let's bring in marc short, former chief of staff, to former vice president mike pence, also a cnbc contributorat to talk to you this morning. first of all, how literally do you take the president? >> good morning contessa. >> i actually. >> take him literally. i think. >> that markets have had a tendency to sort of discount. >> a lot of. >> these threats. >> and i think that watching. >> what happened. >> with. >> mexico and canada. >> a couple of weeks ago was. >> on again and. >> off again, reinforces the notion for many observers that this is kind of bluster. and he does. >> this. >> to get negotiations. but i really. >> got. >> to say, i think that there's a different set of advisors around. >> the president. >> at this. >> time in the. first administration. >> there are a lot of economic. >> advisors and. >> national security. >> advisors who. >> really advocated for the benefit of trade. >> with allies. >> and this. >> time around, there's. >> a far more protectionist. >> mentality in this. white house. and so. >> i anticipate. >> that there's. >> going to be a continued. series of tarif

white house correspondent, kelly o'donnell, nbc news chief capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobel, marc short, former director of legislative affairs to president trump, and former democratic congresswoman, stephanie murphy of florida. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> reporter: from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning. after just two weeks in office, president trump is waging battles across the globe and inside his own government. overnight, he imposed tariffs on america's three largest trading partners. they're already hitting back, raising fears of a trade war. the president is also facing the first crisis of his second term in office, the worst aviation disaster in a generation, after an army blackhawk helicopter and american airlines plane crashed above washington. there were no survivors and 67 people died in the crash. on thursday after a moment of silence, president trump pivoted to politics, suggesting without evidence that diversity and inclusion policies contributed

mike to mike pence marc short. he also served as white house legislative affairs director under trump and now as the board chair at advancing american freedom. marc. good morning. wonderful to see you again. uh, broadly speaking, what we're seeing here in these two weeks from president trump this time around, it has been a series of broadsides across government, beginning with the pardons for everyone who was investigated for january 6th. is president trump doing what americans voted for? >> i think broadly, yes. i think for most americans, they looked at the border situation under the biden-harris administration is a total disaster and chaotic, and they see that that's where a lot of trump's focus has been. i think for a lot of people inside d.c., there's hanging hand wringing over, you know, cuts to government spending. but i think that in many cases, that's what americans wanted. they wanted to shrink the size of the federal government. and while there's a lot of concern here about dei, i think for a lot of amer

. >> joining us right now to talk much more about this is marc short.c served as the white house legislative affairs director during the first trump administration has held, well, a million different jobs in and around washington and the white house. also, the chairman of the board for advancing american freedom, conservative advocacy group. it's good to see you again, marc. thanks for coming in. i saw it. when it comes to tariffs, i saw that you wrote that you think the trump approach to tariffs this time is the biggest difference that you see from the last trump administration to this one? explain. >> well, kate, let's. >> start by. acknowledging that tariffs are a tax on american consumers. the american importer pays that fee to customs and border patrol is the is the product comes into our country. and so i think that in the first administration, there was a lot of guidance to the president that said, look, if we're trying to isolate china, tariffs can be an effective tool in doing that. but it also could drive our allies and other nations to actual

marc bloomberg, thanks again for putting this back on your agenda. the first thing you should know is that this was done a very little notice to the industry. there was one outreach meeting called on short notice and it was two days before this actually appeared on your consent calendar. so in other words there was no meaningful outreach to the industry before this was already headed to you as a consent item of of the night. and let me show you this can you put that on? so of the 19 items in this unnecessary inspection, all but three are already on the to use inspection list. >> the three items are windshield wipers, pedometer and muffler and two you can easily do that as far as brake inspections go, it's not true that they have to be done on a lift as staff has stated it's never been done that way. i've done many, many brake inspections and they they do there are multiple parts of it but basically when they inspect the brake pads they simply get down with a flashlight under the car and they and and they look to see that they are that they're good. so it's a very short inspection. nothing that the two you can't do also did you know that the 19 point inspection that uber and lyft are req