WATCH: The premiere of The Axios Show featuring Howard Lutnick

In the debut episode of "The Axios Show," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joins Axios co-founder Mike Allen to discuss the state of President Trump's economy, the high-profile ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia and his late-night chats with the president.The big picture: This five-episode video interview series features our top reporters and experts talking to the biggest names shaping politics, media, business, tech and culture.In our first episode, Lutnick says that Trump is turning up pressure on drugmakers to lower prices, adding that the president was "talking about this all day on Saturday."He answers questions about Americans' existential worries that artificial intelligence will displace their jobs and what he can do about surging student loan delinquencies. Behind the scenes: Lutnick talks about being in the room for Trump's negotiations with Japanese officials on a trade deal over the summer with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other members of Congress had arrived for a separate meeting and were invited into the room, Lutnick says."That put so much pressure on the Japanese," Lutnick says. Trump "has the leadership of the Congress in the room watching this negotiation take place, and [the Japanese official] has to get a deal done, and the president is just pushing him.""It was literally a masterclass of both negotiating and the art of negotiating by bringing these people in. It changed the room."Subscribe to our YouTube.

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