At a CNN town hall on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about President Trump's tariffs.
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00:00There's obviously been a lot of stress just related to these tariffs and people's retirements accounts if they're lucky enough to have money saved up for retirements.
00:07He's the president's keeping a 10 percent tariff on most countries, 25 percent on some goods from Canada and Mexico, 125 percent now on China.
00:14Has all of this chaos permanently damaged our economy, our reputation in the world?
00:18Look, I live in Burlington, Vermont.
00:21You should all come up and visit us sometimes.
00:23We're a great city, a great state.
00:26I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border.
00:27Throughout the history of the United States in Canada, we have had a very warm, positive relationship.
00:35They are our neighbors.
00:36They are our friends.
00:38And right now, I got to tell you that in Canada, when you have a president of the United States who goes out of his way to insult the prime minister, he calls him governor.
00:47Oh, by the way, you're a Canadian.
00:49We're going to make you the 51st state.
00:51Canadians who I love, they're great people.
00:53They're not coming into Vermont anymore.
00:55They're not coming into America.
00:56They're boycotting American goods, similar to our friends in Mexico and all over the world.
01:01These are our allies.
01:02We fought World War II.
01:03We defeated Nazism, fighting with our friends in the U.K. and France, throughout Europe.
01:09And now they're saying, what in God's name is going on with the United States of America?
01:13So the idea that this nation, which all of us want to see as a, what did Ronald Reagan call it?
01:19The city on the mountain.
01:21Shining, sitting on a hill.
01:22Sitting on a hill.
01:23Close.
01:23All right.
01:23I don't quote Reagan all that often.
01:28But, you know, we want to be a model to the world.
01:30We want people to look at us and say, we want to be like the United States.
01:34Not, oh, God, United States.
01:35What are they doing?
01:36So.