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>> well, mexico has a lot of negotiating chips in this matter. it also has measures we would take in other areas. for example, the drugs that come through mexico from south america or the drugs that are produced here in mexico all go to the united states. this is not our problem. we have been cooperating with the united states for many years on these issues because theyve asked us to and because we have a friendly, trustful relationship. if that relationship disappears, the reasons for cooperati...

Breaking news tonight, mexico east president has canceled next weeks planned meeting with president trump at the white house in protest over mr. trumps plan for a new border wall. lets dig deeper with our correspondents, commentators, and analysts, gloria borger, let me start with you. the president in the speech today in philadelphia, he said that he and the mexican president, they agreed to cancel this meeting. thats not necessarily the case. >> i dont think so. in fact, sean spicer called ate...

Will work towards that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what you are allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> lets dig deeper with our correspondents, analysts and commentators. you are a cia former officer. you heard president trump say torture works. >> the president has to be careful with his words. doesnt appear to know that torture is a violation of statute. if you want to know if people talk under duress, the answer is they do. i have witne...

>> thats right. if you look back to things he did earlier in the week on trade. its like hes going through his campaign promises one by one, tpp startup, keystone pipeline again. build the wall. deal with the immigration problem. he is trying to be very true to that campaign rhetoric. >> you know, its interesting what some commentators and reporters of the president are noting is that theres a lot of the focus on things hes saying, some of the things hes saying that arent true about millions in ...

Congress you had on just before me, you know, said it quite right, that this is not the kind of thing we want to do, we dont want to be using false data to basically make people question how valid our elections are. its just -- its totally baseless and its very dangerous. >> professor brian schaffner, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you very much, wolf. lets talk a little bit about what we just heard with our correspondents, analysts and commentators. david swerdlick, lets start this...

The left, and this is a historically low number as we kick off the first day of the presidency. >> and yeah, in 09 there were seven members that had been approved. pompeo is tomorrow, and more than 1 million people marched in washington and cities around the country in solidarity for womens rights and other important issues. oh, the panel we have today. were going to hear an ear full. cnn correspondent, athena jones, and scott boldman, and cnn political commentators jeffrey lord, maria cardona...

Celebration. and that sets a tone of a real coming together in a much more heated way. they also told us that the trump administration thinks this is a twoway street. if youre going to criticize him, his tweets, his statements, then they are going to go through media reports and media commentary and hold the community of reporters and commentators accountable as well. i think this is just the first of one of these kinds of exchanges. >> i get the feeling sean is like a baby sitter with a surveil...

Are feeling that it isnt just a difference of opinion, but that its an intelligence minimizing of their inauguration celebration. and that sets a tone of a real coming together in a much more heated way. they also told us that the trump administration thinks this is a twoway street. if youre going to criticize him, his tweets, his statements, then they are going to go through media reports and media commentary and hold the community of reporters and commentators accountable as well. i think this...

Absolutely scottsdale. welcome back. live from washington. donald trump on the eve of becoming the 45th president of the united states. lets discuss now. cnn political commentators, andre bower, jeffrey lord, andy dean and bakari sellers. this is the panel everybody is looking for. congratulations big night for your guy, tomorrow he becomes most powerful person in the world. heres what he said at inaugural concert earlier tonight. >> were going to unify our

Is going. the time seems to have flown, and you have to a great many people in this country, these were a long eight years. and these are the people who put mr. trump in office. and i think its very fair, as i wont be the first to remark, that if you think about the legacy of this man, whom we see flying off in the helicopter now, it really can be summed up into in two words. donald trump. his presidency gave us this new presidency in a very real way. and you heard it reflected in all of the thi...