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In the coming months and years, but in the meantime, know that we are eager to partner with all of you. | |
| I'm excited to begin what I know is the start of a productive and memorable relationship, and I can't wait to work with you all in the coming years. | ||
| Before I finish, I want to again thank you all for posing a resolution in support of the Games, and in particular, to lead sponsors, Mayor Gallego of Phoenix, Mayor Bass of Los Angeles, Mayor Holt of Oklahoma City, and Mayor Richardson of Long Beach. | ||
| I look forward to working with you and all the conference in the coming years to make LA 28 America's Games. | ||
| And we'll make sure that America shines when the world's eyes turn our way. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for attending. | ||
| We stand adjourned. | ||
| Coming up live to a news conference after a court hearing for Kilmar to give us a sense of what to expect from the White House this week, joining us from the White House, Brett Samuels of The Hill. | ||
| He's their White House reporter. | ||
| Mr. Samuels, good morning. | ||
| Thanks for giving us your time. | ||
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Yeah, good morning. | |
| You have a story just published moments, minutes ago, really, when it comes to this delayed deadline that we're hearing about tariffs. | ||
| Tell our people about that. | ||
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Yes, so we've heard President Trump in recent days, he's talking that he's going to send out these letters to countries informing them of this new tariff rate, essentially. | |
| This is the fallout of those Liberation Day tariffs that he imposed in early April, then delayed for 90 days while they worked on negotiations. | ||
| It appears a window for negotiations is over. | ||
| President Trump is sending out these letters starting today. | ||
| He says to about 12 to 15 countries informing them of their new tariff rate. | ||
| But from what we've heard from White House economic officials, those tariffs aren't actually going to go into effect until August 1st. | ||
| So it seems like countries are going to get the notice this week of sort of what their new tariff rate might be, but then they'll go into effect on August 1st. | ||
| So once again, kind of giving a window where countries could negotiate. | ||
| The Trump administration could decide to punt this further. | ||
| But just sort of the latest, I guess, shifting target from what we've seen when it comes to these tariffs from the Trump administration. | ||
| To what extent has the White House talked about concerns over the delay of finalizing deals with some countries or overall concerns that what they promised as far as the rate of those finished deals aren't coming forward? | ||
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Yeah, you know, we heard early on in this process when this delay, this 90-day delay was first announced, this talk of 90 deals in 90 days or that they would somehow be able to broker, you know, numerous trade agreements with these countries because of the threat of tariffs that would bring countries to the table. | |
| The White House has announced deals with the United Kingdom. | ||
| They announced a framework of a deal with China, a framework of a deal with Vietnam. | ||
| But otherwise, to your point, these sort of final trade deals have been slow going, sort of slow to materialize because these things take often months or years to actually negotiate in full. | ||
| So it's quite a condensed timeline to try and get those across the finish line here. | ||
| So I do think the hope is that maybe by giving this new timeline, this new deadline, maybe there can be more progress. | ||
| Maybe there can be some kind of additional agreements with a few other countries that the White House can tout. | ||
| But in the meantime, I think we're going to see President Trump and the White House say that this is sort of how he's doing business. | ||
| They'll call it art of the deal and say that this is how he's operating. | ||
| But certainly President Trump has shown no hesitation to just use tariffs and signal that he's very comfortable using tariffs instead of settling for trade deals. | ||
| Brett Samuels, the Israeli prime minister, expected to visit the White House today. | ||
| What has been said about the nature of the discussions that will take place between him and the president? | ||
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Yeah, so this will be the first face-to-face in-person meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the United States carried out those strikes on Iran in coordination with Israel a few weeks ago. | |
| So that will certainly, I think, be a topic of discussion, kind of where things stand with Iran. | ||
| Obviously, President Trump has at various times signaled sort of an openness to having negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, over some kind of agreement. | ||
| President Trump has indicated he's open to that, so I'm sure Benjamin Netanyahu will have something to say about that. | ||
| But, you know, arguably sort of the top issue will be this push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. | ||
| President Trump had said that Israel had agreed to its sort of side of the deal, that this would be sort of a 60-day pause in fighting to hopefully allow for the release of additional hostages from both sides and potentially broker a longer ceasefire. | ||
| You know, we're still waiting to see if Hamas will agree to this deal. | ||
| This kind of ceasefire has really been elusive as we've seen fighting continue to go on in Gaza with civilians continuing to get injured and killed there. | ||
| And there's sort of differences of opinion here. | ||
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he doesn't want to stop fighting until Hamas is completely eradicated. | ||
