micheal martin not here to represent on the people of ireland, but here as an eu leader as well.d a meeting here at the white house earlier. before that, the taoiseach was at the vice president's residence for breakfast, then they all moved to capitol hill for a lunch hosted by the speaker of the house of representatives mike johnson. they will be back in about an hour or two time for a presentation of that bowl of shamrocks, celebration for the irish-american community. the fountain is green behind me on the lawn, but very serious talking happened, as well. one of the first remarks that president trump said was there was a massive trade deficit between the u.s. and ireland, something that he sees unfair. he said ireland is taking advantage of the united states. let's have a listen to some of what he said. pres. trump: we do have a massive deficit with ireland. ireland is smart, they took our pharmaceutical companies away from presidents who didn't know what they were doing. it is too bad that happened. tremendous job. the irish are smart. you are smart people. you took our pharm

micheal martin is the leader of a country whose people take their irish identity very seriously. irish americans have been known to take their irish identity sometimes too seriously, like on saint patrick's day when they can cause a traffic jam here and there. but saying. chuck schumer isn't jewish anymore is the neurological equivalent of saying micheal martin, the head of the irish government sitting beside donald trump in the oval office, isn't irish anymore. go ahead, donald, turn to him and say that to him. turn to him in the oval office and say to him, he's not irish anymore, because what you don't know. >> donald. >> trump, is that the irish government. has a much. >> more sympathetic posture toward palestinians than chuck schumer ever has, much more. >> and you wouldn't dare donald trump. >> to turn to micheal martin and say, you're. >> not. >> irish anymore. you're a palestinian. wouldn't there? donald trump has a broken brain that leaks ugly poison every day, and it cannot be fixed. it is getting worse. >> it is. >> worse on day 52 of his presidency than it was on the f

and you wouldn't dare donald trump to turn to micheal martin and say, you're not irish anymore. you're a palestinian. wouldn't there? donald trump has a broken brain that leaks ugly poison every day and it cannot be fixed. it is getting worse. it is worse on day 52 of his presidency than it was on the first day of his presidency this time, and it will be worse on the hundredth day of his presidency. and it will be worse, much, much worse, on the thousandth day of his presidency. and on this, the 52nd day of his presidency today, donald trump, the weakling, backed down in a very big way. once again, we've seen donald trump's childish and now predictably weak backing down on his ridiculous tariff game, his dangerously stupid tariff game that he's playing against canada and mexico and the world. but today, donald trump backed down on something that's even bigger to him, and it is much more important to his voters than tariffs, which is why donald trump is using the tariff game and the madness it has created to distract from his biggest broken promise to his followers, and his bigge

and in just moments, president trump will welcome the irish leader, micheal martin, to the white house. we will listen in to see if they speak. i assume they will. cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa yurkevich is in new york for us and chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is for us over at the white house. vanessa, let me start with you. what can you tell us first of all, about these latest retaliatory tariffs? >> wolf, this is just the latest escalation in what is now a global trade war. you have canada slapping back with a 25% tariff on $20 billion worth of u.s. goods set to take effect tomorrow. this comes on the heels of that midnight tariff going into effect. 25% on any aluminum and steel coming into the u.s. the e.u. also slapping back pretty quickly, putting their own tariffs on $28 billion worth of u.s. goods on the other side of the fence here, you have a picture of inflation here in america starting to cool. this is the first time in four months that we've seen inflation cool on a monthly basis and on an annual basis. so inflation ticking up just 0.2%

. >> trump making that comment while sitting next to the prime minister of ireland, micheal martin. trump says the u.s. will respond with reciprocal tariffs. >> so whatever they charge us with, we're charging them. nobody can complain about that. >> canada today also announcing a 25% tariff that will affect more than $20 billion worth of american exports. >> the only constant in this unjustified and unjustifiable trade war seems to be president trump's talks of annexing a country through economic coercion. >> it comes as new inflation numbers from the consumer price index are better than expected. egg prices are still a major outlier. prices are up nearly 60% from one year ago. up 10% from one month ago. as for the timing of the new tariffs being imposed on the u.s, canada's go into effect overnight. the u.s. go into effect april 1st. perry russom abc news, washington. >> the environmental protection agency is eliminating all of its environmental justice offices, and that includes its regional office here in san francisco. those offices work to protect disadvantaged communities from

