NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 8)

Welcome to NTD Evening News, our top story tonight, President Trump turning up the heat on Canada. He's targeting Canadian goods and companies in this latest escalation of the trade war. And President Trump honoring the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on 9-11. It marks a quarter century since the terror attacks, with the president giving out a Medal of Freedom. The DOJ and New York officials are dedicating new memorials to honor those that were lost on 9-11. 25 years later, the tribute comes as families prepare to remember their loved ones. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going on a three-day Latin America trip. We'll have the latest on his results. And a tight U.S. Senate primary in New Hampshire today, both parties vying for the toss-up seat just eight weeks out from the November midterms, and to these Fiona G. reports. And the head of the Smithsonian Institute is stepping down, his departure coming amid ongoing disputes with the Trump administration. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Kerry Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. The latest move in the U.S.-Canada trade war. President Trump now taking aim at Canadian products, which are bought by the U.S. government. He says federal agencies will stop buying Canadian-made goods unless Canada opens its government contracts to American companies. Now President Trump says Canadian governments have blocked U.S. small businesses from competing for those contracts. The move comes one day after the president targeted Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier, saying it won't be able to sell in the U.S. unless it builds its products here in the U.S. And President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier today. The Kremlin says President Trump called for a swift end to the war in Ukraine. According to the Kremlin, President Trump said ending the war could pave the way for a full restoration of the U.S.-Russia relations. Two leaders also discussed this weekend a visit by U.S. envoys to Moscow and Kiev. The Kremlin says that both leaders viewed the visit positively. President Trump and Putin also agreed to continue prisoner exchanges. A Kremlin spokesperson described the call as constructive. The two leaders agreed that they would stay in touch and they would speak again if needed. And President Trump hosting a 9-11 tribute just three days before the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. And today's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley, brings us more from the White House. A day that was etched forever into the memories of Americans. President Trump hosting about 150 first responders and members of 9-11 families at the White House Ellipse honoring the 2,977 people killed in the September 11th attacks. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. We will never forget. The ceremony is part of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation's Steel Across America tour, a nationwide journey carrying a piece of the World Trade Center to communities across the country ahead of the 25th anniversary. At the center of the ceremony, a 21-foot, 16,000-pound steel beam recovered from the South Tower. It's traveled thousands of miles this year, serving as a physical reminder of the lives lost on 9-11, the first responders who ran toward the danger, and those who later died from 9-11-related illnesses. The 16,000-pound beam lifted from the wreckage of the South Tower will forever testify to the courage and resilience and spirit of a city and a nation that saw our homeland struck, our towers knocked down, and stood back up stronger, more determined, and more united than ever before. And President Trump's also honoring one of the men who became the symbol of that heroism, Wells Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader and volunteer firefighter who repeatedly went back into the burning South Tower to help people escape. He was killed when the tower collapsed. Crowther became known as the man in the red bandana after survivors remembered a man using a red bandana to protect himself from the smoke while leading people to safety. Trump posthumously awarding Crowther the Presidential Medal of Freedom, his mother and sister accepting the nation's highest civilian honor on his behalf. This means the world to me, my daughters Paige and Honor, and our entire family. This will be treasured for generations to come. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was also at the ceremony. Lutnick worked in the World Trade Center, but on September 11th, he took his son to school instead of going to his office. He lost his brother and more than 650 employees at Cantor Fitzgerald. The Steel Across America tour now heads to New York, where it will conclude its 25th anniversary journey on September 11th. President Trump is set to commemorate this anniversary Friday at the Pentagon, while Vice President J.D. Vance will appear at Ground Zero in New York. Reporting from the White House, Jack Bradley, NTD News. Thanks to Jack for that report. New York City releasing thousands of documents related to 9-11. Some of the files reveal how officials were concerned over the air quality at Ground Zero. Meanwhile, the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick continues to help the families of 9-11 victims. And to these, Jason Perry has the latest. The New York City Council releasing thousands of documents on Tuesday related to the 9-11 terror attacks. New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani