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Donald Trump (0:00)
Sending letters out on Monday having to do with the trade deals could be 12, maybe 15, you know, Secretary of commerce right here. And I guess, Howard, I would say it could be maybe as many as 15 or so. And they'll be going out on Monday and some will go out on Tuesday and Wednesday and it'll, and we've, we've made deals also, so we're going to have a combination of letters and some deals have been made.
Steve Bannon (0:29)
Starting a third party.
Donald Trump (0:30)
I think it's ridiculous to start a third party. We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it's always been a two party system. And I think starting a third party just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked. So he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
Howard (0:53)
Yeah. We are going to have several announcements in the next 48 hours. And Joe, I think what President Trump is concerned about is the quality of the deals, not the quantity. As you could imagine as he started herding the cats and trying to get everyone across the finish line when he said that there's a chance that countries could boomerang back to their April 2nd reciprocal tariff levels. We've had a lot of people change their tune in terms of negotiations. So my, my mailbox was full last night with a lot of new offers, a lot of new proposals. So it's going to be a busy couple of days. But importantly, too, that President Trump has said that they would the countries would not go back to the reciprocal rate until August 1st.
Editorial Board (1:49)
The fatal Texas flooding demands search for answers along with the missing. The board writes in part, quote, was there anything that could have indeed should have been done to move people away from the raging water and avert tragedy while hundreds of people continue to search for missing adults and children, there's no reason other people can't or shouldn't be searching for for answers. We have the wherewithal to do both. One of the differences between those two searches is that with the former, the people engaged in it are completely aligned in what they are seeking. With the latter, we're not as assured that federal, state and regional leaders are eager to dig for information that might reveal truths they don't want to find, or rather that they don't want the public to learn. What matters is that the urgency with which we search for the missing is not allowed to wane at after they are found. It must be maintained and applied to the search for answers that those who survived and the memories of those who perished deserve. And the Dallas Morning News editorial board has a piece entitled so Many what ifs Haunt Guadalupe River Flood. And it reads in part this. Once this initial response has ended and recovery begins, state and local officials need to wrestle with improved warning systems. We need to understand whether improved staffing or technology at either the National Weather Service or the national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could give more accurate advance warning. Local officials, meanwhile, must review their own practices and policies. Should they have acted to require people to move away from the Guadalupe river as they as the rain began to fall? Should people be permitted to live in camp so close to the riverbanks? Those are haunting questions now of what if we could have done a thousand things differently and perhaps spared our state this terrible tragedy? We need to understand those things and do whatever can be done to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
