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>> that's canadian prime minister justin trudeau speaking a short time ago, just hours after trump imposed sweeping tariffs on canada, mexico and china, the united states top trading partners. the move tanking u.s. markets and major retailers now warning the price of everyday goods will soon go up. in the meantime, russia has launched fresh attacks on ukraine after trump paused u.s. military aid to ukraine following trump's heated oval office blowup last week with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. this is happening as trump and his government efficiency team chainsaw their way through the federal government with big cuts to its workforce. cnn's kevin liptak live for us now at the white house. kevin, what are we expecting tonight? >> well, certainly, when the president returns to the house chamber tonight for the first time in four years, it will be that economic turmoil. that will be the backdrop against which he's speaking. and i think certainly the president wants to take a victory lap here, talk about all of these efforts he's

taken to reshape the federal government. but it is these persistent challenges on the economy that i think a lot of his allies want to hear more from him, particularly on the challenge of higher prices of inflation. and when you talk about these tariffs that the president is announcing today, those are inflationary. so i think it will fall on the president to sort of explain to the american people exactly what his strategy is here. now, i do want to note, we did just hear from the president responding to justin trudeau, who himself put on retaliatory tariffs today, responding to the president's tariffs. the president writing on social media, please explain to governor trudeau of canada that when he puts on a retaliatory tariff on the u.s. or our reciprocal tariffs will immediately increase by a like amount. so the president essentially saying that he will continue to escalate this trade war, this for tat tariff war that you see between the u.s. and canada. and i think that

will be something that the president will want to talk about tonight. i think when you hear from republicans, they are hoping that the president can sort of make a cogent case for his tariff plan here, but also for his efforts to slash through the federal government, particularly those republicans who are facing heat from their own constituents back home. they do want him to kind of pull together for the american people. what exactly he is trying to do here. of course, the other audience for the president here will be lawmakers in the house chamber. you have seen them start to move on the president's agenda, whether it's slashing federal spending, rewriting tax policy. there is a disconnect between house and senate republicans that the president may want to address when he speaks to them tonight. and then, of course, there's the situation in ukraine. obviously, these speeches always are more domestic focused than foreign policy. that will be the same tonight. but the president, i think, will want to talk about this growing rift between

himself and the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy after that blowup in the oval office last week after this announcement that he plans to pause u.s. shipments of arms to ukraine. you know, it was only a year ago that the biden administration tried to get zelenskyy's wife here for biden's final state of the union. i don't think anything illustrates better the complete 180 that trump has orchestrated on this key geopolitical issue. and certainly we'll hear from him tonight on that very topic. >> yeah. and that governor trudeau, no doubt a reference to his stated desire to make canada the 51st state, although difficult to see how that would happen. kevin liptak. thank you so much, boris. >> as president trump prepares for his speech tonight, mexico says it will soon announce retaliatory measures. while china and canada have already vowed tariffs of their own. here's canada's prime minister justin trudeau. >> i want to speak first directly to the american people.

we don't want this. we want to work with. you as a friend and ally, and we don't want to see. you hurt, either. but your government has chosen to do this to you. >> cnn's vanessa yurkevich joins us now live to break this down. vanessa, to kevin liptak point, these tariffs are inflationary and americans are already dealing with high prices. how soon can they see these new tariffs have a reflection on their day to day spending. >> yeah. well if you look at the stock market, anyone who holds money in the stock market you're feeling the effects right now. i mean the dow tumbling north of 800 points today as some of these retaliatory tariffs were announced. but for the everyday consumer you're going to feel it in the next couple of days. and that is according to target ceo brian cornell, who said that fruits and vegetables in particular, something they get from canada and mexico