authorized the release of the documents, which include private communications between city officials about litigation and air quality. A memo from 2002 details how Congressman Jerry Nadler called the New York City Mayor's office and said that the city was neglecting monitoring indoor air quality around Ground Zero and that it would leave the city open to lawsuits. Nadler also said that the federal government, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, should be paying for cleaning indoor areas. Asbestos was detected in dust sample tests from the area in late 2001. At the time, city officials had directed people living near the site of the attacks to clean their apartments with wet mops and rags, even though only licensed asbestos cleaners were supposed to clear asbestos. Meanwhile, members of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's family continue to assist the families of 9-11 victims through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. Lutnick's company at the time, Cantor Fitzgerald, lost over 650 of its employees in the attacks. Among them were the Secretary's own brother, Gary. Here's their sister, Eddie Lutnick, who now leads the relief fund. When you find a mission larger than yourself, you can not only heal, but you can help others heal and you can do good works in the world. Here's the Commerce Secretary's son, Kyle Lutnick, who now leads his company. Something that's been a part of our life in terms of charity days, memorials, giving back and being a part of a community that's been grieving and supporting each other for 25 years. Jason Perry, NTV News. And next, the Department of Justice and New York officials are dedicating new memorials to honor those lost on 9-11. Tributes come 25 years after the attacks as families prepare to remember their loved ones. And it is Christina Corona who has more. 25 years after 9-11, the Department of Justice is remembering those who lost their lives and those who continue to serve. I think the most fundamental and most important thing that we can do as Department of Justice employees as we consider and remember what happened 25 years ago is to make sure that the work that we do every day continues to be exactly what the men and women before you have done for generations and exactly what the men and women will do for generations to come. The DOJ dedicates a memorial featuring its Survivor Tree, descended from a tree that survived the World Trade Center terror attacks. Two pieces of granite from the Twin Towers Foundations were placed alongside it. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who led New York after the attacks, also attended. When we speak of resilience, endurance and renewal, this tree is not just symbolic, it's a living history. It stands as a reminder that even when everything around us has fallen, life and strength can take root again. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a memorial featuring a new reflecting pool honoring Port Authority employees killed in the 1993 bombing and on 9-11. To me, the symbolism of a place that we're supposed to reflect, come here, recharge our spirits, recharge our soul, is of great consequence, hopefully to the families from decades ago still seeking peace from the loss of their loved ones. Meanwhile, 9-11 victims' families gather at City Hall, asking Mayor Zoran Mamdani not to attend Friday's memorial. They deliver a petition with more than 100,000 signatures saying they want the ceremony focused on victims and survivors. Mamdani plans to attend. Christina Corona, NTD News. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been at the helm of HHS now for about a year and a half. Since then, the department has made some of the most sweeping changes in decades. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has some of those highlights. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, my message is clear, eat real food. From upgrading school lunches to phasing out artificial food diets, RFK Jr. has already put in place a long list of changes since being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services. One of those being Kennedy has co-led efforts with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to improve school lunches nationwide. Some of the changes include phasing out synthetic diets for milk, cheese, and yogurt, and getting whole milk back on the menu. The top item on school lunches has been Pop-Tarts and pastries and donuts. And we're now changing that, taking those things off the menu, and we're going to give kids real food. HHS has also partnered with the Department of War to improve the nutritional quality of military food and pushed hospitals to follow the new dietary guidelines if they want to stay aligned with Medicare rules. For a long time, we've understood the relationship between food and health and recovery. HHS also inverted the food pyramid, putting protein, full-fat dairy, and fats from whole foods at the top. The main message is to eat real food and avoid ultra-processed food. Highly processed foods loaded with additives, added sugar and excess salt damage health and should be avoided. Other HHS actions include proposing the first federal definition of ultra-processed food, getting dozens of medical schools to add more nutrition training, joining a White House directive to advance regenerative farming, phasing out petroleum-based synthetic diets from the food supply, proposing an end to companies' ability to self-certify new ingredients as safe, and launching a cooking series to promote the new dietary guidelines. HHS also made some changes regarding vaccines. In May 2025, a recommendation for routine COVID shots for healthy children and pregnant women was dropped. And in January 2026, the number of shots recommended for all kids was slashed. That change is currently on hold in a federal court. