congressman adriano espaillat is with us this morning, congressman.a true pleasure to always see you. i thank you for your time. congressman, you talked about a very reare a real fear, i should say, in some migrant communities in our country, that fear is indeed real. do you see any way that that fear could be mitigated going forward? >> well, jose, thank you for having me. you know, even citizens. you know, i visited a citizen, a us citizen of dominican descent, who was stopped and questioned for a couple of hours on his way to work. although he had a federal id and him and his wife were both us citizens, and yet he was treated as though he was undocumented and he was stopped by ice and questioned and all. he highlighted the fact that he had this federal id and that he was on his way to work. they refused to even call his job. he was late to work, obviously. so everybody, when that net is cast out there, citizens are impacted by it. legal residents are impacted by it. immigrants, of course, friends and neighbors of family members will be impacted. an

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from morgan stanley democrats responding to trump's speech tonight was new york congressman adriano espaillataking directly to hispanic americans. and congressman espaillat joins us now. he's the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. welcome, congressman. >> good morning. welcome. >> oh my goodness. it is the morning. sir, can you just tell us what were. i mean, i think that there are people out there that would say, oh, the spanish language response, the talk was about immigration, but i would bet my bottom dollar that there was a large conversation about the economy. >> no question about it. i mean, immigration. >> is sort of like joined at the hip. >> with the latino community. but, you know, table table issues and pocketbook. issues are so critical. in my district, for example, we have 524,000 people that are on medicaid. out of 780,000 people. >> and. >> 108,000 are on medicare, over 200 households are on food stamps. so these pocketbook issues are critical. and so when you talk about not bringing solutions to inflation, the president had an opportunity to present real solutions. t

joining me now is representative adriano espaillat, a new york democrat and chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. thank you so much for being here. let me just quickly get to what was breaking news this morning. the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, seems to be saying that some tariffs will be rolled back now, telling bloomberg there will be some categories that will be left out. it could well be autos. your response to what is a tariff decision? whiplash, so to speak. right. >> well. >> they're stepping. >> back. obviously. >> they're they're. >> responding to the markets. uh. so this is a very fluid. >> proposal put. >> forward by the white house. >> uh, it doesn't really have strong legs behind it. uh, we see how they're backing up on cars. tomorrow will be a different product. and so the the main issue is, is what are they going to do to ensure that inflation is cured? and the president last night did not present any serious proposals to address that problem. we continue to have a 96% increase since he got into office. on x alone and other emergency items are extremely high