and, and we're looking for this paper right now. we shouldn't have to be looking for a central peters question. are you going to make that policy us policy that the us would defend new countries that don't pay? so i think it's common sense, right? they don't pay, i'm not going to defend them. no, i'm not going to do for them. i got into a lot of heat. when i said that you said, oh, he's violating nano. and you know, the biggest problem i would they do i, i really did. i mean, i know the guys very well the friends of mine, but the united states was in trouble and we call them, we said we got a problem. france, we got a problem, a couple of others that won't match. do you think they're going to cannot protect us? they're supposed to. i'm not so sure. you know what japan we have a deal which is a very interesting one. and i love japan. we have a great relationship with japan, but we have an interesting deal with japan that we have to protect them,

but they don't have to protect us. you know, that's, that's the way the deal is. we have to protect your band. and by the way, they make a fortune with us. he cannot make light, is another case, but we have to protect japan, but under no circumstances do they have to protect us. i actually ask who makes these deals? yeah, peter. so why i viewed a toe as potentially good, but i gotta get gotta get some good thinking and data its very unfair. what's been happening until i came along. we were paying close to a 100 percent of data. so think of it, we're paying a 100 percent of their military and they're screwing us on trade. and when's the last he comes back to the warehouse? we'll use that as well. i think what's going to happen is ukraine wants to bake a deal because i don't think they have

a choice. i also think that russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way, a different way that i only i know only i know they have no choice either. so i don't know, i, i can't tell you, i'm going to sell their revenue service in the, you know, i 5, i made a deal with saudi arabia where is normally a go to u k. first. and last time i went to show them. busy here they put up $450000000000.00. you know, that right. you were there. we had a with american companies took in 450 very i said, well, this time they've gotten richer. we've. busy gotten older, so i said, i'll go if you pay a trillion $1.01 trillion dollars to american companies, meeting the purchase over a 4 year period of attorney and dollars. and they've agreed to do that. so i'm

going to be going there and i have a great relationship with them. and they've been very nice, but they're going to be spending a lot of money to american companies for buying military equipment. and a lot of other things are probably uh, over the next month that i have to list a couple weeks ago that you were looking to speak with presidency of china. that hasn't happened. well, how come, what do you want to do? i mean, since, since the last one, i don't want to say that, but as well, can you please have a great relationship with president you for useful? it was hurt because of coven, that's why don't quote the china virus anymore. so please don't hold the john a virus, but to be clear, you've spoken to him since january 17th. i don't want to say that, but i have spoken as i speak to him a lot regarding this executive or you signed on revoking security clearances. i'm it perkins coy, do you think there should be more steps like this to be taken against other people

involved in the rush that collusion ideas and that's going to be up alternately to the attorney general and various other all of the other night. you know, we saw the democrats behavior um, during your joint address to congress, do you think it shows just how out of touch they are with the american people, especially given that 79 percent according to us, the vs pull approved of your, of years of i love this guy who you over to, but i really like you questions regarding the answers just next, just to uh and i know your name very well. good job. yeah, the answer is i thought it was very embarrassing for the democrats. what happened the other night? and that's that said for any other reason, other than is obvious, as fact, even, even the cnn fake news said that they came out and they said as and worse than cnn is m s. d and c,

which is the worst. and the good news is very few people watch them anymore. they have lost such credibility. and frankly what nicole waller said, i've never been a fan of hers. but, and she's not very talented. but i'll tell you what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. she shouldn't be forced to resign. and rachel matters should be forced to resign. nobody watches already. well, i don't know if it's not possible. the payers. bunch of money is a year, but certainly she's lost all credibility, both of them. but what they, what they said the other day they should be forced to reside about that young person. right. and then it takes up to not a lot of the time when you gave, well, you've done that, we will. okay. i think i look, we have a lot of interest in tick tock and china is going to play a role in so hopefully china will approve of the deal. but they're going to play

a role. we have a lot, we have a lot of interest in tick tock. how long are you to say? what do i need? i don't right now we have at least another month. so we don't need an extension. but if i needed a research and i'd probably get an extended warranty which, which of the execution department, are you having 2nd thoughts on that one? no, no, no, no. i want to bring the schools. i want to bring this goes back to the states. and then i've set it a 100 times, were ranked at the bottom of the list, and yet we spend more, we're rank number one for for costs pursuit. we're ranked at the bottom of the list in education. and i know if i bring it back to iowa, indiana, idaho. all these great states, i think it's, i could say 40 states, i want to bring it back. then 10 states won't be perfect. 5 states will be probably

