the president s decision to suspend his proposed mexico tariffs at the president said it would up its efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigration. let s discuss. bill kristol, i know you re not one to give applause to the president. is this one where he deserves them? i mean, only insofar as he didn t do something that would be very damaging. though he s done some damage anyway by making everyone uncertain about the future with mexico and with other trading partners of hours. i was talking to a businessman in the midwest in chicago on friday who said, you know, are you really going to make off supply chain that goes through mexico. is he going to pull this stunt again in three months or six months? maybe you want to cut back in the investment in a plant here. there s a reason, it s treated as some kind of crazy abstraction. there are reasons, especially once it starts happening, there are reasons why there s an awful lot of people understand why you really don t want to monkey
weeks he claims victory. i think the reason he decided to try this face saving measure was because i believe in the united states senate had we had a vote to overturn this veto, we would have excuse me, over turn the tariffs. we would have gotten a veto-proof majority in the united states senate. when the president s folks went down to capitol hill last week, they got an earful from senate republicans about the president s mexico tariffs. i can tell you, having talked to a lot of republican senators this was one thing they were willing to go to the mat on. i think the president decided to back down here and look for the space saving device. let s move to oversight because it s a big week on capitol hill. looking at we re expecting contempt votes in in the house of representatives against the attorney general. there s also initial hearings into the mueller report. you worked very closely, you re
table on this and i commend president obrador for doing what he is doing now. in fact we put an amendment into the upcoming appropriation bills to redirect money at the southern border of mexico with guatemala to build a wall. and this is something we re going to help we ve put in legislation to help mexico build this wall. but these because we want to give them the support there is a delay, so i apologize. when i m jumping in you re not hearing me for another second. but when you talk about the tariffs, these are tariffs that cost american businesses and cost americans more, so why would you sure. i want to read from a letter you signed back in march of last year, joined more than 100 house republicans in signing a letter to the president opposing tariffs on steel and aluminum and according to the letter, tariffs are taxes that make u.s. businesses less competitive and u.s. consumers poorer. that is the letter, that is your
chinese technology companies that might be banned from doing business in the u.s. that will be hitting at about the same time that the mexican agreement should be coming to fruition. what is going to happen? we don t know. the markets are going to remain very jittery because of that. i was going to ask if there is a connection between what happens with mexico tariffs and and what could happen with the trade talks with china. are there still open trade talks going on with china? there are. and both sides have reasons to make a deal. the u.s. growth story is probably going to get weaker in the next year. we re basically historically at the point where we should be having a recession. the president has tried to prop up the marngts in a variety of ways in order to keep them from falling and keep the economy strong into 2020 to increase his own election prospect. but i think that the problems between the u.s. and china are really big. they re not going to be solved in the next three mon
it. so it forces somebody like a president trump to finally take a firm and a firm stand and say enough is enough. fix this problem. you are right about i think we should always work to have zero. you are right about congress inability to act on this. absolutely. and the numbers show there is not a year without 20,000 and the reason it is 10,000 a month in the last couple of decades. let s talk about the tariffs. while there were some republicans who disagreed with the tariffs, it is notable that both senators for florida, rick scott and marco rubio supported the tariffs. you supported the tariffs. the president said i do. said their suspended but not off the table. why did you support the threat of tariffs on mexican imports? well, it goes to the border crossings that have come in. mexico has not helped us and they could have helped us. they helped under the obama administration. but they have not been at the