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Terminate nafta. he thought it was a bad deal for years. he decided to renegotiate with canada and mexico and hit the pause button. that was a sudden shift in the deal. he is looking forward to terminating nafta. on saturday, he would make a big splash and decided not to because he had phone calls with the canadian prime minister and mexican president. he felt like doing so would setoff a bomb on their relationship. they would have such tension between them. he could not do it. >> that is fascinating, philip. he sometimes is susceptible to the last person he talks to and certainly with the naf...

The obama state department and in communications with the obama white house, of course. what do you think of the president's position on this, this negotiating tactic? >> well, it's not a surprise. he talked about this on the campaign trail. there are a lot of haters of nafta, including many democrats. as elise already touched on, it's already been renegotiated a number of times. what i heard him doing today is giving himself some room to probably not do a whole lot of anything but to keep his base happy. so i don't expect much to come out of this, to be honest. >> you really don't? you don't ...