everyone else 1st called the new nafta and basically what it did was it sort of updated some nafta provisions and right now to the point where it needs to be ratified by the 3 countries and that means the u.s. congress needs to get it a few days ago a very influential senator charles grassley said that he would not approve the deal going through if tariffs were still in place so trampas use these tariffs as a way to have leverage over both of these countries to get them to make this deal announced a deal is sealed he's been facing more and more pressure to lift them canada mexico have also been pushing obviously throughout this whole process for the lifting of these tariffs and obviously i think it's more of a practical measure for trump than it is anything about prices and especially about national security which as you said was of the heart of this too right so so your time of this new nafta i mean that was that's this trade deal it's in place between the 3 countries this was something that president trump campaigned on basically redoing saying this was a bad deal for the u.s. what about th

what about the new nafta? steven: the new nafta for trump, it updates some things. it updates labor standards, requiring more minimum wage manufacturing in these countries. it requires more local components for cars. they will reach the zero-tariffs eligibility, for example. but ultimately, it does not make

economic priority a new nafta deal is now at risk. also in the show the u.s. china trade war threatens to retry all long established supply chains we'll show you why by looking at one of american business. we'll tell you why farmers helping to fuel china's extraordinary coffee are so happy. and qatar hastens to rebuild its image after complaints about dismal and deadly working conditions in its new stadiums for the 2022 world cup. welcomes your business update i'm stephen beard thanks for joining us president donald trump says he will levy a 5 percent tariff on all mexican imports unless the country curbs migration across the u.s. southern border by june 10th a tariff could rise to 25 percent in october mexico's president andres manuel lopez obrador says he will respond with quote great prudence to trump's latest threat and that it won't stop his country from ratifying the new nafta agreement the u.s. chamber of commerce america's top business lobby as meanwhile said it is considering legal action to stop the move. and let's take

this is the new nafta. mr.rump cause of the u -- calls it the ucsmca and everyone else calls it the new nafta. it is at the point where he needs to be ratified by the three countries, and the u.s. congress will get it -- got it a few days ago. an influential senator, charles grassley, said he would not approve the deal going through if the tariffs were still in place. trump used these tariffs as a way to have leverage over these countries. now that the deal was sealed, he is facing more pressure to lift of them. canada and mexico were pressing through the whole process for the lifting of these tariffs, and it is more of a practical measure for trump than anything about prices and the national severity, which is at the heart of this, too. carl: you're talking about this new nafta, the trade deal in place between the countries. this is something that trump campaign on redoing, saying this was a bad deal for the u.s. what about the new nafta? steven: the new nafta for trump, it updates some things. it updates labo

what about this new nafta what was going on there. for trump you know look at it it does update some things for example it updates labor standards it requiring more minimum wage manufacturing as in these countries it requires more local components for cars they're going to reach the 0 tariffs realty for example but ultimately it

ambassador lighthizer has worked hard for a year to negotiate a good replacement for nafta. this agreement is on par, and on any measurement better than our old 1994 nafta agreement, good for american workers, good for american business, opens up the dairy market in canada, so it is a plus. so i hope he will make progress with the speaker. she has raised issues about enforcement on labor concerns in mexico. and bob lighthizer has negotiated an agreement that dramatically improves labor standards in mexico and pay in mexico, and the mexican parliament, their legislature approved those changes just in the last few weeks. >> aside from the dairy issues that the guest has brought up, the usmca as it is known as that 75% of the automobile must be tariff free and 40% of the car must be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour and some changes to nafta's dispute settlement system as well as other things as well. what do you think about those enforcements when it comes to labor issues and price can issues? should those be in trade agreements a necessary part. >> i'm not a big fa

biden voted for nafta. who was right on nafta, widen or sanders? >> i'm not going to choose between the two of them. >> would you have voted for naf nafta? >> i would not have voted for nafta. i believe we can do a better job to protect american workers. i also think we need to do a better job in terms of thinking about the priorities that should be more parent now perhaps than they were there which are issues like the climate crisis and what we need to do to build into these trade agreements. >> we saw another deadly school shooting this week in colorado. cory booker has called for creigh aegt feder creating federal gun licenses. opponents say it would create a way to track gun owners. would you support a federal gun license? >> i like the idea. jake, i'll tell you, on this issue of the need for gun safety losses, we're not at any loss for good ideas. people have been having good ideas for decades on this issue. what we're at a loss is people in congress have the courage to do something. i'm going to tell you on this subject, we're not waiting for

