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Back, blaming the president for slapping tariffs on chinese goods. youre in the "cnn newsroom." president trump is repeating his false claim that the widely criticized practice of separating immigrant children from their parents at the mexican border is the democrats fault. this morning he tweeted this -- "democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. this is why we need more republicans elected in november. democrats a...

People seeking asylum as a new populist government there begins to reign. but its not just the government, a new poll shows that 60% of italians agree with that move. the country has already taken in thousands of migrants from north africa. spain will now accept people from one of those ships that italy turned away. >> well, were just going to do $50 billion on $50 billion of high technology equipment m and other things coming into the country because so much of our secrets -- you know, we have ...

Lets turn to business. f after slapping tariffs on nex week the president is set to announce today plans to impose steep tariffs on billions of dollars of chinese goods. cnbcs joumanna bercetche joins us this morning. >> as you say were expected to hear the latest tariff announcements from the u.s. on chinese goods, the number circulated is $50 billion worth. expectations is that the tariffs will be implemented within the next week. china said theyre looking to retaliate. one way they could do i...

They didnt. >> frankly, i think -- im still waiting for president trump to get it done. hes taken -- hes torn a lot of things down. he operates by chaos. i understand that. a certain amount of tactical chaos is good strategy. but strategic chaos can be very dangerous. right now im sti waiting for president trump to actually deliver on all of the things that hes working on to show thate can actually make the deal happen. >> neil: well a sign of a deal today. leon panetta weighing in on the histor...

Canada and mexico and put a lot more pressure on where the real deficits are, trade deficits, like china and other countries. this is why nafta is important because ts what we need to negotiate because if we start slapping tariffs on our friends, in my opinion, thats not good business. neil: the presidents long-term goal is a world without tariffs and subsidies and we touched on the outset. is that ever something you could see happening that this will lead to that and that products fight in the ...

Thats what we are afraid of not. however there has to be something done here. there has to be pressure on other countries are slapping tariffs on us but dont want us to do it to them. i do think is unequal. i do think its unfair. i dont think the trade deficit has anything to do with a healthy economy. i disagree with him on that. however i understand his thinking.>> its interesting because it does go against conservative orthodoxy is everyone is talking about. let me get your views on russia li...

Guilty of collusion here, because if he was guilty of collusion or had something to hide, he wouldnt be outwardly saying, bring russia back in. he obviously does not care and does not feel guilty about anything that happened during the campaign, because it didnt happen in my estimation. the trade deal situation, this is all a bluff. they are slapping tariffs on dairy, sausage, linens. >> hold on. lets listen. >> trade has been a topic of discussion and will continue to be, but our engagement tow...

Impact. this parting of the way between the u.s. and its allies. lets just talk about that one narrow thing we thought would be the main focus. now russia is thrown in. which is tariffs, trade. >> a complete reordering of the western world in the sense that we have longtime allies and friends and canada and add mexico into this and we are slapping tariffs on them, going after them in ways that alienate them and as steve just talked about, cozying up to russia, china and north korea. complete tur...

Than normal. so the flows continuing out of canada. the great lakes wednesday and into the northeast but when will it finally warm up? philadelphia, friday 80. saturday 81. raleigh near 9 # 0 by the weekend so its a slow warmup guys. >> but hopefully you wont have bad for us going into the weekend. >> like every other weekend? >> like every other weekend weve had so far. >> as of now in the northeast, saturday looks better, sunday, possible rain. >> id like a summer forecast. >> good luck with t...

Talking about one day. as far as im concerned, this -- and again, i dont represent the government. my personal view is this is mostly over. all thats left now is the handshake that kim jong-un really wants for a propaganda victory. but the rest of it is just theatrics at this point. >> jennifer? >> if barack obama had been doing every single one of the things evelyn walked us through, slapping tariffs on our allies, yukking it up in the oval office with the spy chief for the north koreans, fawni...