Scott Besant

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860 appearances 122 recordings 17 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Jun

Scott Besant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Well, Brian, first of all, it's all the president, especially on the 18 important trading partners. We're doing bespoke deals, and he's going to be intimately involved.
in every one two weeks ago when we had the japanese delegation come in he started it in the oval and then we took them into the negotiating room so he laid the groundwork told them personally how important the relationship was but also how important a fair deal for the american people is so uh and do you see there that state regime media fox brian kilmeade goes outside of the president
Probably you get the best reviews of anyone in the administration outside the president. Your thoughts about the U.S.-China deal?
I believe that he is referring to sub-deals within the negotiations we're doing. And, Martha, if there are 180... But those aren't actual deals. Martha, if there are 180 countries, there are 18 important trading partners. Let's put China to the side because that's a special negotiation. There are 17 important trading partners. And we have a process in place over the next 90 days to...
Not at present. We have some great retailers. I assume they pre-ordered. I think we'll see some elasticities. I think we'll see replacements. And then we will see how quickly the Chinese want to de-escalate.
Plan on calling your counterpart? We will see what happens with China. That it's it's important. I think it's unsustainable from the Chinese side. So maybe they'll call me one day.
Well, look. That's why I believe it's unsustainable.
Well, Brian, first of all, it's all the president, especially on the 18 important trading partners. We're doing bespoke deals, and he's going to be intimately involved in every one. Two weeks ago, when we had the Japanese delegation come in, he started it in the Oval, and then we took them into the negotiating room.
So he laid the groundwork, told them personally how important the relationship was, but also how important a fair deal for the American people is.
A learning curve, Scott. In this meritocratic administration, a learning curve at the Pentagon? Yeah.
Most Americans in a 401k have what's called a 60-40 account.
All this was, again, this was driven by the president's strategy. He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all along. And you might even say that he goaded China into a bad position. They responded, they have shown themselves to the world to be the bad actors. And we are willing to cooperate with our allies and with our trading partners who did not retaliate.
It wasn't a hard message. Don't retaliate. Things will turn out well.
China is the most imbalanced economy in the history of the modern world and they are the biggest source of US trade problems and indeed they are problems for the rest of the world and President Trump responded very courageously to that and we are going to work on a solution with our trading partners.
You started the morning saying, be cool.
All this was, again, this was driven by the president's strategy. He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all along. And you might even say that he goaded China into a bad position, they responded. They have shown themselves to the world to be the bad actors. And we are willing to cooperate with our allies and with our trading partners who did not retaliate.
It wasn't a hard message. Don't retaliate. Things will turn out well.
Mr. Secretary, the campaign's over. You won. So I'm asking what the plan is. So the Treasury secretary said on another network, we're going to hold the course. It's not the kind of thing you can negotiate away in days or weeks. That makes it sound like the tariffs are staying in place at least for days or weeks. Is that correct?
Or is the president considering postponing implementation to negotiate?
We don't have zero-zero, actually, because when we saw the president stand in the Rose Garden holding up that chart that you helped make, That wasn't actually tariffs. That was actually confusing to investors because it was some kind of other formula, and the countries themselves seemed kind of random.
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