Ep. 308: A First Look at the USMCA Trade Deal

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🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Is the new USMCA better than NAFTA? The Heritage Foundation's Tori Whiting joins us to discuss the new North American trade deal President Trump hawked Monday, and what the next steps are. Plus: Kanye West tells the truth about the left on "Saturday Night Live." We also cover these stories:--President Trump calls on FBI to "do a very comprehensive investigation" of allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.--California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed legislation that would have required public universities in the state to offer abortion pills at campus clinics.--The restaurant where Sen. Ted Cruz was recently harassed by a mob of protesters is being forced to hire security.The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, October 2nd.
0:09.0	I'm Jenny Maltobano.
0:11.0	And I'm Kate Trinco.
0:12.0	Today we're going to sit down with Tori Whiting at the Heritage Foundation to discuss the new trade deal that President Trump has announced. She'll unpack that for us.
0:20.0	Plus, we're going to discuss how Kanyay West did some truth-telling on S&L but didn't make it to air.
0:27.0	But first we'll cover a few of the top headlines. President Donald Trump addressed the FBI investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Judge
0:42.0	Brett Kavanaugh,
0:42.9	in the Rose Garden on Monday.
0:44.7	He referred to the, quote, trauma that Kavanaugh
0:46.9	has gone through since sexual assault allegations
0:49.8	and cautioned against any kind of a witch hunt from occurring.
0:53.0	Trump alluded that he is open and willing to the FBI doing whatever they think is necessary
0:57.1	to properly investigate the allegations in the time frame allowed.
1:01.0	Here is President Trump discussing it.
1:02.6	But I can tell you he's been treated horribly.
1:04.4	He's a good man. He's a good man with a great family.
1:07.9	I think he's been treated horribly.
1:09.5	Lindsey Graham was I thought terrific the other day and he brought up one point that is now
1:17.4	being discussed by a lot of people and that's who is going to want to run for office, be in office, take an appointment of not just Supreme Court.
1:26.0	Since we're talking about Trump's Presser Monday, I just have to add this one clip.
1:30.0	It just cracked me up.
1:31.0	This is Trump addressing a question about Kavanaugh and drinking. It just
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