00:00Do you feel like there's been mixed messages coming from the administration from announcing the exemptions to now saying there will be tariffs announced on semiconductors sometime this week?
00:10Do you feel like there is mixed messages from the White House right now?
00:13I don't think so. I think that the team members of the president haven't been surprised by news, but I think that because of the normal development of things, like when you say we're covering this, and then the technical staff has to come out and say, well, what exactly is this?
00:26If you have a semiconductor that is a toaster with a semiconductor, a national security matter or not, there are people that have processes to decide those things, and those are ongoing.
00:34And that's been the case for trade practice, for trade law, for as long as I've been in Washington, which is 40 years or so.
