Mexico is not promising enough of a crackdown to stop illegal immigration. And dday 75 years later. Western leaders gather at normandy and pay tribute to the heroes who paid history. You are among very greatest americans who will ever live. You are the pride of our nation. You are the glory of our republic, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. [ applause ] well have more from todays very moving dday commemoration a little later in the program, but we begin the hour with a dramatic escalation in Nancy Pelosis antitrump rhetoric, the words spoken by politico in a private meeting by house democrats. Quote, i dont want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison. Its extraordinary language for any political leader to suggest a sitting president belongs in prison. Even more so because pelosi as speaker is third in line to the presidency, and she is the nations top elected democrat. Speaker pelosi is known to choose her words quite carefully. This escalation comes as she tries to hold back calls for an immediate impeachment inquiry, and as the pressure comes from not just democratic back benchers but from members of her own Leadership Team. Jerry nad slaer longtime pelosi loyalist but listen to nadler who is chairman of the committee who would be responsible for any impeachment proceeding. Are you on the same page as the speaker, nancy pelosi, what it comes to impeachment . As i said, we are launching an inquiry now, and whether well launch an impeachment inquiry, it may come to that. It may come to that. When that decision has to be made, it will be made not by any one individual. It will probably be made by the court because certainly nancy will the largest single voice in it, the Committee Chairmen and rank and file members. Cnns manu raju joins us live from capitol hill. For the speaker of the house to say i want to see him in prison, wow. Reporter yeah, its a remarkable statement, and it also goes to what shes trying to do in convincing her members to back off impeachment. Shes saying she does not want to go down that route. She has been consistent in that. She has had an uptick in her comments about what she views as the president s actions including the line she said in recent weeks as what she sees as a coverup from this administration. Now saying once hes removed from office she would like to see him go to jail, but what message is she trying to send to her colleagues is that it doesnt make much sense to go this route of impeaching this president because the senate was ultimately equipped as president , the president that would use him to campaign and help him get reelected. Thats the political argument that shows been making for her argument, the challenge is making sure her members agree with her. You played that committee from jerry nadler of the House Judiciary Committee who would be in charge of launching impeachment proceedings. Hes getting his own pressure from his own members on that very committee to open up formal impeachment proceedings, and nadler himself is sympathetic to those concerns, has urged pelosi to consider opening up an impeachment inquiry believing this would help the case in court and believing thats the route that they should ultimately go. Pelosi has backed down and rejected those requests, but making the rather dramatic remarks behind closed doors and thats where she wants to see the president go. The question is how much longer can she hold off her caucus from saying, well, if hes committed crimes, why dont we take every step necessary to potentially impeach him and remove him from office. At the moment shes saying no. Shes got the numbers at the moment. Will that change is the question for the weeks ahead. Appreciate the live reporting. With me to share their reporting an insights, cnns dana bash, Michael Schar with the New York Times and Vivian Selena with the wall street journal. Youve covered the speaker a long time. She does not fly off the hand. I want to see him in prison. Why, and why now . She is, as manu just report, so accurately, she is being squeezed further and further into the corner by her own membership, and the fact that you showed what jerry nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman said after an uncomfortably pregnant pause with wolf blitzer. The biggest news in that was the pause. Exactly. Him trying to figure out what to say, according to the political report which said that she wants to see him, the president in prison, that was a direct response to jerry nadler and other members of her Leadership Team saying, come on. Weve got to do this. Weve got to start the impeachment inquiry, and so she is certainly a master tactician. She understands her caucus. She has a reservoir of goodwill with her caucus, but its becoming harder and heard and harder, and the context, of course, of saying prison is that she believes that the best way to address this is at the ballot box. A firstterm voters about to face the voters. Let voters vote him out, she believes politically it will be easier to do that without impeachment proceedings and then the constitution or at least maybe the department of justice will be more more apt to prosecute him for crimes that she clearly believes that he commit that had she cant go after him for as president. Underestimate her at your peril given that she cant be speaker again. Remember, shes speaker again. Remember, some think that this is a tactical mistake on her part, among them brian fallon, a longtime democratic strategist in the clinton campaign. If you generally think trump is in prison, opening the impeachment inquiry is the absolute least you can do. If you think youve got him, you need to impeach him. George conway, the husband of cone Washington Bureau the trump adviser and a veteran washington attorney, given dojs attorneys of not indicting president s this provision counsel is in favor of impeachment because if you think trump should in jail for his crimes, hell get there sooner the sooner he leaves office. Yeah. Thats the fine line that nancy pelosi is walking here where shes trying to throw some red meat there in an ironic way