Sen. Bill Hagerty discussed Donald Trump nominating Kash Patel to be FBI director and Trump's plan to use potentially costly tariffs to benefit the U.S. economy, Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." KRISTEN WELKER: President-elect Trump is announcing he would impose 25% tariffs against Mexico and Canada,

Tenn., on Sunday said he is supportive of President-elect Donald Trump's plans to impose tariffs on a number of nations, including Canada and Mexico, pointing to the long history of the U.S. using trade as a "strategic tool" for decades.

President-elect Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada threatens to upend decades of North American integration, a bumpy process that’s recast the two U.S. neighbors as providers of raw and finished goods for the world’s biggest economy.