respect anybody else there. if putin was there, there would be one buddy to look at. that s the best guess i can come up with. the thing is and to do this right before you get on the plane is signaling i m not interested in making a deal here, people. i m just going to go there because i have to go there. there was reporting beforehand saying he didn t even want to go to canada. he wanted to go straight to singapore. he s doing this under duress. interesting point that hallie made. she was saying this is like our super bowl. there s a reason we don t talk about trade every day on tv. it s a difficult complicated topic. i think there s something that s important that we discuss. a trade deal is not saying that we re going to charge you this much on every tomato you import and this much on the beef. it s a negotiated framework about how you re going to resolve disputes. bobby, we re going to do business for the next 40 years. we re going to get into arguments. here s the mechanism fo
all right. welcome back. breaking news before heading to canada to meet with allies at the gp summit. donald trump talked about pardons including one for muhammad ali. it s among the 3,000 pardons the president says he s considering. saying he d want to pardon anyone treated unfairly by the justice system. criticized nfl players for their anthem protests saying they weren t proud enough to stand before suggesting they submit names for apparent pardons. joining us now, peter alexander. peter, first, we should point out so the president is saying those athletes are not proud enough to stand. those who chose to take a knee, it has nothing to do with pride. the first person to do it was collin kaepernick. he reached out to a veteran and
the economy is really fuelled by the idaho industry. and so when you re talking to those farmers up and down, i want to introduce you to one of them. those crops are being grown at this moment and they are looking for an open market. you farm 258 thou,000 potato. there s going to be about 36 million potatoes in here. just this cellar. you have how many? we have about 21 of them. 21 of them. potatoes are important to you. they re important to idaho. president trump is up in canada now. what s your message to him as a potato farmer? i would say hang tough but
forgotten about the conviction which was overturned by the supreme court in 1971. unanimously. his family attorney reached out and said thanks for thinking of us. we don t need anything. when the president says i ve been preparing for north korea all my life, when he says i m going to solve trade easy, this is what worries us. that helicopter is marine 1. it s lifting off from canadian air force base. they re headed to where the meetings are going to take place. and think about the meetings. g7 is normally a softball meeting of friendly nations. now it seems to be a showdown. i can t with our closest military and economic partners, this gathering, these are world leaders together in canada representing the seven largest advanced economies, and it is quickly becoming six leave out one big guy plus one. right there you heard president
work. people could say that trade is unfair to us and has been for decades. there are a lot of workers who think it s unfair. no one has had the wherewithal to attack this. what do you say to that person? do you say to that person, and the numbers are already beginning to show, and you quoted them at the top of the hour. american jobs are going to be lost. american industries are going to be hurt if some folks in the dairy industry are going to benefit, a lot of people in automobiles and defense manufacturing, all those industries that depend on the goods and services that are now going to be going to attract from mexico and canada and other countries. all those industries are going to be badly hurt. american jobs will be lost. as joseph said, the liberal economist, he says donald trump identified the problem beautifully. this is just not the solution. it almost makes me think of a trump building.