2.8%, month over month, the president also pointed out a moment to go the taoiseach of ireland micheal martinces down 30% in recent days and oil sits right now at about $67 a barrel. and that is something that consumers really care about. >> that's right, john, and it is a promise that president trump is keeping to the american people. this administration is wholeheartedly focused every single day on driving down costs for the american people through massive deregulatory efforts and of course by unleashing american energy dominance, which we know will end the inflation nightmare created by the previous administration and this cpi report today is welcome news, and it is not what the so-called experts or mainstream media predicted. they continue to cast doubt on president trump and his economic agenda, even though he has a proven record of it working in his first term, and if you look at that report today, inflation has gone down, the core inflation index is the lowest it has been in four years, gas prices have fallen, airline fares fallen and today we saw two massive companies announce new inv

micheal martin, inside the. >> oval office. >> at the white house. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. i'm boris sanchez alongside brianna keilar in the nation's capital there. you just heard president trump talking about the potential for a ceasefire between russia and ukraine that the u.s. is trying to broker. the president would not comment on a potential meeting with vladimir putin. but in his remarks, he was asked specifically if he felt that the united states would have to pressure the kremlin into accepting a ceasefire. and he said that he hopes that that would be a necessary though there are things he could do that would be unpleasant in the financial sense. so president trump there during this availability for reporters in the white house, signaling that perhaps economic sanctions may be on the way if russia were not to accept the cease fire deal. the president was also asked about cuts to the department of education on behalf of doge and about the stock market, which he says he believes is soon going to surge. >> yeah, let's. >

. >> john: all right, so president trump together with the taoiseach of ireland micheal martin talking about a number of different things, everything from the fact that inflation is down, gas prices are down, as well as the price of eggs, to what is going to potentially happen with vladimir putin in relation to ukraine. >> sandra: sitting next to the irish prime minister. for more on this let's bring in retired navy captain and former pentagon official brent sadler. what did you take away from the president's threat that he could make things work worse for russia if they don't agree, what is left in the toolbox? >> well, what we are finally seeing, although it is not because it hasn't been applied is there is a lot of pressure that can still be put on russia that the biden team didn't use. one of those that came out at the last month or two was going after the russia dark fleet. unregistered, hard to track vessels that have been doing sanctions evasion by doing oil transfers at sea to get money back to moscow. that is just one of many things. it is going to be necessary, as we have see

president threatened even more tariffs as he was sitting down with the irish prime minister, micheal martin, inside the oval office. i'm here inside the east room where the president is about to greet the irish taoiseach as they are holding a special celebration to celebrate the united states ireland relationship. but that comes after earlier at the white house, when the prime minister arrived, president trump greeted him by criticizing the low tax rate they have in ireland to attract u.s. businesses and other interests. >> the irish are smart. you're a smart people and you took our pharmaceutical companies and other companies, but, you know, through taxation and proper taxation, they made it very, very good for companies to move over there. >> of course, the irish prime minister responded by saying that they have a great relationship with the united states. but as part of that conversation, trump was saying he is not going to hesitate to retaliate against the eu retaliation that has gone into place today. as we've seen after the steel and aluminum tariffs across the board have gone into pl

irish taoiseach micheal martin said his country will help sir keir starmer do anything to reset the uk's relationship with the european union. the prime minister has met with the taoiseach as part of the first annual summit between the two nations, with sir keir starmer saying the uk and ireland are opening the next chapter in their relationship. the leaders were in the north west with senior government members to discuss defence and the economy. minister for industry sarah jones spoke to gb news earlier ahead of the meeting. >> i think the role that keir starmer is playing as the honest broker with our eu allies, with our us allies who are so important and working with ukraine, supporting president zelenskyy, making sure we get a peace through strength. so the summit today is important. it's important for the economy. we're announcing investment that will deliver 2500 jobs, which is good news for the uk. we're also announcing further work together on clean energy that we were just talking about. but look, security of course will be front and centre. and the taoiseach is meeting trump ne

irish taoiseach micheal martin said his country will help sir keir starmer do anything to reset the uk'selationship with the european union. the prime minister has met with the taoiseach as part of the first annual summit between the two nations, with sir keir starmer saying the uk and ireland are opening the next chapter in their relationship. the leaders were in the north west with senior government members to discuss defence and the economy, with the irish premier adding a short while ago that the summit was very positive. and a gb news exclusive. now another 200 small boat migrants made it to the uk today, the sixth straight day of illegal crossings in a week. the latest arrivals take the total number of channel migrants to reach uk waters since saturday to 1578. that now means 3634 have reached the uk since the 1st of january. those are the latest gb news headlines. now let's go back to martin. >> thank you katie. now here's today's big question. question is reform uk on the rocks. well that's what the conservative party are claiming today after rupert lowe mp reform rupa mp rupert