02-12-25 White House Correspondent JON DECKER has just spoken with President Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro and has the latest on the administration’s tariff policy, and what it will mean to you as a consumer.

White House Correspondent JON DECKER has just spoken with President Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro and has the latest on the administration’s tariff policy, and what it will mean to you as a consumer. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael del Choano.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, I got to tell you the red carpet that
was rolled out for John Deck. Was that you filming
that walk that you sent me?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, of course I came out with that great idea.
I did that yesterday, right.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Jordan's that was like carpet treatment. And then you had
a chance to sit down with the Peter Navarro, who
is the President's Trump trade advisor, and you got to
talk a lot about the tariffs and trade. Give us
the four one one.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, that's right. So he was traded advisor to President
Trump in his first term in office, and he's traded
advisor to President Trump in his second term in office.
In fact, one of the few ads when you think
about it, that's return for Donald Trump's second term in
the White House. And I can't think of a more
loyal advisor or stafford to President Trump. After all, Peter

(00:52):
Navarro essentially went to jail, went to prison for Donald Trump,
as you know, because he rebuffed a subpoena from the
January sixth Committee in violation of the law, went to prison,
serve prison time. Still hasn't been pardon, which surprises me.
Maybe that's coming soon. But in any case, he spoke
to me about the tariffs that President Trumps already imposed

(01:14):
and will soon impose upon our trading partners.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
He was one of the economic advisors in the first
Trump campaign, and he happened to be in Nashville and
I had him in studio for an interview. Very intelligent guy,
very intelligent. All right, So we know that the pause.
Where do we stand with a pause with Mexico and
the pause with Canada? And are they cooperating and doing

(01:40):
enough verifiably to keep that pause in pause? And what
will be the impact of the terrorists from China.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, so there is a thirty day pause as it
relates to a majority of products coming from Mexico and Canada.
But the exception, of course, is the new tariffs the
President announced on imported steel and aluminu in Canada exports
to the US seven billion dollars of steel to the
United States, nine billion dollars in aluminum to the United States.

(02:09):
So those costs will be passed along to US manufacturers
that rely on that imported steel and aluminum, and the
cost of that will most certainly be passed along to consumers.
There is a pause on other products that come into
the US from Mexico and Canada, namely produce. And the
pause is in effect because both Mexico and Canada have

(02:31):
a short President Trump that they will crack down on
the flow of migrants and fence andol coming across the
US Mexico and US Canada border.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
What makes it, talking to White House correspondent John Decker,
what makes this also tricky is you never know what's
a process of negotiation versus a certainty and an outcome.
But you know, we know a big part of the
housing problem is we need to build. I live in Nashville,
where there's at least seven into twelve cranes in the
air downtown at any given moment. Take steel to build

(03:05):
a lot of this stuff moving forward. But hopefully through negotiation,
this can all be settled before that. But if it isn't,
expect increase in production cost.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, the President Trump's trade advisor, Peter navarro I, asked
him the question, you know, a year from now, will
we see an increase in terms of jobs created here
in the US in the steel industry, in the industry
that the services aluminum, And he said absolutely, He said,
he said that's what we saw in twenty eighteen, and

(03:37):
he's right, those two industries were certainly helped. But the
big question is do those job gains in those two
particular off that what may be a possible increase in
inflation that we may see and in addition to that
a possible decrease in the job growth rate as well

(04:00):
as the economy growth rate here in the US.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Great reporting is always and you give us great access
to those in the know as always. John Decker, White
House Correspondent.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.