In iraq where more than 5,000 u. S. Troops are based and where the u. S. Has the largest embassy in the world. Democratic lawmakers and some iraq war vets question the intelligence. We do not need another iraq weapons of mass destruction moment where we were falsely led into a military engagement in iraq, which is one of the biggest mistakes weve had in foreign policy. The state Department Order comes a day after a british general in baghdad down played the threat saying he had not seen any evidence of an eminent iranian strike. A Navy Spokeman for u. S. Central command rebuked the British Army General saying the u. S. Led coalition is at a high level of alert as we closely monitor credible and possibly eminent threats to u. S. Forces in iraq. This comes a day after the rebels claimed seven of its drones struck a saw saudi arabia pipe line and ratcheting up gulf tensions after the mysterious sabotage of several oil tankers the day before. The u. S. S. Abraham lincoln is in the coast of oman. It does not have to be in the persian gulf to carry out strikes. The f18 Super Hornets are within strike range if needed. If any American Forces are attacked. In addition to the strategic bombers in the region, theres warships armed with hundreds of cruise missiles. Germany and other u. S. Allies, neil, say they will keep their Embassy Staff in baghdad for now. Neil . Neil thanks very much. Oil markets are rocked by this. Not as rocked by days end. Oil prices up 24 cents. Youll see that when theres unrest or the perception of unrest in the middle east. Keeping a lid on this as trade talks appear to be going nowhere with china. Well get to that in a bit. Back to this iran crisis, if it is one, and whether we should be worried about it. David diptula. Thanks, general. Hi, neil. Neil what do you make of this . Its a volatile time in the region. What all the parties have to do is be cautious to assure that miscalculation doesnt occur in a small deal and what turn into a major regional conflict. The cultural motivations between ruling shiia bureaucracy in iran, the democratic leadership of the allied nations in the region are quite different. So we need to make sure that tensions are lowered to the point where miscalculation doesnt become an overwhelming factor. Neil why would the iranians attack saudi facilities or tankers or United Arab Emirates tankers knowing theres this armada from the United States on the way to the region . Why would they do that . Well, because remember, the government of iran is trying to distract the majority of its people, that are feeling the hardship from the sanctions that the iranian government is really imposing on themselves by not cooperating with the United States vis a vis negotiations as well as agreements relative to what they do with their arsenal. Theyre looking for distractions to distract the domestic afflictions their people are focusing on and shift their mind away from that and the United States and the other allies of the United States in the region are good targets for them to do that. Thats what i mean in terms of miscalculation, too. We have to be careful not to take the bait either. Neil general, should we read anything to the fact that the britts dont have the same intelligence or said they dont see or get a sense of the same things that the data that we share with each other that the United States did . I wouldnt put a whole lot into that. Ive spoken to some officials in the region. There is in fact valid intelligence that makes it prudent to take the actions that the United States has. You know, what the britts do is what the britts want to do. What we need to do is act on appropriate information to protect our people. Neil thanks, general. You bet. Neil President Trump is set to make a major announcement on Immigration Reform maybe today. John roberts, is this like Lindsey Grahams proposal . No. Thats dealing with the emergency that were experiencing on the border, which is the same reason why the tsa is sending hundreds of personnel down to the border to deal with the migrants that have been coming across. Weve been talking about family units in record numbers, this i. Its about Border Security, first of all, and then its aboutimmigration, the green card system. So on Border Security, the president wants to build more wall. He wants to upgrade ports of entry so every vehicle that comes across is screened. We stop people from coming across legal port of entry. At the peace officers memorial. The president talked about the need to secured the border. Listen here. Not one more American Life should be lost because our lawmakers fail to security our borders. Tremendous problem at the southern border from drugs to the wrong people being allowed to come in because of a corrupt and broken system that could be changed in 20 minutes. Shepard the second part of the system as i mentioned is reforming the system of legal immigration, this is the awarding of green cards, changing it to a meritbased immigration system. Now, the white house, the United States, would issue the same number of green cards, is currently being issued, which is more than a million a year. They want to change the makeup of the immigrant population. Skillbased immigrants are 12 . They want to increase that to 57 . Familybased immigration is 66 . 10 of green cards will still be reserved for humanitarian or other. They will end the visa lottery program. What the president wants to move to is a build america visa that will recognize extraordinary talents, people with professional and specialized locations and exceptional students who are currently in the country make moves to keep those people in the United States. Visas will be awarded on a pointbased system, which gives points for age, english proficiency, an off of employment above a certain wage threshold and educational and vocational certifications. Democrats are skeptical of anything the president does and skeptical of this, too. Listen to dick durbin. Theres so many aborted efforts when it comes to Immigration Reform under this president. Im skeptical as to whether he truly wants to deal with Immigration Reform. I know he wants a wall. He said that so many times. Everybody knows it. The president will be laying this out tomorrow afternoon at the white house. White house Officials Say they would like to see legislation on this. 