he is against nafta. very difficult to be with the usmca. he cannot sell his new nafta.sier to be against stuff. i think being against china and continuing to lambast them as the american enemy is a great way for him to manifest a bogeyman and a blank slate with no legislation passing. caroline: i like the fact that you bring up usmca and nafta. can thereogeymen be that are helpful towards trump? we have not had usmca signed on. can more trade attacking fronts work for him as well? henrietta: i think you walk a fine line between not supporting the usmca, which is the new nafta, but being very fearful that he will pull us out of nafta. that is the republican caucus' number one fear that the president will not get his usmca because nobody supports it. instead, he will trigger a withdrawal from nafta and send the markets absolutely tanking and infuriating the farmers. on the scale of what those things voters care about, just making sure we stay in nafta first and foremost. they don't care if we don't pass the usmca. ae auto tariffs can be different ball of wax. the workers,

back in the '90s that supported nafta.f democrats that touched the pacific ocean or touched the atlantic ocean had ports of entry did. where are you on the new nafta? how would you vote on that today? and are you in step with your party on trade? or do you think you are a little out of step or vice-versa? >> i think i'm really in step. we need trade policies that foster job growth, make sure that collective bargainings rights are protected and make sure that our environmental laws are followed. and i do not trust donald trump for two inches to actually negotiate an agree emt that could actually do that. so i've not read this. this has not been finalized. >> right. >> i would not be supportive, unless, in fact, it does protect our environmental -- >> do you believe nafta was a success or a failure? >> i have mixed results. some jobs it helped. some jobs it did not. >> would you kast the same vote? >> probably not today. because we've learned some things about the ability to protect our environmental laws from that. but i be

itself was instituted now we have the president pushing hard for his new nafta and reports we heard from kayla about whether or not this will interfere with that progress do you think these tariffs could help congress move forward on new nafta or do you think it undermines that movement >> i think that it undermines it considerably it is another new policy that makes no sense, has no coordination with the rest of our foreign policy or trade policy the tariffs are the baby pacifier for trump and for miller and that crowd that really don't have the information that is going on mexico has been working with our country trying to work with our country for quite a while now to stop this flow of migrants from the northern tier of countries in central america we don't even have an ambassador in mexico to do the coordinating and hopefully that will be remedied before too long but that is unheard of >> what about the white house's claim that says that the democrats have done nothing on this issue we're resorting to this, it may be his favorite weapon, but we're resorting to this to change mex

and quite frankly i wouldn't have voted for nafta. there is no support for nafta in the house.harles: congressman. i have to leave it there. unfortunately we'll bring you right back. we have to dip into president trump right now. >> thank you very much for being here. steve, go ahead. reporter: what options are you looking at to get humanitarian assistance to venezuela? >> i had a very good talk with president putin, probably over an hour. we talked about many things. venezuela is one of the topics. he is not looking at all to get involved in venezuela other than he would like to see something positive happen for venezuela. and i feel the same way. we want to get some humanitarian aid. right now people are starving. they have no water. they have no food. this is, mr. prime minister, one of the richest countries in the world 20 years ago. now they don't have food. they don't have water for their people. so we want to help with humanitarian basis. and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: di

and christina, has more on new nafta and more details. reporter: incredible. in last hour, how much news on that, you have mexico and canada ready to ratify. but stonewalling is happening in congress, like you said nancy pelosi wanted to look at a few things pertaining to labor, latest news vice president pence announced they will fast track that to congress, to be a 30 day period, they do believe they can get bipartisan support for this usmca new deal, and nancy pelosi release a statement, stating not a positive step for trump administration to do this, a lack of knowledge on the administration as well, that we were on a path to yes, but now this will change, i paraphrased that last sentence, the back and forth could stop in united states, and we have even more news to this so from "washington post," they say that president trump now is threatening to add tariffs to mexican products coming in because they want to stop flow of migrants from central america. elizabeth: you this so much. >> -- thank you so much. >> nothing creates economic prosperity like innova