not so good, but they will be every bit as good as norway in denmark and sweden and all of the states at a rate rate it at the top. if you tell me about indiana and some of these great states that run really well, iowa, you tell me about those states and they run their own education. they're going to do a lot better than somebody sitting in washington dc that couldn't care less about the pupils out in the midwest. well, i want to just do it. i mean, we're starting the process. we're trying to get the schools back into the states, let the states run the schools and i'll tell you to do something it's going to, it's going to blow your mind. it'll be run so well the school system. and i also believe in school choice, but that will take care of it so the police department were eliminated. how would you see the answer to what department, what agency would handle student loans and, and the other types of things that were embroider? yeah,

that would be brought into either treasury or small business administration or commerce . and we've actually had that discussion today. i don't think the education to be handling the loans that shot the business. i think it'll be brought into small business. maybe kelly really liked it and really would like to do it. so the lowest would be brought into a group when they really do that. you're listening to the us present. and donald trump speaking at the oval office and the white house and other one of those free wheeling question and answer sessions with the reporters, has been talking about everything from domestic politics, education, tariffs, to of issues of international news, whether it's garza ukraine and russia, war nato. let's go through the headlines with mike hannah who has more on this from washington dc. so mike, i have my notes, i know what i'm looking at here in terms of specifically in terms of gaza, ukraine and natal. i was wondering what stood out to you and maybe we can compare

notes as well. uh, president trump, son, business about nato. he was aust directly with a he sees nato is a valuable partner and he says, yes, perhaps a certainly sending out a signal that all is not well with the nato relationship. and this is something that has ramifications across the board, particularly with regard to ukraine. we've seen a president crumbs handling of the ukraine situation, which is at some stage lead to 8, a one on one talks with russia, leaving out ukraine completely, leaving out the europeans completely. so that just rammed home the fact that the relationship between the us and nato is irrevocably changing. the other issue that, of course, stands out is the tire of us on the terrace of scenario. once again, the announcing a postponement of tyrants against canada and mexico. and that is pertaining to products that are under the us mexico kind of the trade agreement. those are being

postponed until april the 2nd now. and then he will introduce them back along with what he calls a tire of a risk, the reciprocal tire of which is basically imposing a terrace on the country that imposes a terrifying united states. so that we have the 2 major issues in that free weekly news conference, which is also broken off with some startling errors of facts such as he says that at the end of his bus to the us economy was more successful than that had ever been in the countries history not so the us a split in the middle of a cupboard pandemic and its economy was intact as we booked to an extent by the by the administrative sion which once again president trump was squeezing about saying that they've done immense damage to the united states, it will set some woods for the democrats, who judged him during his address to the joint sitting of the houses on tuesday

night, describing it as disgraceful. so, as you said, a free wheeling series of comments about various aspects, both international, domestic and economic. it's mike, so i'm looking at what he said on gaza. he did not rule out military action against him us. if they don't release captives, he said quotes someone has to get a lot tougher with them. yes, the implication of the whitehouse administration is standing by the fact that they would not be a deployment of us, of the troops in that area the what they say and what they do may be 2 different things. however, what is very clear is that he will back israel in whatever action to choose is to take a should, the captive is not be released. so he is basically flushing a green light in the direction of israel to restart a full on conflict in gaza. now this goes against what it appears he is special on

the way to the region is doing who has been holding direct talks with a mouse that is understood by pausing as well. and who is not on his way to doha for talks with the regions lead is there. so there appears to be a bit of a disconnect in terms of what president trump thinks and what his diplomat so actually doing on the ground. but it was made very clear again, he said repeatedly that it is up to israel to do what it deems necessary. and now he is giving israel a very, very clear green light to do what it thinks it's necessary. even if that means of episodes and the conflict. all right, mike, i'm looking also a sit on ukraine. now, something a little mysterious here. he said ukraine was a deal because they don't have a choice. ok, that's, that's in line with what he said. the volume is the less keys face just last week. he's saying, quote, you don't have the cards. okay, so that's not surprising, but he also said russia in a different way and i'm paraphrasing, but pretty,

