complete this. we ll see what we get. the talks start friday with the treasury secretary and u.s. trade representatives sitting down with the chinese vice premier on friday. on saturday, president trump and xi will sit down. it is poised to be the biggest bilateral meeting. president trump will also be sitting down with russian president vladimir putin as well. neil: amazing. thanks very much. meantime, where is this going? republican strategist john thomas, democratic strategist robin byro and melissa here. the read that we re getting is they re making progress. maybe the tariffs won t be 25%. maybe 10%. the chinese delegation is meeting ahead of the talks. you string it together, you get
in your private conversations with your republican colleagues in the senate, are there enough votes against the president on this one? well, i can t be the whip counter for the republican caucus, but i can tell you yesterday and over the weekend, i talked to several of my republican colleagues, and i didn t hear a single one who thought this was a good idea. in fact, many of them think this is counterproductive, because they are eager to figure out how to move us forward with getting to a yes on the usmca negotiations and this is clearly fighting against that. the majority leader said that they re hopeful that these tariffs won t be deployed, but we don t need hope. we need a cure. we need to stop this. so on this issue of immigration, you just went down to the southern border in december. right. you saw a lot of this firsthand. latest numbers from cdp tell us over 500,000 people have been apprehended at the southern border. this fiscal year it s nearing on
on all goods imported from mexico. that tariffs won t be removed until the mexican government takes dramatic action to reduce or eliminate illegal immigrants crossing the border. this is not being framed as a trade battle but rather an immigration battle and the advisory says if mexico does not act fast, the terrace will continue to rise until they hit 25% on october 1st. some critics believe this could undermine the passage of u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. the move comes a day after 1,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by border patrol agents in el paso. that s the largest single apprehension of migrants ever. the group include people from l guatemala, el salvador, and honduras. borders border patrol agents cannot patrol the border because they are feeding and caring for those families. sean: trace gallagher,
now the attorney generally speaking out. william barr saying that robert mueller could have reached a decision if the president committed a crime. hello, welcome to fox news @ night. i m ed henry in tonight for shannon bream. let s go straight to our correspondent trace gallagher. he has details that are already shaking up the dow futures. good evening, trace. good evening, ed. this ups the ante politically and economically the trump administration says that the u.s. will impose a 5% tariff on all goods imported from mexico. the tariffs won t be lowered until the mexican government takes dramatic action to reduce or eliminate illegal immigrants crossing the border. this is not being framed as a trade battle but an immigration battle. the advisory says if mexico doesn t act fast, the tariffs will continue to rise until they hit 25% on october 1st. watch. crisis at the border is now, the crisis of the border is urgent. we are interested in seeing the mexican government reacted
north korea and russia and nato and our trade allies. i believe that s correct. why has he succeeded, why is it that you succeed in real estate but you can t succeed in these kinds of things? what is donald trump missing? he s been doing what we call distributive bargaining. simply defined, it s two parties who don t have any mutual interests trying to distribute a defined pool. it s what we re all familiar with. it s what we ve done. it s the same thing when you re negotiating for a used car or negotiating for a high-rise in manhattan. you re just bargaining over the price. there s no additional considerations, there s no ongoing relationship. so in this case, is there a danger in donald trump not realizing that the things he claims or believes have made him successful in terms of negotiating won t work? is there a reason why the principles you apply to distributive bargaining won t work when bargaining with north korea on nuclear weapons or russia on interfering in our