chief white house white house correspondent john roberts joins us now on the north lawn with details on all of this, the busy time over there. let s talk trade first. the president says he wants to renegotiate nafta. he did, at one time, call it a very bad deal for the u.s. and wanted to scrap it. is it a change of heart? just about every step of the way, the president said he wanted to renegotiate nafta. word began to break that the president was taking steps to pull out of the not free trade agreement. it looked like it was going to happen quickly. yesterday evening, i was in steve bannon s office, and up on one of the whiteboards was written the word nafta and the date april 29th. all of this prompted urgent phone calls from the leaders of mexico and canada. here is with the president said about those phone calls this morning. they called me, and they said, rather than terminating nafta, could you please renegotiate? i like them very much, i respect
chief white house white house correspondent john roberts joins us now on the north lawn with details on all of this, the busy time over there. let s talk trade first. the president says he wants to renegotiate nafta. he did, at one time, call it a very bad deal for the u.s. and wanted to scrap it. is it a change of heart? just about every step of the way, the president said he wanted to renegotiate nafta. word began to break that the president was taking steps to pull out of the not free trade agreement. it looked like it was going to happen quickly. yesterday evening, i was in steve bannon s office, and up on one of the whiteboards was written the word nafta and the date april 29th. all of this prompted urgent phone calls from the leaders of mexico and canada. here is with the president said about those phone calls this morning. they called me, and they said, rather than terminating nafta, could you please renegotiate?