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 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. Thats 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. Nbcs 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 worlds 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. Shes a family farmer. You have 460 employees youre 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 . 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, brotherinlaw, and my husband. So we are not just a pork production family. We also employ a lot of other peoples families. Reporter almost 500. Thats correct. Reporter and stephanie and allie, theres 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 thats put, whats your concern . Well, the one thing is that if its 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 shortterm. We feel like were 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. So in the 80s when ery wanted leaner pork, and all the pork fattier and bacony, we had to change the genetics. We had to make that fit the consumers desires. So right now a lot of people are going for all naturalpork, antibiotic free, organic pork. Weve seen that on the american side as well where our con have become a more refined palate. How e ist f y adjust . Its not easy, but Pork Producers work hard, so theyll find a way to make it happen. A lot of people have been doing this for so many years. This is just one more bump in the world in the world market. Thats great. Thats about as an american response as you get. Theyre facing uncertainty. Theyre worried about it and coming up with innovation. Thats remarkable. John, i shou tr you before, but when i saw von and the smokers behind him, i was dazed in a bacon bo
nonza. Sorry about that. Made me hungry too. The eu announced its going to be imposing retaliatory tariffs on u. S. Steel and aluminum. Canada also imposing tariffs starting july 1st can tariffs. That includes a 25 tariff on steel and 10 tariffs on aluminum. You have yogurt, jam, whiskey. Walk us through how this is going to play out. The fact were hearing this could take us back tth 2008 nanciacrisis level. How bad can this get . Well, id be surprised if it got to that level, because it usually when President Trump meets formidable resistance, he backs off. So it is possible that given all the alarms that are being sounded by republican members of congress from agricultural states, for the business round table yesterday, National Association of business economists yesterday downgraded
in their survey, their forecast for growth in 2018 from the previous survey, this Trade Overhang is bad for the economy. Republicans need a good economy to succeed in Midterm Election one possibility is President Trump in the face of all this makes a lot of noise, rattles a lot of kangs and steps back. But if he doesnt do that, were rheaded for trouble with allies at a time when were not even addressing in the Trade Discussions that were talking about right now, are the indications that we have. Were not even addressing the big threat from china over theft of intellectual property. Were fighting our allies at a time when we need them to confront china. There are people with legitimate concerns about the trade deals and how theyve affected theirndustrieand
jobs. And even President Trump has campaigned saying hes going to do something and hes going out to do something about it. It is not business as usual he goes to the g summit in canada on friday where hes 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 . Theres some business they can do. Theres 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 weve 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 cant america cant be
the worlds policeman, but it cant vindicate its own interests by itself. So thats a difficult situation. The present is now talking about trying to break up nafta into separate categories with mexico and canada. That is going to be a nonstarter. Ultimately, i think hes going to be faced with a decision of either pulling out of the existing nafta or getting nothing done at all. It is worth noting, though, that in those various industrialized countries that comprise the g7 or g20, there are constitntil ns. Almost everybody in the world thinks they got an unfair trade deal from someone else. Im sure there are canadians and we know there are britons because thats why they voted for brexit who Feel We Dont Have Trade deals with everybody else. Thats why you have big multilateral trade deals. Everybody has skin in the game. Er has got to make
compromises. So can a mexico were part of the Transpacific Partnership which renegotiated nafta. The president backed out, again, isolatinited stes on the world stage. Thank you, john, and thank you to von in iowa. President trump reportedly obsessed with his ability to grant pardons, and we can see another one come any time now whether hes obsessed or not. That could be a woman who is happy hes obsessed. One of them would be that Great Grandmoer Whom Reality StarKim Kardashian is fighting for. Well speak to her daughter coming up. George woke up in pain. I missed that. Both of my parents haved away. I was not able to be by either of their sides and their f days. Thats an ache i had that never goes away. Alices daughter joins us w. We have confirmed from inside the white house that the pahas been prepared on yourmom. The president has not signed it, but its ready for his signature. Has the white house reached out to you, and how do you feel about all of this . No, the white house hasnt reached o me. s surreal. Im just finding out now on live tv that the paperwork has been prepared. I mean, this is something that my family and i, we pray for for years. Its just its just surreal. Its amazing. Wow. Did you think this would happen . Last week it was obviously major for you and your family when Kim Kardashian west went to see the
president. The next day the president didnt make an announcement. Did you start to lose hope . Noev let myself lose hope, because thats worse than anything. I dont think i could take not having anyhope. Tentive, its a reserved hope. Weve been through so many ups and dnsouout the years with different appeals and things. So it was were hopeful, but its a reserved hope. You know . Until she walks out that door of th prison. She said what she said and that she was part of a drug conspiracy. She admits to what she did. You started a petition that you write since being incarcerated shes been a model prisoner who mentors women. Tell us abo w she is. Shes become an ordained minister. Thats a long sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. For americans saying why are we committing people with
nonviolent offenses, why are we doing this . She has tried the best she cano make a negative situation into a positive situation, as much as it can be. She really dedicated herself into helping owomen, and if shes plans on working with women who are incarcerated to help prevent recidivism. I think shed do a lot more good outside of that prison than she is even inside a prison, even though shes doing a lot of good in there. Shes just taking the bull by the horns and is really trying to be a positive person as she can be. I mean, she made mistakes, but shes human, and shes worthy of being pardoned. Shes worthy of a second chance. How did Kim Kardashian west get involved in your campaign, and after she met with the president , did s with you what he told her about your moms case . Yes. She got involved with the case. She saw the mike video and decided to reach out to my mom through her attorney. But the family, we didnt know who it was at first. Shawn just told us i a female celebrity, A Wealthy Female celebrity Who Wanto Advocate for he i had no idea. No idea it was kim be oprah. Kardashian. When we found out, it was definitely a pleasant surprise. She has really been an advocate for my mom in a major way. Shes really done a lot, and where she could have saw the video and said thats a shame and gone on with her life i wasnt privy of the meeting. Wasnt there. All i heard was it was a po meeting, but i dont know exactly what was discussed. The exact language. Well keep an eye on the story closely. We hope for the best for you and your family and mother. Thank you so much. Im thanks. Good luck to you. She has twins at home that havent met her mom that will be amazing if they can. Yes. Also today Rod Blagojevich asked the president to commute the remainder of his 14 year sentence. He was convicted on 2011 on multiple felony corruption charges. Theres Something Else you prably didnt know about the privacy of your facebook acunt. I know nothing about that. All i know is i know nothing and everybody has amy informaon. Enharing er infor wleast four Chinese Companies, including one flagged by u. S. Intelligence as a security company. Wasnt zuckerberg testifying before congress on this . Did this come out . This is strange. First a new Potential Conflict for scoot pruitt. Hes now accused of using a government aide to help score
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confessore. Why does it matter they have access toacebook data . It matters in two if your d is going to the phone, it means your data could connect with other apps on the phone. Th problem i why spreading the data through millions ofes around the world, through these partnerships and not through their own app, it puts your data at risk and creates vulnerability. This is not the app on your phone that says facebook. This is a streamf data from Facebook Central that goes to Device Makers and devices around the world. Ook users ohese serve people devices. But it also putss data beyond the control of facebook. All right. Facebook is banned in china. So this sort of begs the question why are Chinese Companies being given access to facebook data . And what do the want it for . We lo the main purpose of these partnerships on t
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