About mexico, here is President Trump announcing the cancellation of his meeting with the mexican president in philadelphia today. 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 fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. So david, was this sort of a mutual agreement, a mutual cancellation, or do you think that the mexican president pulled the plug . I think that the mexican president pulled the plug, and he did that because donald trump frankly put him in a corner. He kept in a tweet sort of pushing mexico saying you know you have to pay for the wall. I think nieto has to worry about his own political audience, mexicans were outraged, angry at
him for months, if we talk this way to china, chinese are not going to stand for china backing down. This is very different from a Business Deal where youre bluffing. Foreign
would like to be talking about policies, the effect they have on people, the economy, the national security, i feel like that is what we should be doing as a press but we sort of have been boondoggled by all of this white noise. yeah, when the president talks about something he is the leader of the free world and we talk about it. but i think some things were crucial, if he didn t bring up the ratings or the crowd sizes then there wouldn t be these distractions. there would be more conversation about the policies. it s about the fundamental fact of his taking criticism. he is still watching tv in the white house. we re all wondering if that will rise. if you don t want to talk about it, don t bring it up. you just let it go. and he is doing interviews. that is a positive. listen, you re out with a new piece on cnn.com, brian, you say
policies are, impact they have on the people, how it affects our budgets, economy and national security. i feel like that s what we should be doing at press but just been boondoggled by all this white noise. and once the president says something, he s leader of the free world, then we talk about it. and he does care about popularity and this. i think she s onto something crucial. if he didn t bring up ratings or crowd sizes wouldn t be this noise and distractions and more conversation about the policy. it s fundamentally about his ability to take criticism or take the coverage and handle it. as maggie haberman reported, still wondering if he s going to go on long-term. first rule, if you don t want to talk about it don t. should be thankful he s doing interviews.