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Vice president, with ront lighthizer and with the mexican foreign minister. they are tamping down expectations saying they don't expect a big deal but they want u.s. officials to relay how serious the president is about imposing tariffs but at the same time you see officials create space to back off this threat. which is namely that they haven't been able to explain to lawmakers how they would move forward and they've essentially not given any guidelines so mexico could do something and the white house could say that is enough for them to do this. but of course this is all going to come down t...

Border may not be so necessary after all. can you explain what is going on? >> reporter: that would be peter navarro, one of the president's trade advisers one of the chief officials pushing this idea on the president saying that it would get mexico's attention. now today just days before the deadline for the tariffs to go into effect on monday, it is coming on, this is what peter navarro is saying now. >> right now the mexican government makes money off illegal immigration. after the tariffs are put in place the mexican government will pair t-- will bear the coss of that. we believe the tarif...