Trump means business but won’t succeed

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US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement to reverse decisions by the late President Jimmy Carter regarding environmental protection or ceasing control of the Panama Canal are serious, but he will not be successful at implementing them, former White House Domestic Affairs Advisor Stuart Eizenstat says.    #Trump #Panamacanal

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00:00You've mentioned previously in this interview a number of the achievements of the Carter Presidency.

00:07And yet putting the clock forward to the present day, Donald Trump, President-elect Trump,

00:13says he's going to undo quite a number of Carter's signature accomplishments,

00:18notably environmental protection, ceding control of the Panama Canal,

00:22dismantling the Federal Department of Education.

00:25Do you think we should take those pledges seriously

00:28or do you think that was just the campaign itself?

00:31I certainly take them seriously, but I also believe that he won't be successful

00:36in many of the things he's seeking.

00:39For example, on energy, he's not going to reverse our deregulation.

00:44I think he'll have great difficulty reversing some of the renewable energy credits

00:49and conservation credits.

00:51I think he will try to dismantle the Department of Education.

00:54He tried in his first term and he failed.

00:57So I think that on the Panama Canal, he hasn't said that he'll necessarily abrogate it,

01:03but he's using his leverage to try to get smaller fees on American ships going through the canal.

01:12It's a binding legal treaty.

01:14It can't be undone by just the stroke of his pen.

01:17So there's a good deal of bravado in it.

01:21He means to try it, but I think that our institutional framework is such

01:26that he can't just say it and make it happen.

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