00:00The transformation in the economy, unprecedented commitments of NATO partners to defense spending,
00:06peace from India, Pakistan through to Azerbaijan, Armenia, disabling Iran as a force of terror.
00:12Thank you very much.
00:13Thank you very much, Mr. President.
00:14If I may, you kindly hosted me and some of my colleagues a few months ago,
00:19and I said at the time you are a transformative president.
00:23And since then, the transformation in the economy,
00:27unprecedented commitments of NATO partners to defense spending,
00:31peace from India, Pakistan through to Azerbaijan, Armenia, disabling Iran as a force of terror.
00:38And now, and I'm running out of time, but this is, in many respects, the most important.
00:42The merger of Canada and the United States.
00:46That wasn't where I was going.
00:48I would, no, but I, you know, on this, on this solemn day of commemoration of the October 7th,
00:55horrific attacks of October 7th, for the first time in decades, hundreds of years, thousands of years,
01:02this prospect of peace that you've made possible, Canada stands foursquare behind those efforts,
01:08and we'll do whatever we can to support that.
01:09Very nice.
01:10Thank you very much.
01:11Any questions?
01:16What would it take for you to draw or lower your tariffs on Canadian sectors, including aluminum?
01:23Well, we're going to be talking about that with the Prime Minister.
01:26We'll be talking about tariffs.
01:27We'll be talking about a lot of that, but that's for a little bit later on.
01:32I want to just acknowledge our great ambassador.
01:35Is he doing a good job?
01:37He's doing a good job.
01:37Otherwise, I'll get him out of there so fast.
01:40No, you have a good job.
01:41I'm going to be a good job.
01:44Is it the White House's position that furloughed workers should be paid for their back pay?
01:51I would say it depends on who we're talking about.
01:54I can tell you this.
01:55The Democrats have put a lot of people in great risk and jeopardy,
01:59but it really depends on who you're talking about.
02:01But for the most part, we're going to take care of our people.
02:04There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of,
02:07and we'll take care of them in a different way.
02:09Okay?
02:09Mr. President, in your opinion, why has Canada and the United States failed to reach an agreement up until now?
02:19Well, it's a complicated agreement, more complicated maybe than any other agreement we have on trade
02:24because, you know, we have natural conflict.
02:28We also have mutual love.
02:29You know, we have great love for each other.
02:31I love Canada and the people of Canada, and Mark feels the same way about here.
02:36The problem we have is that they want a car company and I want a car company,
02:41meaning the U.S. wants a car company.
02:43And they want steel and we want steel.
02:47You know, so in other countries, they're very far away.
02:51And there's no problem.
02:53You can compete and you can do.
02:55We don't like to compete because we sort of hurt each other when we compete.
02:59And so we have a natural conflict.
03:01It's a natural business conflict.
03:03Nothing wrong with it.
03:04And I think we've come a long way over the last few months, actually, in terms of that relationship.
03:10So when it comes to trade, the United States was always giving everything.
03:15They gave everything to Canada.
03:17They would, you know, let car companies leave here and go to Canada.
03:22But that hurts the United States.
03:24And, you know, other presidents didn't see that.
03:26They weren't business oriented.
03:28They might have been good politicians in some cases, not in all cases.
03:32They were bad at both.
03:32But it's a very natural conflict.
03:37And it's something that we're working on.
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