done. they re guilty of many, many crimes. hopefully, in a short period of time, that ll be seen. they should never have done what they ve done. all they do is waste time on these investigations, where there is no obstruction, no collusion, no nothing. in the meantime, they can t get a border deal done. they can t do anything. we need in addition to the great deal with mexico, we need them to work on illegal immigration, on lower drug prices, on infrastructure. they re not doing anything. they ve come to a halt. mr. president? they say you can t be trusted, sir. how do you react to the fact the democrats say you cannot be trusted? did mexico agree [ inaudible question ]. i don t want to say, by you can just figure it out yourself, right here. and the reason is mexico wants to handle that would have to go through their legislative
they have tremendous inflation. their money is worthless. you can t buy a loaf of bread. it is a lot of problems in iran that s a lot different than it was two and a half years ago. big things were sanctions, but i think the biggest thing was when i and the most important was when i terminated the iran nuclear deal, which was an incompetent deal. thank you, all. i ll see you in iowa. could you weigh in about mr. president, could you weigh in about sir? okay. that was a long conversation that focused a lot on joe biden, focused a lot on the remarkable success with mexico, which really wasn t a problem before the president made it one. he was refuting a new york times report that said most of what the president has been touting from that mexico deal was already done or had already been achieved. that was a lot of that. and as a reminder, this stage of the year, we always see the
it was a very nice thing. [ inaudible question ]. this will go into effect, and it is my option. it is not mexico s. it ll go into effect when mexico tells me it is okay to release it. if they bring the numbers way down, we won t have to use it. [ inaudible question ]. if they bring the numbers way down, we won t have to. but this is my option. it goes into effect when i want it to, but i have a lot of respect for the president of mexico. i have a lot of respect for the people we dealt with. i don t want to do that. why they have to go back to congress to get that approved. but it goes down listen. it goes into effect at my option. but i wouldn t do that. i want to deal with them, okay? [ inaudible question ]. say it? why haven t you nominated a i have a defense secretary.
migration numbers go down. so we don t yet know from the administration or mexico what exactly is the framework that we re going to measure, if the number goes down and what is mexico specifically doing, what did they agree to that made the president decide to call off the tariffs? up next, former vice president joe biden is set to speak any moment in iowa. we ll bring that live. next, the house is preparing to vote to file a lawsuit against attorney general bill barr. we ll look exactly at what civil contempt is and how the attorney general is building power within the administration. you are watching velshi & ruhle on msnbc. corey is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she s also taking ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women
that s the agreement that everybody says i don t have. i m going to let mexico do the announcement at the right time. for mexico, they want to go through it. here s the agreement. it is a very simple agreement. this is one page. this is one page of a very long and very good agreement for both mexico and the united states. without the tariffs, we would have had nothing. we had nothing two weeks ago. mexico told us absolutely i don t know where the times got the story, probably from somebody that worked here and said, oh, how well they were doing. well, for a long time, for many years, people tried to get what we got in a period of a couple of days. they couldn t get it. that s the difference. they couldn t get it. so mexico, we re getting along with them great. marcelo and the president and all of them, we re getting along great. they ve started a very strong action.