arthel: for 36 minutes the president spoke to reporters fielding lots of questions. we watch the president get on board air force one. a couple things. first of all, the president approached reporters and started in on the economy. he started touting his strong economy. he said the tariffs have cost nothing. china is eating the tariffs, import costs are down. he said i don t see a recession. the world this recession, but we are good. germany is bad, the e.u. is bad. the u.k. is bad, but we are good. he s promising a strong economy throughout the election. he seemed like he was trying hard to downplay some reports we have seen the last few days that white house and his administration does not have a plan for how to respond if the
the tariffs the president is imposing will raise import costs for u.s. companies. if the companies past those expenses on to customers, which they usually do, it will cost americans 7 million bucks. that is before our allies impose their own tariffs. canada says it will impose tariffs on nearly $13 billion worth of american goods. everything from steel to toilet paper. the eu says it will tax more than $7 billion worth of goods like motorcycles, bourbon. and mexico have plans to put tariffs on everything from pork bellies to fresh fruit. many republicans, they re furious, insisting the administration is doing far more harm than good. pat toomey called it bad news. orrin hash says it will harm americans. ben sass, he called it dumb. lamar alexander said it was a very big mistake. everyone from paul ryan to the koch brothers have come out in
other world leaders preach globalization at davos. trump will defend his america first policies. here s the president yesterday. my administration is committed to defending american companies. they ve been very badly hurt from harmful import surges that threaten the livelihood of their workers, of jobs actually all over this country. trump slapped tariffs on foreign solar panels and washing machines to help u.s. companies this week. it could hurt consumers. americans buy washers from other countries, lots of washers. a tariff will make all washers more expensive. foreign makers will need to offset higher import costs. and with less competition, u.s. companies can hike prices. the administration says they re doing it to create and protect u.s. jobs. the wall street journal typically supportive of the president, not so much of these policies, say it will hurt more companies and people. that s before these other countries begin to retaliate. yeah. you wonder how he will be gre
this is a pea tree dish. jeff discovered the case where somebody else got ten years in a juvenile facility and we mentioned last night, anderson, too often in the criminal justice system, the color of your skin determines what will happen to you in a courtroom and whether or not the color of your money and how much of it determines whether or not you ll get any skill set that s going to be able to get you of the best possible defense in a case. i understand that. i mean i m not out there saying because i said last night. i don t know that you necessarily say we re going to throw this guy into a state prison. there has to be something else that could have been used in this case. but that s only because he has money, his family has money. i mean, if he is a defendant who doesn t have money, he does get put into the juvenile justice system which does have rehabilitation programs that may not be as expensive. this place in new port costs
mentioned last night, anderson, too often in the criminal justice system, the color of your skin determines what will happen to you in a courtroom and whether or not the color of your money and how much of it determines whether or not you ll get any skill set that s going to be able to get you of the best possible defense in a case. i understand that. i mean i m not out there saying because i said last night. i don t know that you necessarily say we re going to throw this guy into a state prison. there has to be something else that could have been used in this case. but that s only because he has money, his family has money. i mean, if he is a defendant who doesn t have money, he does get put into the juvenile justice system which does have rehabilitation programs that may not be as expensive. this place in new port costs $450,000 a year, which his family is going to pay. i mean, think about how many families in this country could afford something like that. it s very few.