the way they are positioning it, as they present congress it with a letter potentially friday about the deal with mexico, they can write it so they leave open the possibility that hey, canada could come to a deal with us at some point down the line. neil: they seem perfectly fine, and this is where it bothered jimmy carter a little bit, not that the trump administration would be concerned but that it leads to problems down the road, that if we leave the canadians at the altar. don t come together come out and we put tariffs on autos coming in here. we have plants that are jointly owned, it could get really, really ugly. i think the administration would argue and they have in the past that the threat of tariffs work. they have threatened auto tariffs on the european union and there s a framework to work on a deal going forward. we just heard that threat again put on canada. we will see how it shakes out between the united states and canada but i tell you when you talk to people here
neil: all right, president carter, you might have heard earlier, was not excited about the comments on john mccain s passing, but says that he has made good. not everybody is moving on. former speaker of the house, newt gingrich on all that. it speaks to the times in which we live. a lot of democrats are not heating the former presidents advised that it is time to just say bygones be bygones, the president made good on statements that was complement repute and that is that. apparently, it is not that. what you think? well, first of all, i think it is very generous of president carter to take that position. i think essentially, most americans would agree with him. but look, you have a partisanship today where, whatever trump does, there will be a group of left-wing democrats that hate it. if trump came out in the morning eating vanilla ice cream, there
would be an entire faction saying it was racist that he was eating white ice cream. if he came out eating black chocolate ice cream, they would be saying he is totally hypocritical, we all know that he is not interested in black people. they have decided, they get up in the morning and go, i know trump is wrong, i wonder what he did. that is where we are. neil: where do we go now? you think the president should do anything to get ahead of that? ignore that, not beat it? what you think? i think the president has a pretty good sense of what is going on. we are in a cultural civil war between a group of left-wingers who believed in open borders, socialism. you just had the democratic nominee for governor in california come out and say that he wants to provide universal health care for illegal immigrants. i don t know what that would
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he has his own ideas and my hope is he will be successful. neil: that was from our earlier chat with former president jimmy carter who hopes the ends justify the controversial means by which president trump has given concessions to our friends in trades partners. he doesn t want any real residual collateral damage. when i asked steven mnuchin earlier today on the north line of the white house whether or not the president wants to see a three way reworked nafta type deal, the u.s. canada and mexico or if the preference is to get a bilateral due with canada like they have with mexico and have two separate deals. the treasury secretary telling me they just want to deal with canada. matt, whatever form it comes in. the president has already floated the concept of potential