pretty precisely here. russia in a different way, the only i know, he said they also don't have a choice. i mean, do you have a crystal ball? you have any idea what he means? his 2nd, he readings of very confusing and murky tvs. the implication appears to be that there has been some back tunnel negotiation with russia by the trump administration, which has not be made public cab. or maybe he has some kind of divine dilemma into the state of negotiations with russia, which only i know he's putting a lot to in terms of his perceived relationship with vladimir putin. insisting that he is the one who can get put into talks. he is the one who can push ukraine to tools, so he's setting himself up right in the middle of all of this. but once again implying here. but only he has the knowledge that lies behind these diplomatic moves and

only see has the ability to be able to get some kind of into this ongoing conflict . what he actually means we simply do not lo, it is something that exists in his mind perhaps. but there's no clarity about what he means when he says only i know. yeah, he does those things sometimes. right. he'll yeah, he'll, he'll point to something that he's saying, well, i won't tell you. and he did that again. all right, mike had a reporting from washington dc. thank you so much for that. let's look in a bit more detail or 2 of the key themes from what trump has said, guns and ukraine. so on ukraine, we've had confirmed that a piece framework will be discussed in saudi arabia next week. and this time the us delegation will be talking with ukrainians. remember a short while ago or some days ago, they spoke in saudi arabia with the russians on gaza. there's a demand from the us, the announced release all kept is it is still holding. joining his life in pittsburgh, pennsylvania is call in clark. he is director of research at the 2 fund center,

a global intelligence and security consultancy calling on. i don't recall ever a moment quite like this where you it feels like you're getting all most live diplomacy on 2 of the biggest conflicts in the world. so on god, donald trump, again, not ruling out village reactions. thing somebody's got to get tougher on. i'm us with that said, i mean, i'm awesome. palestinians and guys in general just went through 15 months of the most fruitful war we've seen recently that landed is really in court for genocide. i don't know how effective the threat of getting tough can be. yeah, it's a good point and i think you're right, we're seeing near real time or real time diplomacy. and you know, this is pretty unnerving for a lot of americans and others in the world who wonder about the policy process that's supposed to accompany major foreign policy pronouncements. we've seen this

kind of a whiplash with the tariffs more recently the announcement of heavy tears only a couple of days later to then pull them back. so this back and forth is confusing its cuz confusing for america's allies. really, the only beneficiaries here tend to be america's adversaries. i'd say the russians are at the top of that list and you're absolutely right. what other kind of threats of coersion would really compel him off at this point to take a different action. um, you know, cause has been completely devastated when he talks about military force. i'm not so sure he's actually talking about the us. i think he's really kind of if you read between the lines making a veiled threat on behalf of israel. that if, how much does it act? we asked to trumps demands that he's going to let this really is kind of go back into the guys. but as you've said, what else could they do that they haven't done already? so don't have says he wants peace and he wants to end the war, but there he was,

god and israel were in the middle of a process. it's a ceasefire deal that was there to end the war and they were moving it. we should be right now in phase 2, which would have seen the release of remaining captives and exchange for as well, with israel withdrawing from the gaza strip. and that was supposed to lead to the end of the war, but israel has pulled out from that. so that's my concern here, is that by the us interjecting itself, right in the middle of these negotiations and almost you surfing the as rarely position. and trump kind of putting his thumb on the scale layer, that's all can, we're going to be counter productive. and he was unhappy with the slow pace of the negotiations. but again, these have been kind of taking place off and on as you know, for the better part of 15 months, more or less, you know, there's been bits and pieces kind of fits and starts. and so at this point, to kind of swoop and make these grand pronouncements and then back off again, is only likely to kind of further progress toward reaching the 2nd phase of this

conflict where of the steel rather. so don't try and says he wants to see all the captives dead and alive released from the gaza strip. is it fair to say that if israel had simply followed phase 2 of the ceasefire agreement within 6 weeks, they would have seen exactly that? they would have seen all the captives dead in the live release from the gaza strip as part of that deal. it was, those were the terms, right? i mean those were kind of the, we always say the devil's in the details. those were some of the details that took so long these painstaking negotiations to work out. so you're absolutely right at this point. it's kind of money and the water is a little bit. um and again the, you know, historically when you look at negotiations you looked at kind of media sion, the more players involved, the longer it takes for them to come to fruition. and so, especially with the us not really being viewed as an honest broker, given the weapons, the announcement of even more weapons to be as rarely as just last week by the

