First shots were fired. Good morning, everybody. It is june 3rd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett. Earlier this morning President Trump land in the uk for the start of a three day state visit as part of a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday coming up on thursday. Prior to leaving the president previewed his trip. Well be going to the uk. I think it will be very important. It certainly will be very interesting. Theres a lot going on in the uk. Im sure its going to work out very well for them. As you know, they want to do trade with the United States. And i think theres an opportune for a very big trade deal at some point in the near future and well see how that works out. Our country is doing incredibly well. Our businesses are doing well. Well clog up the border. Stop the border. Mexico is making hundreds of billions of dollars for many, many years. And they have to do something about the border. Everyone is coming through
Vossoughian. President trump heads to france this weekend for the annual g7 summit. Once again, hes proving to be, quote, the wildcard of World Leaders. Hes already shaken up the schedule to discuss the global economy. His message to allies, be lomor like the u. S. He will tell World Leaders to follow his economic models. We are told, eehell hold meetis with World Leaders. He will press the president of france. The canadian Prime Minister trudeau is expected to hear from the president on trade and Angela Merkel on defense spending. The president tweeting out a chart that shows how much the u. S. Spends on defense compared toef allies posting this, quote nato very unfair to the United States. Based on trumps performance last year at the g7, it is no wonder World Leaders are bracing themselves. Last year, he arrived late stating he is the president and has a lot on his plate. He also left early. Trump arrived behind schedule on a discussion of gender equality. Here you can see him stroll
Have delayed the illegal immigration process for two weeks to see in the democrats and republicans can get together and work out a solution to the asylum and loophole problems at the southern border. If not, deportations will start. But the raids were called we were told in large because details of the plan had leaked to media. A second issue was that i. C. E. Did not have plans in place for detaining the 2,000 immigrants mainly families whom they are going to arrest and then deport. Notably it was President Trump who announced the raids in a tweet just one week ago. A threat which according to the New York Times had caught immigration officials off guard. As no major operations had been scheduled to begin. More details emerged friday in the Washington Post while a Senior Administration official tells nbc that the president also pulled back because of a sense that the administration is getting hammered in the media over this. A team of lawyers is sending a warning about the conditions
Agreement on migration that averts the implementation of President Trumps tariffs on mexican goods. President trump took to twitter friday night to announce the deal under which mexico will deploy 6,000 National Guard troops throughout the country, mainly to its southern border with guatemala. It expands a program called migrant protection protocols which allows u. S. Immigration enforcement officials to send Central American migrants to mexico. They will offer those migrant, jobs, health care and education. The agreement doesnt include a demand that mexico agree to a safe third country designation which would have required the country to permanently accept most Asylum Seekers from central america. Despite President Trump touting the agreement as a new deal just how new the terms are, thats up for debate. The New York Times reports that mexico had previously agreed to deploy its National Guard during high level secret talks back in march, according to officials from both countries who
Bennett alongside alex witness. Yasmin has the week off. We made it to friday. The first nbc news wall street journal poll is finally here. The front runners were the two at center stage of each debate. Joe biden leads by 26 and warren trails at just 19 . Harris and sanders tied for 13 as Pete Buttigieg each with 7 . No other candidate in the race cracks below 1 below the qualifier. If given the choiz between ideology and the ability to win, 51 of democrats said their candidate who shared their views and 45 says they want the person who has the best chance to beat donald trump. 47 chose harris. 32 picked senator warren. Buttigieg and biden each impressed 15 of those polled. Cory booker with just 6 . A fox news poll of South Carolina shows the former Vice President with with a big lead there. 35 say they would vote for biden, a 21 lead over sanders. Harris in third with 12 with warren back at 5 . Senator booker with 3 and buttigieg at 2 . Bidens advantage shows a strong show of support