So well in the past wont necessarily be there in the future. Well, the supporting players have taken their seats for that joint News Conference. You see press secretary Sarah Sanders now heading out. The meeting has clearly broken up. We will see President Trump and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom theresa may at that podium any moment now. That does it for us on morning joe. We turn over the coverage now to stephanie ruhle. Thanks so much, willie. Im stephanie ruhle. Any minute now the president and uk Prime Minister theresa may will be holding that joint Press Conference, with an eye on london, i want to bring in jilian tet with the Financial Times and richard stengel, who served as former undersecretary for state and Public Diplomacy under president obama. Welcome to you both. Jilian, to you, first, whats expected. What should we be watching for . Theres going to be a lot of platitudes. The best thing that everyones hoping for is that the president doesnt say anything too in
with steve mnuchin who also doesn t like tariffs. he is basically saying if mexico doesn t do what i want, i am going to punish american citizens by putting a tax on them, which he refers to as a tariff. it is an insane policy and goes against the traditional republican policy for the last 30 or 40 years and reasonable people, including some people as you say who are sitting right there realize it s shooting himself in the foot and american citizens. last point to you, bobby. the president possibly shooting himself in the foot or is he? mexico did pick up the phone and they do want to meet. are his threats taking effect and working? it all depends on the scale. yes, mexico had some response. is that enough? or is it just window dressing to give the president something positive to say and then back off on the tariffs if he s not going to back off on the tariffs, then that strategy for the mexicans has not worked. the economic point that we made here is that, of course, if they
go up, if the tariffs go up, those american companies that had been to mexico, they re not going to come back to the united states, they re going to go somewhere else. they re going to go to vietnam or some place else. that s not how the economics work. the president ought to know that, but he doesn t. we ll soon find out what mexico has to say. thank you so much. we re going to take a quick break. stick around. much more on president trump s press conference with theresa may, plus an nbc news exclusive. children including infants and toddlers forced to sleep on concrete slabs on the floor of the u.s. border stations all because the detention centers are overcrowded. it s getting worse. you do not want to miss this story. nd t just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com
talking points and what the white house is saying, they re saying the president got so many feel from china or at least that china may have played some role in the new let s call it lack of enthusiasm out of north korea after xi jinping met with kim jong-un a second time very recently. there s more to come out here about maybe what was in the white house calculus and we ll see i guess in coming days. if that s the case, the team working on trade, ie larry kudlow, who doesn t like tariffs, who doesn t want a trade war, that s not good news for the road ahead. we can criticize what happened for the last 24 hours all day long but there are three americans that came home over a week ago. there was one american who was beaten to death and came home in a coma, swaenessentiall beaten to death. they shouldn t have been prisoner in the first place. but while we say what a huge disaster this has been for the white house, has it been? because the mike pompeo meeting
the white house as top economic policy advisor, i think he is going to be one of the people who fashions a new trade relationship with china. because that s now the focal point of trade debate new relationship with china. that s what they are going to fashion. by the way, one of the complangts against china is that they steel our intellectual property. they steal our software from the likes of microsoft, for example. well this afternoon bill gates, the founder of microsoft he will be at the white house for private meeting with president trump. i think this is all involved in a new trade negotiation relationship with china. steve: listen to this. here he is talking about just that story. i must say as someone who doesn t like tariffs, i think china has earned a tough response. not only from the united states, i mean, a thought that i have is that the united states could lead a coalition of large trading partners and allies against