| Hamas has pushed for Israel to sort of withdraw from certain parts of Gaza. | ||
| So it'll be interesting to see if President Trump can kind of make any headway or use any of his leverage to get a ceasefire here. | ||
| Will the discussions with the Israeli Prime Minister just be between the two men, or will say the Defense Secretary or the Secretary of State be involved, do you know? | ||
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Yeah, we'll see certainly Secretary of State Marker Rubio, who is also sort of the interim national security advisor. | |
| You know, he's been very involved in a lot of these discussions. | ||
| Would not be a surprise to see him involved here. | ||
| Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, was actually on the plane with Benjamin Netanyahu flying to the U.S. | ||
| So it's possible he will be in these meetings as well. | ||
| We should note that as of now on the public schedule, these meetings are closed to the press. | ||
| It's the Prime Minister's arrival to the White House, and then he's set to have a dinner with the president this evening around 6.30, but that's currently closed to the press. | ||
| So we're still waiting to see. | ||
| It's possible that may open up as these things do, that we'll see those discussions on camera. | ||
| But as of right now, we're still waiting to see whether those will open up or whether that will all take place behind closed doors tonight. | ||
| Brett Samuels, the president indicated yesterday that he may pay a visit to Texas later on this week. | ||
| Can you elaborate on if he'll go and what he hopes to accomplish if he does? | ||
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Yeah, President Trump's saying on Sunday evening as he was coming back to the White House that he's looking at Friday potentially to visit Texas. | |
| You know, typically presidents, and President Trump alluded to this, presidents may sometimes wait to visit sort of disaster zones or areas where tragedies have taken place so that first responders can continue to work without the heavy security presidents and sort of the heavy logistical hurdles that require that are required of presidential visits. | ||
| So we may see the president go down to Texas on Friday to tour sort of the aftermath of some of this catastrophic flooding that we've seen. | ||
| Obviously dozens of people killed, dozens of people missing in these floods. | ||
| Camp Mystic has been sort of at the center of all this. | ||
| So I think we can expect to see President Trump, if and when he does visit Texas, meet with state and local officials and sort of try to offer his support. | ||
| But obviously a very sad situation unfolding there in Texas. | ||
| There were questions yesterday about staffing at the National Weather Service, the future of FEMA. | ||
| How is the White House prepping for these larger discussions stemming from what occurred in Texas? | ||
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Yeah, so far there hasn't been sort of a concrete indication that those cuts the National Weather Service have played a role here in what happened in Texas. | |
| Inevitably, this is going to put a big spotlight on how the Trump administration has approached these things, how they've made cuts. | ||
| The National Weather Service and other agencies, the fact, as you mentioned, that President Trump has basically, since the start of his term, said he wants to get rid of FEMA, essentially phase it out. | ||
| The White House has sort of pushed back on those. | ||
| President Trump, we heard from him on Sunday evening, you know, say, as far as the National Weather Service, sort of downplayed the idea that those cuts had any impact. | ||
| And in addition, when it comes to FEMA, sort of brushed aside those questions, said it was not the time to be talking about that. | ||
| But of course, when something like this happens, it is going to put a spotlight on, you know, these cuts, these phase-outs, these things that the Trump administration are trying to do with these agencies. | ||
| And Democrats, of course, have already suggested that maybe there should be investigations or maybe reviews of what, if any, impacts those cuts had with what happened in Texas. | ||
| You highlighted already several things from the White House. | ||
| What else might we expect from them this week? | ||
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Yeah, I think the trade deals will be top of mind. | |
| We'll see if there are other calls with foreign leaders, potential fallout. | ||
| You know, we saw President Trump at the end of last week. | ||
| He spoke to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Dzelensky, whether we see any fallout from that. | ||
| But, you know, certainly I think those trade deals are going to be sort of front and center this week. | ||
| And I think we'll be keeping an eye on whether the president announces any travel around the country to sort of tout that one big beautiful bill that he signed into law on Friday, sort of the key signature piece of legislation for President Trump and Republicans. | ||
| Obviously, Democrats will be going on the attack over that, but we'll see if the White House announces any travel this week for the president to kind of hit the road and try to sell a bill that polling has shown the public is already kind of skeptical of. | ||
| You can see our guest work at thehill.com, Brett Samuels, who reports from the White House for The Hill. | ||
| Thanks for your time. | ||
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You bet. | |
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| This is from The Wall Street Journal, a piece that came out recently taking a look at what people think about the economy under this president. | ||
| It says, voters now agree it's President Trump's economy. |