those reports that he claimed rod rosenstein discussed using the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office that is something in his spokesman is now backtracking on. near the mere lago estate. they had returned to mara lago after spending about six hours today at the international golf club. he said this afternoon he would be meeting with his trade team in person and some calling in from dc over the phone. in the ongoing trade negotiations. one of the big topics on the sunday political shows was the
let me ask you about the meeting the president called for today and tomorrow and members of the trade team. the china talks will be continuing next week. a lot of colleagues in the house told me on the democratic side they won t vote for it as it is. first we have the china talking and what you would like to see in terms of a deal as the talks continue this upcoming week. well, i haven t been able to get an update since they came back from china. i spoke to others before going. i want to credit the president because they are moving against china and making for a level playing field. the entire western hemisphere should have been able to do this. what i m finding is we are getting movement to protect the intellectual property rights. it s a fair and level playing field. i m seeing good movement. the entire world is watching.
of everyone, everything that ever comes into the united states cross, investing in personnel, technology an infrastructure will make us safer. reporter: as the motorcade made its way back from the golf club back to mar-a-lago, there was a group of supporters on the side of the road, waving american flags and holding signs, cheering the president on. he has no public events scheduled today or tomorrow. behind closed doors right now the president is meeting with his trade team, talking about china. eric. eric: former congressman 0:rourke said he would be for tearing down the existing wall. we ll talk to judy miller about that in the mention hour. great to see you. we ll be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. and i ve indicated to him that i m going to prepare i m going to support the national emergency declaration. laura: there s senate majority leader mitch measure connell
the border. this afternoon white house spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders tweeted out after the golf outing the president this afternoon late this afternoon met with his trade team both in person at mar-a-lago as well as over the phone, right now, the temperature is in the the 70s. the the high here was 80 degrees today. about 40 degrees warmer than washington. back to you. [laughter] sounds nice phil keeting thank you. yes. meanwhile humanitarian crisis at the southern border is steadily tbroaing say more and more migrants trying to cross the dangerous rio grand river. jackie live in eagle pass texas for us now. jackie. well, john well it may not look like an emergency from where i stand on this side of the fence. it certainly is a different picture on the other side where some 1600 central american migrants are being held in a warehouse. and they could be there for several weeks. it is pushed some of them to try
by 19, the nasdaq adding 49 points. the wall street journal report says the treasury secretary steve mnuchin was considering lowering tariffs on chinese goods as trade negotiations continue. the report exploding the idea although it was receiving pushback from robert lightheiser who said any concession would be seen as a sign of weakness but now spokesperson for the trade team dismissing the article completely. here s what the spokesperson said, quote, neither steve mnuchin nor ambassador lightheiser have made any recommendations with respect to tariffs or other parts of the negotiating mission with china. it is an ongoing process with the chinese that is nowhere near completion. one of china s top trade negotiators will be back in washington dc on january 30th to continue the discussion. rob: very much doubt. jillian: the next story seems