president trump is a deal where we for a short-term exemption for two years, we ll use that time to build a factory in baytown and employee another 170 people and then stop imports, so we re flipping it tosay, just give us a short-term exemption. your message to president trump who insists that these tariffs are good for america and good for american jobs seems to me to be, no, they re not good for americans here in baytown texas and we need relief. we re not asking for a forever relief, we re just asking for a short-term bridge and give us enough time to build another factory. i see this as i agree that his that, you know, he s trying to increase the local context and increase jobs and investment and that s basically what we re offering. we re saying just give us a little bit of time and we ll
a factory in texas that makes steel pipes for the oil and gas industry says the new trump tariffs are killing its plans to expands and hire more workers and to drive that message home, workers and their children are flooding the white house with postcards asking for a waiver from the measure that was meant to give them a legup, like many u.s. factories, this company, imports raw materials and estimates the tariffs will cost it $25 million a year minimum. i m joined bill the company s ceo joel johnston. thank you for being with me this morning. good morning, poppy. your company imports raw material from turkey. these tariffs will hurt a lot. $25 million a year is what you predict they ll cost the company. what will that mean in terms of job loss? we also buy the bulk of our steel from the domestic producers such as new cora, sdi, big river. what we do import is semi-finished pipe from our
weeks, that is the purpose of the executive order. they clearly have no plan in place to roll that out in any sort of expedient fashion. if they appeal this, they have to say they want to do it on their own timeline which is just chaotic for all the families separated. thank you very much for that important reporting. coming up for us, employees of a texas company sent 4,500 postcards to the white house, to president trump, urging him exempt our company from your tariffs. the ceo will join me live.
apartment complex in bryan, texas. that s the town next to college station. the door is open. there s a few people inside. there s some music playing and people having some drinks. she struck up a conversation with her friend s upstairs neighbor. he was 24, hadn t been to college, but mixed in easily with the students. reporter: was he kind of a likeable guy? he seemed, yeah, very likeable. yeah, he was very approachable, seemed very nice. in fact, he had no problem sharing intimate details with kristin about his personal life. he had been married and somehow the conversation, you know, goes into him telling me how he had found god. i made a lot of mistakes. i wasn t a great husband. reporter: you guys got into quite the personal conversation for having just met. well, i was young and i think that was normal, and he was drunk. not long after the party started it abruptly ended kristin s friend hosting the pay t into a fight with her boyfriend. there was alcohol invo
operating immediately. thank you, everybody. what a crowd, what a turnout. i want to thank our governor, your governor has done a fantastic job. governor abbott, thank you very much. he s right here some place, he s right here, we just want to thank your governor, senator cruise, senator cornen. everyone, dan, the whole group. this has been a total cooperative effort. again, we will see you soon. i will tell you, this is historic. it s epic, what happen ed. but you know what? it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. thank you all, folks. thank you, thank you. what a crowd, what a turnout, the president addressing the 200 to 500 people or so that greeted him when he