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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: Trump’s man in Canada stops by our podcast, insists we can still be friends
Description: Pete Hoekstra is Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Canada, which means he spends a lot of time answering questions about the pressing issue of the day on this side of the border: tariffs.The President's musings about Canada becoming the 51st state? He’s had to answer for those comments, too — but Hoekstra insists that’s all behind us.“I've told people I don't talk about it, so I'm not really going to talk about it with you either,” the Ambassador said during a wide-ranging interview on our Closer Look podcast. “I...