And people scratching their heads over his constant appearances before the press and cable shows. On thursday closed door testimony with the House Intelligence Committee and saying his testimony hard to follow. One called it bizarre and then the next day he is on Cable Television talking about the contacts and a trip to russia in july of last year in the heat of the campaign. Carter page, the former Foreign Policy adviser to the Trump Campaign. Meeting with no less than the deputy Prime Minister of russia and in that meeting in moscow for a conference. And then reportedly sending an email to the Trump Campaign outlining the meeting and even mentioning it to Jeff Sessions who of course was an instructional part of the Trump Campaigning at that time. Who is now attorney general and an individual who is denied many times being able to or has not remembered or denied having meeting with russians and that denial and refutation of that denial led to the appointment of the special prosecutor
Mexico. The president insisting hes not bluffing and that the first round of tariffs of 5 on mexican goods will take effect starting monday. Trump wants to use the tariffs to pressure mexico into stopping undocumented immigrants from Central America from crossing the u. S. Border. The Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, flat out saying today that republicans do not support the move. But the president firing back, saying it would be foolish for republicans to try to block the tariffs. So lots to discuss here. Katherine ram bell, alina plot, ana navarro, mike shields will help us along. Good evening to all of you. Catherine, im going to start with you. You call these mindnumbingly idiotic tariffs. Okay. Why dont you say how you really feel next time. Lay it out for me. There are a number of reasons why these are really stupid to impose. The first one of dors is that americans are going to be paying these tariffs. We have multiple studies showing the cost of the tariffs imposed alrea