i don t think we can t read the president s mind but that is a compelling number to anybody. that is a compelling number to me. it is a lot of people. and the conditions that you just talked about, those are in a facility at the u.s. border. when you think about what the mexican government will do to try to stop that number of people, all we have to do is look to last summer when large group of people were teargas and wrote an oebityuary that was shot by police and when you see a country are a military police force try to on the drop of a time stop thousands of people from crossing the border and it doesn t seem like mexico wants to resource to those measures but the president isn t leaving them a whole lot of options here. if this doesn t work for the white house, what is the next stunt on the border? that is an excellent question. and i don t see how this possibly could work for the white house. because as kaitlan alluded to, part of what the united states, what trump is aski
had to deal with record layoffs, dropping auto prices and tariffs on steel and aluminum, and brooke, you mentioned, at the end of the day this gets passed down to the consumers who are buying cars. about $1,300 is what cars are estimated to go up by if these tariffs take effect and for the average american, brooke, that is no small amount of money. brooke. that is a lot of money. $1,300, vanessa, thank you. let s talk about all of this. catherine ran pele from the washington post and a political commentator and kaitlan flts and first to you on the macro. why is mexico so important to the u.s. auto industry? because so much of the of u.s. auto production includes parts imported from mexico. and when i talk about u.s. auto
this is the latest example. we ll throw it up on the screen. multiple countries and multiple products, various places where he s using tariffs as weapons. you see the countries there. do you think this will make other countries rethink how they do business with the united states? oh, if they haven t already. which they should have, absolutely. there are a number of reasons why i would argue that this strategy of using tariffs as a cudgel to try to get mexico to stop the flow of illegal immigration is wrong-headed. but one of them is that it gives us much less large with china or with the e.u. or with japan, three entities which we re simultaneously trying to negotiate trade deals because if you look at what trump has done here where he signed a deal with mexico, mexico negotiated that deal, the usmca in good faith and then turned around and add add new tariffs. why would any other country decide to make any kind of concessions, right, given that track record. catherine and kaitlan,