So much to get to. But im going to get straight to cnns leyla santiago in mexico stow. Mark preston, david gergen. Lots to talk about. Jeff, well start with you. The u. S. Relationship with mexico in crisis tonight. What can you tell us about the days developments . Don, it is indeed the first diplomatic standoff of this young Trump Administration, the Trump Presidency here. And it all started of course over that longrunning Campaign Pledge to build the wall. Now that Campaign Promise because a governing reality, the controversy here really bubbled over today where the president of mexico said look, i am not coming to the u. S. , i am not coming to meet with you next week, mr. Trump, if the payment of the wall is a central issue here. So President Trump was flying to philadelphia today to meet with republican leaders. One of the things they were going to be discussing was paying for the wall. But midflight i was on that flight with him on air force one. He found out that that meeting n
We have a situation where the security of our country is at stake, and its a very, very serious situation. So we look forward, as i just said, to seeing them in court. We have full coverage this hour. Cnns dan simon is live outside the 9th court of appeals in San Francisco. Here in los angeles we have cnn legal analyst areva martin. And democratic strategist Robin Swanson. And cnn political commentator and trump supporter John Phillips. First to you, dan, in San Francisco. The court delivered a huge blow to President Trumps agenda almost ais the board. Thats right. Thats why you didnt have any antidonald trump protesters at the courthouse. Had this gone the other way, this sidewalk would still be filled with tons of protesters. As for the ruling itself, the fact that two of the judges were appointed by democratic president s, there should be no surprise in terms of how this went. But what is striking is just across the board, this was a clear rebuke of this executive order. The judges
We talked with President Trump and Vice President pence on moving forward on the agenda and thats what we campaigned on and we have to deliver. Nsa worker charged with leaking top secrets and now parents speaking out. We want her to be treated fairly and to be safe. If she did this as allegations say and shes convicted, she should go to jail. Pintsize patriot and his secret salute. One nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all. Steve you are upstairs, we started the show and even though it is day three, this still has that new studio smell, right . Of course, ainsley, this is familiar to you. Ainsley looked like it, right . This is my club dress. I do love this song. Who sings this . Doubtful. Brian kiss now loves us and now they didnt. Ainsley what . Steve they didnt understand the sense of humor. Ainsley got it. Steve thank you for joining us on on this very busy wednesday. We will start with fox news alert. Two big stories breaking internationally. In ther strikes overnigh
These are live pictures. You see the full press corps there with the president on this visit. Hes making a point to hit several stops he wasnt able to make the first time he visited the storm area on tuesday. Thats when he was able to meet mostly with just some of the local, state and federal officials. He went to a fire house there. This time hes been able to, again, meet with the residents and those who are directly affected he was criticized earlier of not being empathic enough, the white house said some of the reasons he didnt meet and greet with some of those folks previously was because he didnt want to impact the Emergency Response efforts that were still ongoing at that time when they were literally in rescue mode throughout much of the houston area that was flooded. So he is tapping into the heart of texas and of course heartbreak of one of the worst natural disasters in u. S. History. Less than two hours ago this was the scene when he met with evacuees who took shelter inside
On friday we get the outlines of this great tax plan that was going to help out the economy, help out the middle class, help out Small Businesses and create finally, some Economic Growth and now you have the at least chance for the left and the haters on the right to come out and say oh, my gosh look at all of the corruption in d. C. Look at all of the backlash now that it has to come from this issue and now youll take the official say focus away from what really ailes this economy which is tax reform and tax relief. Dagen and gary b. , what about Obamacare Repeal and and replace . Now youll have to go through the confirmation process. Will this resignation jeopardize trumps agenda . Gary it wont jeopardize the new agenda. I disagree with scott on this because unlike healthcare, trump is focused on the tax cuts and here is the reason. He understands it. I never got the impression nor do i think most of america that he even understood or was interested healthcare. I think thats done. Le