>> well, i think the new nafta ultimately still passes. i think that the alternative is still the worst case scenario for most members of congress when i talk to folks on capitol hill they keep on telling me they are doing everything they can to get this across the finish line. it is going to involve a lot of back and forth this absolutely kind of sidelines some of the progress we saw and you're not going to bully, say, nancy pelosi into passing it but ultimately trump will threaten to blow up all of nafta unless the usmca passes. and with that as the calculation you have to think it actually gets through >> ed, do you think the likes of the eu and japan will be quaking in their boots because i guess we learned in the last 24 hours it's not just china that's currently in the crosshairs >> yeah. i would say japan's still probably in a pretty good position bim very concerned about what's happening with the eu i think what president trump has said from the beginning is he wants you to pick a side are you with the united states or are you with

in-that it is better than nafta. i think that going back to nafta is really not acceptable. no agreement is really unacceptable too. so this is a better agreement. it is better for farmers. it is better for rules of orig n origin. >> so what is the hang-up for democrats? >> it is a sticky issue. i've had a mixed record on trade myself. some i agreed with, some i didn't. but i think we're talking about our two neighbors, and there is relative balance in trade amongst the three of us. mexico does fairly -- a little better than we do with them, but we do better with canada. so i think in all in all in north nerk of america there is a balance of trade, but it is also about geopolitics as well. these are our closest allies. and we should treat them better. >> and i think that there will be some political calculations here too because the president always touts the new naftas a major achievement of the administration. of course it didn't really matter unless congress ratifies it. so i think that some democrats are probably thinking about whether or not to give the president this k

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. >> it could pave the way for congress to sign off on the new trade agreement that would replace nafta. the white house says it will delay the imports on the

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that's not the accurate -- some call it after nafta, some call it nafta 2.0, but anyway that trade agreement. that's a strange juxtaposition , but nonetheless the next day, you know what happened. i think what is happened, he said it's because of coverup. i know that strikes a chord with him and he's afraid of coverup. afraid of being accused of coverup. but i think that what he -- he knew the one court decision was getting into territory he did not want touched and they did not allow the mueller report -- the mueller investigation to go into the president's personal finances. so a major setback for him. then he must have known the deutsche bank decision would be consistent, but in any event, to inoculate against the presentation, he pulled a stunt. i truly believe that the president has a bag of tricks and the white house has a bag of tricks they save for certain occasions. they don't necessarily apply to the occasion, but they're a distraction which is his master -- he's a master of distraction, we'll all agree on that, that's something he does well, distract from problems he has. he chang

2.0 and the tariffs are illegal under nafta 2.0 and that'swhy we have nafta in the first place. to me, there's no measurement. he's basically threatening the tariffs because of what's going on at the border how do we measure that things have gotten better and how does anyone factor in -- >> some are saying that gives the president cover to not ratchet up tariffs in the first place because there aren't specific benchmarks. >> he can say at any point in time i'm not going to do it. >> doesn't he start losing credibility is the point i would make as we try to negotiate this on multiple fronts >> even after the mexican tariff announcement is mexico was basically on the verge of a recession. they pointed minus .2 and the leading indicators indicated they were going there anyway, and the reality is about shipping companies and the companies that are located in mexico and there's an enormous loss to u.s. companies and somebody then tweeted back, by the way, you considered northern mexico the bottom line is this is a case where mexico is almost $700 million of foreign trade a year and o

trump had tweeted this week that the working people want to get to the new nafta. do you want time to get a consensus in your caucus on what enforcements is needed for the new nafta and how to change the provisions? ms. pelosi: the environmental provisions. but the three provisions are -- what it means for america's that is positive. you don't exploit workers in mexico. the lower they are paid, the worst it is. it is about american workers and about the environment and the climate issue that we are voting on right now, climate action now, the environmental issues are important to us. as a californian i can attest to the need for us to improve the provision there and then the biologics and the concern for members. but the overarching issue is enforcement. you can have all the good language in the world that you want, but if you don't have enforcements, you are just having a conversation. you are not having a real negotiation. reporter: are you working on what kind of enforcement is needed? ms. pelosi: it can't be a sidebar, later legislation or anything like that. t