regularly, are going to see price increases in the next couple of days. also, best buy saying that they're going to have to increase prices, and walmart, which is really the bellwether for the u.s. economy, saying that they're expecting slower consumer growth over the next year. they said that a few weeks ago, and they will likely be coming out with some information about what prices will look like there at walmart. but these tariffs really 25% on canada and mexico and 20%, you see right there on china. that's going to have impacts on everyday items. things like footwear, apparel, electronics, food and then big purchases like cars. those are going to be impacted by tariffs. now we have retaliatory tariffs. these are the tariffs that canada and china have announced. we're waiting on mexico. but in terms of what canada has announced, they have announced tariffs of 25% on key items like meat, vegetable, dairy, alcohol and also china announcing retaliatory tariffs on

livestock, on soy, on grain. and this is particularly important because, as you can see there, those are targeted at u.s. farmers. those retaliatory tariffs are targeted at u.s. farmers in particular. so they are going to be feeling the brunt on both sides, having to pay higher prices, but also because of the high price now of their produce and their grain. there's going to be less of a demand on their product, and they're not going to be able to get as much for their commodities as they normally would. so a lot of factors here coming into play. it's a ping pong of tariffs right now waiting to see what mexico does and waiting really to see if this is just the beginning. and it sounds like according to some of the officials in trump, trump's administration, it is only the beginning. >> yeah. especially given trump's response saying that he's planning respiratory tariffs on these retaliatory tariffs from canada. so it seems like we are on the precipice, if not already in a trade war. vanessa, talk to us about the long term implications of that.

>> well, we heard from the atlanta fed that they are projecting a decline in gdp for this quarter, decline of 2.8%. now, this can kind of change every single day. this is a model that they have where they make projections. just last week they were showing an increase in gdp. but today they're projecting a decline in gdp. and this is really because of what they're expecting. the pullback in consumer spending because of prices. consumer spending makes up two thirds of gdp. so with a pullback in spending that is why they're now projecting this decline in gdp for the first quarter. that's when president trump is first in the white house. >> boris important to keep an eye on those projections. vanessa yurkevich. thank you so much, brianna. >> joining us now to talk more about these new tariffs on canada and the retaliatory response is jagmeet singh. he's a member of the canadian parliament. he's the leader of the new democratic party and is

also running for prime minister. thank you so much for being with us. you heard prime minister trudeau saying canada is responding with their own 25% tariffs on $155 billion of american goods. your reaction to trudeau's response, which has already triggered a reaction from president trump promising even more retaliatory tariffs. >> well, one of the things that the prime minister said, and i want to echo is this is something that canadians did not want. this is not a trade war that we started. trump started this trade war, but we are going to fight back and we want to fight back, not because we have a concern about the americans, but it's because we have to stand up to donald trump. we have to stand up to his attacks on us. and so we are going to defend ourselves. we are proud to be good neighbors, but we're also proud of our country, and we're going to defend our country. and so this is going to ask us to reimagine the way we do things. we were very tightly connected as economic partners. now we're going to start building more in canada, being more resilient, being less

reliant. and that's something that we didn't want to do. but now we are forced to do and we will do it. >> where do you see this going, though, in the near term? because that's a solution. obviously that takes time. if you're talking about tariffs that are now going back and forth. this is the definition of a trade war. and you see it ping pong. how do you see that ending. >> well mostly this is going to hurt people. and that's what we said from the beginning. and the prime minister laid that out to americans listening sadly. what what donald is doing is attacking you. it's going to mean, as you outlined, it's going to mean higher costs for the things that you need food for your daily necessities, clothing for vehicles, the steel and aluminum that we produce in canada is mostly used by american companies. so the tariff that donald trump has imposed is going to mean that those businesses will have to pay more, obviously. and that means that people, american people are going to pay more, and then it's going the same

thing is going to happen on the on the canadian side. it's going to impact people on the canadian side, and it's going to hurt. it's also going to hurt workers. lots of workers might lose their job. this is not something we ever wanted, but we have to fight back. we have to defend ourselves and we will do that. >> the premier of ontario, which is canada's largest province, wants to cut off energy supply to the u.s. in response to trump's tariffs. more than a million americans get their electricity from ontario. do you support cutting that off? >> again, this is a decision that we wouldn't take lightly. but yes, if we should put everything on the table to be able to negotiate and fight back, ultimately, this tariff war, this trade war is unwarranted, unwanted, and frankly, illegal. it contravenes existing laws. it's wrong, but we have to show that we are ready to fight back. >> so then what happens when undoubtedly trump may respond by

