what you described is a great reason for the mexican government to engage to help fix the problem. in the last 24 hours mexican president has already reached out and said he think they could do better and he takes it will do better in their sending evaluations for the first part of this week. what you laid out is actually probably not inaccurate but that s exact reason we did to put pressure on mexico to help us solve the situation. we think they can do that and they have tremendously strong immigration laws much stronger than ours, they have the ability to do things that we cannot. congress will not help us fix her loss so returning to mexico to help us fix the situation on the border and what you just described as being that they will help us. let s turn to you other issues with the time that we have left. let s start with robert mueller. he was a presidents reaction today to his comments. i think it s notably conflicted because as you know he wanted to be the fbi director
come on. this is something that you now should know. and you should automatically raise a flag. and so look, again, this is a case in point of how hard it is to try to put your head down, do work on your issues, whether it s the middle east, immigration, trade, or, of course, criminal justice reform when you have so much else swirling around you that you have to answer for. no matter what you re working for, if you are a senior adviser to the president of the united states. dana bash, thank you very much. thank you. high level talks between the u.s. and mexico are underway this hour. speaking of, and this is happening after president trump vowed to hit mexico with tariffs unless it does more to stop illegal immigration. i ll talk to a trump ally who says tariffs will hurt his auto industry next. with all that usaa offers
part because of the aluminum and steel tariffs, if they get shakier than the auto states of places like michigan and ohio and indiana get really sick. then you have the act states, as jason pointed out, he got two senators from iowa to divert even humored by china. that is why things are going the way they are. if you take a look at what the president said in the last 24 hours, they want to try to get something done. their high-level delegation next week, the foreign minister with mike pompeo and lighthizer, i think they re going to say look we want to get this done because they don t want about economic impact and they also understand if their own rule of law, all these people are coming up through their country, there is a price for respect for the rule of law and economically for them to have that many people coming up from guatemala, honduras and nicaragua. do you share carl s optimism that mexico faced with all this is going to make a deal and back down on the people?
tariffs, is this basically in negotiating ploy to get mexico s attention or does he really mean it that mexico does not stop the flow of migrants across our southern border that he will start imposing these tariffs on june 10? good morning, thank you for starting for the easy question, his deadly serious. i expect the stairs to go on for at least a 5% level on june 10. the president is deadly serious to fixing the situation at the southern border. from the first time a monumental program talk about what happens in the u.s. border. we ve been talking about it for months, six month ago we told everybody it s an emergency situation and very few people believe this. exact attempt to the about how democrats refuse to believe the fact six month ago. it is real, we had a group of 1000 people, one group of a thousand people walk across the border just in the last couple of days. 2500 people are coming over every single day as opposed to 702 years ago.
thanks for coming to cnn. thanks for having me on. you re buddies with president trump. you re in contact with him often. we have talked a lot since the news broke on friday about how important mexico is for the u.s. auto industry. it is so important. you re a car guy. how much is this going to affect you? it s going to it s going to affect me, but it s going to affect the consumers. the consumers are the ones that will pay the price for this. and it s interesting, because you re talking about 70 % of the wiring harnesses produced for an automobile are produced in mexico. we re talking about shutting down assembly lines and putting people out of work. the interesting part is it s going to drive the price of a u.s. car of a domestic car up $1300. yeah. up to 3$,000 when the reality is he s going to drive people to buy foreign cars because it s going to be less costly. their products are not produced ma in mexico. your friend the president is making a mistake? i don t