminum can but Jim McGreevy of the beer Institute says it's not good for Joe Sixpack when the price of a sixpack goes up those Tenney's add up last year American brewers bought more than 36000000000 beer cans multiply that by dozens of other metal consuming industries as the Wall Street Journal noted u.s. Steel mills employ 140000 people companies that used seal employ 6 and a half 1000000 we were really hoping that the president would hear the concerns that the air. Aerospace soft drink automobile manufacturers have raised and take a different course before next week other countries have promised to fight the u.s. Tariffs with import restrictions of their own targeting Kentucky bourbon for example or parley Davidson motorcycles u.s. Agriculture could also take a hit farmers often tend to get back and this could hurt at retaliation in kind of the Naria Oh and it just is not good for American agriculture Kristen Duncanson raises soybeans corn and hogs in south central Minnesota she and her farm neighbors are heavily dependent on export markets in Europe and Asia we figure here in Minnesota about one in every 3rd row of soybeans that export at a commodity conference in California this week Duncans and says many farmers have been buttonholing the secretary of agriculture hoping Sonny Perdue might persuade the president to change course well ask him to make sure that the president realizes what he's kind of action mean to America's farmers and ranchers and I can tell you there's some phone ringing out the hooking progress offices to today Trump doesn't need a green light from Congress to impose tariffs but the crackdown on steel and aluminum imports is controversial even within the White House the president announced his plans yesterday before aides even had time to craft a formal order tariff supporters Scott Paul acknowledges things still could change what I taking anything for granted yet because we realized there's a few days before the president said he would finally sign something if the last 36 hours have been crazy the next week could be even more so Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington be on tariffs many of the political headlines this week were about the White House and they were more about internal dynamics than policy Here's a sampling Breaking News White House communications director hope take says resign raking in here thinks there's a security clearance down a very good as the last night as Alan had turning generally major. We're going to talk about this in our Friday weekend Paula. Excitement Joining us now David Brooks of The New York Times either and Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post good to have in the studio Great to be here let's start with that surprise announcement the president made on tariffs What do you make of the fact that many of his closest advisers were caught off guard and learned about the decision when they read it on the website of your newspaper The Washington Post Karen and I think this is explains why when we write so many stories about the entry in the chaos in the White House this is not just kind of Beltway inside baseball the chaos actually this week we saw manifest itself in policy I think a lot of people looked at the fact that Rob Porter's departure was Rob Porter who the White House they was a staff secretary Kerry arrived after being accused of abusing 2 former wives which sounds you know sounds like you would say well how would this affect trade Well the fact is that he was handling the process he was sort of keeping the protectionist forces in the White House at a I think the other thing that is going on here is that the president is looking at the fact that there is going to be a special election in about 10 days in southwest Pennsylvania and this is a Republican seat just our side since birth right and it's a Republican seat normally it's one the president won quite handily but there are a lot of Mine Workers and steel workers in that district who voted for the president and who don't are going to be very happy with this decision David what do you make of the fact that many of the president's closest advisers did not want him to do this and he went ahead with it anyway you know I sort of think the scaffolding is falling away I mean there was a structure of semi sanity built around him with OPEC's and Kelly doing his best In Session's doing his best and Gary Cohen doing his best but it's falling away the mania is escaping and so now we have government by by resentment by anger by bitterness by just distraction it's truly horror. Funny I have no process and horrifying doubled when that tweet that trade wars are good and easily won is Trump has a lot of written a lot of ignorant tweets in his life I can't imagine ever topping that one it's like saying nuclear wars are good and easily won they're not good and they're not easily won it's interesting to me that you tie this to the departure of hope picks his communications director who said this week that she was going to resign She's one of the closest people to President Trump She's been with him since before since the earliest days of his campaign not a very public figure but what does it mean that she's leaving his side well it's a proper presence rely on processes the White House runs it's an organization with the president making the ultimate decisions but there's too much for any one man even the wisest and most well informed man and so you have to have a process where people filter in different factors and the whole community comes to a decision the president ultimately and that process always fragile in the Trump administration she was a big part of actually making sure there was some coherent where one thought led to the next lot in that thought and with her gone there's much less mental coherence Carol I think that her real value hope picks was to came to this job not with a political background she was not a political strategist but she was with the president from the very beginning of his presidential campaign her real skill was sort of reading his mood and I think that any of us who had ever been in an interview with him when Hope Hicks was in the room she would interject she would remind him of things she would sort of pull him back a little bit if he was making a claim that was completely off point or sort of outrageous her real skill was Nanjing the president's personality and personality is so connected to policy with this president he earlier lost his former bodyguard he's Schiller who had worked at the White House now his son in law Jared questioner is under attack his. Security clearance was downgraded from top secret to secret there was a report in The New York Times about questionable loans from companies that met with questioner at the White House what does this mean for the president Karen this goes back to the reservations that a lot of people had about Number Ones of staff in your White House with family members and number 2 not really disentangle ing people from from all of their business interests and that includes by the way the president of the United States these conflicts are are going to happen you could you know somebody with maybe a little more experience and judgment would have known what Jared Kushner didn't which is you do not take meetings with people who have had and do have relationships with your or your family's business interests David as bad a week as this has been for the president it has been a worse week for Jared Kushner what do you think this means well I mean he's lost his security clearance he's sort of lost the stature of the president allegedly saying they never should cut he and his wife never should come into the White House in the 1st place wife Yvonne cut from the president's daughter thought or you know the times I've spoken which is not many but he's always struck me with a smart enough guy with no experience who just you know if somebody asked you to do nerve surgery you couldn't do it off the bat and he was kind of a Middle East peace process and reinventing government right and so he was just set floundering and frankly I always thought he was sort of the Webster Hubbell here when people blame the reference when people get Webster Hubbell was a Clinton friend and somebody came in the White House and when he when the legal investigation started going they always go to somebody close to the president and indict that person and if necessary send them away in order to get to the president and shared question or struck me as Webster Hubbell in the story and so if he gets out of this without getting in some legal trouble he'll be should be concerns of Lucky an ominous note I'd like to end on the bipartisan meeting that the president held on guns at the White House on Wednesday it was surprising to many people that . Embraced positions typically held by Democrats I spoke yesterday on this program with Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky who said the president's comments were a doozy Well I don't think he's going to come back to a rally of 30000 people in Kentucky with Dianne Feinstein next to his side and John Cornyn on the other side proposing gun control and then trying that with the n.r.a. And apparently change his mind so Karen where things stand no one knows what this is a replay of what we saw on immigration as well when it looked like the president was was preparing to make deals with his new good friends Chuck and Nancy the leader of the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate. I think what we saw and this was a kind of meeting to this bipartisan meeting on guns where the president wanted the cameras in the room but I think that nobody on the White House staff wanted the cameras in there because it was just put on display how manipulable the the process that a word of the president is when whoever he's trying to please whoever is speaking to him final thought David it's just emotional instability with attention span problem and so it's horrifying other countries actually covering the story more on this week than most weeks David Brooks of The New York Times and Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post good to have you both here thanks thank you thank you. For listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Hi This is Ari Shapiro from all things considered we're on weekday afternoons right here on k.p. 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