cutting off energy and electricity exports to canada? >> well, we don't really import as much as we export. we have a pretty robust electrical grid, but maybe that calls for more decisions around how we invest in strengthening our grid in our own country. again, what this is doing is it's decades and decades of strong neighbor relationships that we've had are being eroded by the first days of this president. it is the wrong thing to do. it is a bad thing to do. it's going to hurt both of our economies, both people on both sides of the border. i don't know why donald is doing this, why he wants to pick a fight that's going to hurt his own people. but we are going to be prepared to defend ourselves. and that means making decisions around energy. we should be prepared to do that. >> you're running for prime minister. as i mentioned. you are proposing uninviting trump. so uninviting america from the g-7 summit hosted by canada this summer. i've heard your reason for why you personally find him to be a detestable individual. but why do you think that this is a strategically sound idea

when it comes to. geopolitics? >> what i've learned from seeing donald trump and the way that he comports himself, the way he acts, is that he is acting much like a bully and bullies only understand strength. it doesn't make sense. the premise of g7 is to have a summit with seven nations. the premise of that is the starting point is that we all believe that we're all nations that are working towards some common goals. well, as a starting point, we are the host of this, and we have a we have donald trump, who does not believe that we should be a country that is a prerequisite to having meetings where we talk about what we want to do together. i think we have to send a strong message that is something that we we reject, and instead we use the summit as an opportunity for the other nations to talk about how we resist some of the very dangerous things that donald trump is proposing. the fact that in his topsy turvy world, someone who is an actual dictator, who is threatening the lives of people, who is an aggressor, vladimir putin is

donald trump's friend and the resistor, the hero of the story, president zelenskyy is being painted as a villain by donald trump. that is completely the opposite of the truth and the opposite of reality. given all of that context, i think more than ever the g7 summit should be about how we resist the dangerous things that donald trump is proposing. >> but just real quickly, because you have been criticized internally for this proposal. and you mentioned trump saying you shouldn't be a country. he has talked about canada being the 51st state. i wonder if you think he is serious or if you think that he's just trying to strategically tick you off and have you fall into a trap. >> i think that we have to take the threat seriously. and he said he wants to use economic pressure to achieve that outcome. and now he has imposed tariffs. our goal should be to be very strong in saying, listen, we want it to be good neighbors. we want it to be working together. you've rejected that. now we're going to fight back and we're going to do that by working with other countries, developing relationships and allies that do

believe in our democracy and our ability to work together as nations. and so we are not going to turn away from the united states. that is not a choice that we wanted to make. we i grew up on a border town, which people lived on one side of the border, worked on the other, flowed back and forth. we were good neighbors. and donald trump has picked a fight with us that we did not want. so now we are forced to be in this position where we have to defend ourselves. we have to look for a different way to build our economy, and we are going to do that. >> minister jagmeet singh, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you boris. >> we're also following protests in the nation's capital right now. federal employees, along with members of congress and labor leaders, are rallying to, quote, evict elon musk. this is part of the growing backlash to steps taken by his department of government efficiency. cnn's brian todd is there live for us. brian, what are you seeing? >> well. >> this is basically a counter-protest. >> to the president's speech

tonight before congress. you mentioned the chant of. evict elon. this is in front of the office of personnel management here in the district. >> this is where. >> a lot of these government employees have been fired, but also where elon musk and some of his doge colleagues are actually undertaking some of this work. these people saying they're just tired of the of the treatment they've been getting. they some of them are actually planning to go to the speech tonight. i asked them if they're going to actually do any protesting or take any action in front of the cameras. they said they don't really plan on it, but they're going to see kind of what happens when when they see what the scene is and what the mood is there. i presented their arguments. the argument to them, actually, that president trump and elon musk have made that they have actually caught a lot of fraud and waste in the u.s. government and two employees who were fired from their jobs say that's basically not true. one of them was a top person in the procurement office here at opm, taking care of some very important government contracts, and both of them really told horror stories about how they were fired. one was abruptly fired on february 13th. the other was abruptly terminated on the 21st, basically getting the word via email. and then a

