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New this morning, a tariff billor between the u. S. And mexo late yesterday averting an economic and a political stando between two neighbors. President trump announced the threatened tariffs slated to start monday are now indefinitely suspended. Part of the deal includes an agreement from mexico to reduce the flow of migrants crossing the border. Mexico will deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to its border with guatemala to reduce the number of Central Americans heading north. Mexico agreed to expand the Trump Administration program allowing the u. S. To return immigrants to mexico whil...

Applicants, and vulnerable afghans. and we continue to work at this. i can't begin to try to give you specific advice, but from the pentagon's perspective, we're doing the best we can, as fast as we can, to move people out on any given day. i'm not able to -- and i know my answer is unsatisfying, but i'm not able to speak to our ability to reach out and talk to every afghanistan that wants to get out. believe me we're very mindful of the split right here and we're trying the best that we can to alleviate that. >> thank you. i just want to follow up to what jen was asking about you said that th...

Of the week, at least in show of force and statements that he was using. >> hey, don? >> go ahead, general. >> can i very quickly, you know, the 1,000 troops going in -- i think they might be a very prudent move. these troops could be used and we certainly don't know what they're going to be used for, we haven't seen the troop list, probably intelligence collection but most importantly, you're probably going to have air defense capabilities, which is what you try to do when you deploy folks. but also, the iranians have done this before. we might be seeing a plus up at embassies in the region, ...

Probably going to have air defense capabilities, which is what you try to do when you deploy folks. but also, the iranians have done this before. we might be seeing a plus up at embassies in the region, where we couldn't see unplanned activities around those embassy compounds, benghazi type of a thing. so, i think the -- the 1,000 troops going to the region, we might want to let that play out before we get too critical of it. >> max boot writes about this, look at that article, a new piece, so, thank you very much, gentlemen, i appreciate it. there it is right there on your screen. you get it....

Agreement is now tentatively in place. this inta the face of staunch republican opposition to the proposal of tariffs against mexico, $87 billion in commerce would be under threat if it had gone through. for now it appears as though this crisisou has passed. one other item from late yesterday involves the rainbow pride flag at u.s. embassies overseas. what's the story there? >> some reporting that nbc news has done from josh letterman over at the state department, st the state department refusing permission,in rejecting request from embassies around the world to fly the pride flag now during...