Jen Psaki

For starters, there's Lutnick's role in the Trump administration's very own Bridgegate scandal.

For years, the federal government's been involved in building a new bridge that runs between Canada and the United States, between Detroit and Windsor.

That Detroit-Windsor crossing, by the way, is the busiest land border crossing not just between our two countries, it's the busiest land border crossing in the entire world.

More stuff goes across that land crossing than anywhere else.

Trump himself was a big supporter of the project during his first term.

It's called the Gordie Howe Bridge.

It's named after the legendary Canadian hockey player Gordie Howe, who played for the Detroit Red Wings.

Again, a bridge between the two countries.

Gordie Howe was that bridge.

But the new bridge was going to compete against another bridge nearby that happened to be privately owned by a billionaire who collects toll money anytime anyone crosses it.

So that billionaire owner of the existing private toll bridge held a meeting a few weeks ago with the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick.

And within a few hours, all of a sudden, this bridge that Donald Trump liked, Trump was suddenly threatening to block that new bridge from ever opening to the public.

The New York Times asked the Commerce Department for comment on the bridge decision.

They didn't respond.

And in another universe, that would have been huge front page news for weeks.

It's a scandal.

This massive bridge between these two countries, these massive trading partners.

For Lutnick, it was just Tuesday.

Then there was the way Lutnick's family appears to be profiting from their bets against Trump's signature tariff policy itself.

So if you know anything about Howard Lutnick, you know that when he's in front of the cameras, big smiley guy, he's been one of the biggest cheerleaders for those tariffs.