own party. first the white house press secretary suggested and then seemed to be open to negotiation, but talked about a hefty tax on imports from mexico. they said it would pay for the wall. today republican leaders said the wall could cost anywhere from $12 billion to $15 billion. trump s first diplomatic controversy playing out on twitter for the world to see. trump fired the first shot tweeting in part if mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting. mexico s president hit back with this tweet in spanish this morning we have informed the white house i will not attend the scheduled work meeting for next tuesday with potus. a short time later, president trump getting in the final word. the president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. unless mexico is going to treat the united states fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be
in government and among nations. we take you seriously. seriously, that president pena decided not to come to the united states. n it was not a mutual decision. it was our president s decision because we are offended, because we being harmed and because you re affecting our businesses like ford motor company. ford motor company now has a bond, now people is not buying ford cars because you played the round with ford motor company. now several mexican states are not buying any more cars and several corporation in mexico have done this in. now you move how you re going to charge for the wall. how do you think that mexico is not going to pay? your proposal yesterday was a
particular. threvenuis what w need to make up for the revenue we are losing from the corporate tax cut. there is no real additional revenue to the treasury to pay for the wall and the consumers of america will end up paying for the wall. wall street journal says it will raise about a trillion dollars off of the 50 billion dollar trade deficit with mexico. it would easily, as wall street journal said this morning raise the $10 billion for the wall without actually cutting into the republican plans to use the additional money to cut corporate tax rates. i m not sure the math works exactly that way. i think that the money you raise from this tax would, in fact, be used to we have a 35% corporate tax rate in this country, one of the highest in the world. we want to reduce that. i m not sure you agree with that? i m not sure how much revenue is left but it s not money coming from mexico. it is money being paid by our companies and therefore by us.
families in the united states and hurt our economy. it s just dangerous what he is suggesting in regards to our southern friend. and in regards to other countries, senator, reports being floated of an order that the u.s. might unilaterally lift sanctions against russia sooner rather than later. i know you re against voting for rex tillerson for secretary of state. a, have you heard about such a report being floated? and, also, what do you think from what your gather, what do you think rex tillerson s views are on this? well, we know that the president will be talking to mr. putin on saturday. we are extremely concerned that there might be unilateral concessions that are made. it s very interesting in our traditional allies, in nato, the president doesn t have nice things to say in regards to mexico and he doesn t have nice things to say. but a country that attacked us, russia, that attacked our free election system, now we are talking about easing up sanctions where they have
president enrique pena nieto, his approval ratings are at 12%. according to the latest polls. there needs to be for him sthang that sort of restores faith in the mexican people and this may be it for him. remember, all of this went down as mexico had a top delegation in washington, d.c. they are expected to return tonight so i suspect president enrique pena nieto will be listening to what they have to say, what their take-away is, and then we ll have to wait and see what comes next in this sort of war of words on twitter. thank you very much. out front, jorge ramos, anchor at univision news and vision. you heard president trump. he said it would be fruitless to meet with the mexican president enrique pena nieto. do you agree with president trump at this point? well, absolutely not. president nieto was in an