bmw country where free and open trade started by carroll campbell in south carolina, revolutionized the state. >> i wasn't just in brussels, joe, last week, and i heard an earful from germans and ores talking in part about what you're describing, the level of german investments in the u.s., autos in particular that's made them the significant export center of german cars made in the united states by american workers to other markets and talking about the net trade effects that could come as trump imposes these tariffs. more broadly, i think what europeans finally are reckoning with, the first year donald trump, they were kind of in denial, they liked mat does, they wanted continuity. they're reckoning with the reality that this is real, that the disruptive donald trump presidency really has disrupted their relationship with the united states, and now they're looking for the ways in which they can defend their own interests, their trade and commercial interests, but evening their now security interests without a reliable united states as a partner. so i heard people talking about europeans developing more independent defense. o