secretary of state. so i am concerned that this has got to the rail. uh, you know, the, the slow but steady progress that's been made. and again, if trump gets distracted by something else, he's juggling a couple of balls in the air of some really major issues. terrace, ukraine. there's several other things going on at the same time. so does he have the band with the stay focused on this and see it through to the end? i'm not so sure. let's put it to ukraine, russia, ukraine, russia were there for a 2nd. so i don't know if you heard that. i put this very same question to mike had a report in washington, and donald trump said that russia in a way that is different from ukraine, but in its own way, also has no choice, but to end the war. for reasons quote, the only i know that's donald trump speaking. reason is that only i know when, as an analyst, when you hear something like that, what i would just wonder, what are you saying? do you think there's really some big mystery out there that you know, has not been made public were not privy due to it?

or do you think this is linked to donald trump? i probably, and kind of bending the truth and, and see it or that he's got us a custom to smell. it certainly would fall in line with previous kind of hyperbolic statements. you know, my, i'll be honest, my initial reaction was typical. trump, you know, he often inflates reality or distorted in some ways. but if he is telling the truth, it does make you wonder what, what exactly he's referencing. you know, my 1st hunch was that he's got information about the precarious state of the russian economy. that maybe others aren't privy to and that actually the sanctions that have been in place for the better part of the last, you know, several years or having much more of an impact. and then everybody realizes, although, you know, there's been some, you know, pretty good open source reporting on how badly this is hurting the russians. how much longer they can sustain, you know, kind of trying to survive under the crushing weight of the section. so it could be an illusion to that. well, you know, we just don't know,

and i'm not sure that will actually ever find out. so the next step in this is the americans are going to meet the ukrainians in saudi arabia. as a reminder, they had begun talks with russians last time, also in saudi arabia. do you feel that there may be pivoting a little bit to ukraine? is it a step in ukraine's direction or not necessarily a yeah, and the pace of uh, current events really is almost taking place, minute by minute, hour by hour. um, you know, i, i kind of go to sleep thinking, you know, one thing is happening and then i wake up in the morning and it's almost a 180 degree reversal. so it's hard to say lot of people chopped us up to trumps. negotiating style, the tactics that he usually takes a maximum list position and then kind of edges back towards the end and whatever concessions are extracted. he says, look, that's because of my, you know, uh, agile negotiating skill. i will say, you know, you have to give credit to trump for falling through on what he does, you know,

threaten. and so we saw that with the withdraw they'd now kind of well holding back intelligency brain, which for someone that's so concerned about saving lives. you know, that kind of cuts in the opposite direction, there's going to be many more ukrainians that dyess the result of intelligence not being shared. it's really just kind of trial by far, every day is something different. and it's probably one of the most incoherent approaches i've seen to foreign policy in a long time. doesn't mean that it won't be successful. it's just not the traditional style that we're used to with the policy process with vetting, with less thing to kind of out outside experts. it's a lot more of it what, what i call an ad hoc proceed. fly by the cd, your parents, trump kind of deciding one thing and then moving forward. full speed ahead. okay, calling clark, actually we had last points. really interesting. i mean, they all were, but that last point i'll keep in mind it's that it's, it's fly by the state of your parents, but it doesn't mean it won't be successful. calling clark, thank you very much for joining us. somebody else is there a new zone?

because uh, mexico and canada has been given a one month to be pre as from 25 percent tariffs that came into force earlier this week. us president donald trump now says the goods that fall under the us m. c. a, that's united states, mexico, canada agreement, will be temporarily exempted from the terrace. the trade agreement that replace nafta was negotiated by trump during his 1st term. it covers a large proportion of all the goods imported from washington's to largest trading partners is getting more on this, which you advertise. so you're in the canadian capital author what she have. i confessed that the last few hours of left me a little bit confused. earlier this week we saw a terraced, impose on canada, little canada, and mexico for that matter. and now we're learning that some of them, but not all, are suspended but not forever. the right and nitrogen, frankly, the pickup on the theme, you placed with us, your last gas, the suspicion i am the canadian government,

