At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked about President Trump's popularity.
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00:00We'll take questions on this subject this subject
00:03Yes
00:22The number one factor in terms of Trump's unpopularity is the American people and
00:27And he is becoming less and less popular particularly on issues like this on the economy
00:33His numbers are underwater rather significantly depending on which poll you do
00:38And once the American people say I don't want to embrace somebody. I don't want to vote for somebody
00:43I don't want to support somebody who embraces Trump's policies things begin to change
00:48But public sentiment is everything and we are letting the public know in every way
00:53We can fighting every day on how bad the Trump policies are for them
00:58Yes in the back
01:15Are there certain tariffs that make some sense in a specific area we're being we're being treated unfairly
01:21Yes, but the kind of meat-axe blunderbuss approach that they use across the board on everything and
01:29Huge amounts is typical of this administration. They don't think things through, you know
01:35I dealt with Trump on tariffs back in
01:372017 when he was president because I was a hawk on China and so was he and I met his people I met this guy
01:44Navarro
01:45The guy had no basis of any facts and he sort of had to leave the administration now
01:50He's back running the tariff policy. It's they don't as as Angela talked about they don't look at the facts
01:56He just gets this idea in his head that it's going to be a good thing and does it and then he says he doesn't
02:01Care if the American people pay more, it's crazy
02:06Yes, Tim, please just real quick
02:09What a great question because the dairy issues have I've heard Chuck talk about him. I've heard Tammy Baldwin talk about him
02:15There's a Trump created mechanism to deal with that problem the USMCA negotiated by President Trump, I think it got 89 votes here heavily
02:24Bipartisan, why are they not using the MCA to deal with it?
02:28Because they want money for a tax cut if they used MCA to negotiate the differences
02:34They wouldn't have Peter Navarro saying we're gonna get six trillion dollars that we can use for a tax cut
02:40That's the way they should deal with this problem a
02:42Trump inspired state-of-the-art trade deal that gives them a mechanism for resolving disputes
02:48The fact that they're throwing that aside and going with tariffs tells you that there's something else and it just across the board way
02:54you know now probably when we're treated poorly across the board like with China a
02:59Broader approach might be necessary when it comes to Canada when it comes to Mexico when it comes to Europe
03:05Where we have such?
03:07complicated intercombined
03:09relationships
03:10That kind of approach courts only one
03:13Group the American people the average American family on this subject. Yes
03:18Thank you leader. What is your response to the president's argument that these tariffs will lead to?
03:25reshoring of
03:27Manufacturing overseas and allow for a level playing field for us industries. Yeah
03:31Well, he gets these ideas in his head in his head
03:34He has no proof and most every study and these guys know this has shown that that doesn't happen plain and simple
03:41That's the problem. There's no factual basis here. It's a crazy idea in his head
03:47That hurts American families and does very little benefit and in an untargeted way that makes no sense
03:54Yes
03:56The house introduced a resolution to challenge the emergency declaration Mexico as well other plans to do that in the Senate
04:03Tim I
04:04Wanted a time so I did an emergency challenge on the energy emergency last month and we're all in on Canada
04:11There are different issues
04:12And you know Canada Mexico are not completely the same because of some of the issues with respect to fentanyl, so it's it's different
04:19But let's get this one done
04:21And if we can get this one done and succeed then we also have to see what President Trump does this afternoon
04:26There may be a whole new series of trade or tariff related
04:30motions coming your way soon Lord knows