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I think that right now we're managing a massive number of requests for negotiations. It's actually logistically quite challenging just to go through them. It's something that I've been spending a lot of the time this morning doing because at NSC, at NEC, what we have to do is prioritize the meetings for the president. And there are so many to go through that we're actually getting ready to present a plan for him on who and when. But yeah, he obviously prioritizes two of our closest allies at Trading Partners Japan in Korea and the word out of those conversations was really positive, and positive really for American workers, American farmers, there are a heck of a lot of concessions on the table. In the end, the president, of course, is going to be the one who decides whether the deal is good enough to change his mind about the tariffs.

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What we're not talking about is oil was $76, now $65. Gasoline prices are going to plummet. Any other time, that would be the number one story. In fact, if you go to the polls, what will get you elected as president? Much cheaper gasoline or Wall Street crying. I'm just being honest about it, right? So yeah, people have these stocks in their 401(k)s, and guess what? We've been through it. There's a correction on average every year. There's a bear market every couple years. I think most people are accustomed to that,

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What we have wrong here, Shannon, is this isn't a trade war. This is balancing our, our economy with countries that have taken advantage of us. There's countries for decades that have got rich over the backs of the workers here in, in America. What's happened is we've lost manufacturing jobs were because of our unfree, uh, unfree, um, unfair trade deals that have left America, went to other countries, building their products and turning it back around and selling it to our economy. The countries need access to our economy because we're the largest and the greatest economy in the world. The problem is it's costing us manufacturing jobs. It is time for someone to stand up. And I applaud president Trump for having a backbone and being the first president to ever stand up and say, hold on a second. It's not about today's economy. It's about the future of America's economy going down the road. We know the trade deficits have spread. They've only got worse year after year after year. And at some point, Someone had to do something about it and President Trump is finally doing that.

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