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I'll also talk to her about the big week ahead on the investigations of donald trump on capitol hill and at the end of the show, the story behind this extraordinary video. a near collision between ships from russia and the united states. our guest tonight at the end of the show says this, what you're looking at, was no accident. it's deliberate. is russia testing president trump? but first tonight, the president has announced an agreement with mexico following days of growing pressure everybody congressional republicans, major corporations and state governments to not impose tariffs on mexican...

Immigration coming from mexico and into the united states." tonight, the state department released the broad outlines of the agreement including that "mexico will take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular migration to deploy the national guard throughout mexico giving priority to its southern border." those crossing the u.s. southern border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to mexico where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims. in response, mexico will authorize the entrance of all those individuals for humanitarian reasons in compliance with its...

The president had to meet that deadline because he understood he wasn't going to get support from his republican colleagues. that said if what is on this paper that the state department has put out that mexico is going to hold asylum seekers in mexico and they're going to deploy troops got mala, the president can start to translate that into something. >> no, he can't. those are both nonsense things. i would encourage the press to really look at these things. under u.s. law, asylum seekers cannot be held in a foreign country. we have an obligation to hold them here. it's already been an jutd i...

Migrants if not more crossed the border last month alone. ali, that was a 12th-year high. that's why there was so much concern according to the white house and why they were making the case this was a recrisis and why president trump was moving to do something. again, he was getting a lot of pressure everybody his own party essentially saying look, we might move to pass legislation to block you. that had have been a huge rebuke to this republican president. so he was under pressure himself, ali, to try to get this deal. and what the u.s. negotiators were saying is look, it's fantastic that mex...

But it may be a temporary one. they're going to keep talking and they're going to re-evaluate this in 90 days, ali. >> so there's twos elements as you said. the things the mexicans are going to do at the u.s. border including taking asylum seekers from the united states and having them wait while their hearing is underway. that's a fairly big departure. i don't understand the legality. then there's the other element in which mexico is going to be deploying members of its national guard including to its southern border where a lot of these migrants enter mexico. >> that's right. that's an impor...