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well, boris, i don't see any. >> positive outcomes from. >> this change here. >> i think tactically. >> i always look through the eyes of the soldier. >> and how they view this. and i think if they. >> get this news. >> at the front lines, they're going to be disappointed. in the united. >> states. >> i think right now the front lines are focused on drone warfare as well as artillery fire and artillery ammunition. so if you're a cannoneer on the front lines, you're looking at that pallet of ammunition behind you, wondering if it's going to be replaced. so i think in some ways the tactical implications are somewhat limited, and they might not be impactful for, let's say, the next few weeks. but over time, as, uh, air defense platforms degrade and they don't and they shoot missiles down, they're shooting things down that they're not being reinforced there. i think there's going to be real, uh, real. and problems with, uh, with the ukraine military trying to keep up to what's going on. >> to your point about seeking that next pallet of ammunition, how much longer do you think

ukraine has to sustain that artillery and, and ballistic missile defense without u.s. help? >> well, they likely have months not necessarily weeks. and as again, they've built some defenses up themselves. but um, but what will happen is russia will look to go on the offensive and try to break through in certain areas and weaken ukraine defenses and force them to play a economy of force missions and to reinforce the areas where they might not want to. it will clearly keep them on the defense. we just also know specifically what this means. the fact that we're not giving military support, you know, you've got european soldier commands, uh, training soldiers, ukrainian soldiers in vilseck and grafenwoehr and places. does that mean that training stops for them as well? what about intel? what about other things that the united states has been providing? so so again, there's a short term impact. what will happen tactically on the ground? obviously we know the strategic impacts over the long run. ukraine would be able to sustain any kind of defenses against

russia if this lasts very much longer. >> how far do you think european backing, the eu's backing can go without that backstop of the united states? >> unfortunately, the the european industrial base won't crank up fast enough to help ukraine. um, it's going to take a year or so in order for some of the more advanced european, um, defense contractors to provide any kind of material that will help ukraine, the united states, uh, has the war footing right now with the amount of artillery ammunition that we're supplying with them. it's increased over the past few years. um, and europe won't be able to backstop that. so that's where there's a race against time right now that the united states needs to continue to support ukraine, at least right now for these negotiations. look, donald trump doesn't know whether russia wants to stop. he knows he wants ukraine to stop. he knows he wants the war to stop. but we don't know whether he knows russia wants to stop. and i think this mineral deal will

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averages plus one points, that is the second worst. the only person he beats is actually himself is actually himself who is at minus eight. the average president at this point going into their first address is at plus 27 points. and the question is, okay, can trump actually solve this problem, this hole that he is in compared to the average president, by looking at where he would be on tariffs and what we see on tariffs, americans oppose tariffs on canada. look at this 64%. that's nearly two thirds of the nation who oppose it. how about on mexico. 59% of americans oppose it. and his economic approval rating on average. i'm going to do a little math for you right here is minus four points. minus four points. he is at the lowest of any president going into his first address before congress on history. so the tariffs will only sink him further. in my opinion. the economic approval already low and it could drag his overall approval rating even further down and quite low from a historical perspective. >> so his i think the mandate