aluminium and our countermeasures represented significant barriers to moving forward with of the new naftant. now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs, we are going to work with the united states on timing for ratification, but we are very optimistic we are going to be able to move forward, move forward well in the coming weeks. the bbc‘s michelle fleury is following developments from new york. he likes tariffs, but he likes trade deals even more, long before you and i were talking about us and china, and the escalated tensions between the largest economies, another trade deal we used to be talking about a lot involved canada, mexico, in the united states, and i when he came into power, donald trump said he wa nted into power, donald trump said he wanted to renegotiate a trade deal between these three countries, called nafta, or known as nafta, and they agreed on something called us cma, it still needs to be approved by congress here in the united states, and it still needs to sort of get approvals in mexico, and other countries, but mexico and canada had said that one of the obstac

aluminum and our countermeasures i represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new nafta agreement now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with b.m.i. united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks. to come hear it out there including the huge fishing community and beneath that struggling to hold on to its heritage. for i'd say rob and amber are not see what politicians are the final stage is the the 7 phase that really is general election where the they were the leaders of other big issues will tell you more later on the price of the. hollow we've got warnings in force across central parts of the u.s. for some severe weather bring up as we go on into the weekend lots of clouds showing up on the satellite picture from the appalachians moving across the plains right up into the mountain states will see some rather wet weather also feeding into the civic northwest and into b.c. the some snow the sunset over the higher ground war weather comes in behi

nafta was such a disaster, this would have been worse. it is no wonder when joe biden announced he is running for president -- booing] we have thousands of people, i am not even announcing today, . we are going for fred. look at the thousands and thousands of people we have. they said he had 600 people. no. i am good, very good. i say 150. that was during an announcement. he announced he is running for president. he said it is because foreign leaders called him up and begged him to do it. absolutely. foreign countries like it much better. they want biden so china can continue to make $500 billion a year and more. ripping off the united states. they like it. they like it. a hundred just trade billion dollars on average for many years. $800 million is a lot. a hundred million dollars is inconceivable -- $800 billion dollars is inconceivable. it is a shame. we are straining it out. not easy, it is not easy. from within. we are straining it out. do you see what is going on with china? $100ll soon taken over billion in tariffs. they subsidized

or -- nafta two or whatever.he more optimistic wonder for us is to have a different step towards this future in order to increase the value of our economy and to fulfill more productive ties with the united states economy. the industry in mexico is growing very fast. or medical services. or our capacity to increase in the short term. o close the gap in several fields in coalition with the united states is not about commercial trade. it is about something more sophisticated. >> for north america? with that mr. secretary, i want to thank you for flying from mexico to be with us today and for your comments on so many issues that are important in the relationship between the united states and mexico, but most importantly, your vision of development and your vision for north america. thank you very much. [applause]

, nafta 2.0, that trade agreement. that was a strange juxtaposition but nonetheless next day you know what happened. he says it is because of cover-up and i know that strikes a chord with him. he is afraid of cover-ups. being accused of cover-up. i really think he knew the decision was getting into territory he did not want -- they did not allow the mueller investigation to go into the president's personal finances. a major setback for him and must have known the deutsche bank decision would be consistent but in any event, his presentation, he pulled a stunt. i truly believe that the president has a bag of tricks in the white house has a bag of tricks that they save for certain occasions. they don't necessarily apply to the occasion but are a distraction which is he is the master of distraction. we will all agree on that. that is something he does well, to distract from problems that he has. he changes the subject. while he tries to say this because i said cover-up, we have been saying cover-up for a wild. i ran across

. — — nafta. going to work with the united states. —— nafta.able to move forward in the coming weeks. lawyer and a former canadian foreign affairs minister, peter mackay, says the development provides some clarity on the road to ratifying the new trade agreement. this was a very punitive sanction taken under what was called 232 into the united states around national security and i think, frankly, there was leveraged exercised by the president of the united states and that negotiators so it has lifted effectively today and it will take away some of the uncertainty around having the us — canada free trade agreement, and mexico as well, ratified but that is not a certainty either. it is still going to require some significant negotiations in the us because of the republicans have lost control of the house of representatives so a lot of political intrigue and dynamics in that united states and we are still a long way from finally realising a replacement dealfor a long way from finally realising a replacement deal for nafta. willoughby in the democr

