because she's part of longview. and she'll never be sent away again. no, she's home. welcome to this. >> saturday edition of. >> morning joe. >> weekend. >> it was another busy week in washington, so let's get right to some of the conversations y

we both actually came from hardscrabble background of the both were born in longview cabins in kentuckymers. davises father more successful than lincoln but davises father recognized he was not going to make become wealthy is a pioneer farmer in kentucky and so he moved back to mississippi became a plantation. i did make money at that. so this family became reasonably wealthy through davises wrote an older brother who had huge plantation on the mississippi. lincoln's trials were different asas a child never really went o school. friends david very quickly his parents sent him to school where you learned latin and greek anyone to pennsylvania university at age 14 pretty and is going to be us children under soldier initially but i do believe he was born soldier. an adjusted true family connection predict he was given a place west point which has any for your training program. the military grade and from that moment on, becomes very dedicated and some would say — soldier. >> so differently you the father was not successful lincoln had been having ato pretty tough tie as a child in terms of

because she's part of longview. and she'll never be sent away again. no, she's home. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. [theme music] >> good morning, and. >> welcome to this. >> saturday edition of. >> morning joe. >> weekend. >> it was another busy week in washington, so let's get right to some of the conversations you might have missed. >> donald trump's stance on ukraine. >> which you know is not. shocking when you look back at the relationship. even during his first presidency, things he said and did, even withholding aid from ukraine. at the same time. >> this is a. >> shocking change. >> in what. >> might be the world. >> order and how our. >> allies are responding. >> i mean, he is quickly. moving from not just destroying. >> relationship with. >> ukraine. >> but restoring. >> a relationship with all of our allies and not just in europe. i mean, if you are one of. >> our asian ally. >> countries right now, you're questioning the. >> validity of a. >> alliance with. >> the united states. >> if you're taiwan. >

for more on the impact, let's bring in longview global managing director roderick mcneil.e's a cnbc contributor, also served in the department of defense during the obama administration. derrick, thank you so much for being here with us. i mean, putting it all together. what do you think this means for us going forward next week? >> well. >> thanks for. >> having me, courtney. >> great to see you. listen, i think. >> we are just. >> at the beginning. >> of what i think. >> will be an extended. >> process of the. >> tariff wars, the trade wars. >> a repeat in some ways. >> of 2018. and for china. >> i. >> think this was a measured response to what i thought was a very small. >> 10% from trump. >> but what we're likely going to see, courtney, is. everyone is holding fire. >> until after. >> april 1st, when the america. >> first trade. >> policy executive. >> order request. reports back. >> on how. >> trump then may be able. >> to do a broader tariff approach. >> to china. so i think. >> measure it. >> now. >> but there's a lot of runway ahead of us with respect to tariffs. >

derek mcneil is managing director and senior policy analyst at longview global. both are cnbc contributors. secretary gutierrez, let me just start with you. where is mexico now? a winner here because they've resolved this issue. whereas canada and china as of now are facing tariffs. >> yeah, i think the circumstances are different. >> you know in. >> these things. >> the technicalities. are important. but the relationship. >> is just as important. >> president trump and president sheinbaum. >> have spoken in the past a couple of times before this morning. >> and there's. >> been a good relationship. >> it's been cooperative. they both connected. >> so the fact that president sheinbaum agreed. >> to. >> sending 10,000. >> troops to the border. >> is a. >> big concession. >> that, you know, military. >> matters with the us are very sensitive. >> in mexico. she used political capital to do that. but but she made the decision. i think the relationship had a lot. >> to do. >> with it. >> canada is a very different story. president, prime minister. >> joe has. >> been

coming up, we will catch up with chris watling, the founder and ceo of longview economics.sion. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ some research. ya know, that's backed by j.p. morgan's leading strategists like us. when you want to invest with more confidence... the answer is j.p. morgan wealth management >> welcome to bloomberg markets. the u.s. markets are closed for the presidents' day holiday. europe working to ramp up support in kyiv as president trump pushes for a hasty end to the war in ukraine. president macron in france calling for an emergency meeting with eu leaders. benjamin netanyahu warns the gates of hell will open if remaining hostages in houma -- if remaining hostages held by hamas are not released. president xi jinping's leaders -- meeting with business leaders send stocks moving. the markets are closed at the moment. futures are in the positive territory about 2/10 of 1% on the s&p 500. i would put more focus on the currency picture. we will see more liquidity than the equity market spread the u.k. story is interesting. gold seeing quite the bid higher ,

i've seen this in places like madison, maine, or longview, washington, where we helped revitalize long-standing paper industry into new opportunities for the future. so how do we deal with china? well, they aren't playing by the rule. they are manipulating and flooding markets, but i guarantee you that just a fear of china is not the answer. and solutions like collaboration and coalition building are critical, particularly in the information age. china does have the largest gross domestic product, about 19% of gdp. in the global economy, the u.s. represents about 15%. but if the united states works to create markets with like-minded partners like japan, europe, and the u.k. and build as coalition of like minded democracies grounded in the rule of law, we can flip the script and have a market representing 34% of gdp. and if we take the next step and expand coalitions to include partners like canada, south korea, australia, new sealland -- new zealand and india, then we're looking at a market that instead of china's 1 19%, accounts for almost half. 47% of global gdp. so why aren't we focusing on