Trump Admin. Offers Days Of Conflicting Statements On Tariffs

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed executive actions that delay for nearly one month tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada that are covered by the USMCA free trade treaty, a significant walkback of the administration’s signature economic plan that has rattled markets, businesses, and consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.9	The president who cried tariffs?
0:21.6	Well, now everyone from our neighbors to Wall Street is asking,
0:24.6	what's he actually trying to do?
0:26.6	Plus, Trump puts Elon Musk and doge on a kind of a leash,
0:29.6	why he wants Mr. chainsaw to now use a scalpel,
0:32.6	and telling him to get more aggressive.
0:34.6	And could Derek Chauvin be pardoned?
0:38.0	Conservative commentators latch on to the idea, including one of Trump's most powerful
0:41.8	advisors.
0:43.0	All tonight on Laura Coates Live.
0:49.5	All right, everyone, at this point, you are probably asking yourself this very question.
0:57.2	Are we in a trade war with our neighbors or are we not in a trade war with our neighbors?
1:01.3	It seems like even President Trump doesn't actually know what direction to take because he's hitting the pause button again, delaying most tariffs on Mexico and Canada for now a month.
1:11.6	Our ILIs, frankly, they're confused.
1:13.6	Businesses don't know what to do in the markets, while they're in the red.
1:17.6	Trump was asked about all of this in the Oval Office.
1:21.6	Some of these exemptions that have been announced in some of these temporary delays,
1:25.6	have you been influenced in those decisions because of the market reaction? Well, there are no delays at all. No, nothing to do with the
1:32.3	market. I'm not even looking at the market. No delays? Not quite. He outright delayed the tariffs on
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