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Talks and another thing for walmart to request your from the trump administration and officials that tariffs will not result in higher prices for the consumer. not true according to the worlds biggest retailers including the biggest. walmart sells around $300 billion worth of goods to the american public each and every year. the issued a letter to the u.s. trade rep. on friday saying prices will go up for a lot of items because of the china trade fair. among them they say shampoo, futons, gas grills, backpacks and more. how much higher do you say? 10 percent from the tariffs but walmart did pr...

This, mark, almost 300% tariff. nobody talks about that. reporter: in addition to dairy tariffs, there are reportedly disagreements over a ten-year requirement for data protection for biological drugs and how that might impact the pharmaceutical industry and the cost of drugs. when asked biabout it, canada's trade rep said she would not negotiate in public. >> we are working very hard and making progress. we're not there yet. this is a very complex agreement and we are going to continue working at it. the government of canada will not sign an agreement unless it's good for canada and good for ...

We are not within 70 days of an election that is probably going to have a democratic house in 70 days. now, why would a democratic house go along with any type of trade agreement that donald trump has? so i think we're dealing, i mean, trump could get this agreement with canada and mexico. but if he is dealing with a speaker nancy pelosi in three months to try to wrath it, that iratify it. and there are republicans against a lot of what is going on here, ben sasse, you might lose republican senators for. so details in these trade agreements. >> bret: right. you could gain some democrats like s...

"facing trump: mexicans think the unthinkable: leaving after." how much -- how wrong, i would say, where many of the experts in what was possible between mexico and trump? >> i think a lot of people thought it was unavoidable, it was going to be a disaster, you know what, laura? a lot of people thought nafta would be over last year, early last year. that there was no way to fix this relationship in a way that would be constructive to both sides. we proved them wrong. through very disciplined tenacious work, and with the vision -- >> laura: bob lighthizer critical u.s. trade rep. you've become ...

Questions, andrea. let me tick through a couple of the top lines here. the president wanted to focus on school safety as we prepare to enter a new school year. he went around the table and talked to some of the key players about what specifically they're doing to make sure they make schools safer heading into this new year, including betsy devos, jeff sessions, kirstjen nielsen. and then he also talked about trade. he wanted to focus on trade as well. when he opened it up to robert lighthighser, there was a little bit of news there. he talked about the fact that they are making progress in the...