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This trade challenge with mexico, the biggest question for the administration is going to be what exactly do they demand from the mexican government before lifting these tariffs that get put in place. do they -- the president hasn't to my knowledge put down sort of a clear red line, a clear standard for what the mexican government has to do. the mexican president hinted that he would be open to making changes, to trying to persuade the u.s. they had done enough but it would be on the table they would do more. trump has oddly enough left a lot of latitude for himself to lift these tariffs if he...

Case and that's what the electoral college forces them to do. >> what do you thin when they see a candidate get 3 or 4 million more votes than the winner. >> it's massively frustrating. >> trump might have rejected the results. >> which is why it's so popular. it's a base play to frustrated democrats who have seen this happen twice in 20 years. i get it. >> okay. 55% of americans would vote to amend so the person with the most votes wins. why do some people want to keep the electoral vote? >> we did a poll, our group that concludesed last week 76% of the people in ohio believe every vote in th...

>> i think it was surprising. i don't think a lot of people thought he was going to say -- talk about socialism. i do think it is a total base play. i think this is something that the democrats are having to wrestle with a little bit as the energy on the left is really among the alexanderdry ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders wing of the party. he clearly jabbed right into the fire of where democrats are having soul searching. is the majority of the party socialist? of course, not. this is something that will come up in 2020 and he laid the groundwork for how i think he's trying to own that argu...

A moment ago, beyond the back and forth on where hi wae wantee wall, whether it'd be in california, and what i heard from the white house press secretary this morning, communications director, press secretary sarah sanders, was fear mongering. sarah sanders saying 4,000 terrorists are apprehended at the border every day. that's not true. jacob soboroff will fact check that for us in a moment. the president is talking about smugglers, talking about all the crime that pours over the border. is this just all about making it seek like there's a crisis? is that their strategy? >> it certainly -- i ...

Conclusions they came to was that the government was completely unprepared to deal with all of the sort of consequential issues that followed from bringing children across the border. and they didn't specifically at the time look at medical care for the children, but it should come as no surprise given the extent to which all different parts of the government, from hhs to the border patrol to dhs, they just weren't ready for it. and this is what you get when you make consequential policy decisions without being prepared. >> they were in u.s. custody, after all. both sides here, democrats on th...