the good kind. the good kind of tear gas. and he feels that something that looking tough here is going to get his base to respond. and he feels they re supporting his efforts. so alan, hardly morning in america. but if we take what jonathan said as kind of political fact, we then learn today that mike pence and ivanka are going to represent the united states at the mexican presidential inaugurati inauguration. aside from giving us an arresting visual of these traveling partners, how is that going to look on behalf of the united states? it just shows that this relationship with mexico is going to continue to be a turbulent one. december 1st is when the new president, andre manuel lopez obrador, assumes office down there in mexico, and it s already been an interesting back and forth between the two. lopez obrador, he won office in part by being the anti-trump candidate. he said that mexico would no longer do, quote, the dirty work of rounding up migrants on behalf of the united s
After he won, things got a little bit better. they talked on the phone. president trump called him a terrific guy. lopez obrador had nice things to say about trump as well, but just in the last few days, we saw what sounds like the president the incoming president of mexico starting to fight back. the u.s. and mexico have been working on some kind of agreement to try to formalize a process in which these migrants would be able to stay in mexico while their asylum cases were being adjudicated here in the united states, but then that quickly fell apart. and i think that s a clear indication that they re starting to that those fault lines are starting to be established, and yes, the fact that the president of the united states is not going down to the mexican president s inauguration is pretty stunning and i think it shows that this could be a very, very difficult relationship between the two. jonathan lemire, in the seconds we have remaining, let s say you re a federal wildlands fi