At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about how the Trump Administration is achieving its goal of making dozens of trade deals in 90 days.
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00:00An FBI investigation into the leaks, the Secretary said that these people would be prosecuted.
00:04So is the FBI investigating?
00:06You have to ask the FBI, you have to ask the Department of Justice on what they plan to do.
00:10But certainly we take leaks with the utmost seriously across this administration.
00:15You've seen people fired from the Department of Homeland Security.
00:17The President has made it clear it's an unacceptable behavior.
00:20On the economy, Caroline, Peter Navarro said that it's perfectly possible to do 90 deals in 90 days.
00:28We haven't seen one just yet.
00:30How soon might we see a deal?
00:32And what evidence can you share that progress is being made in these trade negotiations?
00:36Sure. Well, I spoke to our entire trade team this morning.
00:39There is a lot of progress being made.
00:40We now have 18 proposals on paper that have been brought to the trade team.
00:45Again, these are proposals on paper that countries have proposed to the Trump administration and to our government.
00:51You have Secretary Besant, Secretary Lutnik, Ambassador Greer, NEC Director Hassett, and Peter Navarro, the entire trade team meeting with 34 countries this week alone.
01:02We are moving at Trump speed to ensure these deals are made on behalf of the American worker and the American people.
01:09And just yesterday, it seemed to get a little bit lost in the news, and I think it's a disservice to the American public that it did.
01:14The Vice President announced terms of reference for a trade deal with India.
01:19That is a big deal.
01:20We know when we look at the numbers, the monetary trade barriers and the non-monetary trade barriers from India,
01:25they have been ripping off the United States and American workers for a very long time.
01:30So the fact that the Vice President, with Prime Minister Modi on that trip in India, announced these terms of reference,
01:37which is essentially a framework to move the ball forward, to sign a good trade deal between our two nations, is great progress.
01:44And it speaks to the work ethic and the real labor that's being put into this effort by the President's trade team.