massive immigration arrests. the new plans for a large-scale i.c.e. enforcement operation. they re going to start next week. when people come into our country and they come in illegally, they have to go out. they will be removed from the country. it starts, you know, during the course of this next week. the president pulling back on that order to start those deportation raids. trump says it s because democrats asked him for the delay for negotiations. and there is more evidence of the bluster coming to an end with no action. on the mexico tariffs, there was a lot of tough talk. there was a count down to this punishment. it all ended, of course, with a head fake for a deal that mexico and others said was largely already in place, meaning not a result of the threats. so trump gets the red meat to the base, then knowingly not acting on the planned threat. now, a lot of people, let s be clear, think it s a good thing that we re not at war with iran today or there wasn t an extr
player. they are a nation of terror, and we won t put up with it. i would certainly send troops if we need them. iran made a big mistake. they made a very bad mistake. how will you respond? you ll find out. are you really going to go with war with iran? you ll find out. i m not looking for war. and if there is, it will be obliteration like you ve never seen before. america s half-cocked president says he was cocked and loaded for a strike on iran last night. but he called it off at the last minute. cocked and loaded. this is a president who knows about narrative, who knows about staging and casting and he s trying to cast himself as the hero for calling off the very thing that he started. he is the one who threatened that airstrike, although of course there was a downed drone. that s a real thing to deal with. but he was the one talking about escalation. or now take the i.c.e. raids with this frame in mind. donald trump was the one who vowed to carry them out. here s th
and in the markets there were people excited there weren t new tariff wars. but what are we to do with all of this, especially when you have a president deliberately stoking chaos and fear to position himself to be the one to relieve it, but, of course, only momentarily, i can tell you that the president on the i.c.e. raids is asking congress to act within a few weeks, or he says he ll act again. is that another head fake? we bring in my experts, mar a gay from the the new york times editorial board and barbara es a barbara rez, the author of all alone on the 6th floor. good to see you both. hi. what do you think we should do with this? and when you look at these three topics, do you think they re all pure head fakes? so, it s hard to know because the president does sit in the white house and does have the ability to start a war just with the stroke of a pen, ands that of a little bit terrifying to me. but i do think that this presents an opportunity for congress and then sec
time. those are key. he needs to do well enough there or they have to find a different path for him which is one of the things his campaign is looking at now. dana bash said they are looking at oregon, new mexico, new hampshire. nevada and new hampshire sounds smart. nevada in particular. that makes sense. new mexico is the one that s raised a fair number of eyebrows. i don t know how realistic that is. it s either meant as a head fake for democrats or it is out of real concern. i don t think we ll know for a while. if they have near infinite funds you can spend wherever you want. it s important to temper this. there is a fair amount of but on the other hand in terms of donald trump s prospects. he s under water now. if the election were today any democrat would probably beat him, but it s not today. it s not. he s an incumbent.
the washington post, david, influence the election. and then we have come of course fisa. how is it possible with all of that evidence and not on the surface so far of trump collusion that mueller can look in the mirror and say that this is a fair investigation and that we have equal justice under the law? john: i don t know how it can be called a fair investigation for that very reason. it is quite obvious there were crimes committed by people associated with the clinton campaign come up with the democratic national committee, with gps and other people and those things for all intensive purposes, have been ignored. certainly ignored by mueller and ignored thus far by the department of justice. as victoria said, nobody knows what he has done or doing most of us think jeff sessions appointed him it was a head fake. sean, the thing that is really