Plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. President trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. But whos calling who . Keir simmons in new york, Kristen Welker at the white house. Big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but its the meeting thats not happening thats grabbing all the headlines, right . Thats right. That meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after President Trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. That is something we have heard him say over and over again. Then we learned he cancelled the meeting. President trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. Bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the United States closest allies, its Third Largest Trading Partner. What happens next . The administration floating the idea of a possible 20 tax on imports from mexico and, hallie,
for a very busy day. Keir simmons is
But, david, she moved on to say shes convinced a trade deal between the u. S. And the ucla is in both kun and the u. K. Is in both countrys interest but we didnt get a lot of detail. President trump believes in oneonone trade deals specifically to the exclusion of Multi Lateral trade deals and would like to get a trade deal done with the united kingdom, particularly after brexit. I think he sees this as a big achievement and binding of president u. K. And United States that have moved at least in his view in a more nationalist direction. Thats what he would like to do. I thought the Prime Ministers comments about nato were so fascinating, really, because there are so many people around the world, u. S. Allies, republicans here at home, that are so concerned that trump could diminish the importance of nato as a part of our foreign policy. And theyre all trying to tell news the media rest assured trump desirent believe what
respective countries. Sandra and this, david, is coming ahead of