Ed Ludlow

They spent the weekend really insisting that the EU and other trade blocs and nations must abide by those agreements.

And they tried to offer some assurance that the setback that was dealt to the administration on Friday was temporary.

and that this 15% tariff we heard the president talk about on Saturday by Truth Social was really just going to be a bridge to more lasting tariffs that would be imposed eventually through other authorities.

Now, those authorities are going to take months to investigate and to actually execute and carry out.

And that is going to add a whole lot of uncertainty for those trading partners, including the European Union, which is indicating that it's holding off

on final approval and ratification by the parliament of the deal it struck with Trump last year.

And India, which had just reached a hard-fought agreement with the administration a few months ago, they are now holding off on a meeting that was scheduled for later this week to iron out final details there.

And then, of course, Ed, there is China.

The president is going to meet with Xi Jinping in China a little more than a month from right now.

And the question is whether Trump has lost some leverage heading into that meeting with Xi.

And we saw President Trump with pretty fighting talk for perhaps some countries that thought they'd already cut deals or at least made some progress on inbound investment.

Just take a listen to what was said regarding, well, Taiwan in particular.

You spoke of China there, Mike.

What of Taiwan?

How does this impact tech in particular?

Well, Caro, it's not just Taiwan.

It's Japan and it's South Korea, and it is even the European Union.

As part of those trade agreements, the president had negotiated investments in the U.S.

from those trading partners.

Now, the question is, without the leverage of tariffs to enforce and to guarantee that those investments get made, do they follow through?