Meet the woman who started it all. Lucas is the first baby with down syndrome to represent gerber. This picture courtesy of cooks we agree. Saying thats really. Im heading to the white house where see you later this afternoon. Appreciate you joining us for this packed hour. Tuing it over to ali velshi and s ruhle. Who doesnt love a gerber baby . Love that baby lucas. Sweet pea. Morning, everyone. Im ali velshi. Im stephanie ruhle. Its wednesday, june 6th. Mexico firing the latest shot in the escalating trade war between the United States and the allies. How is this goingo play when the president sits down with the leaders of those countries on friday . How many people are in on forming this Tariff Policy and who is in charge . Thats a great question. In fact, what you see right now is a big split inside the
guns. We begin with the latest escalating trade war between the United States and the top trading partners including some of the closest allies and this one comes from mexico. The m
today we have whole pig and brats. pork loin and our baby bac ribs. family is involved? family is involved in the business. i am a fourth generation partf pork agriculture. my daughters are business. myfather, my sister, brother-in-law, and my husband. so we are not just a pork production family. we also employ a lot of other people s families. reporter: almost 500. that s correct. reporter: and stephanie and allie, there s a lot of people who are associated with the business as well. pork is foundational to the iowa economy. when you see the trade negotiations underway, the tariff that s put, what s your concern? well, the one thing is that if it s for the long term, that could be devastating for the industry, but wenow a lot of things because pork is a very flexible agriculture, some of these things are short-term. we feel like we re pawns in the chess game of the trade wars, but r the short time the american producers can have cheaper bacon and ribs for the summer.
jobs. and even president trump has campaigned saying he s going to do something and he s going out to do something about it. it is not business as usual he goes to the g summit in canada on friday where he s meeting with leaders of canada and the eu nations. at what point does this sort of bring a summit like this to a halt because everyone is angry at the u.s. or do they have business to continue to do while acknowledging the complaint on behalf of many american workers thew trade arrangements? there s some business they can do. there s a lot of routine business that goes on between finance and trade ministries of these various countries. but the united states, make no mistake, is becoming isolated. it is being condemned by its allies for the actions that king. and one of the things we ve learned about the world over the last couple of decades is that you need allies to get something done. the world is too globally connected. you can t america can t be
guns. we begin with the latest escalating trade war between the united states and the top trading partners including some of the closest allies and this one comes from mexico. the mexican president signed an order immediately imposing 15 to 25% tariffs on u.s. steel. also a 25% tariff on u.s. cheese and bourbon. plus a 20% tariff on american agricultural productncluding po potatoes, apples and cranberries. u.s. pork farmers alone could use $100 million a year. that s according to an estimate by the iowa farm bureau. this is after the trump administration eliminated tariff exemptions for our partners, mexico, canada, and the european unn. it also imposed a 25 % tariff on steel imports and 10% tariff on aluminum imports effective june 1st. with all this, the world bank has issued a warning that the escalating trade tensions
between the united states and the major trading allies could have, quote, severe consequences for the trade and growth that would be equivalent to the 2008 financial crisis. nbc s von joins us from des moines, iowa where the u.s. pork industry is holding the annual expo right now. stephanie and alley, reminder. 10% of iowa pork alone goes to mexico. so we are he in des moines and the president is at the summit. this is the world s pork expo not only from around the country but 40 countries from around the world. there are individuals here. i want to bring in christy. she s a family farmer. you have 460 employees you re about two hours north of here and have a full operation. about 10,000 people here over the course of the weekend coming through. and you not only grill up the food but you also produce it and go through it. what do we see here?