Markets taking a nosedive today after President Trump tweets a surprise announcement, that the United States will impose tariffs on goods from mexico until mexico stops migrants from crossing the u. S. Border. Breaking news, flooding in the midwest and plains reaches an even more dangerous level. Mandatory evacuations under way at this moment after a levy breach overnight. Weve got barr versus mueller. The attorney contradicts the former special counsel, saying there was no reason mueller should have avoided coming to a conclusion on obstruction. I personally felt he could have reached a decision. In your view he could have reached a conclusion . Right, he could have reached a conclusion. We must start this morning with President Trumps surprise announcement overnight, tlern threatening to hike tariffs on all mexican goods. That would take effect in less than two weeks. Two people who know how this works are with me from the white house, hans nichols and kayla tausche. Hans, what is th
Stop. The tariff will gradually increase until the illegal immigration problem is remedied. White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney say the ball is now in mexicos court. It is an action related to an immigration matter. We fully believe they have the ability to stop people coming in from their southern border. If theyre able to do that the tariffs will not go into place or will be removed after they go into place. Crisis at the border is urgent. And we are interested in seeing the Mexican Government react tonight, tomorrow, and were hopeful that they will. Bill waiting on reaction on that. Kevin corke lays the ground work from the north lawn. How is mexico responding . You have know what, bill . Well often talk about the idea of a crisis, right. This is deadly serious. Mexico is treating it as such. Their foreign minister is trying to tamp down not just a humanitarian crisis but financial crisis as you heard sandra mention. Let me tell you more about the tariffs. We talked about that
Defends his own review of the mueller report, saying Justice Department lawyers didnt agree with muellers legal analysis. And north korean purge . U. S. Intelligence is looking into a report that kim jongun has unleashed a purge of top diplomats held responsible for the failed summit with President Trump. One reportedly executed, another sent off to forced labor. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. The Justice Department releases a transcript of a phone call from President Trumps former attorney to a lawyer for Michael Flynn seeking information about flynns discussions with the special counsel Robert Mueller. The call was part of muellers probe into potential obstruction. Tonight, sources indicate that a frustrated President Trump is dreading the threat of impeachment rather than welcoming the chance for a new battle with democrats. And the president has quickly come up with a distraction. A surprise announcement threatening
President s frustration boiled over. He is taking aim directly at mexico for what he feels is quite frankly passive cooperation in bringing this mass migration over the border. He said this on twitter, mexico has taken advantage of the United States for decades because of the dems, our immigration laws are bad. Mexico makes a fortune from the u. S. They can easily fix this problem. They must do what must be done. If they dont, it would be significant. 5 tariff, all the way up to 25 on october 1st. One single instance, you probably see this, more than 1,000 people were apprehended along the southern border. Thats on top of the hundreds of thousands who have already come across our border this year, and the year before, and the year before, plus the millions who come here legally. The message is obviously clear. Mexico has to help or theyll pay a heavy price. Were asking mexico to enforce their own laws to help stop the people coming in from central america. Weve seen a massive influx of
Five to eight minutes after these officers entered the building they made contact and engaged with the suspect on the second floor of the building. I cant tell you how many shots a minute were being fired and in the police world anything more than three to five shots is a long gun battle. As the suspect was firing he was moving. They were returning fire and at one point the suspect was firing through the door and through the wall at the officers and then the firing stopped. They eventually breached a door, and when they breached the door the suspect was alive and taken into custody and first aid was immediately rendered to him. The 40yearold suspect Dewayne Craddock later died at a Virginia Beach hospital. Four other victims are still being hospitalized. For more on these developments lets bring in crime and justice correspondent shime owen prokupecz. What are we learning about the suspect and possible motives for the snoogt yes, we know hes resigned, and there still has to be underlyi