Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington.

We're at this hour.

Former President Jimmy Carter's remains are on the way to the U.S. Capitol,

where he will lie in state in the rotunda until his memorial service

Thursday morning. We will bring you the revival ceremony when it begins. But first, we go to South

Florida, where President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging news conference today full of grievances

and false claims. Trump laid out agenda items for his first term, including an apparent push for a new

era of American imperialism with a foreign policy that would seek to dramatically expand America's

borders by economic or military force. Answering a question from my colleague von Hilliard,

Trump said he's considering using the U.S.'s enormous economic leverage to take over Canada.

Are you also considering a military force to annex and acquire?

No, economic force.

Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.

You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take

a look at what that looks like. And it would also be much better for national security. Don't

forget, we basically protect Canada. So why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect

Canada? And I said that to, as I called him, Governor Trudeau, I said, listen,

what would happen if we didn't subsidize you, if we didn't, because we give them a lot of money?

Why are we supporting a country, $200 billion plus a year, our military is at their disposal,

all of these other things, they should be a state.

That's why I told Trudeau when he came down, I said, what would happen if we didn't do it?

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