It's Tuesday, February 4th.
I'm Jane Coston.
This is what a Day.
The show that was really excited to find out that it's almost the weekend until being told just now that it's Tuesday.
On today's show, Trump signs an executive order that could do something, perhaps with TikTok or perhaps not.
And New York Governor Kathy Hochul introduces measures to protect doctors prescribing abortion pills out of state.
But let's start with the economy and tariffs,
Trump's favorite word and the subject of pretty much endless commentary over the last few days.
We are recording the show on Monday evening, and as of right now,
President Donald Trump's promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on hold for at least 30 days.
Here's Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum,
explaining through an interpreter how her conversation with President Trump went on Monday morning.
At the end, he asked how long we could put the tariffs on hold, and I told him, let's put them on hold permanently.
He then asked, well, for how long?
I responded, let's pause them for a month.
And I'm confident that in a month we will deliver results for both his people and Mexico.
In return for the pause, Mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to the US Mexico border, which sounds great for Trump,
except for the fact that Mexico already has 15,000 troops deployed to the US Mexico border,
which they did in 2019, which was to be clear a while ago.
Also on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he had a quote,