Evening Edition: President Trump Meets With Canada's Prime Minister Carney
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. I'm Eben Brown. Canada's new leader comes to the White House to meet President Trump face-to-face.

It went well, we think. And so I do think that there was an expectation that this could have been a pretty frosty Oval Office meeting. It wasn't. President Trump was very consolatory. He congratulated the prime minister on his win. They kind of needled each other about how important Trump was in the election. This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. ♪♪

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to deploying the latest AI technology. This is a new era of American innovation. Find out more at g.co slash American innovation. Mark Carney is the new prime minister of Canada. He took the reins of the ruling Liberal Party from the resigned Justin Trudeau.

But just days ago, he led his party to an election victory where mere months ago, it was all but assured that Canada's Conservative Party would wrestle control away from the Liberals. And what happened?

It might have been President Trump that happened. The president's announcement of tariffs on the U.S.'s northerly neighbors seemed to send the Canadian federal campaigns into a tizzy, as did all the talk about Canada becoming the 51st United State. And while party leaders made big speeches about standing up for Canadian sovereignty and against what they claimed to be overbearing trade demands by the U.S., the meeting today between Prime Minister Carney and President Trump seemed not

to be so contentious. It wasn't like the passive-aggressive interactions with Trudeau in the past or that heated meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Nobody was called governor. But listen, I think the context here matters a lot, right? Mark Carney is the Liberal Party leader in Canada. His party won the federal elections there about a week ago. He won

is the successor to Justin Trudeau, who did not have a good relationship with President Trump at all. Jared Halpern is our Fox News audio correspondent stationed at the White House. But the tariffs, the 25 percent tariffs now that the U.S. puts on Canadian goods and all of this talk from President Trump about annexation just absolutely turned this election in Canada upside

on its head. The conservative party, the opposition party, was favored to win this election for months. It seemed like they were going to run away with it. And this entire election kind of became a referendum on Donald Trump and who is better positioned to kind of negotiate and take this strong tact with President Trump. The conservative party leader certainly was aggressive against Trump, but

It's kind of later in the game. He kind of initially was seen as very kind of MAGA light. I mean, Canada MAGA, right? But at any rate, would we say MIGA for that? I don't know how to say it in French. But yeah.

But, you know, the entire election was about that. And so, you know, the day or the night of the election that the win, Carney comes out and talks about the great American betrayal and how this relationship, as we know, it is over. And so I do think that there was an expectation that this could have been a pretty frosty Oval Office meeting. It wasn't. President Trump was very conciliatory. He congratulated Trump.

The prime minister on his win. They kind of needle each other about how important Trump was in the election. But the question came up, President Trump, are you still interested in Canada becoming the 51st state? Yes, I am. He talked about how the border is, you know, just kind of this artificial line. He talked about how this would be a great marriage because both partners love each other so much.

And Mark Carney was like, no, absolutely not. There were some things and I'll put this in real estate terms that just are not for sale. Canada is one of those things that is just not for sale. And President Trump was like, well, never say never. And they kind of moved on from it. But it was kind of an extraordinary moment because the bulk of what these two are talking about really is this trade relationship. Yeah.

You know, obviously, President Trump has been very critical, not just with Canada, but with a lot of countries about the way that he views these trade relationships, these imbalances. He continues to say that the United States is subsidizing Canada. The Canadian prime minister pushed back on that a little bit, but also made clear that there are definitely elements of the USMCA, the successor to NAFTA.

that he doesn't like either and wants to see change. Did not seem that coming out of this meeting that that 25% tariff rate on Canadian goods was going to be removed. In fact, President Trump was asked, is there anything that Carney could offer you to end that today? And the president said no. But it was friendly. Yeah, it was friendly. The hockey match a few months ago between the U.S. and Canada with three fights in the first nine seconds, it was not. Right.

Yesterday at the White House, you had the chance to ask the president what was the prime minister coming for? And the president had a great answer. And I guess we kind of found out today. But tell us about asking that question to the president. How things went over the next 24 hours.