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The United StatesPostal Service makes more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. Still confident for a china agreement . Im hopeful. I wouldnt say im confident. Neil whats the different between hopeful and confident . Welcome back. Thats reassuring the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin answering questions about the state of trade negotiations between us and china. The markets are not too concerned today. We should point out that the administration did something about being open in making progress on the trade front that is believing or postponing auto tariffs that would have affected vehicles coming in from european union, japan, to a lesser extent, supplies and automakers in china. Thats a good started. Lets go to Edwin Lawrence with the latest. The big headline on china, theres another round of talks in beijing. As you said, you heard the treasury secretary saying hes not confident but hopeful. I have no plans to go to china. We dont have a date set. I would expect ambassador lighthiz lighthizer, we go together at the appropriate time. Shepard china pulled back all of the concessions that they made in the agreement that was there. The president calling the agreement 95 completed. The administration is working on a plan because china has been targeting farmers to try to help the farmers. My preference is that he buys the food because farmers grow food to be purchased and to be eaten. You buy it and use it for good will and stuff rather than distort markets in some other way. Farmers prefer to have a trade deal done. Most of the stuff that we import from china is under a 25 tariff. After june 17 and the report is finished with the list of items that Everything Else that china imports could be under a 25 tariff. The next round could be things like coffee, coats or swings. The impact of the tariffs prompted a phone call between President Trump and larry kudlow. The Washington Post reporting that because of an interview kudlow did on fox news sunday, the president had it out with him and reaffirmed that china would be paying the tariffs. Back to you. Now to Ohio Republican senator, rob portman who a little more than a couple days ago warned and the dangers of tariffs and how they get out of control and will hurt the economy, jobs and wages unless theyre avoided. Senator, very good to have you. Thanks, neil. Neil thank you, sir. On this impasse, the tariffs will go into effect june 1, post with china with 60 billion of goods over there and better than 250 billion worth of chinese goods over here. Are you worried . Well, of course i am. You dont want a tariff escalation. It hurts everybody. On the other hand, you have to use them as leverage to get china to stay at the table and make the agreement. The agreement is important. We talked about this before. Theres no question that china is not playing by the rules and have to change their behavior in terms of taking our technology and the subsidies they do. These are structural changes. Then you have to do with the imbalance in trade. We have the biggest trade deficit with china. Jo has your stance changed . When you worked with president bush and negotiated with the chinese, was there a battle . To your point, it might work, but has the strategy changed . A sign that you and fellow republicans are open to this because you think this will be a Winning Strategy . Yeah, i do think theres some of that. A recalibration on using tariffs as a technique, as a shortterm objective to get them to the table and make the right decisions in terms of these longer term problems. We shouldnt want tariffs to be the result. The result should be an agreement and take the tariffs off. The other thing that happened today, you mentioned, the president chose to delay for six months a decision on whether to put additional tariffs under section 232 for automobiles, a 25 tariff. Many of us had expressed concern about that. I had opposed that specifically because its going to raise the cost of cars and hurt our economy. Im pleased the president did that. That is one of the reasons the market is responding favorably. In terms of china, i feel differently. Were not talking about our allies. Its a country that is taking advantage of us. Frankly, the rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world agrees with it. Neil and our americans brace for the possibility and could be short lived, but this drags on awhile and theyre going to face a lot higher prices for more goods. The president says that they can find alternatives, american alternatives, maybe prompt more companies to do the kind of things that Companies Like gopro are doing and shift operations to other locals besides china. In the meantime, a lot of americans are not prepared for the price hikes to come. Should the president be preparing for that . Larry kudlow is right, of course, that part of this is borne by consumers. The reality is, the additional tariffs that might be put on in another tranche as they call it, in other words, an additional increases in tariffs being prepared, will be on more consumer goods. Think about electronics, toys, whatever you buy in target and walmart. That will be more directly impacting consumers than the existing tariffs that are more business oriented. In other words, things like manufactured products, inputs into companies here in ohio talked to me about it. I dont hear about it from constituents or consumers. The ago side, china is buying less. Theyre not only putting tariffs but buying less. Including soy beans from ohio. From the ag community, theres an increase. But for china, we have to hang tough. We have to give the president the flexibility he needs. Its not the solution here. In the end, you want an agreement. The agreement is lowering tariffs on both sides and getting rid of the nontariff barriers to having fair trade between the United States and china neil and you do. Thanks, senator. Thanks, neil. A lot more migrants coming in. Now the tsa says hundreds of their own agents are headed to the border to help out. Why jeh johnson wonders why congress and the white house cant come together and do Something Like now. Hes here and hes next. The matters. Ar. Introducing the allnew 2019 ford ranger, its the right gear. With a terrain Management System for. This. A bash plate for. That. An electronic locking Rear Differential for. Yeah. This. Heading to the supermarket . Get any truck. Heading out here . 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Kevin was Deputy Commissioner of cbp at the time. Neil the border patrol. Yes. Kevin is a good man. I have a lot of faith in him. Hes right that what we faced in 2014 is a fraction of what were seeing today. Neil what happened . How did it spiral . Its an excellent question. We had 100,000 apprehensions or ebb counters in march. Another 100,000 in april. The highest its been in 12 years. Think of it this way. That is the equivalent of the population of the city of orlando, florida showing up on our southern border in two months. That create as crisis first of all