There are things we can no longer make and we have to be able to make in order to be safe as a country and in order to have jobs. That's why We have suffered all these important jobs that once sustained entire communities wiped out by trade that basically sent these factories, these jobs, this industrial capability to other places. that cannot and will not continue. I don't. President Trump, this is no mystery. He's been talking about this since the 1980s, actually, even before he was a political figure. (08:01–08:14)
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Asserts that trade has led to the loss of important jobs and industrial capabilities in the U.S.
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