a smart strategy at that and to the day as long as they continue to pursue it and continue with all the resources they have that includes u.s. assistance we have treasury department officials who work on these on the money side of things that s necessary and it s a great tactic malcolm be author of the last narco inside the hunt for el chapo the world s most wanted drug lord thank you. announced the berlin international film festival which is underway just across town and our correspondents you see them popping up there scott roxboro there on the red carpet they re standing by to tell us first of all about a little bit of controversy because we have this chinese film one second it s been withdrawn from its world s premiere in fact and from the competition what happened . yeah we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we saw that this film had
declaration is probably going to turn out to be hyperbole there s no way they re declaring the drug war over there plenty of things they ve been fighting addiction for instance for years since two thousand and six at least when president calderon thought that was a priority they will still have to deal with the violence increasingly violent cartels like the new generation the new generation cartel so you ve heard just declared over what he s trying to do is readjust the strategy so that you don t just go for toppling the heads you go for the money you go for the corruption it s a smart strategy at that end of the day as long as they continue to pursue it and continue with all the resources they have that includes u.s. assistance we have treasury department officials who work on these on the money side of things that s necessary and it s a great tactic now can be author of the last narco inside the hunt for el chapo the
they have been doing and now this is a big problem for the trump administration and republican party because all the outside groups and bipartisan groups are saying what the republicans are doing with this tax thing is going to add a trillion dollars or a trillion and a half dollars to the deficit. to combat that deadly argument, republicans are supposed to get magic numbers from steve mnuchin saying everything is free. he s been saying for months he has more than 100 people working around the clock to produce these magic numbers to say this is free and doesn t add anything to the deficit. turns out nobody has been working on these magic numbers and not just an abstract problem. they promised they would get magic numbers to specific republican senators who were apparently counting on them. senator bob corker says treasury department officials told him last week he would be provided a treasury analysis before the full senate considered the bill.
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, kate ba
exactly. and the one thing that presidents can t control are events elsewhere in the world. we ve seen that in the middle east and the effects on u.s. gas prices for american consumers. and now you ve had this earthquake, this disaster on a huge scale in japan which has the potential to impact recovery worldwide. that s a problem for the administration. not a whole lot beyond humanitarian assistance that the obama administration can do and maybe we ll get some details from jay carney about what form that humanitarian assistance will take. yeah, john. you are the cnbc chief washington correspondent, so you report about sort of the intersection of politics and economics. how much of a concern is that to treasury department officials and others you talk about, about the economic situation in japan and how it may affect our recovery? reporter: we ve certainly seen the monetary authority central bank in japan putting some liquidity into their system