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In. the president this weekend also call observed this idea of a series of raids involving undocumented families for deportation. and he seemed to say its a two-week pause, hes saying. suggesting that that is to get a deal through congress that would address the asylum issue. i think this other issue out there is funding. funding for -- of hhs, funding for homeland security. and i know theres a bill there, it sounds like, that dick durbin and lindsey graham have been working on potentially on th...

To consider easing then and cutting rates then and prop up the economy here. how do you think it plays into 2020? >> well, i think right now the president clearly has a -- putting everything on the economy strategy and historically that would work. if you look at how strong the economy has been, the president isnt more popular than he is. if anything, you see his numbers below what you would expect them to be on the basis of this economy. he has had a campaign of public pressure of the fed thats...

Are real world companies in the u.s. that will bear the brunt of it. whether or not they can pass it to consumers, that remains to be seen. >> i want to talk about the impact on mexico. the fact is, can mexico, the president is saying theyve got three weeks, sarah sanders said this again today. theres three weeks when people from the northern triangle are coming through mexico and he is saying you have three weeks where they could stop them from hitting our border and hes using this pressure tac...

First off this is pressure tactic writes. the reason for that of course we know that trump has been very impatient with the pace of these negotiations and probably impatient over the fact that they wont contain the full scope of what he would like them to contain theres a lot going on he talks about the trade gap he talks about also intellectual property and chinese respecting western intellectual property it talks about things such as cyber theft as well so containing all of these and once of n...

With ozzie and which is european union third largest trading partner outside of europe out of the picture because your opinion sees trade deals with individual countries as building blocks for a wider treaty good as young as a whole. how serious is malaysia strive to council that youre a fighter or. well to me it seems more like pressure tactic because. prime minister mahathir did go and go ahead and actually downplayed the threat saying it was only a suggestion now having said that if i mean we...

Involves juan guaido, the self-declared president running the country. its clear in their minds maduro is finished. the point is after the scenes of the weekend where a peaceful passage of humanitarian aid designed to boost guaidos support simply didnt get anywhere. and you saw those awful scenes of how that was prevented. the question is whats the next step in the american arsenal? mike pompeo, john bolton, the secretary of state national security adviser talking about sanctions, further isolat...

Be willing to force a government shutdown over the issue. chuck schumer knows the mueller protection bill has bipartisan support. its sponsored not just by democrats but also by republicans, and jeff flake, who is an outgoing senator, so perhaps doesnt have as much influence, has called for the legislation to be brought to the floor. this is a pressure tactic by schumer and democrats to force republicans on the record at a time when their earlier arguments that there was no need for mueller prot...

Foundation. it indicates muellers team is trying to determine whether stone had other go betweens for wikileaks. the washington post first reported the special counsels interest as a possible intermediary. his attorneys declined to excellent. back in september his said his client was never in touch with wikileaks or its founder. for stones part he maintains that he was the principal intermediary adding i had no advance knowledge of the source or content. stone says believes mueller could bring c...

Hope they get and to talking about it. >> president trump says that china will come around to sit down at the table and make a deal on trade. theyre just not ready yet. when he surround them with new trade deals with mexico and canada and japan and south korea, he will go to xi jinping and say youre going to be the only one that doesnt cut a deal with the united states? its an interesting pressure tactic. >> hes yet to get the chinese to move. john roberts, thanks very much. on the phone with us...

Changed. thats so far not likely. lets get the inside scoop from msnbc contributor peter baker and ann guerin. welcome both. ann, first to you. you and i covered nafta in the past. you cant just negotiate one part of a three-way deal. i know they would like to and they can do a side deal with mexico, but that isnt nafta. hes now saying that hes renaming it because he, of course, campaigned against nafta. >> so three things. trump hates nafta. always has. he said he would be willing to have a loo...