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
congress. joining me to discuss all of this is cnn security analyst, a senior adviser to president obama. you served under security with president obama. what do you say about president trump saying he didn t do as much as he has? it s obviously untrue, and i think he s conflating different things. we should have a discussion about when president obama and the intelligence community knew about russia s ongoing attack. we know from the department of justice that that started way back in 2014. we should talk about that. we should talk about what president obama did privately, and we should also talk about when president obama chose to make this information public. but president trump is purposefully lumping all of these different threats together, and in doing so is making russia s job a lot easier because he s sowing divisions, he s creating confusion and he s not focusing on the ongoing live
keep their mouth shut and listen. they don t understand the country and why donald trump is president of the united states. labelling the media as opposition party, saying keep our mouths shut. we re playing his hands. he knew it would be covered. he s sowing divisions, trying to play the base who is skeptical of the media against it. but it s corrosive to media to hate the press this way. salena, do you think his helps his agenda to fight with the media? it s always been part of his thing right? up until he won the nomination used us very effective and brilliant way. and as soon as he won the nomination, he understood we were the opposition. low approval ratings and easy target. anything said, that s just the media. and so that definitely plays into his hands. look, what bannon said has not
labelling the media as opposition party, saying keep our mouths shut we re playing in his hands. he knew it would be covered. he s sowing divisions, trying to play the base who is skeptical of the media against it. but it s corrosive to media to hate the press this way. you think this fighting helps his agenda? it s always been part of his thing right? up until he won the nomination used us very effective and brilliant way. and as soon as he won the nomination, he understood we were the opposition. low approval ratings and easy target. anything said, that s just the media. plays into his hands. what bannon hasn t ever not been
she said yes, it is. there are a lot of people when you actually look at what s happening to these children in the places where they re coming from think deportation is not necessarily the answer here and there are democrats, including dick durbin who said any changes to the 2008 trafficking law, i don t know about that. i was on the hill all of yesterday and that was certainly what the democrats were subtly at that point arguing with each other. that gives the republicans another excuse, not that they need one to go slow and/or go nowhere with any kind of broad proposal because if they not only think they have the issue as luke was pointing out in most of those districts that they control that don t have many hispanics and if they get the added political benefit of sowing divisions within the democratic party then they ll do it and they ll be glad to have a big debate on that, if they were the democrats debating with each other? i think the short term gain