Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. That is something we have heard him say over and over again. Then we learned he cancelled the meeting. President trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. Bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the United States closest allies, its Third Largest Trading Partner. What happens next . The administration floating the idea of a possible 20 tax on imports from mexico and, hallie,
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how they re seen by the public in the u.k. and in the u.s. a british prime minister tries to be an influence on the president of the united states. the reality is that every british prime minister knows that they are coming from not from from a position as the junior partner. that s just the way it is. but think try to influence whilst at the same time standing side by side with the u.s. that s how policy has been all the way back to churchill. she will be trying to build that kind of relationship. it s interesting, she s the sort of school mistress type. i ve known her for years. she s a very, very serious person. how will donald trump react to that, will he like that, will he feel undermined about that? will he also like what she has to say about vladimir putin? we have that from yesterday. let play that. we do not have that. but what she says in that
own person. oh, to be a fly on the wall. if people haven t seen her before yesterday, a school mistress type. she s a serious person. why? she got a number of standing ovations but the first laugh didn t happen until about 30 minutes into that speech. so that s the kind of person she is. how will that gel with president trump? you know what she said to british journalists on the flight over here? opposites attract. i was going to ask you about the idea of president trump who is on twitter, theresa may don t even hav a twitter account. will opposites attract in this instance politically? we don t know. she does have an official twitter account. if you take a look at it, all that is on there, posted on there are clips from her