Trump is using tariffs as a bargaining chip for a border crackdown. Will it work?
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🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, hey, you. |
| 0:06.9 | He is in the Resurrect from the Washington Post. |
| 0:09.1 | Washington Post, this is Wesley. |
| 0:10.8 | Glory, Arightani, over at the post. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.8 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:16.4 | It's Monday, June 3. |
| 0:23.2 | Today, Mexico enters diplomatic overdrive over Trump's tariff threat. |
| 0:27.9 | While a Fisher price kept selling a dangerous product, and Japan won't end its ivory trade. |
| 0:36.2 | This week, the Trump administration plans to kick off negotiations with Mexican officials |
| 0:40.9 | on trade and immigration. |
| 0:42.5 | We want to work with Mexico. |
| 0:44.8 | That's why the President has been asking for months for Mexico to engage, to step up, |
| 0:48.8 | to do more. |
| 0:49.8 | We're going to build the wall. |
| 0:51.2 | We're going to secure our border and the President is going to do what's necessary |
| 0:53.7 | to protect the American people. |
| 0:55.2 | And the stakes are higher than ever. |
| 0:58.6 | President Trump is threatening to impose a 5% tariff, starting on the 10th of June, on |
| 1:04.2 | all Mexican products going into the U.S. |
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