they don t they don t let our farmers into the european union. it s very hard. so we have farmers that want to sell. you don t hear these stories, this is why. they don t tell you these stories. the european unionas what they call trade barriers. the european union doesn t allow our farmers to go and trade. it s very hard for them to go trade. if they do it, it s very expensive. same like canada. essentially when you pay a 275% tax. now i m understanding it s higher. that s essentially a trade barrier. you can t trade. how can we trade? we can t pay that tax. so i want the barriers taken down. i want our farmers to trade. i want to sell cars in there just like they sell cars here. it s all going to work out. it s all going to work out. remember this. remember this. it s all going to work out. because we re the piggy bank that they like to take from.
punish other countries with trade barrier, they re going to respond in kind. and additionally and a very odd thing about that tweet was the president suggesting that harley-davidson wasn t going to pay tariffs. they are going to pay tariffs. that s how trade wars work. it s a strange curious way of him trying to defend himself when the reality is this is the way trade wars operate. this was entirely predictable. all right. still ahead on morning joe, we re going to be taking a look at today s primary race. i also want to get back to that with betsy and david. with ear going to talk about what impact and chaos might have out of the white house. and we ve got a new look from the southern border, how private citizens are stepping into the void that s been caused by broken government policy. you know, we saw that. i saw it firsthand after katrina how churches and citizens stepped forward. you know, we were taking water
headlines here. yesterday, sort of a bombshell in this summit when there were always tense divisions the reason, by the way, russia was kicked out of the g8 was because it annexed crimea. and a lot of world leaders say they continue to act illegally because they haven t withdrawn. the president doubling down on that call, talking about north korea, and i ll get to that in a moment. but, alex what he said about tariffs and trade very significant. he announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and that infuriated some of the allies here. and his comments this morning, really defiant making the strongest statements to date saying effectively if these other countries don t eliminate or reduce their trade barrier, they won t have access to u.s. trade. president trump saying negotiations over in nafta are still ongoing, he said there are going to be one of two outcomes to this. one, either they ll get a deal
for the 2016 world cup. we ll be watching very closely and any help they can give us in that bid we appreciate. i am pleased that nigeria is one much our largest trading partners in that region and look forward to growing our trade based on fairness and resi prosity. but we give nigeria over 1 billion in aid every year and we have already started talking with the president about taking down the trade barriers. very substantial barriers to the united states trading with nigeria. so we think that we are owed that. the president has taken several states to fight corruption and improve the nigeria business climate and most of all to me again, ripping down the trade barrier and these measures will
is talking about how much he likes tariffs, which is my baby. and i took a lot of heat over that. but all these kuchb countries a calling up. european union, they kill us. a lot of us came from the european union. they kill us on trade. so we put on tariffs and the european union is out there well, we re you you can t go any higher than you are anyway. and they have trade barrier. we can t sell our farming goods in there. they totally restrict us. so they say we want those tariffs taken off. good. open up the barriers and get rid of your tariffs and if you don t, we ll tax mercedes-benz and bmw. you want to have money come into our country? you you notice the cars are really the big item. that is the big money item.