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. And the Trump administration is announcing new sanctions on Iran and companies that do business with Iran, this time targeting Iran's aviation sector. The State Department and the Treasury Department are sanctioning 35 companies and one individual across multiple countries for supporting Iran's aviation sector. They say Iran's aviation sector has enabled the regime to move weapons, personnel and illicit cargo, as well as support terrorism worldwide. The sanctions apply to 27 Iranian airlines, as well as eight companies based mainly in the UAE and Turkey. Treasury Department says these companies acted as intermediaries to help Iran acquire U.S.-origin aircraft or coordinated shipments on behalf of a sanctioned Iranian airline. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says, quote, Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran's remaining airlines, all of which we sanction today. You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system. And the head of the Smithsonian Institution is stepping down, his departure coming amid ongoing disputes with the Trump administration. In a press release today, Lonnie Bunch said he was leaving, quote, with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude. Bunch's retirement comes as the White House criticizes the institution's leadership as This summer, a White House Domestic Policy Council report argued the museum doesn't tell history in a way that is, quote, In response, Bunch sent a memo to his staff criticizing the report as an unfair characterization of the Smithsonian, particularly its National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian said Bunch would formally step down at the end of the year. And coming up, a tight U.S. Senate primary in New Hampshire today, both parties vying for the toss-up open seat. It's just eight weeks out from the November midterms, Entity's Fiona Gee reports. 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It was very, very well liked because no matter what culture or what sort of walk of life you're from, I think people, they see it and they immediately understand what that energy, what that message is, and they're drawn to it because everybody kind of needs a little bit of that in their own life, of, you know, the steadfast calmness and something to hold on to. It's definitely an inner peace in the midst of something very chaotic, and for a lot of people right now, the whole world is very, very chaotic. So I guess that's another reason why so many people are very drawn to this. Welcome back to NTD Evening News, I'm Kerry Dunst. Voters are heading to the polls in New Hampshire today to cast their ballots for gubernatorial U.S. Senate and U.S. House candidates. The Senate seat is shaping up to be a competitive race, one that both parties are eyeing only eight weeks out now from the November midterms. We now go live to Fiona Gee. She is in the nation's capital. Fiona, what are we looking at in New Hampshire tonight? Well, New Hampshire is one of the last states, Kerry, that's having its primary before we get to the general election in November. And with Senator, with Senator Jeanne Shaheen retiring, this is shaping up to be an open race for both parties. On the Republican side, we're seeing two contenders coming on top over all the others, and they're two familiar faces. It's John Sununu versus Scott Brown. They're both former senators, but Sununu is the one with the name recognition. Both his brother and his father are former governors of New Hampshire. He himself is endorsed by President Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. He's also been Senator. He had this exact Senate seat way back in 2003, and he's running for it again right now. Scott Brown, meanwhile, he was a senator for Massachusetts. He was also the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa under President Trump's first term. But he's saying that if he were to win, he would work independently and would not be beholden to anyone other than the voters of New Hampshire. Turning to the Democrat side, the frontrunner for them is Congressman Chris Pappas. He's been holding on to a competitive seat in the 1st Congressional District since 2018. He's considered the more moderate candidate. He's facing a challenge from Karishma Mansoor. She's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and she's running on a lot of those same policies we've seen from other candidates, namely Medicare for All, as well as stopping military aid to Israel for what she calls a genocide. In fact, this is, of course, a main point of contention between her and Pappas. She criticizes Pappas for his support of Israel. Now, polls show that Pappas is still leading, but Mansoor has been able to close that gap a bit despite not having received a lot of the major endorsements that many other DSA-aligned candidates have received over the past couple of months. Pappas, meanwhile, has seen Senator Elizabeth Warren stumping for him. Now that he's running for Senate, he's left behind an open seat in the 1st Congressional District, and that is shaping up to be a competitive race as well. Kerry, New Hampshire is an interesting case. Why? Well, because when you look at the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, all