are destroying our relationship with mexico. we are in unreliable partner when it comes to economics and security agreements. logically speaking mexico is going to be turning to other countries for export purposes, and for security relationships because they fear president trump s next temper tantrum. you both make excellent points. we talk about agreements, the wall, numbers. what we really should be talking about are these are lives that, you know, that are being impacted, people who are risking everything to come up here to try to get into the states for a better life. katherine, i do want to bring it back to domestic politics because this is obviously an element that runs through almost everything these days. what role do you think that 2020, the presidential election next year is playing in president trump s thinking in this? well, he does seem to return to his core issue of immigration whenever there s any sort of trouble in the water, whenever there are bad headlines related
has been able to claim this as a victory. republicans on capitol hill had expressed skepticism about the president s tariff threat. they had been worried that this would harm american businesses, cost u.s. consumers. and some had sought a delay from president trump. but now, alex, that situation seems to be completely avoided with the president for now ending at ending that tariff threat in exchange for the deal. this is not just an international matter. this obviously has to do with domestic politics as well and just a short time ago we heard from house speaker nancy pelosi who lashed out at the president s tactics in these negotiations. in a statement she writes president trump undermined america s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbor to the south, threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy. so let s keep breaking this down with our experts.
night i am pleased to inform you that the united states of america has reached a signed agreement with mexico. according to the president mexico is ready to crack down on migrants passing through their country to the southern border with the u.s. and the u.s. is going to work to speed up the processing of asylum claims by those migrants. for more on this late night deal go to sarah westwood at the white house. sarah, the high stakes negotiations wrapping up after the president got back from his trip. reporter: this agreement between the u.s. and mexico came about after three days of intense negotiations between the mexican delegation that came to washington for the talks on the u.s. side led by secretary of state mike pompeo. president trump is backing off that threat to impose a 5% tariff on all goods imported from mexico in exchange for mexican officials saying that they would step up their immigration enforcement.