The u. S. To be returned to mexico as they await a decision on asylum claims. The u. S. Has agreed to speed up the asylum process. Cnn White House Correspondent sarah westwood, what are you hearing this morning . Reporter President Trump is up and touting the agreement this morning that his administration reached with mexican officials, hes saying that everyone is very excited about the agreement, his words. This agreement caused him to back off that threat to impose a 5 tariff on all goods imported from mexico, and in exchange mexico has agreed to step up Immigration Enforcement on its southern border to stop the flow of Central American migrants coming up through mexico to get to the u. S. And also as you mentioned to allow those Asylum Seekers to way on the mexican side of the border as their cases are being adjudicated in the u. S. President trump wrote this morning mexico will try very hard and if they do that this will be a very successful agreement for both the United States and
Formed after wartime to promote peace. The president has been a part of all of these things as has the queen. We heard her poignant words along with the other heroes and veterans a few moments ago as they all commemorate that. Shes 93 years old. As we have been reminded by max foster she herself is a veteran of world war ii. She was a mechanic and a driver during world war ii. You can see the First Lady Melania Trump alongside the president. She has, too, been a big part of these three days. Lets keep this shot up as we continue. As we said this is the conclusion of the president s visit to the United Kingdom. Later today he heads to ireland. He will visit with the leader of ireland and also go to one of his golf courses. Tomorrow it is on to france and the celebration of 75 years of the landing on the beaches of normandy, operation overlord, some 160,000 troops landed on the shores there and really turned the tide in the beginning and the end of world war ii. So hes meeting now the pr
Grave concerns. President trump is warning republicans not to intervene. So farther not listening. This would be the first fullon republican revolt in congress with major policy implications. The president has been tweeting about it all morning long even lead up to the dday commemorations. Overnight the president sat down for an interview where he more or less denied Climate Change despite saying he discussed it with the prince of wales for more than an hour and tried to clean up his comments on Meghan Markle explaining why he said she was nasty. I wasnt referring to shes nasty. I was saying she was nasty about me and essentially i didnt know she was nasty about me. But shes doing a good job. I hope she enjoys her life. I want to begin with max foster live in portsmith, england. The world is watching. I think it will be moving indeed. President trump called it the greatest battle in history, dday. Hes here with 15 other world ps on behalf of their countries and also readings from those
Thats for sure. Will you try to block those tariffs . What im telling you is that were hoping that doesnt happen. Vice president and secretary of state are meeting with mexican officials on this very issue today. So, what is going to happen . Lets try to figure it out. Michelle kosinski is at the state department. Lauren fox is on capitol hill. Let me start with you, lauren. They dont want to have basically rebuke the president of the United States but republicans deeply concerned about these tariffs. Here is what a few republicans told me this morning. We think tariffs, in this instance, are hurting the chances of getting usmca and, for me, thats a very important goal. I support getting mexico to doing more and i hope conversations occurring today produce more cooperation by mexico. They could have a big impact. But i think the tariffs are unnecessary, if we can get Congressional Democrats to just do their job, which is to support bipartisan legislation, which would fix the holes in t
But the president s standing Michelle Kozinski is at the state department. It seems to have to happen because yesterday Senate Republicans met with white house people. They met with Justice Department people. And many were not happy. They did not get their questions answered. Some even said it wasnt really clear what would have to happen for these tariffs to go into effect. Would the white house have to declare some other emergency at the border . So there was a lot of discontent there. But you did have some expressions of optimism from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, saying he was hopeful something could be worked out with mexico. Weve had the mexicans saying they feel like based on what theyve seen coming from washington, they feel like some agreement could well be in the cards. However, the only person you dont hear any optimism coming from is the president , who while he was traveling, said he felt like these tariffs would go into effect on monday, starting with 5 increases