of those are blue seats right now. But if you look at the governor's seat and state legislature, all of that is controlled by Republicans. Back in 2024, Kamala Harris, she won the state over President Donald Trump, but only by around three points. Come November, if Democrats want to retake the Senate, they need to make a net gain of four seats at least. And part of that is keeping those seats from New Hampshire blue. But based on what we're seeing right now, Republicans have a chance of mounting an offensive and flipping some of those seats red. Now, polls across the state are closing between 7 and 8 p.m. Eastern time. So we will be keeping an eye on that as those results start to come out. Kerry, back to you. All right. As always, it's live, free, or die in New Hampshire. Thanks for that update, Fiona. And the political world now turns to Dallas this week as Republicans gather for a two-day convention and Democrats rally to counter it. It's the first of its kind during a midterm election season. President Trump hopes to muster the same energy seen during a presidential election year. NTD's congressional correspondent Melina Weiskopf has the report. Thorency expects around 20,000 people to attend this midterm convention. While in some ways it will resemble the conventions that take place during presidential elections, this one is open to the public. So it will likely resemble a traditional Trump rally, but much larger. President Trump described it as a rally like none other. Here's how House Speaker Mike Johnson described it. I think it's going to be an extraordinary opportunity for us to get a couple of nights on national television to talk about our extraordinary record of achievement, to push back against the false narrative that, you know, a lot of people in the media have advanced about this Congress. We'll talk about what has actually been done, the facts. Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. President Trump is expected to speak on both nights, Wednesday and Thursday. Vice President J.D. Vance to speak on Thursday. Around 100 speakers total will be there, many of them to be focused on Trump's record and the GOP's record this past Congress. Several people from Trump's cabinet will speak, and you can tell by who the GOP selected to speak what kind of issues they think will drive voters to the polls. For example, they've chosen R.F.K. Jr. to speak on his Maha Initiative. Dr. Mehmet Oz to focus on the GOP's message in the Medicaid-Medicare space. Also, Scott Turner, the Secretary of Housing, is expected to highlight the administration's efforts to make housing more affordable. President Trump believes lawmakers running on his record and their support for it will give Republicans the best chance of winning Congress. There will also be some everyday American speaking to share about how the policies of the Trump administration have impacted their lives. Of course, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a landmark tax bill, is definitely going to be a hot topic. Speakers also include high-profile lawmakers such as House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. There are also nominees in heated races such as Kim Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee from Texas. There will also be other congressional lawmakers set to speak, like Congressman Brandon McGill, who's focused heavily on fraud-preventative efforts during this Congress and this past week, probing birth tourism. Many Democrats are also rallying in Texas to counter the programming. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sent a delegation of House Democrats to Dallas. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and representatives from the DNC also traveled to Texas. Then also Democratic Senate candidate James Tallarico, who's planned a community food drive to counter the convention. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. And NTD will also be there in Dallas this week for the RNC's midterm convention. Capitol Report's Steve Lance and White House correspondent Iris Tao will report live from the event. They're going to be bringing you the latest updates, in-depth analysis, and conversations with newsmakers on the upcoming midterm elections. Hear directly from Republican lawmakers and candidates and watch as President Trump takes center stage. Follow NTD's special coverage beginning tomorrow. And authorities are responding to a possible chemical leak at a commercial building in La Habra, California. Firefighters saw orange smoke coming from a one-story commercial building. The building houses Shepherd Bros. That's a company that manufactures specialty chemicals for food storage. Three people were checked by medical personnel. Fortunately, no injuries. The leak appears to have been contained, according to La Habra Mayor Jose Medrano. Nearby residents are still being asked to shelter in place as the crews continue investigating. And coming up in the aftermath of the tragic Himalaya flood, the Chinese regime is blocking out reports and deflecting responsibility. 