economic impact will be is something the market s trying to handicap, stephanie, right now. it s those farm counties that don t want president trump to touch nafta. peter, the original proposal was for about $30 billion in tariffs. trump wanted $60 billion. what do we know about the final product? and who has factored in to dom s point where this is going to hit. if it hits red, manufacturing, agricultural states, that is, in fact, trump country. yes, that s the risk of a potential for a trade war. the final figure expected to be announced obviously about three hours from now. we are hearing it will be less than $60 billion. it s not official yet in those tariffs and other penalties on china for stealing america s intellectually property. the tariffs are expected to target a wide range of categories. clothes, shoes, consumer electronics. the president s top adviser on trade said the policy goal here is really to find that sweet spot, if one exists where the tariffs inflict the maxi
hit the hardest. between canada, china, mexico and the european union, they imported nearly 70 billion bucks of u.s. agriculture in 2016. countries cut back on those products, farmers could get hit the hardest. when trump first won and he said, i want to go after nafta. right. it was his ag secretary who came to him with an electoral college map and said, sir, these are your farm counties. where do you think they send their milk and eggs? there s that. the reality is very clear if the trade war is executed, if it s launched, it s going to have serious effects. there s an irony here. when you listen to the president of afl-cio. when you listen to leo juo giraf the steelworkers, they re
they want legal immigration to stay the same or get bigger because there s a lot of jobs to fill. right now there s a lot of competition for workers to fill those jobs. more immigration will get economic growth going faster. a lot of the areas where trump administration is talking about on trade, nafta, they re terrified they ll tear that up and not get that done. global corporations that are based in the u.s. get parts from mexico, parts from canada, you blow that up and blow up their supply chain, it s a disaster. they hope cooler heads prevail. you ve got farm counties that want to get their milk and eggs to canada. that s why they like tpp. they wanted to get their milk, their eggs, their cows into asian markets. they like tpp and that also had nafta upgrades in it. we could have passed that, upgraded nafta and increased trade. it s a huge mistake that we didn t do that. amen sister. did he talk at all about now officially he s going to have no
manufacturers. what s happened in the wake of nafta is there is now a north american supply chain. you mess with that at your peril. the idea of scrapping nafta is one that created angry phone calls internally here in the united states because that s the way we run our economy. okay. for anyone who is watching, rewind and listen to what steve said again. it wasn t necessarily a call from canada. more likely, a meeting with the new secretary of peru, showing him that electoral college map, saying look at all these farm counties that voted for you. these are where farmers live. you know what they do? they sell their products here and they sell them in canada. and they sell them in mexico. that is a great, great point, steve. steve, derek, thank so much. we re going to take a break. thank you. next, a new report says the department of justice opened a criminal investigation into uber for using software to evade authorities. but was it illegal? i ll be speaking to a reporter who brok
word i speak or every vote i cast. i hope everyone will know i m looking out for their interests. do you think too many senators are parochial? that was something, i m looking in my view what s in the best national interest, maybe it wasn t in the best financial interest in our national interest. if you look at farm counties i won across arkansas, you will see farmers agrees and said so at the time. tom cotton, you have some cleanup work here in the house. we will watch to see what happens on immigration. thanks for coming on meet the press. in 45 seconds, we will hear from ever since darryl s wife started using gain flings, their laundry smells more amazing than ever. (sniff) honey, isn t that the dog s towel? (dog noise) hey, mi towel, su towel. more scent plus oxi boost and febreze.