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They appreciate America because they can grow as a people. | |
| And that's what America is about. | ||
| That's Nisi, Alex Narasta. | ||
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The United States is a wealthy and successful country because we followed a few principles over time. | |
| Rule of law, individual liberty, free markets, peace. | ||
| And immigrants are attracted to that because it grows the economy and makes us a successful place. | ||
| And immigrants in turn help grow the economy and make us freer. | ||
| I think that we are really turning against our traditions. | ||
| We are turning against our values as Americans by closing the border and restricting legal immigration and by cracking down on trying to remove illegal immigrants who are no threat to anybody else. | ||
| So I really hope we go back to the principles that helped this country grow and that welcomed tens of millions of people here lawfully to make us a better country. | ||
| It seems like a good place to end. | ||
| Alex Narasta is with the Cato Institute Vice President there. | ||
| It's Cato.org and we do always appreciate your time. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Luke Broadwater joins us for a look at the week ahead at the White House. | ||
| Luke Broadwater with the New York Times, good morning to you. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| The president left yesterday for the G7 summit. | ||
| That was in Canada. | ||
| But before he left, he spoke briefly with reporters about the latest on Israel and Iran. | ||
| This is about 10 seconds of what the president had to say on the potential for a deal. | ||
| Well, I hope there's going to be a deal. | ||
| I think it's time for a deal and we'll see what happens. | ||
| But sometimes they have to fight it out, but we're going to see what happens. | ||
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I think there's a good chance there'll be a deal. | |
| Luke Broadwater, that was yesterday afternoon. | ||
| Has there been any movement since then? | ||
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Well, right now, the administration is really having a difficult time to figure out what to do about this. | |
| We saw for months and months the administration try to negotiate a deal with Iran. | ||
| They were about to have another meeting, and then these Israeli strikes hit. | ||
| The president was sort of caught off guard by that. | ||
| It wasn't part of the plan, and it has disrupted negotiations, obviously, very much. | ||
| There you hear him saying that they're going to have to fight it out, right? | ||
| So and that's exactly what's happening. | ||
| You're seeing strikes on both countries. | ||
| You now have two dozen Israelis dead, more than 200 Iranians dead. | ||
| And there's going to be questions now about whether the United States will supply more military capabilities to Israel as this war continues. | ||
| You know, the president hopes that this will ramp up pressure for Iran to strike a deal with the United States and with other countries to avoid getting the nuclear bomb. | ||
| But it's definitely, it's thrown a big monkey wrench in the middle of these negotiations. | ||
| In terms of what the priority or what the main message is from the White House right now, is it supporting Israel amid these strikes? | ||
| Is it containing the conflict? | ||
| Or is it bringing Iran back to the negotiation table? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, the president is getting pulled in both directions from different sides of the Republican Party. | |
| There's a lot of Republicans who really want him to stand strongly on the side of Israel. | ||
| And there's a lot who want to stand on the side of peace, right, and not get involved. | ||
| And it's a very tough situation. | ||
| I would say that so far he has been in lockstep with Israel, but there's a lot of pressure to avoid the United States getting further involved in this conflict. | ||
| Luke Broadwater of the New York Times, turn to the G7 summit and what we're expecting from the president as he travels to Canada and what's going to be happening this week. | ||
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Right. | |
| So he's in the Canadian Rockies right now as we speak. | ||
| He's got a packed schedule from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a lot of meetings. | ||
| He's going to have three one-on-one meetings with different world leaders, including Claudius Scheinbaum of Mexico, Mark Carney of Canada, and Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine. | ||
| Obviously, there have been tensions with all three of those countries. | ||
| You know, the president has threatened to make Canada the 51st state. | ||
| That's received a lot of pushback in the host country, Canada. | ||
| And Ukraine is locked in this bitter war with Russia where they've been invaded and are trying to fight them off. | ||
| And so with that conflict, front and center, along with the Iran-Israel conflict, front and center, and frankly, multiple conflicts elsewhere in the world, there's a lot on the plate for these capitalist leaders, for these leaders of the world's biggest democracies. | ||
| And then when it comes to the White House, what more have you heard from the White House about those shootings in Minnesota of the Democratic lawmakers there and since the statement that President Trump made on his Truth Social over the weekend? | ||
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Well, there's a lot of fear for lawmakers across the country. | |
| Political violence is on the rise. | ||
| Obviously, there were the two assassination attempts against President Trump. | ||
| You had the arson at the Pennsylvania governor's house. | ||
| They're getting lots and lots of calls from people who are afraid. | ||
| And it's on both sides of the aisles. | ||
| People are afraid of the heightened rhetoric in this country, the way the right and the left are at each other's throats and hate each other, and the rhetoric that can inspire what they call lone gunmen or lone wolves who will take some of this harsh rhetoric and really believe it and pick up arms and try to do something terrible. | ||
| Luke Broadwater, as if all that isn't enough for you to cover at the White House this week, what else are you watching for? | ||
| What else should be on our radar? | ||
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Yeah, well, there's, I mean, look, there's so much happening all at once, right? | |
| You've got the Trump administration is being sued in court on multiple fronts, including the court case today with Harvard and the banning of international students. | ||
| You've got an immigration crackdown. | ||
| President Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants to ramp up the deportations and he's not happy with the levels of deportation. | ||
| At the same time, they've backed off rounding up people at farms and at work sites. | ||
| So they're trying to figure out a lot of this immigration enforcement policy on the fly. | ||
| When are they going too far? | ||
| When should they pull back? | ||
| And at the same time, they're fighting lawsuits about immigration and about their deportation efforts. | ||
| And to make matters even more complicated, they're still trying to get this one big beautiful bill done. | ||
| I mean, that's held up in the Senate. | ||
| I know the president had a phone call with Senator Rand Paul about that, about some of the fiscal concerns in the Senate. | ||
| So really in the courts, internationally, on the immigration front, this is an extremely busy week for the president. | ||
| And Luke Broadwater and his colleagues in the White House Bureau of the New York Times cover it all. | ||
| And you can, of course, find all that coverage at nytimes.com. | ||
| We always appreciate your time. | ||
| And thanks for starting Monday with us. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Here's just a sampling of some of the headlines this morning in the wake of those shootings over the weekend in Minnesota. | ||
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This is from the front page of the New York Times. | |
| Violent action tied to politics is the new reality. |