Jen Psaki

They are top of the list, I think, for a lot of people out there.

Governor J.B.

Pritzker, thank you so much for being here tonight.

We have to sneak in a very quick break, but Senator Elizabeth Warren is standing by.

I'm going to ask her about the corruption at the heart of Donald Trump's tariffs and what this corrupt administration and their rich buddies might try to do next.

We'll be right back.

To truly understand why Donald Trump likes tariffs so much, I think you have to look at the Trump international real estate development currently underway in Vietnam.

When Trump held what he called Liberation Day, as he called it, in April of last year, announcing his slew of proposed new tariffs, Vietnam was slated for some of the highest.

Trump was threatening to put a 46% tariff on Vietnam.

Now, at the same time, the Trump family real estate business was trying to get permission to develop a $1.5 billion new property in Vietnam.

They basically wanted to build enough villas to house 35,000 residents, a 36-hole golf course, of course, theme parks, and a commercial district.

Now, the approval process for something like that in Vietnam typically takes somewhere between two and four years.

But somehow, last year, the Trump family managed to get the Vietnamese government to approve everything in just three months.

Just one month after Trump threatened a 46% tariff on the country, Vietnam's central government short-circuited the process for the Trump family property.

And legal experts described it this way to the time, saying that to fast track the Trump development, Vietnam ignored its own laws.

Vietnamese officials have allowed the Trump project to break ground without completing at least a half dozen legally required steps, from securing all the land and financing to conducting environmental reviews.

The government essentially forced the locals who lived or farmed on the land to sell, to clear the space for the Trump property.

Now, in a letter obtained by The Times, Vietnamese officials explicitly stated that the project required special support from the top ranks of the Vietnamese government because it was receiving special attention from the Trump administration and President Trump personally.

The prime minister of Vietnam himself even spoke at the groundbreaking.

I mean, here he is with Eric Trump.