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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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President Trump stands by his move to impose new tariffs on trading partners amidst economic turmoil. CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman, NBC Senior White House Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, and Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel discuss the economic and global impacts of the president’s actions. Senior National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur explains the latest in Congress with a government funding deadline looming and disagreements among Senate Democrats. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) explains why he is voting against the House-passed six month stopgap spending bill. Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings talks about the impacts of the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back staffing at the department.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press now. I'm Kristen Welker. You are looking at the closing bell as Wall Street struggled once again with uncertainty out of Washington, with the president threatening new tariffs on U.S. trading partners and redoubling his rhetoric about annexing new territory. Stocks just ended the day lower across the board with the Dow falling more
0:38.9	than 500 points and the S&P 500 entering what's known as a correction falling 10% from its recent
0:46.7	highs last month. The NASDAQ has been in correction territory since last week. The Dow is close,
0:52.8	but not there yet. It comes after President Trump put
0:55.9	U.S. allies on notice today, militarily, diplomatically, and economically, offering little
1:01.8	in the way of certainty for the economy and global allies. While sitting beside the NATO chief,
1:07.1	President Trump talked about annexing Canada, a NATO ally, as well as Greenland.
1:12.7	To be honest, with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have.
1:18.3	As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway. This would be the most incredible country
1:23.1	visually. Greenland. What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland and getting
1:30.4	them potentially? Well, I think it'll happen. President Trump also railed against U.S.
1:36.7	trading partners saying he will not budge on his plans for sweeping new tariffs while also
1:42.3	conceding there could be some disruptions as a result of his policies.
1:47.4	We've been ripped off for years, and we're not going to be ripped off anymore.
1:50.7	Now, I'm not going to bend at all.
1:52.3	Aluminum or steel or cars.
1:55.6	We're not going to bend.
1:56.5	Now, there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long.
2:02.7	But they need us. We really don't need them. And we have to do this. I'm sorry. We have to do this. Now, it comes after this morning,
2:09.0	the president threatened to impose new 200 percent tariffs on champagne and wine from Europe in
2:15.0	response to the EU's plan to tariff U.S. whiskey. Commerce Secretary
2:19.1	Howard Lutnik defended the new tariffs, saying the president was furious with the retaliation
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