to sort of tamp down the calls for impeachment. The other potential area in this, 2016, the most common chant at donald trump rallies is lock her up and this is a way and a way that the democrats criticized of being out of line for calling on somebody to go jail for political purposes. Democrats will argue that this is beyond political purposes, but tint deuces that sort of element that we need to win this election so we can put this current president in jail which is quite striking. Democrats said wait a minute, thats beyond the pale. Mark levin, a supporter of the president , has always tweeted now nancy pelosi should be expelled. Thats not going to happen, but you do get into the base politics of all of this, and one of the things we dont know. The president is traveling overseas. We dont know how closely hes following the news. We dont know if hes aware of her statement that she thinks he should be in prison and he has a new nickname for how his arch rival. Nancy pelosi, i call her nervous nancy. Nancy pelosi is a disaster, okay, a disaster. Let her do what she wants. You know. What i think they are in big trouble. Its been interesting to watch this escalation. He calls her crazy sometimes. Now he has nervous nancy. She says hes covering up crimes, and now she says he belongs in prison. The president is going to go out there like he does and going to call names and call this whole thing part of the broader witch hunt but at the end of the nancy vital is so vital to him for getting his agenda across. Hes about to announce the relaunch of his Election Campaign and has no trade deals because he cant get along with the democrats in the house. He has his Foreign Policy is sort of teetering all over the place. Hasnt really come to the table with the democrats in congress, even some republicans are now deciding with the democrats with regard to his trade deals, so hes between a rock and a hard spot and while this namecalling is sort of the president s m. O. In these situations, its not going to get him very far because at the end of the day hes going to have to cooperate with them how. And they were not the republicans were not as successful as they hoped in the mid terms of making pelosi such a rallying crime. I suspect having the speaker of the house saying she believes or she would like to see the president in prison will help. As you try to dissect, you know, again, shes very complicated. She is very strategic, and, again, you underestimate her at her peril, why she would take it up further. Every week shes gone up in her escalation of the rhetoric, and yet, listen to her here, she says, no, its not really pressure. No. Im not feeling any pressure. Let me just address that. I see in some metropolitan journals and on some tv that we are trying to find our way or unsure, but make no mistake. The we know exactly what path were on. We know exactly what actions we need to take, and while that may take more time than some people want it to take, i respect their impatience. I would love to know her definition of pressure. Well, look, i think one of the things that to know about nancy pelosi is even though these moments, these episodes of her ratcheting this up look like video kind of moments in time and so were apt to think about them as kind of like these incidents of pressure being and then her reacting quickly. This is not a person who sort of reacts off the cuff like that. Shes got a strategy. Now she may shift, right, if if the pressures around her do, you know, kind of force her to adjust her strategy, but make that doubt, this is im certain a thought out, well thought out strategy of how shes going to kind of get from a to z. The only thing i will add is shes been ratcheting up her rhetoric in public and this might have been incredibly strategic to get this leak out there which i find it hard to believe on her part, others maybe. This was not part of that im going to ratchet up my rhetoric in public. Theres no sound bite that they can make that about on the republican side where they had a chants at every single rally. Nancy pelosi knows how divisive impeachment proceedings could, and this is something that could be very detrimental to the country as a whole and a lot of democrats very afraid of that, but just talking about the impeachment could real rally the Democratic Base ahead of the elections. Yeah. Were going to take over. Were going to do this, and its something that i think shes probably very hesitant about, but sneaking into it gradually. Some of the Public Comments have been designed to set the president off. She does know how to get under his skin. Well see his reaction. Right. Well see his reactions as he gets a better sense of how hes aware that have. Well stay on top of that story. More of the more poignant moments at the dday ceremony in normandy honoring americas greatest generation. 65 of those in 192 American Veterans in attendance today were survivors. We know what we owe to you, veterans, our freedom. On behalf of my nation, i just want to say thank you. Medic ray lambert. Again and again ray ran back into the water. He dragged out one man after another. Ray, the free world salutes you. Thank you, ray. [ cheers and applause ] mexican officials are back in urgent meetings with the Trump Administration today, and there is some talk of progress, but the president says not enough progress, and his word makes clear that the president believes that a 5 tariff on all mexican goods will take effect on monday due to a weak mexican effort to stop the flow of migrants towards the u. S. Border. Weve told mexico that the tariffs go on, and im very happy with it. A lot of people, senators included, they have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to tariffs. They have absolutely no idea. Were the piggy bank. The United States is the piggy bank. It has all the money that others want to take from us, and they are not taking it anymore. Its a lot different. The the dow is up 68 point. Thats a modest gain. Senate republicans trying to get the president to back down or at least slowdown. They want to hear from him directly about the tariff