So this may be investors saying, oh, maybe you are okay with ending some of these trade wars. Well talk about this trade deal and what it means. Lets get to the white house where right now the president and first lady are wrapping up a meeting with the president of kenya and his wife. Geoff bennett joins me. I want to get back to senator mccain and the controversy over flags that are at half staff in congress and many other places in the country but not at the white house. They were at half staff and are now back to full staff. Reporter flags are lowered by president ial proclamation so its the president who decides who receives that honor and the recent tradition for senators who die in office have been to have flags lowered in their honor from the day of death until their burial. So during president obamas time in office, he had four Sitting Senators die. There was ted kennedy, robert byrd, daniel inouhe. John mccain under President Trump did not receive that
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To be tricky stuff. in the short term president trump gets to claim victory, it s a promise delivered and it s counterprogramming for the blowback he s getting for his handling on john mccain s passing. geoff, thank you very much. the trade deal comes more than a year after president trump ordered nafta to be renegotiated. i want to take a closer look at what is in this agreement between the united states and mexico. again, it s not a replacement to nafta, it s an agreement in principle, if you will. the deal requires that 75% of a car s parts must be made in the united states and mexico in order to avoid tariffs. this is up from roughly 62.5% right now. 40% to 45% of those parts must be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour. that means that some mexican workers could get a raise as autoworkers there are paid less than their american counterparts. it could also mean some workers lose their jobs and some jobs come to the united states. in addition, if this is approved
First one to tell you no. the thing that sticks in my mind was that incredible scene on the senate floor when he held his hand out just as though he was sitting over in the coliseum in rome and gave the thumbs down. and you know why he did it? because he was worried that too many people in america would be hurt. and i called john after that. and i said, john, you know and here s the funny thing about this, ali. john is a colleague of mine. yeah. but in some sense i didn t call him and ask him for things, but i want him to be proud of me. i want him to give me an attaboy. i called him like the next day and i said, john, you now have made it clear that you can be my hero forever. and he is. he s my he s nothing like i wish everybody in america could know mccain. his laughter, how strongly he felt about things. he was just he was just fun to be around, no question. and he was like that with everybody. everybody. he would get into a conversation with anybody who
Telecommunications, things relating to how you inspect meat and animal products and grain and plant products coming into your country. lots of changes relating to the digital economy which all three countries wanted. but the six big changes he wanted, he s probably not going to get anything but partially this one change. so if you look at it, is it good? yes. is this what he promised to constituents who voted for him to change the economy around and overhauling nafta? no, not even close. to the point that the president says these negotiations are all bad. nobody makes a good deal and i don t like multi-lateral negotiations and then he goes and sort of rips up the script, causes markets to be unstable for several months, sort of launches a global trade war and then gets one of the six things or one and a half of the six things he wanted, that s sort of how he works. yes. he likes to play canada and mexico off each other. they re a little too smart for that. they re communicating gre
Mccain s view. if you get in to talk about john, john, what, five and a half years in a prison tortured, beaten, after he was injured once he was recovered, he believed so strongly in the principles that make america great, which is the strength of the judiciary, the strength of the congress, the strength of the court, the strength of the press. these are the institutions, these are the institutions that are the foundation of a free society. and people get frustrated with the press. i just had a friend tell me the other day, well, you know, they re all liberal. well, in some sense if you re in the media, you tend to be more liberal. if you re building bridges, you tend to be more conservative. that s okay as long as the bridge is safe and i understand the news. so we can t get too cranked up about this. part of it is you can t root for your own team. you can be for your team but to root for my team come hell or high water, mccain would be the