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Welcome back. time now for "the lid." the panel is back. nafta. you know, there's a lot of like under the radar news that used to be above the -- or on the radar news. the renegotiation of nafta, shawna thomas, today canada and the united states are in a contentious moment because of an off-the-record comment that the president made to bloomberg that seemed to say, look, i'm not going -- i can't say to you that canada has got to take it or leave it because then they'll get mad essentially and somehow those comments leaked and canada this morning said, hey, tell us about these comments. the pre...

>> that's right. i think that's the way trump voters view it as well. this is a promise he made during the campaign. i think the key decision was freezing canada out and then negotiating directly with mexico. >> which was a surprise. who would have thought the president, what he said about mexico. >> ambassador bob lighthizer plays a big role. kushner is getting a lot of credit as well. once that fwreemt was basically esht goed, -- once ayatollah agreement w -- once that agreement was negotiated, the president understands the economic power in many ways others do not. it seems to have worked h...

Become useful to the united states. >> obviously the big test is going to be china. this version of bullying tactics work? >> no, not with china. by the way, i would say as always with any trump deal, the important thing is to look at the actual details. >> the irony, it will be barely a change. >> it's a lot of muscle flexing. in the case of canada, don't forget the states that put everyone did over the top, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, they care about trade with canada. >> particularly michigan and wisconsin purcha wisconsin. >> particularly michigan and wisconsin. we had to do the mus...

Buildings? yes. let's look at the details of what the bottom line is. that we don't know and won't know. i agree with you lighthouizer i fantastic. >> the difference between china and canada, chinese have a way to manipulate in ways canada and mexico cannot. he can put pressure on them, they can put pressure on us and also manipulate the country. the chinese president can say, you know what, we don't like american products anymore. part of the culture there is maybe they stop buying american products. it is a different situation in china than it is in canada. >> all the reporting i see from ch...

These countries, the united states, mexico and canada, we are just -- we are linked in an economic way that all three need to get on the same page. plus congress is involved in this. congress is basically said to do president, hey, if you want to renegotiate want to renegotiate with mexico, that's great but you've got to do it with canada, too. we want to deal with all three. they have to ratify this deal. they can fight about it or not. there's congressional machinations they are going to get around. canada can stew over the weekend. apparently they are coming back to the tables next week. >>...