security, john kelly. in mexico. there will be no, repeat, no mass deportation. no, repeat no use of military force in immigration operations. none. the white house later clarifying the meaning of military operation. the president was using that as an adjective, it s happening with precision. reporter: among mexico s complaints that the u.s. plans to deport anyone who illegally crosses the border back to mexico, even if they re not mexican. secretary of state trex tillersn dealt with the difficulties. i said, that s going to be a tough trip, because we have to be treated fairly by mexico. reporter: tillerson trying to translate donald trump s tough talk into diplomacy. two sovereign countries from time to time will have differences. reporter: and emphasizing the differences between the two allies, many mexican lawmakers were demanding the president refuse to meet with secretaries tillerson and kelly thursday. but ultimately that meeting did happen. so far no public comm
either side on what, if anything, was accomplished. ayman? peter alexander, thank you. the new fbi official asked to pour cold water on publish stories that trump advisers were in touch with government officials throughout the election. cnn was the first to report the story and that the fbi refused to bat under pressure. the associated press said reince priebus said the admistration it believed the new york times was describing the context was not accurate. the official asked mccabe in a meeting at the white house if the fbi could knock down aspects of the new york times report, and mccabe declined to discuss the case in any way. the fbi is not commenting on the story. and today a big day at cpac where the president is set to speak before the conservative conference. joining us from washington, capitol hill correspondent kasie
the president flexing america s muscles on foreign policy telling reuters he wants to fortify the u.s. s nuclear arsenal. it would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we re going to be at the top of the pack. reporter: president trump whose come under fire for potential ties to russia now vowing he ll confront russian president vladimir putin over the country s recent release of the latest missile. this comes as donald trump tries to diffuse a standoff with mexico. demonstrators torching a fake wall highlighting real tensions. the latest flash point, mr. trump s new deportation policies. we are getting gang members out, we re getting drug lords out, we re getting really bad dudes out of this country. and it s a military operation. reporter: that comment quickly contradicted by the president s homeland of
president steven bannon labeled reporters the opposition party. and reince priebus joined in to slam journalists. we re hoping that the media would catch up eventually, but we re so conditioned to it, i m personally so conditioned to hearing about why president trump isn t going to win the election. why one a controversy in the primary is going to take down president trump. i lived through it as chairman of the party. and it really hit me because it was maybe the summer of 2015, and you remember the media was constantly pounding president trump. and the polling kept getting better and better and better for president trump. it s not only going to get better, it s going to get worse every day. and here s why, the internal logic makes sense, their corporatist media, they are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like donald