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Comfortable with him. that can be a blessing and a curse. well have your conversation. we have smart reporters talking to democrats. what do we see in three days, five days, eight days from democratic polling when the candidates are back in their crowds. lets take some of the examples were yes, the vice president showed up and fought. yes, the vice president turned to kamala harris and challenged her health care plan. yes, he picked an interesting immigration fight with julian castro and a fight...

The germans gave them chemical weapons. nobody gave us a single missile to defend ourselves. so its impossible to tell the iranian people thats why the united states is selling $87 billion worth of military equipment while saudi arabia is buying over $87. and the united states is selling $50 billion to the persian gulf every year that they expect us to abandon our only and most important means of defense. >> so let me ask you. we dont have much time. what is the win for president trump? you say ...

Being showered with missiles and bombs and even chemical weapons and nobody gave us the minimum means of defense. everybody from the soviets who gave the iraqis midair planes to the americans that gave them recognizance to the french who gave them missiles to the brits who gave them tanks to the germans who gave them chemical weapons. everybody helped them. nobody even allowed us to buy a single missile to defend ourselves. so its impossible to tell iranian people that while the united states is...

>> reporter: schools crumbling in front of todays students. >> itll leak through the ceiling and actually drip into the lights. >> without having windows, some days its 80 in my room and theres no fresh air. >> reporter: money for school facilities comes largely from local communities. the taxpayers voted against spending the $22 million it would take to fix the school. so in this suburb of chicago theyre hoping for state funds to fix the building. the idea of getting federal dollars still seems...

Agreement is now tentatively in place. this inta the face of staunch republican opposition to the proposal of tariffs against mexico, $87 billion in commerce would be under threat if it had gone through. for now it appears as though this crisisou has passed. one other item from late yesterday involves the rainbow pride flag at u.s. embassies overseas. whats the story there? >> some reporting that nbc news has done from josh letterman over at the state department, st the state department refusi...

Already tipped his hat and said we need to get this done which is why he sent secretary to meet with him. of course the highest officials here in america too with mike pompeo to again negotiate in good faith and to get something done. clearly i think one of the problems is that the president did not set clear benchmarks as to what mexico needs to do. >> dana: what does success look like? >> we are looking at $87 billion in new taxes for a year annually. that is 900 billion. >> dana: i imagine we...

Terrified october which would represent if they havent been remedied, that would amount to an $87 billion tax increase but american companies and consumers. >> two different answers, first, i get that, thats economic orthodox that when tariffs up consumer prices go. but the proof is in the footing, there is no inflation. prices has not gotten. we put tariffs on china, were put in tariffs of mexico, and inflation is still under control that is because the old-fashioned economic orthodox does not ...

The situation is real. and the president is deadly serious about fixing the problem. >> alex, you heard mulvaney. 5% on june 10th. a month after that, up to 10%. all the way up to a possible 25%. estimates are that would cost the u.s. economy some $87 billion over the course of the year. and one more fascinating point, argument made by mulvaney. he says when asked if this would simply result in more migration, economic migration from mexico and central america, he admitted it would. it may lead ...

Terrified october which would represent if they havent been remedied, that would amount to an $87 billion tax increase but american companies and consumers. >> two different answers, first, i get that, thats economic orthodox that when tariffs up consumer prices go. but the proof is in the footing, there is no inflation. prices has not gotten. we put tariffs on china, were put in tariffs of mexico, and inflation is still under control that is because the old-fashioned economic orthodox does not ...

>> lets go from there from the white house. >> welcome to you on this. the white house seems to be doubling down. mick mulvaney says the president is deadly serious of putting tariffs on mexico. what can you tell us? >> doubling down and certainly not acting down if mulvaney is to believe making the rounds on a couple of sundays shows including "meet the press" there. june 10th is the day that tariffs will be slapped on mexican goods at the toon of 5%. increasing 5% every month until it got to 2...