in this case from his former chief of staff the white house was quick with coordinated response and pushback in this instance, ana. sarah westwood reporting. thank you. let s bring in a republican strategist and cheech washington correspondent for politico. john kelly is essentially saying left to his own devices with no he one to stop him the president will commit impeachable and possibly illegal acts. what is your reaction to this? i would agree with that assessment by john kelly. the reality is there isn t a cohesive strategy from this white house. if you were to compare how they re handling this versus the clinton administration where you had a solid message, talkers, strategists trying to figure this out, this administration doesn t have any of that because donald trump is not a disciplined character. so as a result you have republicans who are sort of all over the place not sure what is the best line of defense messaging wise because the president could tweet or say somethi
perhaps even help president trump. boris and christine. sarah at the white house, thank you for that. president trump is weighing in on the virginia beach massacre. the president was asked sunday if he would support restrictions to gun silencers like the one used by the gunman in friday s deadly shooting. i don t like them at all. we now know the gunman resigned from his job as an engineer with the city before killing 12 people and wounding four others. according to a coworker, the suspect was brushing his teeth in the men s room, and he was exchanging pleasantries with him moments before opening fire. miguel marquez has the latest. reporter: christine, boris, what may be most disturbing about this situation is that nothing seemed to push this individual over the edge into this. we know that he e-mailed his resignation the morning before all of this took place, but the city manager saying that he had
push, here s sarah westwood reporting from the white house. reporter: boris and christine, as talk about impeachment among democrats grows louder a new cnn poll shows that the public support for impeachment could also be on the rise. that poll found that 41% of people support removing the president. that s up from 37%, but the majority of people still pose removing president trump. 54% of people said they are opposed to impeachment. now, democratic house speaker nancy pelosi has been resisting calls within her caucus to start impeachment proceedings. she said on saturday the democrats should continue their oversight, and they should build an ironclad case against president trump. take a listen. in the united states of america. no one is above the law, not even the president of the united states. and house majority whip james clyburn told cnn s jake tapper on sunday that he believes the president will be impeached but
on the other hand, the president had advisers who were in support of this move. sources tell cnn that included trade adviser navarro and mulvaney and pushed for the president to do this because of the out of control migrant situation on the southern border. we should note the president did leave the criteria for this open-ended and wanted mexico to alleviate the overflow of migrants over the southern board and we don t know the end goal for the president and the complications for usmca which was republicans in congress and the president doesn t have a lot of supporters on capitol hill in favor of this move as the president is starting to push to get his renegotiated nafta bill a big legacy item for them through congress and it complications things more for us. you re right. the criteria for mexico to avoid these tariffs still unclear. sarah westwood reporting from
the white house, thank you. we are digging deeper on the threats and we are joined by a white house correspondent for the guardian and another reporter for the washington post and both are cnn political analysts. sabrina, i ll start with you. this is absurd, isn t it? the president punishing mexico for immigration, something that mexico may not necessarily be equipped to handle and he is doing it at a time when he is trying to get a trade deal he just spent two years working on gratified. does the timing of this make sense? it certainly doesn t make out. sarah pointed out this came against the counsel of the president s own advisers. when you step back and look the way he has approached immigration, he often put moves towards these very abrupt moves and tactics that are more designed to perhaps chin up support with his base, that he is being tough on mexico. remember he also threatened to close down the u.s./mexico