and that is the story for this thursday night. martha will be back here tomorrow at 7:00 and i will see you tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. thank you for joining us tonight. tucker carlson is up next. tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. an awful lot going on for a thursday night. despite the best efforts of prosecutors to hide the details, this show has obtained documents that revealed that jussie smollett did in fact fake his hate crime and show how prosecutors responded. possible they never planned to charge him in the first place. we have developments and details on that in just a few moments. tucker: first tonight a fox news alert the president has announced plans for new taxes on mexican imports as a response to the illegal immigration crisis. minutes ago the president tweeted this, quote: on june 10th, the united states will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming into our
calling the united states, america has been invaded by hundreds of thousands of people coming into mexico and entering our country illegally. as i mentioned, the president earlier today when he was departing the white house, he commented on a variety of issues. one of them was this. he said that there would be a big announcement coming, an immigration related announcement. he said we are going to do something very dramatic on the border is what he said this morning is because people are coming into our country. so now we have the president threatening these new on all goodsxico that would coming from mexico into t and as the tweet alludes, they would increase if that does not stop over time. markets are reacting to this tonight. they were down about 150 points, or they fell about 150 points on this news. it was a sharp drop.
forbid this. that is illegal. you can t just single out one country and apply tariffs to them. but, two, this is exactly what i mean. reneg united stated a new nafta that hasn t passed congress, but now the president is going to go to our trading partners and launch tariffs on them? you have seen him go to europe and threaten europe with tariffs. and now simultaneously going to go threaten a trade war against china when we need our north american allies and japan and europe to be on our side to confront the chinese, he is just ticking everyone off today. so i just i don t think this is a right strategic approach. sandra: all right. well we will surely get more reaction from the white house as this news comes in to us just now. austan goolsbee you were here to react to it. we thank you for that thank you, austan. it was the story that stunned the nation. chicago prosecutors dropping all charges against jussie smollett. well, just moments ago, we
nafta, nafta 2.0. we know mike pence was in canada speaking to prime minister trudy today trying to get this deal finalized. this doesn t help to get congress to pass through. sandra: this comes amid recent calls the president calls to shut down the border. before we close the border we will put the tariffs on the cars to reference back to your earlier point. i don t think we will ever have to close the border because penalty of tariff on cars will be massive. those were earlier comments by the president then now the news tonight susan li. so markets are being are aing. obviously this is going to be the big news tomorrow as to how this effects the economic situation. don t forget mexico enjoys a 60 billion-dollar surplus trading. something the president has already cited. most of these are car ports. they do a lot of garment business and parts that come into this country as well. when he threatens to shut down the border. there were concerns this is going to impact two-way
behavior that reminds us how repressive and outrageous and atrocious this leadership is in north korea. and at a terrible expense it s a good reminder to us really what we are dealing with here. martha: quick correction on the picture we just showed it was breaking news and this happens sometimes and this is the correct person that north korea, according to this report has executed. so we will stay on that story and good to get your reaction to that. general jack keane appreciate that thank you. good talking to you, sandra. sandra: here now austan goolsbee former chief economist under president obama going back to the trade war, austin. nice to see you tonight by the way. great to see you. sandra: what is the cost of this trade war? who pays for it ultimately? well, so far, i agree with what the general said that it hasn t escalated in the full blown trade war. but, the tariffs so far. they have been in place for a year. and the data shows they have