avenues of power, perhaps prime minister netanyahu wants to try to contain that, have ownership of this relationship, be in control of the messages and i think would like to see it happening in a more traditional way. thanks very much, clarissa ward and congratulations. honored last week here in washington by the international center for journalists for her very courageous reporting from inside syria. well deserved honor indeed. clarissa, on behalf of all of us, thanks for what you do. appreciate it very much. reporter: thank you. and donald trump has also had a rather contentious relationship we a yll know, wit mexico. proposals related to immigration. watch this. i ve asked my transition team to develop a list of executive actions we can take on day one to restore our laws and bring back our jobs. it s about time. on immigration, i will direct the department of labor to investigate all abuses of visa
throughout different areas of the administration. we know they met a few months ago. all of us remember that meeting. pretty extraordinary. yes. are you convinced that donald trump, his new administration, willings and build this wall along the u.s./mexico border? as you know, we do not like walls. we like to build bridges and that s why mexico is nowadays one of the most open economies in the world. that s what we re aiming at. a very close relationship with the new administration, with president-elect trump to continue to strengthen the relationship with mexico and the united states. you know, wolf, a good, prosperous secure mexico is in the best national interests of the united states. that s what we are doing. he keeps saying, the u.s. will build a wall, if these president, and he will now be president of the united states, and mexico will pay for that wall. you say we say that we are not going to pay for the wall, and that we would like the wall to be there. we would
saying that, in fact, the uk appoints its own ambassadors, and that there was no vacancy because, of course, the post is currently occupied by sir kim derek, and then nigel faraj responses with yet another tweet. playing out on non-traditional new media, social media. anyway, nigel faraj tweets that downing streept needs to accept the world is changing and he is in a good position with the pl president-elect support to help. needless to say, wolf, unprecedented or extremely rare to have the coming leader of one country telling another leader who it should appoint as its ambassador, but i think given the depth and history and closeness and importance of the relationship between the u.s. and the uk, it s particularly egregious and puts prime minister theresa may in a is likely awkward position, given this is coming on the heels of nigel faraj traveling to new
you we are ready to go to the different cases of people deeg deported, no whom they are. if they are from mexico. throughout the years the situation has been very collaborative between the two nations. we have a very close relationship with security, people that handle that, and handle it case by case. it is important for everybody to understand that we are here to help, to protect the interests of the mexicans and to apply the different pros calls that exist in national security. i assume all mexicans deported in a trump administration will be welcomed back? some say we don t want these people, you have to keep them. we ve always accepted mexicans. always accepted because they are mexican nationality. we have to make sure they are of mexican descent. how worry are you about all this? working with differ administration in different periods and ready to face whatever that comes. i think that throughout the next days we are going to be learning
programs that undercut the american worker. let s discuss u.s./mexico relations with mexico s ambassador to the united states. thanks for joining us. nice to be here. how is your government s relationship with the incoming president right now? i would say, wolf, that with any administration, throughout so many of decades we forged a very solid relationship with the united states, whether rb republicans or democrats. it s the samtd. building bridges with the administration of the soon to be president of the united states. are you talking to people inside of the trump transition team right now? yes. have you had a conversation, for example, with donald trump himself? well, not with him directly. with some of his people, yes. who from the mexican government? has the president contacted mr. trump? the person, yes, contacted mr. trump. he gave a call. the very same day that he was elected, next day, and we will continue with this context