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🗓️ 9 June 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy. |
0:06.2 | I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University. |
0:09.9 | With me today is my regular co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican Factotum, Jay Carson. |
0:15.1 | Good morning, Mike. |
0:16.0 | How are you doing today, Jay? |
0:17.4 | Well, it's a dark day in Cleveland, but I'm here nonetheless. Yes, we'll try to |
0:24.8 | put that behind us and get on with the weekend news, but yes, I too am mourning the end of |
0:33.5 | perhaps an era. But anyway, that would be for another podcast. So, you know, I thought we'd start |
0:38.1 | once again with trade. This week, the G7 countries, which are the world's seven largest |
0:44.8 | developed democratic economies, are meeting in Quebec, Canada. Now, the mood was understandably |
0:51.4 | tense given President Trump's cavalier use, I'd call it, of a highly |
0:56.9 | questionable national security trade law provision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. |
1:02.7 | And he's using that because under that provision doesn't need congressional approval to put |
1:07.0 | these tariffs in place. |
1:08.6 | Now, just prior to the meeting, the president suggested that Russia be admitted to the group, |
1:13.9 | or rather be readmitted to the group. |
1:15.7 | And it was a part of that when it was called a G8 from 1997 until 2014 when its membership |
1:22.4 | was suspended due to its unlawful annexation of Crimea. |
1:27.4 | Now, President Trump's push for these tariffs, which have been talking about for a while, |
1:32.0 | and his clear lack of interest in multilateral diplomacy, I think they've been consistent themes of his presidency. |
1:39.1 | And it's something that a lot of people, including me, believe is, you know, potentially weakening the international |
1:45.9 | system economically and also in terms of security, perhaps. And this, of course, is something |
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