HILL: Few companies feel as iconic as American as Harley-Davidson. The motorcycle maker says its moving some production overseas to avoid tariffs set by the European Union in response to President Trump's tariffs. The company says this is the only sustainable option. President Trump says, however, Harley surrendered and waved the white flag. Joining me now the former vice president of business development for Harley-Davidson, Clyde Fessler, who's widely credited with the company's turnaround in the '80s and '90s. Clyde, good to have you with us this morning. The president, as we know, is not happy with this move. In fact, threatening that not only will the aura be gone from the company but, quote, "they will be taxed like never before." The president threatening to tax this company like never before. What do you make of that, especially someone who helped turn this company around?</s>CLYDE FESSLER, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT FO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, HARLEY- DAVIDSON: It's a very complicated situation, when looking at Harley. And you have to look way back when, when they started over 115 years ago, when Harley was just a domestic company and that was shipping motorcycles to North America and Canada and Mexico. In the 1980s, we became an international company and that's when we started shipping motorcycles to Europe, about 4,000 motorcycles a year in the mid- 1980s. Now we're shipping about 45,000 motorcycles a year to the European marketplace. And Harley-Davidson is evolving from a national company, an international company to a global company. And -- and just Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha, they all have plants all over the world.
Trump Says Harley- Davidson Waved White Flag.