plan but the president not due back from europe until friday and the senate scheduled to be out of session though im sure they could arrange a meeting. If you listen to the president , number one, he said senators dont know anything. The are president talks about how tariffs work in a parallel universe than how they actually work. The president s words the other day on this trip, if mexico came to the table with a pretty good table, that hell say no, well do this first, and then well talk. Hes seemed to determine that this is going to happen monday. When youre talking about senators, youre talking about senate republicans, too, and this is an intraparty fight. If you look at some of the states that this impacts, texas impacted and michigan impacted quite heavily, so these are important political states, you know, for the president s reElection Campaign, so i think until that argument is made to him, i think hes making his base play like he usually does to try and drive up his base, so in that sense he wants to be hard on mexico regardless of if the deal is actually a good one or not. Go ahead. Its also no surprise that the president loves tariffs. He thinks they are a very effective tool to getting people to comply to what his demands are and even the closest advisers around him from trade representative lighthizer to some of his white house staff are not seeing this as the right path forward, so since day one, since the tweet came out, a number of his advisers saying, you know, what this may not even go through. Its essential lit president s way of maybe sucker punching mexico into complying with his demands quickly, but ultimate lit president is the Still Holding firm because he does see this as an effective tool to get him to listen to his demands. Almost as if he wants them to believe its in place and then he can say see it, worked. I got them to come to the table. Got them to come to the table with a stronger plan. Hes mixing trade and immigration. You mentioned many soft states. If youre a republican senator or any member of congress can, rich neal, a democrat from massachusetts, chairman of the ways and means, says the president is common deering imtrade policy with immigration policy and john cornyn, who often questions the president , a pretty loyal republican. He says numbers. 406,000 u. S. Jobs lost if 5 went into effect is the estimate of this analyst group. 117,000 of those, more than 117,000 of those in texas alone. That is why john cornyn, again works often is muted in his criticism of the president says please, no. Tariffs, on the other hand, would be a massive tax. The u. S. Chamber estimates that texas alone would face 45. 35 billion anyone creased costs as a result of a 5 tariff that could take effect as early as monday. This translates into about 1,000 more on a car. Hes on the ballot, us a noted, and what the president has done. Hes twisted his party like a pretzel on many issues, trade significantly, and if youre a texas reap warnings immigration as well. And this is on the backdrop of pain, severe pain that so many of the senators and house members in trumpwon states are feeling and they are hearing about from their constituents, farmers in iowa, you know, farmers all over, you know, red state and blue state america, so that is already going on, and this threat is just its like from their perspective its kicking them when they are down, and so that is why you this is going to be such a fascinating test to see if the insurrection that is going on right now on capitol hill among the president s fellow republicans that weve not seen on a policy issue is going to actually see fruition and they are going to act on this if in fact the president goes through with this 5 tariff. I dont know if credit is the right word. You mentioned senator cornyn is on the ballot and so is President Trump. Youre right, tariffs, trade and the issue on which hes been most consistent dating back to when hes been in politics and hes on the ballot. Some of his private analysts worry Global Growth is slowing. Theres a threat of a global recession anyway even without imposing tariffs against mexico and the president says, he may, depending on his meeting with president xi, he may impose even more tariffs on china. Well, you mean, when am i going to put the extra 325 billion worth of tariffs . I will make that decision, i would say, over the next two weeks. Probably right after the g20. A lot of economists question wait a minute, how hes doing it. Standing up to china is something long overdue. The president is slight about that, but its a Political Risk that a lot of politicians would not take such a risk heading into their own Election Campaign that he could tip the economy into a slowdown and some even think a recession. Heres the problem. With china at least there are a series of specific things on the table that they are negotiating, and if they get there, then he can back off. On mexico, you know, the mexicans i talked to Senior Administration officials familiar with the negotiations and discussions at the white house, that what the mexicans came with that said well do this, this, and this, but the problem is that nothing that they can do, nothing that the government of mexican can do substantly substantively on the ground which the president wants which is an 100 end to illegal immigration which is impossible. How can the president find a way to back off, maybe with the urging of his aides, because its an allornothing kind of thing which hes described it which is, you know, concerning if youre a senate republican. Well, the administration has already had to provide assistance for farmers who are hurting from the china tariffs, and now you the mexico tariffs coming on the heels of that. The white house can see they are already having an Economic Impact but the president believes in the long game and ultimately heines sifting that the long game will pay off for americans. We shall wait and see. We shall wait and see. Again, thats where a lot of republicans say, yes, help but the farmers, but thats not conservative markedbased economics. Up next, joe biden facing a