convince people when you put tariffs on, some other government pays some kind of tax and nobody actually suffers any pain for it. so, john allen, while mr. navarro may have put on the bill barr cloak of invisibility today, is there other dissent within said west wing? there is, as our colleagues at nbc have been reporting, steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary outside the west wing but very close to it, is dissenting on this. this policy is coming as we learned today that the deportation i m sorry, the detention centers at the border are overflowing. 76 people to cells that are intended for 12 and the president s reaction to this driven by stephen miller, his senior policy adviser for immigration. the response to thereat is to squeeze the mexican economy in ways that are likely to produce more immigration, not less, and slap american consumers with tariffs. it s the kind of policy you would expect to come from possibly a public relations aide. the experts on public policy
bullet wound in him from the north vietnamese and that makes him of different wiring. the question is, will he be content with this as the afteraction report on all of his hard work, on two years of his life that he thought was going to be private life? is. well, i thought it was extraordinary thereat he said anything at all, and once he did, he basically also told us he never wanted to speak again. that does seem characteristic. there is this there is there was once upon a time in political life where reticence was a virtue. that seems like thermopylae now, so far away. my own view of this is if we were writing this, this is you have two contrasting scenes, two contrasting people. as you say, you have a wounded marine veteran who s given his life to public service, who s making a sober statement about
and nobody actually suffers any pain for it. so, john allen, while mr. navarro may have put on the bill barr cloak of invisibility today, is there other dissent within said west wing? there is, as our colleagues at nbc have been reporting, steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary outside the west wing but very close to it, is dissenting on this. this policy is coming as we learned today that the deportation i m sorry, the detention centers at the border are overflowing. 76 people to cells that are intended for 12 and the president s reaction to this driven by stephen miller, his senior policy adviser for immigration. the response to thereat is to squeeze the mexican economy in ways that are likely to produce more immigration, not less, and slap american consumers with tariffs. it s the kind of policy you would expect to come from possibly a public relations aide. the experts on public policy here, the treasury secretary, the trade representative,
conflicts. that has been losing strength, that has been losing a certain amount of a lot of people don t remember how it was. so we have found first a need to reaffirm, see what is relevant today and secondly to reach out. those principles were sort of formed and set down in what was essentially a dominating world. we now have a much larger world. we were keen to look at the possibilities of writing something thereat would resonate all over the world, eniran, indonesia and japan and eventually see if it s possible, we could also have it resonate in some of the countries that you alluded to. steve hadly, the problem a lot of people say is that the united states have lost faith in this liberal world order.
that s not something courts are likely to be enthusiastic about doing. however, having said this and having essentially admitted the key argument against his action last week, which is that there is no emergency, that this is not the same as a natural disaster or all the natural emergencies declared to invoke sanctions on people who are actually posing a threat in realtime to the united states on national security. he basically stepped all over that in that news conference, or in that rose garden ceremony and that was after not having waited about ten minutes even to start to talk about the reason everyone was there. it didn t he didn t come out there and give people the real sense that there is an emergency, thereat at there is crisis that warrants this action. the congress just passed thus legislation that essentially said you can spend money on border security. but not on the wall. and so he is actively defying what the very clearly stated will of the congress with this