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Secretary Lutnick This Week: March 7

Business Today: Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary Of Commerce Gives Clarity On Trump Tariffs On India

[Howard Lutnick] the key man leading the charge in global trade negotiations on behalf of President Donald Trump. Every single thing he has done and said since his appointment has made global headlines, and this is the first time that Lutnick will be speaking to an Indian audience live after assuming this important charge. [Full Video]

CNBC Television: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: Tariffs will 'knock down protectionist walls of the world'

When the President says the Golden Age is coming. I mean, I'm meeting with these companies. They're all coming, the big car companies. They're all bringing it back. Everybody's going to do manufacturing here. The growth rate in American production. Remember, every trillion of investment in America is one point of GDP, and he's already brought in, he announced the other day, $1.3 trillion. And the factories are coming, and it's going to be massive. [Full Video]

Fox News: Trump official reveals new details on Canada-Mexico tariff plan

You heard the President say, $1.3 trillion coming in. I think you're going to see two, three, and ultimately, by the end of this year, $4 trillion of committed investment coming into the country, lowering prices, not paying the tariff, hiring Americans for great American jobs. You're going to see the resurgence of America. [Full Video]

Bloomberg Television: This Isn't a Trade War, It's a Drug War: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick

But in this period of time, America needs a president to protect people from fentanyl that shouldn't be killing people in our country, China still has fentanyl as the highest list of subsidies. Subsidies. They subsidize the production of precursors, the ingredients to fentanyl. They send it to Mexico and Canada and into the country it comes. So, our president has said, enough already, enough already. [Full Video]

Fox Business: Trump will come out angry, Americans are still being killed by fentanyl, Howard Lutnick says

We talked to Canada and Mexico and said, look, you got to close the border, and you got to end this illegal immigration. It's enough. It is enough, if you respect this as your best trading partner, end it, and you've got to end fentanyl. And the way we're going to describe fentanyl is very simple, autopsy American deaths, they got to end. They just got to end. I don't want to hear you talk about it. I want Americans to stop being murdered by opioids and fentanyl. And so, they did a nice job on the border to start, but the fentanyl deaths are just not declining in the way we expected. [Full Video]

CNBC Television: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: This is not a trade war, this is a drug war

Let's differentiate between today's tariffs, which are about saving American lives, China makes the opioid products, and then Mexico and Canada feed them into America, and that's got to end. They've done a nice job on the border, but they haven't stopped the flow of fentanyl. And then, if you want to talk about trade policy, that starts April 2, and that's a very, clear reset that these countries have used us and abused us, and that is going to change, but that starts April 2. So, let's keep the two separate. [Full Video]

President Trump Makes an Investment Announcement

President Trump's fundamental objective is to bring semiconductor chip manufacturing home to America. [Full Video]

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown: Commerce Secretary Lutnick says Trump does not think Zelensky should resign

[The President] wants to bring auto manufacturing back to America. He wants to reinvigorate Michigan and Ohio, and that's the plan of his tariff policy. But that's the April 2. So, you got to differentiate between the two. . . We want these great American jobs back home. We're tired of exporting. . . We want to buy American cars. We like cars made in America, built by Americans in America. [Full Video]

Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo: Trump commerce secretary shreds Zelenskyy's security guarantee requests: 'Just ridiculous' 

This President is totally focused on building America back, and we're going to use tariffs to create fairness. . . We need fairness, and we need the strength of Donald Trump to make the world reasonable to America and stop picking us off. It's over. Donald Trump is going to end it and make the world trade fairly with America. [Full Video]