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_So unconstitutional_ so unlawful__ CT AG says Trump _doesn_t have the power_ to impose tariffs(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: And joining us now is Connecticut's Attorney General, William Tong,
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General, Thanks for joining us. Your state was part
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  Speaker 1: of this case before the International Trade Court. You netted
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  Speaker 1: a victory, but then it was paused by the appeals court.
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  Speaker 1: So help us understand how long could this battle go on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we're going to get into court pretty
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  Speaker 2: quickly on this. And it wasn't a block you said,
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  Speaker 2: it was a pause. It was a big win, and
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  Speaker 2: it moved pretty quickly. This wasn't a temporary restraining order.
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  Speaker 2: It's stund a preliminary in junction. This is a final judgment,
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  Speaker 2: a final judgment that says what everybody knows. Congress has
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  Speaker 2: the power over tariffs Article one, section eight, as Jane
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  Speaker 2: said in the prior segment, and the President doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the power un laterally under the International Emergency Economic Powers
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  Speaker 2: Act or AIPA to assess tariffs all over the world
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  Speaker 2: on countries for which it has no one has declared
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  Speaker 2: an emergency. And so it's so unco constitutional, so unlawful,
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  Speaker 2: that it didn't take long for this federal court, the
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  Speaker 2: Court of International Trade, to determine that this had to
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  Speaker 2: be stopped.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to the Federal Circuit. They paused it.
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  Speaker 2: It's an administrative state, just to give everybody time to
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  Speaker 2: file their papers and get ready to go to court
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  Speaker 2: and go before United States Court of Appeal. And we
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  Speaker 2: feel confident about our chances there because we think the
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  Speaker 2: court will see it.
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  Speaker 3: The same way.
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  Speaker 1: The administration had tried to argue in one court filing
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  Speaker 1: that blocking these tariffs quote would cause significant and irreparable
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  Speaker 1: harm to US foreign policy and national security, adding that
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  Speaker 1: negotiations with trading partners are in a quote delicate state.
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  Speaker 1: Now the judge apparently didn't buy that argument. But what's
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  Speaker 1: your reaction to the administration trying to convince the courts
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  Speaker 1: that this is why they should let the tariffs stay
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  Speaker 1: in place.
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  Speaker 2: Frankly, it's hard to overstate how much harm, how much
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  Speaker 2: I repel will harm the president. And this terriff action
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  Speaker 2: has done already to states, to Connecticut, families and small businesses.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if these tariffs are able to proceed, just
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  Speaker 2: the twelve states that are in our coalition in this case,
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  Speaker 2: we might have to pay more than three point four billion.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars more over the next year, just the states.
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  Speaker 2: That's taxpayers in our twelve States, and you think about
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  Speaker 2: the damage that's being done right now to Connecticut families.
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  Speaker 2: I have three teenagers nineteen sixteen thirteen. As we look
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  Speaker 2: forward to we're going into summer, but we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to buy clothing, shoes, school supplies. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: that comes from overseas, China, Canada, Europe.
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  Speaker 3: We need a new car in our family.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that we're looking forward to over the next year,
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  Speaker 2: year and a half. Those prices for cars are already
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  Speaker 2: up twelve percent or more.
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  Speaker 3: Food, particularly ethnic food.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Chinese American and a lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we buy for meals, nights, weekends, holidays, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that comes from overseas, and the price of that is skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 2: And never mind, in Connecticut we have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: big manufacturers. We have Skorski that makes black Hawk helicopters.
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  Speaker 2: We have Electric Boat that makes nuclear submarines, Pratt Whitney
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  Speaker 2: that makes jet engines. Think about the price of material
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  Speaker 2: for all of those companies to make products national security,
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  Speaker 2: defense related products that are vital for our national security
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  Speaker 2: and to protect the American people.
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  Speaker 3: How much more expensive that is.
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  Speaker 1: Getting Attorney General, you and I have talked before about
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  Speaker 1: your family story coming from China and immigrating to the US.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to get your reaction to the breaking
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  Speaker 1: news from the Supreme Court this morning which will allow
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  Speaker 1: the White House to end protections for over half a
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  Speaker 1: million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while the
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  Speaker 1: appeals process plays out. Your reaction, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, but I think you're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about a four year old who may lose life saving
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  Speaker 2: health care.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Chinese students are.
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  Speaker 2: Being targeted right now, international students that are so vital
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  Speaker 2: to higher education here in this country. And then of
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  Speaker 2: course the birth rate case. I was in the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court a couple of weeks ago, and the implications of
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  Speaker 2: all of these action decisions. It boils down to what
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  Speaker 2: happens to these people, to children, to children who are sick,
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  Speaker 2: to students, to families.
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  Speaker 3: If they lose their status, where do they go? Do
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  Speaker 3: they become stateless?
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  Speaker 2: Can what will they do about work?
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  Speaker 3: About housing?
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  Speaker 2: And we know the federal government doesn't have the manpower
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  Speaker 2: to ship twelve, fifteen, twenty million people or whatever their
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  Speaker 2: crazy number is out of this country and to process
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  Speaker 2: those people. And so what are we going to have
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have random attacks on people in this
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  Speaker 2: streets like we saw in Worcestern, Massachusetts, not far from
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  Speaker 2: where I'm sitting right now. It's it's starting to feel
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  Speaker 2: not just uncertain, but for many people, for many families,
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  Speaker 2: like a like a terror state and a police state.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong appreciate you joining us. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.