U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell has been meeting with Kentucky's business community earlier this week in Bowling Green and yesterday in Louisville as our June Leffler reports, McConnell is distancing himself from the economic policies of both Biden and Trump.

>> At a Kentucky Chamber of Commerce event, business leaders, a pod McConnell.

>> I think most of you know, that our company is is family controlled and we've made little are home for 154 years.

And his leadership to improve the lives of every Kentuckian is tremendous and means a great deal to us as a company and to all of you.

I'm sure.

>> The Senate minority leader promotes free global trade.

>> And somehow trade has become a negative word in this country.

I think this state alone benefited from about 40 billion dollars in trade.

This table.

Employees, enormous numbers of people.

But because of Joe fairly prominent people who trade jobs on Kauai.

Trey drugs are important.

>> Former President Donald Trump has been campaigning on hefty tariffs on foreign goods as a way to KET or bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S.. >> If they want to build in the country in the United States is no tariff.

You can go ahead and you can build in any one of the 50 states.

You can go ahead.

But if they don't want to do that, we're going to put a 200% tariff on John Deere.

And, you know, it's going to happen.

They're going to announce very shortly if they think I'm going to win or if I do when they're going after they're not going to build in Mexico.

>> McConnell has come out against sweeping tariffs.

So has Kentucky's other U.S.

Senator Rand Paul.

>> So, for example, I'm not just about tariffs.

Let's just show up here and had worked out too well as it.

The tariffs.

Problems we've had with your.

You go down that path.

Everything becomes more expensive.

Think of it is just raising your.

>> A little bit when it comes to foreign trade.

McConnell says Democrats won't do it better.

President Joe Biden has kept Trump tariffs in place and last month finalize tire tariffs on certain Chinese goods.

>> There's confusion about that and bold partition.

Biden claims she's done most pro union pro to it.

You get a kick out of after that.

The Indian in last year.

I had never met the U.S. trade representative shoes on floor one introduced us to do I said to her, do you have anything to do she has a nose on it.

They're not trying to do trade deal with anybody.

Why?

Because the FDA doesn't like to read to you.

>> Despite their differences on foreign trade and foreign aid, McConnell endorse Trump for president earlier this year for Kentucky edition.

I'm Jen Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June.

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