that he really got in the election was to fix the economy. americans making it clear they wanted him to do that. do they think he's working on that? >> yeah, i think this is the real question. right. is he prioritizing the economy? 82% of americans say that's what he should prioritize. look at the number who say he is. i mean, 36%. you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that 36 is far less than 82%. this is a massive problem, because if he was put in charge to fix the economy, just 36% say he's he's prioritizing it. his net approval rating on the economy is already at minus four, and his overall approval rating is going down. his net approval negative in our cnn poll, right around zero. overall, this is this is no bueno. this is not good. and so we'll see if tonight he's able to turn it around at all. but considering me a little doubtful. >> i've been doing a lot of third grade math lately or helping with it, i should say. and you're right, that is less than 82. so what do those who don't support trump think that

he's focused on? >> yeah. if he's not focusing in on the economy, what is he focused in on the top worst things trump has done. it's those cuts. it's musts. it's those it's the funding freezes. look at this 24% 24%. that is the top answer. that is the top answer. he's focused on completely the wrong thing immigration policy, which of course was the number one thing that folks thought he was focused on, who didn't like him in his first term, comes in at just 10%. this 24% is number one. and that to me is completely not in the priority camp of where americans want him to be. >> no, it certainly isn't. and you did kill that live tease. harry, i just want you to know you did. >> and thank you. >> i requested you do it. i just want you to. i wanted more live teases, especially from people like harry enten. and you didn't let me down. thank you. so thank you. >> i'm. thank you. give me the a plus third grade math a plus 100%. >> check plus. isn't that the highest? i think that's the highest. >> i think i think, i think for

that that grade levels. that's right. >> thanks, harry. boris. >> i do appreciate the help with the math homework. brianna. thank you so much. let's discuss the president's speech tonight. tariffs and ukraine with republican congressman dan meuser of pennsylvania. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. you've seen the markets. they're sending a clear message about these tariffs. consumer spending is also down. jobless claims are up. do you think these tariffs against u.s. allies are necessary right now. >> hi boris. >> very nice being with you. look. >> president came in with a campaign pledge and a plan. and the plan was to improve and strengthen our national security via the border, which he's corrected 96% better than it was last, last february. an energy policy that's in the interest of the united states, a strong economy, world stability. and v.a. doge reducing wasteful spending, which also will bring down the inflation. he's been in office for six weeks. part of

his economic plan is to work tariffs to the benefit of the american economy, to the to the american family. and that's what he's trying to do. it looks a little little tough right now. but in order to get the industrialization and the manufacturing that we want back here in the u.s., we can't be pushed around anymore. canada is our friend. i love canada. i have family in canada. do business in canada. nevertheless, they've been taking advantage of the united states, not just the open borders and the fentanyl and some of the illegal immigration, but it was very similar to what where mexico was. so the president is sending a message. he's sending a substantive message that he wants these jobs and this manufacturing resource. and hey, by the way, just real quick, you know, canada, 33% of their gdp is in sales to the united states. we are a very big customer to canada, right. a salesperson to a customer usually doesn't get antagonistic, right, right at the very end. and i think

trudeau could work this out quite a bit better, as zelinski learned, by the way. >> i mean, it's hard to do that when the president is suggesting that he's not a legitimate president or prime minister. he's calling him a governor. he says canada should be the 51st state. to to your point about securing the northern border, 0.03 pounds 0.03 pounds of fentanyl were seized crossing the northern border into the united states of fentanyl in january 2025. i just wonder if inflation is stubborn and prices are already high. what? putting a 25% tariff on goods is going to do to american consumers? how is that going to help inflation? >> well, i'll tell you on the fentanyl end, it was it was higher. it wasn't it wasn't as bad as it was coming out of mexico, but it was killing americans. and frankly, the canadian border wasn't doing anything about it until president trump got elected. secondly, regarding the 25%, if you really look at the type of tariffs and fees and excise

taxes and everything else that that is on american goods going into canada, uh, it's high. it's not exactly 25%. the president's plan was reciprocity, but he needed to do this in order for them to get the message. and frankly, once again, 33% of their sales are in the united states. they've got to figure out a way to not increase their prices on americans, because if they do, then they're going to lose business for the short term and the long term. look, this can be worked out. it should be endeavored to be worked out. um, but now, already we've got trudeau saying how he's going to do this and do that and how the president is making a dumb move. um, you know, that is really bad salesmanship, if you will, bad diplomacy. and it's certainly not going to, frankly, work with with donald trump as president. >> i'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state, that you're going to impose economic hardship to achieve that goal. also, to your point about fentanyl. it was higher than

