did it leave the white house forced to make any kind of a deal? i definitely think the pressure the president was under from republican senators played a role in this, but i think the president and his adviser recognized if there was a trade war and these tariffs went into effect, it wouldn t be good for anyone, it would be a tax on american consumers but we have not seen very many profiles over the last two years from the republican party but in this case there was a lot of pushback and unified pushback from the party and i do think that likely played a role in what we saw from donald trump. as peter said, they didn t necessarily get everything they wanted to when they went into this deal with mexico. i do think one of the things looking forward though is whether these threats will be made again, depending on what donald trump s explanations are between american officials and handling the situation there. he completely said the american tariffs are off the table for now so they co
white house with more on this. mike, what sealed this deal? let s start with the asylum seeker deal. they have been sending people who come here into mexico to wait here or close to the border while their asylum application is processed. under this agreement with mexico the president announced in a tweet shortly after landing from his multi day trip to europe, mexico would expand that program. now here s the problem, it s in the courts right now, it could conceivably be suspended or struck down. one thing to keep in miechbd as we see the details of this agreement be revealed, is that a lot of it is very tenuous. there are some details that are missing. we don t know exactly how it s going to work out. what we doe no is the president was under tremendous pressure on june 10th in a couple of days to issue the order that would raise tariffs on mexican goods coming
it s high noon in the east, 9:00 a.m. out west, welcome to weekends with alex witt. first came fire and fury in mexico, now it s siege, trump under fire. new revelations in a new book about the president s second year in office. reversing course, the fallout, joe biden s backtrack on a critical abortion amendment. is he caving to political pressure? new this hour president trump defending a tariff deal between the u.s. and mexico late yesterday that averted an economic standoff between the two allies. the president touting the agreement can be very successful. he s also repeating his attack on house speaker nancy pelosi while calling on democrats to gratify their revised nafta. as part of the agreement to avoid the tariffs slated to start this and mod, mexico agreed to deploy guards to the southern border and expand the trump administration program
slierous. let s be honest, he has followed through on some of these in the past. they re not always bluffs. he said with china in the past, if he didn t get what he wanted out of china, he would impose tariffs and he has. did he that on canada and mexico threatening to cut off the u.s./mexico nafta if he didn t get a better deal. he got at least a somewhat bet deerl deal. if this view, the tactic works but it s not clear if he gotten all he could have gotten. two months ago said he would close the border all together and then said mexico s showing me they re doing something so i will give them a year to keep working on it. two weeks later back to the threats all over again. let s get to the 2020 election and joe biden s reversal on the hyde amendment. is this a choice of politics over principal and does it even matter in the long run? i think when you look at somebody like joe biden, who obviously has a long record
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