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You build a nice, impressive building there, and you demonstrate that you dominate occupied Tibet. And you also can intimidate Nepal. And China has had its eyes on Nepal for a long time. It's had a lot of influence there, a little less now. But I'd say it's political reasons as much as anything. Chinese knew it was in a floodplain. They knew this could happen, but they did it anyway, because of the nature of these kinds of regimes. Yeah, and the regime is actually doing an even bigger project. This one is called the Meidong Dam Project. That could be very susceptible to a similar disaster. What can you tell us about that? Well, it's in an area that's even more dangerous than where this event happened. The valleys are deep and steep. The rocks are relatively unstable. The Himalayas are like that. Additionally, you have earthquakes in the region. So pouring a ton of concrete, building six dams in this area is asking for trouble. But it's something that the Chinese just can't help themselves. But this is something that at some point is going to come to grief. Yeah, as you put it, these risks affect their own populations. But the Himalayas are often referred to as the roof of the world. So how could the regime's actions in this geologically sensitive area potentially affect neighbors such as India and Bangladesh? Well, it gives them the ability to extort and intimidate both India and Bangladesh. The main rivers that flow through this part of South Asia, they originate in the Tibetan Plateau. The only one that doesn't start up there that's major is the Ganges that starts in India and runs through there. But the Indus, the Brahmaputra, these all start up in Tibet. And this has been well known for a long, long time that someday the Chinese would use this really as a tool to pressure their downstream neighbors. Just a question of when they would do it. And it looks like they're really going ahead full speed now. But that's a good chunk of the reason for building these dams in these places. Additionally, they say, well, we need the power for AI generation. But there is as much a political reason as any. And if you want to pressure another country in this part of the world, just threaten to cut off their water. And that is a lot of the reason. And it is the nature of these regimes that they will take huge risks from an ecological standpoint. I don't think they care all that much if you look at their track record. And of course, when incidents do happen, they go out of their way to make sure that the details are not honestly reported and anyone who does gets punished severely. Yeah, we're seeing that now where there's very little to no reporting coming out. The numbers coming out are much, much smaller than on the Nepal side. One would have to look at those and question that since going back to COVID. And obviously, well, before that, not much information gets in or out when there's a disaster. Now, going back, though, the Great Leap Forward, that led to famine. There were hydropower projects that have resulted in many deaths, like the Banchao Dam failure. That was in 1975. There were an estimated 200,000 deaths from that. Can you speak a little bit more to this pattern that you've been referring to in the nature of the regime? Well, it is how these kinds of authoritarian, brutal, ruthless dictatorships are. They really don't give two hoots about their citizens who exist to serve the state. And you see it not just in China, you saw it in Russia as well. You look at the ecological disaster at the Aral Sea of East Germany, when the communists ran the show in the mining industry. Ecological disaster and communist regimes go hand in hand. There is no concern for the public, for the citizenry at large, and there's no ability for anyone to really resist when the regime decides that it's going to do something. There's no way for public opinion to actually stop these people when they set their heart on this and make the orders. People who try to resist, well, they don't last very long at all. So this is, say, the nature of these regimes, where the individual doesn't matter. The state does in its perceptions of its own greatness and infallibility is what actually makes the decisions. But also when something does happen, you can't say anything to suggest that the party was somehow wrong or somehow was at fault, that its response was not very good. You just can't do that. And that's a fundamental weakness of these regimes, but it also gives us a sense of what we'd be dealing with if we had to live in that sort of system. And Grant, obviously you wrote the book on the nature of the regime, so you understand its tactics very well. But I want to get your view on how well you think the West, both governments as well as business, understand that nature, that, you know, I guess, willingness to go beyond the pale if it serves their interests. Well, I think most people understand it if they gave the matter any thought. But when it comes to our business class, our financial class, when they smell money, they will sell out their principles immediately. That's a generalization, but it's by and large correct. You see the complete absence of interest in human rights on the part of Wall Street, our business class, that just can't get enough of the PRC anywhere that they smell money. So they know, and Congress knows as well. You have hearings about human rights and these sorts of abuses in the PRC in particular. Used to have it in the old Soviet Union. And you have very good reports put out by Representative Moulinard's China Committee. But at the end of the day, there's something that prevents our representatives from actually acting on it. And as I said, the financial business classes really are the donor class. They have undue influence and they know the nature of this regime. They know what it's like. But if they can just get one more check from these people, that they'll pretend that they don't really know what's going on or say, well, who are we to say anything? Who are we to criticize them? But ultimately, it