we told mexico the tarif tariffs a lot of people, senators included have no idea what they re talking about when it comes to tariffs. they have absolutely no idea. president trump renewing his threat to impose tariffs on mexico in advance of a second round of talks between the administration and mexican diplomats today in washington. they fail to resolve their differences yesterday. joining me is kristen welker and david ignacias. david, this hole figwhole fight tariffs. this seems to be an economic threat over mexico. whether or not it s a bluff, we don t know. you re never sure.
is, and when i had strategic responsibility for afghanistan, i asked for h.r. mcmaster, then a one-star general to come and work on the corruption chief. you ve got jim mattis who famo s famously was the first one on the ground after 9/11. and number two, work with the allies, we should continue to pressure our nato partners to come with us, if we re going to put 4,000 in, we re going to look for 4,000 from our european nato allies. number three, i these we can make some progress with afghanistan, with david s point, it s the nut we haven t been able to crack and we re going to have to able to crack that nut. and the rise of the islamic state in afghanistan and whether that can be part of ultimately bringing the taliban to a
not politically viable in the u.s., so we re just going to try to hedge our bets and stumble along and that may be the best we can do. and john mccain had a plan according to senator tim kaine who was on morning joe today, i want to bring you that interview and talk to you about that on the other side. this is tim kaine this morning. we re going to hear from the president tonight what is at stake and why does the united states need to continue to be invested in afghanistan. to put it bluntly, what happens in afghanistan stays in afghanistan, so there s no spillover effect in pakistan or other countries in the region that can come back and harm us. david, what can they do? what other options are there that make any sense, that are politically viable and that make
training deserve no loesz. i expect full transparency and accountability from the navy leaders as they conduct the associated investigations and reviewed, that from the chairman of the armed services committee, you can understand fully why this is so personal and so important to him as well. and just as the admiral was saying to us, they really need to find out what happened. thank you very much, admiral, courtney, kristen and david. ousted steve bannon says he s got his hands back on his weapons and a warning to his old colleagues. and president donald trump to watch the eclipse with on the white house lawn with the first lady. you can keep it right here on msnbc for complete coverage on the solar eclipse, that is astounding, stay with us.
authorities to secretary mattis, he said you now have the authority to deploy more troops to afghanistan without the white house signing off. and secretary mattis, now that we know how many troops the commander in afghanistan wants, we know what general dunford and the other generals want, what is the way to go in regard. but mattis has continued to decline to send the troops before the form making of the strategy. this is president trump s strategy, president trump tonight with this speech takes ownership with this war. he s getting buy in, with john kelly who has an intimate relationship with afghanistan, with this war because of the sacrifice of his family. david ignacias, john kelley cost a son and his other son marine