You're tariffing us apart

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🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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North America isn't getting along anymore. Canada's Prime Minister is having testy phone calls with President Trump about the War of 1812. Mexico has slapped the United States with a $3 billion dollar tax bill. It all comes down to steel. Today, U.S. senators from both aisles announced new attempts to curb the president's tariffs power. Vox’s Matthew Yglesias explains how steel sparked a trade war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Benderplug.
0:02.0	Rommus from?
0:03.0	Hey, yeah. Guess what's back this week?
0:07.0	I think it's Zipper Cruder, and I think I already know that because I feel like we've
0:12.0	been here before.
0:14.0	Zippercruder.com slash Explained.
0:17.0	Yeah. Hasn't this happened before?
0:20.0	I feel like it has, yeah. Yeah, the smartest way to hire, right?
0:24.0	The smartest way to hire.
0:25.0	The smartest way to hire.
0:31.0	It looks like the United States is breaking up with some of its best friends.
0:35.0	This week, Mexico hit the US with about $3 billion worth of tariffs on pork, on cheese,
0:42.0	on steel, and a whole bunch of other goods.
0:45.0	And just yesterday, CNN broke a story about a testy phone call between President Trump and Justin Trudeau over steel tariffs.
0:53.0	Trudeau was all, why are you doing this?
0:56.0	Trump was all, you're a national security threat.
0:59.0	Trudeau was all, what are you talking about?
1:03.0	And Trump apparently was all, Canada burned down the White House in 1812.
1:09.0	And the White House burned, burned, burned, and we're the ones that did it.
1:13.0	And Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies, wha-wha-wha, in the war of 1812.
1:20.0	This is Inernist, the start of a trade war, and it all started with steel.
1:25.0	And back in March, I asked Matthew Eglaceus why steel?
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