he has a better version of nafta that is pending.he real hangup is on the democratic side in the house. you are the chief deputy whip, you count votes. what are the chances of getting it through. politico says it is down to 45%. rep. kildee: i would not put a percentage on it, but i will say there are two questions. what are the odds and how are the odds increased if we place much more clear pressure on mexico to actually deliver on the reforms they have begun to approve. the question for us is when do we say we believe mexico will be making the fundamental changes in their labor environment, in their labor practices in order for us to not believe that we are just going to see the same thing we saw in the original nafta, where there were many promises made that mexico was going to come, and then into the 20th century, and willingness that they would have real trade unions. just passing the law will not be enough for many of us. we will have to see them take decisive action. this is one of those cases where the president was right to

just like nafta, just like nafta was such a disaster, this would have been worse. it's no wonder when joebiden announced he's running for president, by the way , by the way, we have thousands of people so and this is in, i'm not even announcing today, will wait for a couple of weeks. this is just we're going for fred. look at the thousands and thousands of people we have. they say he had 600 people. no, no, very good. i say 150. and that was on an announcement, i'd say hundred 50 people. but announced he's running for president and he said it's because foreign leaders call him up and then him to do it. absolutely. foreign countries like this, much better. that's what they want, they want biden so there that china can continue to make $500 billion a year and more. ripping offthe united states . they like it. you look at what these countries have made. we lost on just trade 800 billion dollars on average for many years. hundred billion, not million. 100 million is a lot. 800 billion is not even conceivable and we didn't do anything about it and i mean not only presid

one of the worst fiascos from our former leaders was the disaster of nafta.uildings in pennsylvania and new england, all over. they were a total -- they're empty. and even to this day some were converted to nursing homes, some were taken over, but you still see the shock of what they went down. and now we're replacing them with brand-new, beautiful buildings. we've got it up. we've got it working again. all over the country, we're building plants and countries like actually never ever before. nearly two decades ago, the same politicians who gave us nafta also voted to admit china into the world trade organization, a disastrous really decision i mean, that was a disastrous decision. since then, we've lost 60,000 -- not jobs. listen to this. 60,000 factories. here's the good news. we're building them all back. they're coming back. all coming back. you know, i used to give that because it was really two years ago, so many have come back. but i used to give that number and i used to say, it's got to be a mistake. you can't lose 60,000 factories. and when the fake

trade is in the balance as white house officials attempt to hammer out a deal with china while the new nafta also faces an uncertain future economist richard wolfe joins us to discuss what is at stake plus details continue to emerge in the world when negotiations took fire oil giant and arco petroleum what will this mean for the two hundred fifty thousand acre of in the permian basin artie's haven't heard joins us to drill into the details and finally right here behind this live and over how to carry new drivers in new york city to new regulations that ford tried healing services to pay a living wage our correspondent alex mahela dish up behind the wheels to hear a true story all that directly ahead but first let's have some headlines. made a twenty nine thousand leads are global report today as violence erupts in paris ahead of marches to commemorate international workers day clashes between protesters and police started well before the official march was set to begin a spokesperson for french president emanuel told the financial times that mr mcmullan ordered extreme firmness against disor

that's not the accurate -- some call it after nafta, some call it nafta 2.0, but anyway that trade agreement. that's a strange juxtaposition but nonetheless the next day, you know what happened. i think what is happen, he said it's because of coverup. i know that strikes a cord with him and he's afraid of coverup. but -- afraid of being accused of coverup. but i think that what he -- he knew the one court decision was getting into territory he did not want touched and they did not allow the mueller report -- the mueller investigation to go into the president's personal finances. so major setback for him. then he must have known the deutsche bank decision would be consistent but in any event, to against the presentation he pulled a stunt. i truly believe that the president has a bag of tricks and the white house has a bag of tricks they save for certain occasions. they don't necessarily apply to the occasion, but they're a distraction which is his master -- he's a master of distraction, we'll all agree on that, that's something he does well, dispract from problems he has. he changes, tries to

which is set to replace existing north american free trade agreement known as nafta. we're very much looking forward- to to working together to make sure that the benefits of this agreement which we took -- took a fair bit of time and energy to get right. renegotiating nafta was a key pledge of donald trump's twenty sixteen white house campaign. but talks turned sour last year after the us president place tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from canada and mexico. ultimately lifted this mainn. the us mca will govern one trillion dollars in trade between the three countries. it includes changes for the dairy industry and you -- to regulations president trump and i believe that the relationship between the united states and canada has. never been stronger we have a historic opportunity to strengthen the economic ties. between our two nations with the passage of the u. s. m. c. a.. but the new deal has yet to be ratified by any of the three countries. in the us it faces opposition from some democrats it'll make his. who say it doesn't go far enough to protect workers

