mexico. this is the lowest i ve seen that relation in a long time. someone said since 1948 or something close. i want to get your reaction to mexican president canceling his meeting with president trump. what do you think of that? he had no choice. president trump s idea of negotiating is bullying. bullying ceos, his primary opponents, bullying nations. you can t bully nations because the president has a constituency right now. he s weak in the polls, huge gasoline lines and higher prices. trump says he wants him to build a wall and pay for it, renegotiate nafta, now import fee of 20% which by the way is illegal under nafta. can t do that. it s supposed to be free trade
right now he s weak in the polls. right now there are huge gasoline lines, higher gasoline prices. trump says he wants them to build a wall and pay for it, wants them to renegotiate nafta. and now an import fee of 20%, which by the way is illegal under nafta. you can t do that. it s supposed to be free trade between canada, mexico, and the united states. so you know, pena nieto s back is really he can t probably make too many concessions now. so i think president trump has negotiated and negotiated against himself and we have little leverage now. i want to talk to you a little bit more about nafta and the policy toward mexico but first i want to play this because the president spoke about his policies regarding mexico and the canceled meeting today at the republican retreat. this is him in philadelphia. we ve put in place the first steps in our immigration plan, ordering the immediate construction of the border wall, putting an end to catch and release, expediting the removal
well. it really is difficult to move your way forward in these gasoline lines. i m not good at it, trying to force your way into these spaces and people get angry. there is a lot of honking and fights break out here. so the syrians have deployed military personnel or security personnel to the gas stations to make sure that people don t break out into fist fights. and the way the gas stations work is you have one or two lines for regular people and you have a line for the military, which obviously means they get fuel quicker and you have a line for government workers. there is a hierarchy here as well. the other big problem that people deal with is aside from the fact it takes long to get fuel, it s become more expensive. and people that we ve been speaking to here at the gas station say that the fuel surprises have increased four-fold. it s four times as expensive today as it was a year ago.
seen and the gasoline. the purpose is to make life difficult for iraqis and millions of people that live in the greater baghdad metropolitan area. already there are lines gasoline lines, calines in the baghdad that the expectations of distribution of fuel is going to be cut off. long lines and rationing taking place already. let s talk about the securing baghdad and the surrounding area there. what is the greatest challenge. is that change more difficult now than president obama has ruled out manned u.s. air strike, at least for now. reportedly ruled them out. it s difficult for the iraqis, of course, and for us to influence the action. it s going to be difficult for the isis people. they don t want to fight any kind of protracted battle inside baghdad. i mean, fighting in urbanter rain is difficult at the best of time but extremely difficult for
but outside kiev, long, long gasoline lines in ukraine. people, 50, 100 cars waiting to fill up their tanks. you go to an atm machine, no money, no cash. people worried about their life savings right now. that s going to have a dramatic impact internally in this struggle. no question. in all these countries, just like here, bread and butter issues make a difference. i saw this when i went to iran. this is a driving force for an iran deal. the iranian people, weak economy, the government has to get itself out from under it. and that s where not just the u.s. but the european union s influence can be. here s your incentive, economic incentive, to join the west, in effect, and not go back into the sway of the soviet union. we ll see what happens from this phone call between president obama and president putin. on that note, i ran into