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The u.s. and mexico have reached a deal to avoid the threat of tariffs on mexican goods. now some republican lawmakers were concerned saying that the move could ultimately lead to higher prices for american businesses as well as the mexican economy. joining me now to discuss is gop congressman ted yoho of florida who supported the tariffs and i expect supports the deal that has been crafted overnight. congressman, welcome back. >> thanks, victor. i look forward to talking to you. >> certainly. let's do that now. so let's start here with this deal. the deal really is a means to an end, right. t...

Signature. so why would you want to do that? >> because the problem, like i said, we're at over 140,000 people coming into this country. how long are you going to let something go on without bringing resolution. so i think the tariffs were a way to go, and yeah, there would be pain on both sides. but if we stay the way we are, our country is going to be overrun and we know our facilities can't handle the people coming in and we don't have enough judges so something had to be done drastically. and again this goes back to the inaction of congress over the last 36 years and so we stood with the p...

O'rourke's unsuccessful senate run nonetheless he made a strong showing. biden for now is the front-runner. i don't think these polls show as much about biden as a growing democratic electorate in texas which had seen such a red state, it would be hard to imagine it turning blue ever. so my analysis is more there iss is -- there is in roads democrats are making and i'm not sure it is for biden only or if other democrats, if they turn out to be stronger than biden could reap that reward too. >> i want to ask you about the tariffs here because we have this agreement on the table now between the ...

And mexico commit to a mexican enforcement surge, mexico will take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular immigration to include the deployment of national guard throughout mexico, given priority to its southern border,mexico is also taking the attempt to dismantle human smuggles and trafficking organizations as well as illicit financial and transportation networks. >> now many republicans on capitol hill had expressed concerns about the president's threat and afraid this could hurt american businesses, that it could koflt u.s. consumers. they had sought a delay in the t...

Heroin comes directly out of mexico. mexico's growing over 73,000 acres of opium and this comes directly into our country. so if we're going to be good trading partners and they want a strong america, they need to come to the table to help get some of the things under control. it is just as much their responsibility as ours and i stand with president trump and if they don't follow through with this, i think the president will follow through with the tariffs and i'll support him. >> let's switch to one other topic before we wrap up. this week the administration declassified details of this russ...