but the confusion this with you and many other than the canadian government may have the carrier also as part of the negotiation theory. this sort of the psycho drama, the canadian foreign minister said, i'm sorry, i'm just you said what we just call them 3rd through this every 30 days. some sort of psycho drama. will i be tired of waiting? that'd be tires. but there is a suspicion that that's part of the time, not just to keep canada in a, in a rather difficult positions and negotiations. good. never know really what bad negotiating about, what that ping us to do. but also if about the long term goal of donald trump, to move investment away from kind of into the us all through the safest way to avoid all this confusion is just to invest in the us and not in, in canada, or as far as this reprieve is concerned this morning, certainly private proprietors intruder was very fine. he said look, they can do whatever they want. we just want them to us rather tire of to go. we're

not gonna, we're not going to remove our retaliate tree tower of stuff that i've tried. the $1000000.00 are the zip codes, your tires, until the whole for us goes i'm because as donald trump himself said, we got steel and i remember them next week. and then we bought the reciprocal tyra's at the beginning of april. now there the latest thing latest night when we got somebody, the crate in government is kind of, it will not react to trumps. they just move on terrace until officials of starting the executive order. so maybe there's some movement that went up towards don't quite as far as, as, as true. that was being this morning. but there is some confusion as to exactly what goods are exempt. i'm for how long actually i was just on a call with a senior white house official. he doesn't really seem to show easy to be suggesting that maybe this will be apps for the, for the us m ca, titles. so that but, but i will be extended through a free will be extended or just pass on us us m c. a compliant goods will actually remain. but then the reciprocal tire. still kick in and step, but no one really knows quite what is going on. right now,

the canadian governments, canadian officials, that may as i, i'll definitely in the opinion about the points she thank you very much for that great reporting. i feel slightly less foolish if even a senior white house official wasn't exactly sure what was the deal with what parents were and what does she have in terms of reporting from onto a thank you. let's keep this conversation going with robert scott independent economist and international trade analyst. you're joining us from rockville, maryland. in the us, picking up on that theme. do you sense that perhaps the chaos of these paris announcements might actually be intentional as she was, was raising their i suspect. so, i mean, it seems to be the truck negotiating style. we've seen this before, where is threatened big tariffs and, and then backed off. he, he also likes to think good strategic terms you see used to us as a, effectively a boy in the north american market. where, where the, you know,

the 900 pound gorilla in the north american economy compared to canada and mexico, their bus more dependent for exports to us than we are or on exports to them. so, so he uses this sort of chaos to try and track work concessions. that seems to be his. so unfortunately it hasn't worked in the past. we saw these threats in, in the 1st from the term from 2016 to 2020. and he did reach raised terrorist, especially on china, where we have it and continue have or vigorous trade depositions. there's a, the job destroying aspects and trade is when we import more than we export. the china has had the largest deficits and got the most attention in the 1st drop administration. now he's focusing on the easy prey in the nearby countries with

whom were involved in an after agreement. so wait, but overall that has resulted in improve treatment. if we assume that these terrorists are 1st announced, and that actually implemented in order to extract concessions from the targets via canada, mexico, be europe, china, others, etc. what are the concessions in the case of canada and mexico? what are the concessions that you think donald trump would like to get as i think the, you know, he was like access to other parts of the canadian products that you for the, for example, for agriculture products, dairy products. uh, i think that he would like to get to uh, perhaps some more concessions on the uh, the, the issues and dressed in the us mc. yay. we had to do with uh,

domestic content and uh, labor time center of goods produced in north america that might even want to push that higher. so there's the things that they have to go shoot on in the past. so europe might be looking at this by the way, because europe knows that their next, right, donald trump has said he's going to impose terrace on europe. but they may be looking at this and thinking, oh, hold on. maybe. maybe if canada and mexico get a one month for free on those, but us, we might get a reprieve. that may be the case. i think the bigger question is, what is the long term strategy going to be? these are the euro. we don't have a trade deal with euro, and so there's no us m c a to fall back on us and, and the europe of d for tre connections of us also has trade deficits with most of the european countries as well. the germany of the motor lines and the nordic countries and so forth. so there's a lot on the table. and again,

the us is much more exposed to enforce from europe than they are to our internet sports. so we have some leverage and the discussion. yeah. independent economist and international trade analyst, robert scott, thank you very much. there multiple threads here to pull out, but i think we'll get another chance to continue this conversation. thank you. thank you for having the still ahead on alpha 0 at least 15 people are killed in near the syrian city of let's talk here in an attack by a side regime loyalists on security for the early spring world. so spread quite rapidly across the country is that any reason they were c.