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Done until this occurred. even if the times is accurate and they probably are in saying a number of the things we are committed to by the administration and by the mexican government, nothing yet was final. how about this analysis? if today we woke up and the tariffs were being imposed, i think most would be saying his negotiation tactic failed. the reverse needs to be true. >> i was working friday night and the coverage was will the president get what he really wanted which was the safe third country agreement which would be that you are required to declare asylum in the country you go to fir...

Number one. number two, i do think this last week underscores the complete lack of anything like a normal policy process. the president announced this trade war and threat against mexico in a tweet right before he left for a week long european vacation essentially, cavorting with the queen of england, speaking at a commemorative ceremony in normandy. and his only standards for this trade war and what mexico can do to avert it was he said they should stop all illegal immigration and illegal drugs coming into the united states. well, that's not exactly a very rational demand. >> yeah. >> so, you...

Speaking at a commemorative ceremony in normandy. and his only standards for this trade war and what mexico can do to avert it was he said they should stop all illegal immigration and illegal drugs coming into the united states. well, that's not exactly a very rational demand. >> yeah. >> so, you know, the whole thing was sort of a theater. >> i've got to ask you, while we have you, the truth about trump, michael d'antonio, was this bluffing, tough negotiation tactic, was it the art of the deal, what are we seeing here? >> first of all, there is no art of the deal. donald trump is notoriously ...

Increment of 5% i think they think it could be very costly. >> and senate republicans have gone out on a limb, republicans in congress in general, for the president on tariffs under -- under the pretense that this is a negotiation tactic. that seems to be what the white house message has been on this for the last two years, and so to see them now being asked or being demanded of them to defend tariffs as an immigration strategy, it really is -- is a bridge too far. i talked to a republican strategist from south carolina who said between this, the chinese tariffs, if these tariffs are still in ...

Policy. it also may be that some of this is faint and negotiation tactic. is there a good cop bad cop situation going on in which he has no problem with john bolton going out there and saying tougher things while he the president pulls it back a little bit. he once tweeted not long ago it keeps everybody confused. people are confused about american foreign policy. he thought it was a good thing because he likes being unpredictable. foreign policy officials don't like unpredictableability. they like certainty. that's not what they're getting in this administration. that's the challenge for both...