the president said the irtaof will increase until the problem is remedied. how exactly does the white house plan to measure that between now and june 10th? another thing that he said was that if it would increase starting on june 10th and then up 5% every month going until october and that with the white house or the president s sole discretion they would decide whether or not to stop those tariffs based on whether mexico fulfilled the obligations that the white house is setting out. the answer to that question, steph, it will depend entirely on what president trump decides. if those numbers of immigrants crossing the border do go down. if he feels that mexico is doing more to prevent migrants from crossing the poborder, that, apparently, is one of the reasons this week he decided to make an announcement. another big number of people who crossed the borderer. that is probably the answer. there won t be, or at least so far there is not a specific criteria that mexico could look at and
craziness of a udmaemodern day. if a president uses a word, it s off bounds. it s a perfectly good english word and i ll continue to use it. what is your take? he said he always uses that word. if i visit my parents, they ll say, spying, surveillance. what s the difference? a charged word for many people. at the same time, mr. barr is correct in the sense that he used the word his entire career. he started his career at the central intelligence agency. what is distinctive about these comments on this front is that there is still an ongoing inspector general investigation in terms of the origin of the russia investigation and surveillance of the trump campaign and different associates. that has not yet concluded. so, by using the word spying, our sources at the post inside law enforcement community and congressional community are taken aback because they believe he is in a sense coming to a
flooding. now, turning to acting defense secretary patrick shanahan. he s in singapore this morning where he s facing new questions about those reports the white house directed the navy to move the uss mccain out of sight during president trump s visit to japan earlier this week. speaking to reporters, shanahan was asked if the pentagon agrees with the president that the official who made that direction was, quote, well meaning. does the defense department look at whomever did this within the navy as well meaning, as well, or will there be repercussions? i ll wait until i give the full explanation of the facts before i ll pass judgment on the situation. i would not have moved the ship. i would not have given that direction. i ll wait and see what get reported back. courtney at the pentagon, kelsey snell, jeff mason back with me. courtney, acting defense secretary cannot escape this
conclusion on these matters before the inspector general in his own department comes to a conclusion. matt, daily beast is reporting that trump s team is now itching for robert mueller to testify. this was a shock to many. the idea is that he could get grilled by republican lawmakers. what is your reaction to that? i don t know whether that s real or not. i could see some members of the team supporting that. but trump made very clear at times that he doesn t want mueller to testify. one thing that was the power of television. you only had bill barr television talking about and only had the president talking about it, that was a powerful thing for him because most of the americans aren t going to read this report. bob mueller coming forward the other day changed the game. because you had the prosecutor who investigated this matter for two years standing up very clearly and say if i told you the president didn t commit a crime, i would, but i can t. powerful for him to come forward a
but that does give the forum for all the republican members of the committee to air their conspiracy theories and spend a lot of time attacking those. i don t know, obviously, what jerry nadler will do and there is some argument for him, you know, taking what mueller gave him the other day. taking this very powerful televised performance and just ending it there and not dragging it out for what could become a political side show. robert, do you buy this? the president said over and over he does not want mueller to testify. do you think that s changed? remember, all of the eyeballs that watched michael cohen testify. do you think the president and his team really want all of us sitting back, again, and watching robert mueller tell all those 400 pages to the american people? there is a debate about this inside of the republican party and the president s inner circle. for a long time the consensus based on my reporting was that they did not want mr. mueller to testify because they bel