is the aroma of cash which really does influence the behavior and the thinking really of too many of our elites. Well, I do appreciate you raising the alarm. Of course, the president's still scheduled to host the regime leader in just a few weeks in D.C. We'll have to see what comes out of that. Grant Newsham, thank you for joining. Next, U.S. cyber and law enforcement agencies are accusing Chinese A.I. companies of malicious tech. A statement today, excuse me, that's of tech theft. A statement today says Chinese companies have been copying the tech from sophisticated American-made A.I. models. Now, the NSA, the FBI and the CISA or CISA saying in a statement, quote, China-based A.I. companies are engaging in aggressive, malicious and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale. Distillation is the process of training smaller A.I. models using output from larger, more expensive ones as part of an effort to lower the cost of training a new A.I. tool. Now, the U.S. agencies say China's DeepSeek, Moonshot A.I., Alibaba, Minimax and StepFun are all using variants of American-made A.I. models to train their own A.I. products. The agencies add that the Chinese companies are likely doing so with the awareness of the Chinese regime. And staying with Chinese tech, Huawei is in hot water. It's facing a criminal racketeering trial in New York. The charges, stealing tech, plotting to steal U.S. trade secrets and committing wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection begins today. The indictment alleges Huawei and some of its subsidiaries did business in North Korea despite U.S. sanctions there. It also says the company installed surveillance equipment that helped Iran spy on protesters during the 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Iran. Huawei's lawyers have tried to get the criminal case dismissed. Huawei is a major supplier of gear for wireless telecom networks. The company is banned from selling their equipment to U.S. carriers over the fears that it poses a security risk. And the trade tensions with Canada continue to simmer with Canadian retaliatory tariffs taking their effect today. NDD's Daniel Monaghan has more on that, including comments from trade representative Jamison Greer. He says Canada is doubling down on globalization. President Trump yesterday criticizing Canadian aviation company Bombardier on True Social, saying more than half the company's revenue comes from the United States. The president accused the aviation firm of living off American buyers, companies and airports and said Canada blocks American banks and companies throughout the U.S. The president also said Gulfstream Aerospace was blocked from doing business in Canada, calling that completely unjust and unfair. He added, quote, That era is over. If they want our market, they must build here and stop treating America like a piggy bank. Bombardier is defending itself, saying it has bases and workers across the U.S. The company said, quote, Bombardier aircraft create tens of thousands of U.S. jobs through the company's growing American footprint, as well as within its supply chain, made up of approximately 2,800 American companies across 47 states. Bombardier says it operates five U.S. service centers, including in Tucson, Dallas and Miami, and directly employs 3,500 people in the United States. Meanwhile, Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect today, covering nearly $28 billion in American imports. The new duties, ranging from 15 to 50 percent, hit steel and aluminum, appliances, agricultural equipment, dairy products, paper, plastics and electronics. The move comes despite repeated warnings from President Trump that Canada could face further consequences if it fails to reach a trade agreement with Washington. It follows a 50 percent U.S. tariff on nearly $28 billion in Canadian goods, in effect since August 22nd. U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer says Canada, along with China, were the only two countries to retaliate against the U.S., speaking on Fox News. Canada came to us a month ago, wanted to negotiate a deal. Again, they came to us, we said okay. You know, we tried to touch on all the things that mattered to them, give them a better deal on autos, on steel, on aluminum, on lumber. They looked the steel square in the face, and after a few days decided to walk it back. Greer says President Trump's approach is to fix the problems of globalization, saying past trade deals undermined U.S. workers. Canada's approach is different. Canada is doubling down on globalization. Canada wants to have a bunch of free trade agreements with Europe, you know, with India, with all these other places. As trade tensions continue, President Trump has kept up the pressure on Canadian officials on social media. Yesterday, the president posted an image of North America with every country covered by the American flag. The day before, he posted an image of himself appearing to knock Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over during a game of hockey, writing, quote, Get up, governor. President Trump has repeatedly said Canada should join the United States as a state and has referred to Carney and his predecessor, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as the governor of that state. Daniel Monaghan, NTD News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins a three-day tour of Latin America today. He's meeting with conservative leaders in three different nations. NTD's international correspondent, Aaron Pasdar, has this story. Hoping to wrap up good, solid trade deals with all three of these countries in the foreseeable future. And, of course, a lot of strong cultural links. So I think it's part of a trend that you're seeing in the Western hemisphere of alignment with U.S. and U.S. interests. