this is not a chill friday. there s meetings going on, there s behind the scenes work to rewrite a bill but the president torched the whole thing today. reporter: it s sort of a weekend at bernie s situation here with republican leadership trying very much to make sure this bill at least looks still alive. it is unclear how alive it actually is after the president s tweets this morning. although i ll tell you, i just talked to the majority leader kevin mccarthy who said they re going to have a vote next week. he doesn t think the president s tweet was damaging to anyone except democrats he says because it shows that democrats are not willing to work with republicans on that. democrats in my twitter feed are already loudly objecting to that as they should be because they have been trying to be involved in this process, as we know. but the fate of this bill has been whip signed back and forth. if you d asked me this time yesterday i would have said that both of these immigration bills
comeback rating. but after she was fired from the racist tweet, the president avoid criticizing his long time supporter. and let s talk about immigration. president trump s repreet treat on family separations came from not just political but personal pressure part of it from his wife who traveled to the border yesterday to take a look herself at the conditions and living conditions of these migrant kids. she called for them to be reunited with their parents. i m here to learn about your facility and i also like to ask you how i can help to these dhoi children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible. we don t often see the first lady weighed in west wing policies publicly but he acknowledges the influence of melania and eanca trump have tried to sway her dad.
cars shipped to the u.s. the stock market was listening. car makers, bmw, chrysler, general motors, stocks are dropping quickly now after that threat. this is donald trump getting on twitter saying something that is moving markets. this is what trade wars look like. this is what happens when you have retaliatory back and forths over products that are getting sold. this is something that republicans have been kedeeply concerned about. banging the drum about the fears they had about tariffs for months and months saying they support trump almost all the time but not on this. when we show the big board, the stock market is fine. the dow is up about 120. we re talking specifically about these car maker stocks. considering the president is threatening that tariff now on european cars coming in. absolutely. i think he has to stop and think about how this could directly impact the people who voted for him. there s an idea that only affects people in europe. there are more of those car co
that could get across the finish line. here s some of the folks we talked to. very constructive dialogue and suggestions and so i feel pretty optimistic about where we re headed. oreverybody s trying to come together as a team so we can get to 2018 and get this across the finish zblien everybody wants to solve this problem. i think when we get it didn t you president s going to even like the new bill better than this bill. reporter: the bottom line problem here is if you re a conservative member of congress who wanted the president s backing to support this bill, with him now saying let s wait until we get more republicans in congress, question do something strong, he it s hard to see what their motivation is to support this bill as it sort of limps into next week. but the other thing mccarthy told me is he thinks the house needs to show that it can do something. can a republican-controlled house pass literally anything on immigration? next week will be the point where we find
unclear who you it wiu unclear how it will be implemented. it seems like families will still be separated. let s talk through how we got to this moment, because that affects every single one of those families. we put together kind of a timeline since the president signed that executive order what we have heard from various government agencies and officials. because on wednesday he signed this executive action. that evening, health and human services walked back comments that there would be no grandfathering of cases saying reunification is the goal. then thursday they retracted a statement saying it would dismiss criminal cases for these immigrants after initially saying it would. in that same story they said zero tolerance was still in effect. and this morning homeland security said about 500 kids have been reunited. senator kennedy has sort of called this a hot mess. at that point how does the administration, what do they need to do, liz, to help families figure this out? i think