are destroying our relationship with mexico. we are in unreliable partner when it comes to economics and security agreements. logically speaking mexico is going to be turning to other countries for export purposes, and for security relationships because they fear president trump s next temper tantrum. you both make excellent points. we talk about agreements, the wall, numbers. what we really should be talking about are these are lives that, you know, that are being impacted, people who are risking everything to come up here to try to get into the states for a better life. katherine, i do want to bring it back to domestic politics because this is obviously an element that runs through almost everything these days. what role do you think that 2020, the presidential election next year is playing in president trump s thinking in this? well, he does seem to return to his core issue of immigration whenever there s any sort of trouble in the water, whenever there are bad headlines related
to secure not just iraq s oil, but the stability of its entire economy. this is perhaps the lifeline into iraq s economy. 95% of the country s oil wells flows through pipelines on this platform into waiting tankers. it s takes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. any disruption to this being devastate the economy. oil produced in the north goes directly to turkey and only some of the revenues are channelled to baghdad. 75% to 80% of the country s gdp is dependent on the oil exported from this platform. the crude belongs to iraq s oil company or salk. translator: whatever comes to the platform is for export purposes. there are four oil tankers, loading two tankers at a time. their export is 75,000 barrels per hour, that s the capacity. reporter: this is the petrol