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visiting Colombia, Ecuador and Peru this week. He touched down in Colombia on Tuesday, set to meet with the country's new president, Abelardo de Espreira. Rubio explains that the latest U.S.-Venezuela oil deal benefits people throughout Latin America. Those oil fields were once dominated by China and Russia and Iran. By the way, Iran also had some concessions and they're no longer there. So I think they're much better off partnering with the United States. They will benefit greatly from it. Rubio defended the Venezuela deal, saying it will mostly benefit the Venezuelan people. Aaron Pasdar, NTD News. And from building the White House ballroom to renovating statues and water foundations, the Trump administration has been working to restore and beautify Washington, D.C. What do everyday Americans make of this effort? NTD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people. What do you make of the Trump administration's efforts to renovate and beaut new things here in D.C.? I think a lot of it needs to be done. Make it beautiful, make it somewhere people are more proud of to come to and see and want to visit. Not a big fan of the ballroom, but the rest of it, yes. When you think about the fact that, well, this is kind of a representation of America, you know, take a little pride in it and take care of what you've got. Well, you know, a lot of D.C. is based on the founding and the Civil War, World War II, a lot of our history, and we're making new history all the time. So I think it's appropriate to upgrade this city and to add new monuments that recognize how great the country is now. This is our country, man. It needs to be beautiful. It needs to be where everybody wants to come. This is the United States of America. And the nation's capital. It's the nation's capital. You want people to come and see how beautiful it is. For people that are traveling to D.C., what kind of image do you think D.C. should put on? You know, how should D.C. communicate the history of America and the global standing of America right now? This is our first trip to D.C. We just came from Gettysburg. In the history of the United States, there's a lot to see and do here. And it needs to be beautiful. You don't want to come in and just be trash everywhere, stuff broken. We've been to London. And the way that they present all of their history is well-maintained, very pretty. We need to represent who we are and who we were and who we're going to be in the future. I think the image should be one of friendliness, openness, and representative of the capital of the greatest nation the world has ever seen. You've got to have a clean, safe city, or else all this inspiring architecture is really kind of lost. That's why they're coming here. They're coming here to see different things, to see, you know, all about the United States, not just now, but the history of it. I think it's great that they're putting the effort in. And coming up in college football, are LSU's days in the SEC numbered or will they stand down? Dave Martin joins us with all the latest. Hi, I'm Kirk Heiser. And did you know the average funeral costs around $10,000? And if you don't have enough insurance to cover funeral costs, credit card debt, and other expenses, your family is going to get stuck with the bill. 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The SEC digging in their heels now. They filed an amendment to their federal lawsuit seeking the authority to expel LSU from the SEC. The filing says they'll meet Thursday to decide whether to terminate LSU. Under SEC rules, it will require a vote of at least two-thirds of SEC presidents to do so. Now, this all started earlier this summer when a group of athletes filed a lawsuit seeking a fifth year of eligibility. Two of those athletes signed NFL contracts this summer before returning to campus. Both were actually waived by their respective NFL teams. Now, a judge though granted them a restraining order to play this summer. Meanwhile, the SEC then issued a statement saying any athlete who signed a pro NFL contract or NBA or WNBA contract is not eligible to play in the league. And every school except for LSU agreed that Commissioner Greg Sankey could penalize a school that attempted to put a former pro player on their roster. So, we'll see who blinks first. You know, does LSU say goodbye to those two players or does the, I mean, I'm sure they're looking around to see who has, you know, how many votes does Sankey have versus how many does LSU have. This could get very interesting. I don't remember the last time a team was actually expelled from a conference. You see other conferences, you know, taking teams from other conferences, but you don't actually see a conference expelling a team. So, this could be interesting. Yeah, I mean, the SEC is literally, like, the most dominant and just pervasive. So, even their worst teams are great teams. It seems like LSU might be pushing this one a little too far, but let's go to the conference that I love to talk about. The Big Ten, Michigan, who I need to have a good season for when they face Penn State. What's the latest with that very strange finish to that game with Western Michigan? Well, Western Michigan is hoping to reverse that, the ending of that game. As they probably should try for it. Of course, you