briefing about this kind of operation would look like, what all the contingencies are. i know the pentagon told him this and the president is lying what he told chuck todd the other day. what do you make of this two-week delay. now nancy pelosi can call donald trump and he decides he s going to give a delay to see if republicans and democrats can work together? i mean, that seems like an odd kind of position for donald trump to take. except it s a classic trumpian tactic. this is a tactic this president has complied again and again to lay out incredibly drastic step he s going to take and it s going to happen right now and at the last minute changes his mind and be the guy who saves the guy from the crisis he created himself. they call it bullying in brooklyn and queens where he and i come from. me, brooklyn, by the way. garrett and i spent a lot of time on capitol hill. they re not passing immigration reform in the next two weeks. they have a full plate and they re not doing t
proposed in central america. earlier mexican president andres manuel lopez obrador had said in los cabos, mexico that his government didn t want confrontation with the u.s. government. he also said mexico would like to keep on being friends of the american people. rafael romo, cnn, atlanta. with me now is cnn global affairs analyst and staff writer for the new yorker susan glasser. susan, what do you think of this deal? well, it s a classic trumpian move here, right? because we ve declared a mexican trade war by tweet and now just a few days later we ve declared victory by tweet, all without a lot of details either on the front end about what exactly mexico needed to do and now here we are declaring victory. again, details are sketchy. largely we have a short release from the u.s. state department and the president s twitter words here. i think it s fair to say that there s a lot of skepticism here in washington tonight that this represents a definitive step
is that what s happening here? is the world just being too hard on mbs and king solomon? it seems to me that president trump has done a classic trumpian thing of inserting himself right into the middle of a story that many in his own party would wish he wasn t. he seems to be acting more like a lawyer for the saudis, more like a pr agent for the saudis than he does the president of the most powerful country in the world. my question is, number one, what s happened to american intelligence capabilities, which are either being not used and completely ignored, or have taken a pass on a very, very significant unfolding story. we do have an independent capacity to unearth some information and facts here. the president is acting as if that s irrelevant, number one. number two, i think what s happened is a result of his personalization of the relationship with saudi is that
would be that somebody would be listening to that call. he was he actually couldn t believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not he knew it. i was so nice. look. i have called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. tim, as you know, in these settings, you have government phone calls. there are often parties in the room. mosha gesson, a journalist that fled vladimir putin s administration. they re private and the statement she writes contains a classic trumpian reversal and claiming for himself the right of privacy but myeshia johnson apparently voluntarily shared the conversation with the mother-in-law and congresswoman wilson.
was in the room when i made the call. and so were other people. and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call. he was he actually couldn t believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not he knew it. i was so nice. look. i have called many people. and i would think that every one of them appreciated it. tim, as you know, in these settings, you have government phone calls. there are often parties in the room. mosha gesson, a journalist that fled pvladimir putin s administration. they re private and the statement she writes contains a classic trumpian reversal and claiming for himself the right