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White house reporter eli stokols. thank you, both, for being here. thank you. i really appreciate it. eli, i want to start with you, to set the scene, president trump minutes from now is going to talk at the national realtors association. we're going to bring some of the remarks live. we expect him to announce this officially that he's going to lift these steel and aluminum tariffs. what could that actually mean for the usmca, this deal that he struck with mexicowants to get through congress. this could up the chances of that, right? >> it doesn't get all the way there because the democrats in...

President demanding something, not getting it and relenting after trying to put pressure on a situation, not getting what he wanted, and pulling back. but they reserve the right to put tariffs in place in the future. and, you know, there's some measures in terms of enforcement that they believe will be added that they agree to that are concessions i think from canada. >> and democrats still have some concerns surrounding the environment. so this is not a done deal yet, right? but it does aleleviate a little bit of pressure on the president when he's fighting this trade war on a number of diffe...

Think you're right. think the fact the economy's been good with recent strong jobs numbers, the president does, in his mind, have a little bit of political wiggle room here, perhaps, to be a little more aggressive certainly as it relates to china, but what's notable about what we expect the president to announce in his comments today, and what we reported earlier today about the auto tariffs on ya pjapan, eu, president was delaying the imps so of those for another six months, the president wants the focus to be on china. here inside the white house and out in america, among those people who ar...

Crazily. the auto tariffs out of the way, that helped markets. now the steel and the aluminum. >> neil: that's a separate deal. do you think telegraphed potential good news? >> that helps. but with china we're hearing everybody's backing away, nobody wants to talk anymore. china's probably not happy they're being called criminal and crooks. i hope it goes underground. i even think the economy and the average person out there, doesn't want to hear this anymore. let's go back to business. lest go back to work. there's something in the white house that likes negotiating outloud. >> neil: one of t...

Is not the case we want to bring to the supreme court because i think this one will lose. >> the law won't go in the books for six months, the aclu and planned parenthood are planning to file a lawsuit to block it. alabama is one of 16 states to pass restrictive abortion bills. anc a delay in tariffs against the european union as the trade war with china, deciding whether to hike tariffs on cars coming into europe at 25%. that would have alienated allies and devastated global supply chains. the president plans to delay the decision by six months in order to negotiate with the eu and japan. d...