know. This is, they are a mid-American conference team, also known as the MAC. Now, they are officially the commissioner, sorry, Western Michigan, member of the MAC. They're appealing the outcome of Saturday's game against Michigan. The conferences are asking the NCAA and the College Football Playoff to recognize the Broncos as the official winner of the game. Now, MAC commissioner John Steinbrecher sent a letter to both the NCAA and the College Football Playoff to say the replay protocol was not properly followed at the end of the game. He says, protocol requires the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained. Now, they, this is the Big Ten's officiating crew, relied on the clock feed embedded in the replay system. Now, in case you missed it, Michigan won 13-12 Saturday night on a 47-yard last-second Hail Mary pass after officials put one second back on the clock. Now, the stadium clock, though, the one on TV, seemed to show that there was time, time had already run out on their first Hail Mary pass and that went out of the back of the end zone. Either way, though, AP voters were not very impressed with Michigan's, quote, win, taking them from 16th in the preseason poll all the way to unranked in this week's poll, though. So, they still got the official win. Well, I've never seen the, I can't remember the SEC or the NCAA ever reversing a win to a loss or anything like that. So, we'll have to see. If it happens, it's like 20 years later, they'll recognize some insignificant win as a loss based on, you know, an ineligible player or something like that. This would be like if Ohio State went down to, like, Dayton or Overland or some small Miami of Ohio. Yeah, one of those. Yeah, I don't even know if any of them have a football team. Let's go where the rules are much more clear. There's a lot less off-the-court action in the U.S. Open. And I think that's pretty straightforward and it's just let them play and the best, the best person wins. Yeah, you know, you don't have some judge deciding who won or who can play in the U.S. Open here. Now, plenty going on right now at the U.S. Open. On the men's side, we have a battle of Americans today in the quarterfinals between 12th-ranked Francis Tiafoe and 46th-ranked Alex Mickelson, both Americans. They are in the fifth set right now on serve, looking to get into the semifinals. That one very close being over, unless it goes to another tiebreaker there. Then tonight, we have a top-10 matchup as third-ranked Carlos Alcarez faces ninth-ranked American Ben Shelton. Now, this will be the fourth all-time match meeting between these two 23-year-olds. Alcarez, though, has won the first three. That match is scheduled to start at 8.30 Eastern time. Meanwhile, on the women's side, top-ranked Irina Sabalenka advanced with a very close three-set win over sixth-ranked Linda Noskova. Now, Sabalenka won tiebreakers in both the first and third sets to close it out. She has now won 18 straight U.S. Open matches. Of course, she's the two-time reigning champion on the women's side. Tonight, we've got another all-American match. This is on the women's side. Third-ranked Jessica Padula faces 26th-ranked Emma Navarro. The winner of that one will take on Sabalenka in the semifinals a couple days from now. So we're getting close, getting to really the fun action. Now, in the quarterfinals, there's eight players left on each side. Tough work for whoever has to face Sabalenka. So we'll have to see what happens there. For sure. All right. Thanks for joining, Dave. Thank you, Kerry. Stick around for this one. I know you love the animal videos. And we have a race for top dog. It comes down to a positively chaotic finish with one racer refusing to roll over. Here we go. Take a look at this rough photo finish as a dog tries a tactical takedown on Spud to try and stop him from winning the race, causing Spud to slip and slide his way to the winner's circle. That's the highlight from the Best in Show Championship at Canterbury Park in Minnesota. A gaggle of good boys and girls racing for the title of top dog 2026. And while some seemingly got distracted, others resorted to sabotage to try and stop their fast and furious opponents. Thankfully, the shady scheme didn't work. Spud's little legs and big heart carried him to victory, even if it meant crashing his way to becoming the champion. If that good boy was fazed, it wasn't for long. The one-year-old bulldog celebrating his title with a crown fit for a king and a delicious steak. Well earned, my friend. Beer and pretzels, a typical sight in the nosebleeds at Ohio State's opener against Ball State, became rescue tools when a little squirrel got stuck at the top of the stadium. Body cam shows a Perry Township officer making do with his makeshift tools to help the frightened animal as we see him using the food to coax his way closer and closer to the creature. After a few moments, offering the squirrel a Michelob UltraBox for temporary shelter. Sometimes you gotta work with what you got. College, am I right? Eventually, the squirrel worked its way into the container with the officer sealing it tight and giving the little one a love tap after getting it safely secured. They worked their way outside the shoe where the animal was released and a Facebook post noting sometimes police work is serious, sometimes it involves squirrels. That is all for today's evening news, but for around the clock coverage, you can always visit us at ntd.com or better yet, use our NTD app. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Cary Dunst. Be true and kind and hold the line.