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As news of the contentious call broke on wednesday, mr. trump tweeted, i will study this dumb deal, in the same tweet calling the refugees illegal immigrants. white house secretary sean spicer confirming the deal will ultimately go through. >> the president in accordance with that deal to honor what had been agreed upon by the united states government in ensuring that vetting will take place in the same manner we're doing it now, we'll go forward. >> reporter: and more on yet another diplomatic dust-up with a u.s. ally. after the mexican president canceled their in-person meeting, cnn is learn...

They have their own agenda. or the administration doesn't necessarily have a problem with the contents of the call and people knowing, as jeff said, this is a tough talking president. this call, in fact, sounds exactly like hat the president said he would do. it could be that they're just sensitive to the blowback and the criticism and because of that, i just can't totally make up my mind that they're necessarily that upset with how it went. they might just be sensitive to the criticism, and they may not have been prepared. i've often wondered if this president is prepared for the fact that al...

The president putting iran, quote, on notice. we at the same time are hearing about contentious conversations with america's allies, australia and mexico. what does all this mean for the future of america's foreign policy. let's get to "the bottom line" with former obama adviser david axelrod. what do you see here happening with foreign policy? >> look, i think we have to separate the discussion into two categories. one is politics and the other is protocol and policy. in terms of the politics, you know i bet you that these contentious statements, conversations, this bellicose approach to fore...

>> that's right. a rather contentious call and at times even hostile. president trump, it only lasted about 25 minutes. they aukd about the refugee plan. trump felt very strongly that that was a bad deal, it would hurt him politically in the united states. more importantly in his mind, it would be a threat to u.s. national security. he even drew a comparison to the boston marathon bombing telling the prime minister of australia he doesn't want australia exporting, quote, the next boston marathon bmers. >> philip, you have a scoop, a source who explained all this. were you able to get any sense...

The jobless rate to 7.9%. we're seeing mixed basically reports we're looking at for the u.s. economy in terms of jobs. we're seeing a 41% rise in layoffs being reported by challenger, gray and christmas. you know a lot of people on wall street like to look at challenger, gray & christmas because, basically shows trends in large company hiring and firing trends. so you're seeing a tick down. 9,000 less jobless claims. but then, layoffs too, still on the rise. and that is very stubbornly and also confusing adp revision, knocking out, 341,000 jobs since the beginning of the year, jenna. jenna: th...