face. that s how strong the point was. christiane, that s what he promised, i m putting you first, i m going to push everybody around. look, again, i think you ll have to judge and history will judge and the future will judge whether you can make these public, so-called business negotiations which apparently, supporters of president trump are saying that s what it was and whether that is worth, you know, dissing, is how it s being seen in mexico, a major ally. it s actually quite important to get below the bluster and actually analyze the facts. is the united states being taken advantage of. does mexico have a hand to play in terms of helping the united states with the drug traffic, with the stopping terrorists come in with, as you all know, there is a net outflow of mexicans back to mexico. it is not the other way around for the last more than 12 to 24 months. mexico is currently helping keep central american refugees and
down. in other words, is this somebody who will be able to talk back to president donald trump if he disagrees with him and in terms of managing down, how will he get along with the state department? great questions. i think he probably would be good at the former. that depends on what he really believes as a public leader of the united states and what views he develops about american foreign policy which are not questions he had to manage in his career. i don t think there s much evidence in his career that he s a big admirer of the state department diplomatic service. that s one of the really odd fits here. exxon operated independently from the state department not because it can but because it doesn t actually find the diplomatic service to be very helpful to their business negotiations. if he s going to come in and make himself a friend of the career service officers there who really dominate diplomacy for the united states the way colin powell did when he came in and walk the bu
businessman, i m a negotiator. so, you try and hold me down to a statement or a claim or a promise, and i ll just kind of what he does, he turns it around. he says well that was just an opening bid. that was just an idea. that was just a discussion. that is in fact how business negotiations work. that s how commerce works. in some ways, it s not nefarious, but we re not used to seeing this at the highest level of government. president obama tweeted this in fairness, what president hasn t had to pay $25 million to make a massive fraud lawsuit go away before assuming office? very stark to hear, but is his point valid? the point is, we ve got somebody essentially walking off the street and into the oval office in the sense that the prior 44 presidents of the
twitter at sanjay gupta cnn. time now to get you a check of your top stories in the cnn newsroom. here in the cnn newsroom i m debra feyerick in today for don lemon. let s get you up to speed on the stories making headlines this hour. there he is. the republican candidate for vice president of the united states. mitt romney announced today wisconsin congressman paul ryan running along side him for the white house. the two are making their next official stop as ticket mates right now in virginia. we re live from manassas in just a minute. a few hours ago president obama landed in chicago to host a series of high dollar fundraisers. ticket price $40,000 to attend the president s fundraiser tomorrow at his hyde park home. the president s campaign took a quick jab at paul ryan today saying ryan supports tax cuts for the wealthy that will hurt the middle class. meanwhile, vice president joe biden called ryan today to congratulate him and welcome him to the race. for the second t
london. saudi gadhafi, moammar gadhafi s son and eight official libyans officials were allowed entrance on sunday. field marshall mohammed hussein was scheduled to appear on sunday but his testimony was postponed until september 24th because he says he s dealing with last week s riots. mubarak is accused of ordering protesters shot during last winter s uprising. o say can you see the u.s. continues to mark ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on new york and washington. solemn ceremonies were held sunday at ground zero, the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania, honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed. while there were no attempted attacks on sunday, fighter jets were scrambled to escort two commercial airliners to their u.s. destinations. passengers on each flight were reported to be acting suspiciously but authorities determined they posed no threats. no arrests were made. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s business leader. i m monita rajpal. worl