that used to be the argument when mexico signed the nafta agreement in the 1990's. tonever happens, so we need open another process in mexico in order to give them an opportunity. health system, educational system, access to internet, and a lot of initiatives we are already taking. the third goal is about helping foster economic growth. we need to add value to our economy. we need to solve old problems. also.d to use new tools, increase in order to our capacity to add value to our economy. is that possible? sure. but we need to do more than just wait. the old debate. weis more about, what if have a common vision about the future, invest more money design a future for our country with a common vision about innovation through technology, energy. we have an idea that mexico can than it has in the past 20 years. the fourth goal is about safety. going to have safety in our country if we don't have solved the previous three issues. corruption, access to changes in our society, and faster economic growth. we have started to have a new design about safety in the country, to

deal, which will be the new nafta.pushed back on that move, saying it rest her timeline -- rushed her timeline. she hasn't weighed in on the tariffs, but it's definitely seen as a threat. not only mexico and the steps the trump administration wants to take against central american migrants, but also against democrats, or as trump said, not doing enough to address or security in general. as it relates to the china trade deal, if i'm a chinese trade negotiator looking at the way this has played out, i'm going to see the united states as an untrustworthy negotiating partner. nejra: that is exactly what our guests are saying this hour. thank you to anna edgerton joining us from washington, d.c. great work. joining us in mumbai is naira shop. -- in euros shock. -- is near rochester all -- niraj shah. how are they trading? niraj: pretty good. trade numbers are expecting to start lower. the market seems to be another platform altogether. trade..5% higher in i must tell you, i would reckon this oil isn't part to what is antici

it was going to raise minimum wages in mÉxico, that was one of the problems with nafta, you could payple so little in mÉxico and they would be work here illegally, but that would be less of a situation, improvement that is were made. you would be surprise, that would be the best solution forward to lower -- >> guacamole is going to get very expensive. dagen: it is, you talk about avocados largely come from mÉxico. >> mÉxico. dagen: it's produce, it also hurt hurt exports from our farmers who have been hammered by the fight that we've gotten into with china and the supply chain for automobile manufacturers incredibly complicated between mÉxico and the united states and it just simply disrupts business, jonas, makes it harder to operate and create jobs, does it not? >> it's not that trump is wrong and they should be doing more so we don't have to, but that doesn't necessarily mean, look, avocado point, the mexican government can't keep the mob out of the avocado people and can't people across the border nor our military that are less corrupt than police. dagen: mÉxico deported more cent

that puts in jeopardy the new nafta negotiation. very upseteader is by this move, and the mexicans are not going to want to pass nafta if they are being penalized for their experts. it raises questions about the future of trade deals. if the president negotiates a trade deal with a country, and tariff,orces -- imposes then why would you want to negotiate with the united states? we have not talked about the impact of the tariffs on consumers. cars andhe value of other vehicles imported into the united states from mexico was about 68 billion dollars last year. 5% on that would be re-hundred -- $346 billion. you would beober looking at almost 80 $7 billion. and throw in the tariffs, you could get almost a trillion dollars worth of tariffs in place. that would start to really impact consumers per they would ,e paying a lot more for goods about 1% of gdp. it would be a real hit. vonnie: then we have china potentially that may not be a line in the sand for an. one -- yu >> there's two aspects to it, the chinese currency would be a benefit

we are glad that we have achieved an agreement on the new nafta.think free-trade in steel and aluminum should be part of that agreement. >> the saga of a struggling steel mill has taken another turn as the government tries to ensure rescue. >> the frencnch governmement and british steel say they have unlocked the first set of funds needed foror the purchase of the troubled steel mill in northern france. workers are relieveded but cacautiously so.o. if thehe rescue were to fall through, it wouldn't be the first time. after 24 hours of uncertainty, jobs at the steel mill are secure once more. despite financial difficulties, british steel says it has the solution to back the factory. the unions will want to claim victory too soon. >> appararently, we will have te funds over the next couple of days, but we are cautious. the battle between b british stl and the british governmentt -- unfortunately, the bargaining chip is us. >> press in the u.k. reported tuesday that british steel lacked the financial means to purchase the mine. now, thehe government of

