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State on the state of play right now? it is such a strange situation to watch it unfold. the president sort of unilaterally using a national security rationale to from his perch in the executive to slap tariffs on china in escalating the trade war that has had real material effects for farmers across the country, particularly those that grow a lot of soy and export it to china and replacing it with checks they're writing from the white house and bragging about it. how sustainable is this? >> well, it's clearly not sustainable. you can't ascribe any one weather pattern to climate change, but yo...

Welcome, sir. how is this affecting the relationship there now? >> i think since our new president took office in december, alex, he made a point of not having any confrontation to president trump, not paying attention to his tweets, tirades, diatribes or insults or anything he does. just sort of looking the other way and trying to avoid any kind of confrontation. this became very difficult now with the threat to impose tariffs, slap tariffs on mexican exports to the u.s. the good thing is the tariffs didn't happen. it was just a threat, little bit of bluff by the trump, but this time mexico w...

Senator from texas, john cornyn, who is high up in republican leadership came out with a statement disapproving of the president's announced plan to slap tariffs on mexican imports as a punitive measure because the mexican government is being insufficiently vigilant of stopping border crossings from the northern triangle. what is that going to mean for texas? >> in almost every single instance when it comes to our foreign policy, president trump is shooting this country in the foot, forcing farmers, for example, to bear the brunt of his tariff policies and trade wars in china. he's going to do...

How would this impact the aut r authortarian leader? >> reporter: the country is taking quite a blow. based on the statements from erdogan, he remains defiant especially after the lira plummeting to the lows. of course, all this is stemming from two factors. one is turkey's mismanagement of the economy. erdogan's repeat ed ied insistef the markets interest rates. something of a death blow when then the u.s. administration decided to sanction two turkey ministers as well as slap tariffs on aluminum and steel imports. president trump doing this in the refusal to release u.s. pastor andrew brunso...

This gives you an idea of how interdependent these two countries are. yes, that will hurt people in the canadian pulp and paper industry. it will also have a devastating affect on every american newspaper that publishes still a print edition, and every journalist whose works appear on paper. you can't hurt canada without hurting the united states and vice versa. >> so, wait, do you think that that was part of this? i mean, could donald trump have known about that? >> i have no idea. i can't imagine it was done on 24 hours' notice. but it's an example of the settled intent of the trump administ...