And jeff bezos escalating, why amazon is accusing the president of applying improper pressure on the company. And disneys new milestone the company is making history even without counting the numbers from the upcoming Star Wars Film plus fighting for your leg room. How lawmakers are working to hold the airlines accountable for packing americans into smaller and smaller seat sizes on planes. Melissa ill believe that when i see it fox Business Team coverage Edward Lawrence is live in washington, christina partsinevelos is on the floor of the new york stock exchange, lets start with edward. Melissa multiple sources say that mexico has come back to the table and agreed to changes that have been made to u. S. Mca. There is a deal here the language being finalized that was sent to democrats on capitol hill. The focus shifts now to House Speaker nancy pelosi, a senior democratic aid tells me that they are studying the proposal or theres no agreement to announce as of right now, our own Maria
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Edward lawrence live in d. C. And edward, we start with you. Reporter a hiccup in the implementation of usmca threatened to cause tensions between the two countries over the agreement. It caused mexicos top trade negotiator to come here to washington, d. C. To meet with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer to work this all out. Because of concerns and that meeting, the u. S. Trade representative, allayed fears. Basically mexico was concerned that the u. S. Could force them into accepting up to five inspectors into their mexican factories and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer in a letter today saying those were not actually inspectors. Theyre attaches, attached to the u. S. Embassy here in the United States. So those attaches would offer technical guidance and expertise to the mexicans, not inspections. Adding that any compliance verification would be done by an independent panel with help from representatives from mexico and the u. S. The undersecretary says his fear
Susan but lets take to you d. C. First. The white house scrambling to the save the usmca as mexicos top negotiator heading back to washington. A big hangup here, sending labor inspectors into mexico. Edward lawrence standing by with the very details, edward . Reporter susan, new Sticking Point emerged for the usmca. Mexico says their version which was ratified does not include specific inspections by the u. S. Of Mexican Plant to make sure theyre complying to changes to the labor issues there. The changes in the u. S. Version, of five experts can make sure that mexico is compliant. Mexico says that they support following through with a neutral third party along with u. S. And mexican representatives on a panel to verify enforcement which is also in the agreement. The mexican undersecretary flew to the u. S. Today to talk with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer about this. Lighthizer worked to alleviate mexicos fears, that the attache would only assist mexico in complying but
Reporter the heavy downpour over the weekend had nowhere to go once it hit wawona street and 15th avenue. Water was gushing out from underneath these homes. Sewage spread across this road. Shes wearing a hazmat suit to suck up the stuff in the intersection. That stuff was a foot deep in my master bedroom. Why am i not in a hazmat suit . Reporter these residents are dealing with the aftermath and paying up to 5,000 to clean up. It takes 24 hours, especially with the water that came up from outside, it takes 24 hours to get mold inside. If we dont do that right away, theres a lot of damage in their homes. Reporter they had crews working over the weekend but only deal with whats on the surface. Our crews came out with a sweeper truck and helped clear up that debris after the incident. Reporter we questioned the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. They are in charge of the drains and responsible for areas prone to flooding. Their answer, the drain system was not big enough, but they