I mean, it was a little bit of surprising answer just because, you know, the expectation was that, you know, he was coming because he is newly elected. This is obviously an important partnership. They have a lot to talk about with trade and NATO spending. And instead, what President Trump said was.

Yeah, I don't exactly know why he wants to meet, but I'm happy to do it. And I think he wants to come and make a deal. Everybody wants to make a deal. And again, that's kind of been the president's position as it relates to his tariffs, these Liberation Day tariffs that are on hold for a few more weeks, that all of these countries are going to come to the table. That being said, Eben, the president made some news today as well on that. He was asked kind of, when are these going to start happening? And he said, well,

We don't have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market. We don't want a piece of their market. We have what they want to buy. They don't have what we need. And so that's a it's almost like you go into a car dealership. Right. And the advice is be prepared to walk away. Right. Right.

That seems to be the line here that President Trump's taking as, you know, questions are being raised about how soon can some of these trade deals come together. We've heard that the U.S. delegation is close with India. We have heard that the U.S. delegation is close with South Korea, close with Japan, that these are the types of deals that could start at least having framework sooner rather than later.

But the president kind of backed off from that a little bit, also indicated that, you know, these conversations, these negotiations with China aren't really happening. But he insists that China is going to come to the table because the tariffs that the U.S. have put on Chinese imports, 145 percent, are doing much more damage to their economy than the Chinese imports of 125 percent on the U.S. economy.

We are speaking with Fox News correspondent Jared Halpern at the White House as the president meets with the new prime minister of Canada and they go over some things. On the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition, please like and subscribe. We'll have more straight ahead.

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The president was also asked a number of different questions today outside of the scope of speaking with the Canadian prime minister. And one of the things that came up for conversation was and the president came out and just sort of said it, that the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

no longer wanted to continue the hostilities that the U.S. and they have been engaged in over the past month or so. That was another one of a surprise announcements from him. Tell us about it. Surprised everybody. Yeah. The president kind of just said, hey, I got this announcement.

announcement to say. He says that it was the Houthis who approached the United States and said that they want the bombing to end. He said they have capitulated. We will take their word for it. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And so for now, this pretty relentless U.S. airstrike campaign that started in March with pretty much daily bombardments on Houthi targets in Yemen will end.

Again, I think it's a kind of trust but verify, maybe not even trust, but verify kind of arrangement. The president says that we're going to take their word for it. They say they want this to stop, that the entire operation was about freedom of navigation, about these commercial shipping vessels not being targeted in the Red Sea and that if that stops.

then the U.S. bombing would stop. That is obviously separate and apart, I think, from what you were seeing in Israel. The Israelis have obviously launched a pretty aggressive airstrike campaign against Yemen in response to the Houthis firing missiles at Ben Gurion Airport earlier this week. But again, from the U.S. perspective, that was not the operation that the U.S. was engaged in, right? The U.S.,

mission goal here was about freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. And I think that now is the test about whether or not this kind of ceasefire, if you want to call it that, has a chance of holding. The president also made mention or teased as he so well as as doing it. But of some other big announcement coming, were there any other hints given about what that could be? Nope. No.

The Canadian prime minister said he was on the edge of his seat, too. But, you know, the president gave us a few. I don't know if you want to call him hints. He said, I don't want you to think it's necessarily trade. Maybe it's like it may come tomorrow. We may hear about this Friday. We may hear about this Monday. He leaves. The president leaves for Saudi Arabia for the Middle East.

Soon, yes. On Monday evening. So the expectation is whatever this big announcement is, we will hear about it before he leaves for the Middle East. One wonders, Eben, if it is related to that trip, if that is the timing. And in fact, if it is any sort of expansion, perhaps of the Abraham Accords, something that obviously has been a big diplomatic achievement during the first.

Trump administration, something they would like to see expanded here in the second Trump administration. But that's just speculation on my part. President Trump won always to kind of leave us on the edge of our seats, gave us no big hint yet. He's good at that. Listen, he's worked in TV. He knows...

how to get a cliffhanger to make you come back after the commercial break. Fox News White House correspondent Jared Halpern at the White House. Thank you so much for being with us on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. Thank you, Evan.

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