>> i call it nafta 2.0. i'm not there yet. i think we do need to get a revised nafta.ns, like general motors still being able to build blazers in mexico. i talked to the ustr trade ambassador lighthizer all of the time and if we see some things addressed, then i probably am one of the more likely democrats to vote for it but i'm not there yet. we need changes. maria: all right. congresswoman, we will watch that important issues we're talking about this morning. good to he see you. >> good to see you. maria: thank you very much. we want to talk more about the conversation, a new cnn poll shows that joe biden is surging in pop latest withi popularity , now 20 points ahead of senator bernie sanders who has 39% of the democratic vote supporting biden. joining us right now is gop strategist john thomas. it's good to see you. thanks for joining us. before we get to 2020, a word on usmca. what did you hear from debbie dingle in terms of the deal? this is an up and down vote. >> it was fascinating. the fact that she's talking -- she even mentioned a gas tax as part of that is

they went all in for nafta, the media went all in for nafta.eople -- pete's constituents, his neighbors. people from the area where he is from and he has been protected his whole life being a wealthy privileged son of a communist professor that he doesn't understand this. that's very surprising. and they have no other argument because otherwise they would have to acknowledge the fact of how they completely ruined so many communities in this country. >> tucker: that is so smart. when you said that clearly it becomes really obvious. thank you for that. >> thanks, always a pleasure. >> tucker: censorship is not simpler problem online, it's everywhere. an art gallery is censoring part of its collection following complaints from visitors. that'slo next. ♪ so... you're driven, and you have a ton of goals... but you're stuck in the vicious cycle of credit card payments. it's time to get a personal loan from sofi. borrow up to $100k to pay off your credit cards, and then pay us back with one monthly payment. and it's all with zero fees. get a personal

it modernizes the nafta agreement, it makes america stronger. the thing democrats have asked for prior, they wanted to hold mexico -- [indiscernible] -- to pass legislation. this is what they asked for in negotiation. what took place last week? mexico passed in their labor laws. for the democrats changing what they want now? now the opportunity is to vote on this and move this forward to make america stronger. i don't know that they need to have more negotiations. negotiations were ahead of time, you had the countries along with ours, combined together to sign it. they can get to that point. i don't believe you should keep moving the goal post because you don't want to vote on something that would make america stronger. yes. >> the republican party has always said, labeled itself as the family values party. can you talk about the president's immigration plan where he puts degrees and grades ahead of families -- [indiscernible] ? >> have you read the proposal? have you read the proposal? >> no. >> ok. let's take the premise of your question. i sa

we talk so much about the back and forth about nafta, versus new nafta and usmca ended up being the name. as you sate as an advocate for small business, is this better than what we have now? better than nafta. if so, why? >> no doubt about it. that agreement needed to be modernized. there was no mention of the internet in the original nafta agreement. we're doing things like protecting intellectual property. and as you know, a lot of innovators are small business so that is really important. connell: yep. >> there is a real focus on the small business piece. that is where most of the jobs come from. if we can pass this agreement we could add potentially another point to our growth and we're already growing well. you talked about the job numbers. remember small businesses are the engine of america. they create almost 70% of the jobs. connell: i know. last thing, hector, the holdup here seems to be tariffs on steel and aluminum. we thought even last night the president was tweeting about u.s. steel an tariffs are working great essentially. chuck grassley is out there saying get rid of this

pushes for the nafta replacement to be ratified, usmca. adoption is time to run up with electoral pressure. sarah mcgregor leads our economic policy coverage in washington. we have a bill in place year, expected to get through. it's interesting mike pence is pushing this, but they have not ratified this in the u.s. will this be a two-way conversation in that regard? >> pence is very much on a goodwill mission to ottawa. a lot of harsh words that trump gave to trudeau last year, calling him weak. steel and aluminum terrace were recently removed. suddenly it looks like there was a factor between two of the biggest allies. mike pence today is showing some goodwill. both countries right now are rushing to get this legislation passed to put the usmca into force. pence said today the congress wants to get it through by the end of summer. elections coming up in canada in the fall. there is a sense that there is this deadline looming. arey: what are the hurdles now to get the democrats to agree to pass the usmca in congress? we have seen in mexico