caroline lovett is set to brief at the white house. she will be facing questions. scarlet: do we know of any active or backroom negotiations between washington and ottawa? what has justin trudeau said about how canada would respond? brian: there has been a steady flow of officials in washington to press their case and say we are doing everything you have asked for on the border. canadian officials believe there is no case for tariffs. the foreign affairs minister is there, the border safety minister is there. that has been steady over january. officials inside the canadian government, i'm hearing they have to wait and see. every time president trump talks, there is whiplash. things change every time. the canadian government will not announce what they will would do until they receive the concrete plan. scarlet: they are not going to negotiate in public. last weekend, the possibility of tariffs against colombia were removed quickly thereafter. protection of the border was paramount for president trump. what is he looking for from mexico and canada? how does the whit

caroline lovetts defended the slew of executive orders by trumpet and his decision to freeze federal grounds. and legs must deportations. it wasn't gonna restate, but of the trump policy, caroline, leave it very go to that. she was the national media coordinator. she's really, you see, she's really internalized donald trump. she didn't even speak from nerd. so she was just talking about how great it was for a mass deportation. so politically popular in the us, you did raised some eyebrows by suggesting that just the mere acts of crossing the border illegally made you a criminal is actually a civil offense in the us. but this is what you have to say by that regression. pretty much part of the course. since taking the oath of office, president trump has taken more than $300.00 executive actions, secured nearly one trillion dollars and us investments deported illegal alien rapist gang members, and suspected terrorists from our homeland and restored commonsense to the federal government. president trump declared a national emergency at our southern border to end of the 4 year long invasio

philippines, there was a picture of this happening that was posted on the white house press secretary, caroline lovetts, twitter or x account. what she said was that donald trump was promised to do this and let this be known. but anyone who enters the us illegally will say, severe consequences. we should point out that all week the president has been meeting with republicans trying to figure out a way to make what is an executive order right now. more permanent, in other words, turned into a lot because what people should know, but executive orders is that they can be and done by another president say, democratic precedence. so right now they're really trying to turn this into the law of the lab in terms of making sure that the legal entries or, and documented migrants can't come into the united states, such as happens by the millions under president invited with the top that kimberly thank you know, thousands of anti abortion that to that still gathering in the us capital for the annual much for life. vice president, jamie vance has just been speaking at the event in washington dc present. donald trum

host: and the new white house press secretary is caroline lovett, youngest ever at 27 years old, whatou expecting from her and her team? any changes to the white house press briefing approach and have you worked with her in the past? guest: i have worked with her in the past. she worked in the trump white house in the first term towards the end in 2020 when she came, so i may be wrong about that date, but, yes, i worked with her. i think we are eager to see her brief, and i know she plans to brief, what kind of changes she may have in mind for what kind of style of briefing is something we will have to see when she gets behind the podium. host: jeff mason, reuters.com, thank you for standing out in the cold for us. guest: my pleasure. host: we will go back to your calls, athens, georgia, on the independent line, is it to boris -- tavares? caller: it is, have not spoken to you in about one point five years. how much do i love c-span? i love c-span, and i would like to chime in on barbara from vermont. before that, let's run through some quick things. first, congratulations to president