talk to your doctor or learn more at savedbythescan.org . >>> and now back to maria bartiromo's exclusiveew with blackstone ceo stephen schwarzman. maria: do you think we'll get a deal done with canada and mexico perhaps before the elections this summer, july 1, and is that one of the reasons that the markets have been so volatile, some of the uncertainty around trade? >> yeah. with nafta, which is the agreement with those two countries and the united states, they've spent sort of a long tough year of working on this. and i think they are -- they've resolved the economic issues to reduce the deficit principally from mexico. and with canada sometimes we're in complete balance. depends on where their currency is. sometimes we're in surplus with canada. it's not a big arithmetic issue. it's a legal type issue. maria: so you think you're close? >> we're close. there are one or two issues. for example, the u.s. wants a five-year blowup, if you will, and everybody has to recommit to it. neither of the two countries really like that. and it's pretty unprecedented. that's probably the biggest iss