0.03 pounds before, i believe the high was 10 pounds last year. so it's not as though it is a huge, massive problem. nevertheless, if your goal is to reduce the amount of americans that are killed by fentanyl, i guess there are ways to do it. i don't know if adding 25% tariffs to goods that are already expensive because of inflation is the way to do it. i do wonder if you think that somehow the companies that pay these tariffs are not going to pass the price on to consumers, because otherwise it's consumers. it's americans who are going to have to pay higher prices for these goods. >> yeah, and i'm not sure either. boris. i probably prefer it to be graduated, but he's got people looking at this and studying what the impacts would be and to avoid inflation. listen, if they come in and expect american companies that are their purchasers to pay that full amount, they're going to stop purchasing from them. and that, frankly, is the

president's plan to in-source this, these, this manufacturing to bring those, those resources of investment to the united states. and you have to admit, it is working to a large degree. you've got some big companies making some huge investment bets and investment plans within the united states. that's all happened in the last six weeks. so results are what matter. and i think that the president will have to be nimble enough, be able to manage these tariffs well enough to eventually work with trudeau and the canadians on working this out to the to the betterment of all. i believe that. >> congressman, before we go, i do want to ask you about the joint address to congress tonight. the president is expected to tout doge and its mission of remaking the federal government. i do understand that many of your colleagues have held these town halls, where they've heard from a lot of folks that are very angry about these firings of federal workers. in fact, the rcc chair

urged members, urged republican congressmen to stop holding in-person town halls because of some of the events. some of the vitriol that some of your colleagues have heard. are you going to stop holding in-person town halls? >> no. and you know what? i was in the meeting. that's really not what he said. he just said, be careful to manage it. we don't want our town halls being taken hostage and and run by those who come in from other parts of the district or other parts of the state, and just turning it turn it into a a scene of of havoc and, uh, and, you know. problem as opposed to something that's positive. so but but anyway, look, we doge. >> you've not heard from any constituents who are upset about doge. >> i have many constituents that have questions about doge, probably some that are that are asked questions that they're not that are opposed to it. but you know, what? more that are

fought. and i'll tell you why. because we're spending $2 trillion more a year than our country brings in. there's an unbelievable level of wasteful spending. come on. he's already found that he they the group, the committee have found $105 billion of some wasteful spending. and, boris, it's all over. every committee that i'm associated with, i see where some of the wasteful spending is taking place. so. so, look, we don't want to preserve bureaucracy. we want to preserve democracy, if you will. and and that's what that's what the goal is. uh, if, you know, nobody was really crying when president biden came in and canceled 10,000 jobs on the keystone pipeline. and what about all the layoffs in my in my, my district, within the energy industry? nobody was crying about that or going to town halls and disrupting disrupting their. that's from the private sector. why they want to keep these public sector jobs and just keep growing our government. when meanwhile, 80% of people aren't even showing up for work. come on, you can make a you can make an argument

that that doge is can rightsize our government and that is the intent. and once again, i go back to president trump. results will speak for themselves. i think those will be the results. >> congressman, we have to leave the conversation there. i do have some questions about that $105 billion figure that you cited that doge has cut and waste. i think they've rectified that now a number of times. nevertheless, thank you so much for the time. appreciate you sharing your perspective. >> i appreciate you. thanks. thanks. >> we're following a line of severe storms roaring through parts of texas and oklahoma. they've spawned at least one tornado. we have the latest after a quick break. >> today, she starts with a drive, but the real work came before. inspired by a coach who recognized her potential. morgan stanley proudly supports first team driving progress for the next generation. choose advil

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