hillary clinton voted for hundreds of miles of border barricades back in 2007 or 2006. in 2013, a lot of the present senators like schumer voted for border barricades. they used to be. it s like joe biden, for it before they were against it. now i said many times, do we need an actual grand wall from sea to shining sea? i don t think so. i m not a security expert. i m not an architect. i know this. we must control our borders. if you don t have a border, you don t have a country. i also know this. mexi mexico, i believe that we have a bright future together, and often, you know, the poet robert frost taught us years ago in a poem that often good fences make for good neighbors. we have a bright future together, but a good fence is not only good for us, but mexico. i hear you on the fence. but on the issue of paying for it, clearly, it s not helping the relationship. in fact, it s damaging the relationship to insist on mexico
and it s odor free. and pharmacist recommended. garlique.® welcome back, a testy phone call puts the mexican president s upcoming white house trip on hold. again. the conversation between the two leaders was focused on president trump s signature campaign promise billing a wall along the u.s.-mexico border and getting mexico to pay for it, what it s refused repeatedly, and the refusal to publicly said that mexico would give in and ultimately pay for the border wall. i want to bring in our former trump campaign adviser to discuss. steve, listen, i know that this is an important campaign promise for the president. i know it plays well with his base. is it good for the country for the president to go back to a close u.s. ally repeatedly and make that demand to pay for the wall when we know mexico has no intention to do that? i think it does.
artifact that he got in a dig in mexi mexico. she wore it around her neck all the time. she didn t take it off. as much as i hated the idea of her joining us, it was a spectacular propaganda. now the heiress wants to join the kidnappers. it was only part of the equation. you know, we had to prove that. there seems to be a profound change in her. i don t believe she s going to change her philosophies that quickly. who would have thunk she d be robbing a bank as a revolutionary? she must have been forced to do it. she s the victim of thought
past week, and also we need to tell you iran test fired a new long range ballistic missile hours after showing it off in a military parade. the launch comes despite, or perhaps in defiance, the president trump s latest criticism of the iran nuclear deal. now, this morning as well there are some frantic searches underway for any survivors after a devastating earthquake in mexi mexico. the death toll now approaching 300. looking at live pictures and there are families who, can you imagine, are just sitting nearby, holding out hope that the people they love that are still unaccounted for could be pulled out of that rubble. cnn s rosa flores is live near one of the collapsed buildings. i know that rescue workers are still hoping to find survivors as well. what are you hearing from them today? reporter: well, christi,
comment from the mexican president that trump says happened occurred during his meeting with john kelly, minutes after he had been sworn in. they were in the cabinet room and trump was praising john kelly and made a comment about mexico. let s listen to what he said. you know, the border was a tremendous problem. now close to 80% stoppage. even the president of mexico called me. they said their southern border few people are coming because they know they re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment. that might have been the ultimate compliment for donald trump. but it might not have happened. the president of mexico released a statement today saying he has not spoken to donald trump recently over the phone. we will put his statement up on the screen. the last time they met was at the g20 summit in germany. mexico is saying they have not spoken to donald trump since then. we reached out to the white house, but they haven t gotten