you has a president with a 12% approval rating and you send out those tweets and back that president into a corner no way he can respond. you run through a list of all the national security issues facing the united states that are real and urgent at the moment. north korea, china, potentially russia, middle east. syria. why create a problem where there is not a problem? immigration across that border at a 40-year low and not necessary to take an ally of the united states and turn them into an enemy in the space of three days. tom, you brought up a good point about talking to scott walker a year ago and doing a little bit of research on how important exports are to the state of wisconsin and the rest of the country. which would be hurt by this. at a critical part in the campaign, the governor and i wererading phone calls as i was trying to catch up with what he thought. he was in mexico at e time on a tde mission. thinking about that last night,
thank you, erin. out front, mark preston our senior political analyst and jamie gangel our special correspondent. mark, trump tripling down, he has left no room to do this any other way without losing massive face himself. right? you can t build the wall and have americans pay for it. can t do that. where does the administration go now? if they re going to start talking about tariffs, mexico can respond in kind. americans will feel pain. i just spoke to a senior trump official close to the president and they said as far as the 20% discussion, they said, listen, that is one of many different things we re thinking about doing, and that we are working with paul ryan up on capitol hill to try to figure out a funding mechanism in order to make this happen. but as jorge ramos just said and as you just mentioned as well, if you put a 20% tariff on goods coming in from mexico, that is going to hit the pocketbooks of americans here. and they are going to feel for
20% tax on mexican imports. do you know who pays a tax when you import? is the american corporation, the company that is importing the car. and if that car mexican will keep selling 20,000 as an example, u.s. dollars, it will have a 4,000 tax paid by a u.s. corporation. finally, the consumer will pay 24,000 instead of 20,000 with its own pocket money, so mexico is not paying for the wall. you are paying for the wall. taxpayers in the united states are paying for the wall. there are leach in this country who agree with that assessment including some republicans in the senate but a long way to go from disagreeing on trade policy and a proposal from donald trump and comparing him to adolf hitler. in what way do you think he is like adolf hitler? do you think a chance the united states in 2017 ends up like
american exports and our dollar will appreciate and imports buying them at a lower price and i think it balances out in a major way. there are some republicans not on board. john cornyn and others. i ll read lindsey graham s tweet. worthit. this is how he summarized. any policy proposal that drives up tequila or margarita is a big-time bad idea. moocho sad. end quote from lindy graham. david ignatius, while this is part of the house republican plan, senate republicans aren t thrilled by it. probably have trouble passing the senate. but i m sure you are more interested in the messages that actions like yesterday sent. not only to mexico but the rest of the world? joe, if i just sort of step back a bit.
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