Jamieson Greer
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So typically what I don't do is divulge the contents of my discussions. What are the details of the pause? Well, my understanding is that because so many countries have decided not to retaliate, we're going to have about 90 days.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
What do you know about this pause? What are the details of it? Well, the details, as I understand it, is that China continues to retaliate. Other countries didn't retaliate. The president two or three days ago said we wanted to negotiate with those countries that asked for that asked for meetings. That's what we're doing. What are the details?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
I understand it's 90 days. I haven't spoken to the president.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So, Senator, I would just refute that when the president is talking about the nature of the emergency we have. Can you talk a little bit closer to the mic, please? Certainly. Senator, I would just say, you know, I think you need to look at what the president issued in terms of the order for the legal basis for what we're doing, right?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
I mean, the president very rightly hit on this issue of fentanyl migration coming from northern and southern borders, and it's a real emergency.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Well, Senator, you can certainly always talk to me.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Well, I'm at the tip of the spear for certain.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So first of all, I would push back, Senator, just a little bit on this. For now, we've excluded pharmaceuticals and semiconductors to take a different kind of approach. And we've excluded USMCA.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So the president, again, is the final decision maker on all of these things, and he has directed that there not be exclusions.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
We're addressing the $1.2 trillion deficit, the largest in human history that President Biden left us with. We should be running up the score in Australia.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, despite the agreement, they ban our beef, they ban our pork, they're getting ready to impose measures on our digital companies.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
We have a global tariff on every... We're trying to address the $1.2 trillion deficit that Biden left us with.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, the president is fixed in his purpose. This trade deficit and the offshoring and loss of manufacturing jobs is something that's persisted for too long, and it's dangerous.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
I think the most serious inflation we saw was during the Biden administration. When we did tariffs in the first term, inflation went down. It's not going to be a one-to-one. Inflation is about how much money you're putting into the supply.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, the fundamentals of the economy are so strong. We had 228,000 jobs last month. We have 9,000 additional manufacturing jobs from the month before.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, your hypotheticals are not consistent with the history we have seen with the use of tariffs.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
What are you doing to address that? The whole sentence, Senator, said that we need to get away from government spending as funding our economy and financialization, and we need to move to real goods and services, including the tourism you're talking about.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
One thing I'll say is we can't have the status quo, right? I keep hearing that we should have, essentially what I'm hearing is we should have the status quo. We should keep the $1.2 trillion trade deficit that Biden left us with.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Well, Senator, as we're talking to all of these countries, we are talking about services. We are talking about making sure that we can export services to other countries. A lot of those that we export are, you know,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, I think the economists who are making these projections, who often are in favor of fully unfettered free trade, are the same ones you said in the first Trump term.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Senator, that's not going to happen. We've lost 5 million manufacturing jobs over the years, which is the number I'm most worried about. And we have to get those jobs back.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
The giant and massive persistent trade deficit that Biden left us with is an emergency. It's not like the small deficits from the 60s when we had auto workers here making production. We've offshored all this stuff. Mr. Daga, and we are really in an emergency situation, and we're not passing the buck.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
We did it at breakneck speed. We did it in about two years.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Sitting here. And under discussion.