Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here
four years and we do not know, by the way, if any of the so-called tender age migrants, the toddlers, babies, we don t know if any of them are being kept here. t i can tell you that this is a facility for boys that was once anlyare facility. but an update here on the first lady s travel. she is apparently headed back to the airport, back to mcallen international airport. we were told that she was going to be heading to a processing center. the largest immigration processing center is here in mcallen texas. her plan had been to heado that processing center. we re told now she s headed back to the airport because of the widespread flooding that we have right now in mcallen, texas, and the surrounding areas. it has been raining torrentially for the better part of two days. that flooding we re told is affecting the first lady s caravan.