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Economic impact will be is something the market's trying to handicap, stephanie, right now. >> it's those farm counties that don't want president trump to touch nafta. peter, the original proposal was for about $30 billion in tariffs. trump wanted $60 billion. what do we know about the final product? and who has factored in to dom's point where this is going to hit. if it hits red, manufacturing, agricultural states, that is, in fact, trump country. >> yes, that's the risk of a potential for a trade war. the final figure expected to be announced obviously about three hours from now. we are hea...

Hit the hardest. between canada, china, mexico and the european union, they imported nearly 70 billion bucks of u.s. agriculture in 2016. countries cut back on those products, farmers could get hit the hardest. when trump first won and he said, i want to go after nafta. >> right. >> it was his ag secretary who came to him with an electoral college map and said, sir, these are your farm counties. where do you think they send their milk and eggs? >> there's that. the reality is very clear if the trade war is executed, if it's launched, it's going to have serious effects. there's an irony here. w...

They want legal immigration to stay the same or get bigger because there's a lot of jobs to fill. right now there's a lot of competition for workers to fill those jobs. more immigration will get economic growth going faster. a lot of the areas where trump administration is talking about on trade, nafta, they're terrified they'll tear that up and not get that done. global corporations that are based in the u.s. get parts from mexico, parts from canada, you blow that up and blow up their supply chain, it's a disaster. they hope cooler heads prevail. >> you've got farm counties that want to get t...

Manufacturers. what's happened in the wake of nafta is there is now a north american supply chain. you mess with that at your peril. the idea of scrapping nafta is one that created angry phone calls internally here in the united states because that's the way we run our economy. >> okay. for anyone who is watching, rewind and listen to what steve said again. it wasn't necessarily a call from canada. more likely, a meeting with the new secretary of peru, showing him that electoral college map, saying look at all these farm counties that voted for you. these are where farmers live. you know what ...

Word i speak or every vote i cast. i hope everyone will know i'm looking out for their interests. >> do you think too many senators are parochial? that was something, i'm looking in my view what's in the best national interest, maybe it wasn't in the best financial interest -- >> in our national interest. if you look at farm counties i won across arkansas, you will see farmers agrees and said so at the time. >> tom cotton, you have some cleanup work here in the house. we will watch to see what happens on immigration. thanks for coming on "meet the press." in 45 seconds, we will hear from ever ...