Howard Lutnick: “The president figured out the right answer and sent letters to these countries, said, this is going to fix the trade…”

It didn’t happen for math. The math was sensational. It was a great deal,

These are your 232 tariffs, the steel tariffs, at work.

They wanted to walk away. This is politics only. If you think I ever said the words French, do I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter less to America? We don’t care. So the fact is, we never thought those words up.

‘are you actually trying to blow this up?’ And his answer to me was, ‘I’m not allowed to say that.’