This is not a chill friday. there s meetings going on, there s behind the scenes work to rewrite a bill but the president torched the whole thing today. reporter: it s sort of a weekend at bernie s situation here with republican leadership trying very much to make sure this bill at least looks still alive. it is unclear how alive it actually is after the president s tweets this morning. although i ll tell you, i just talked to the majority leader kevin mccarthy who said they re going to have a vote next week. he doesn t think the president s tweet was damaging to anyone except democrats he says because it shows that democrats are not willing to work with republicans on that. democrats in my twitter feed are already loudly objecting to that as they should be because they have been trying to be involved in this process, as we know. but the fate of this bill has been whip signed back and forth. if you d asked me this time yesterday i would have said that both of these immigration bills were going to go down to a noble defeat i think is how republican leaders would look at it. they knew they didn t have the votes yet. last night they had a two-hour meeting to try to see if this republican only compromise bill could be sweet ebbed in sucheney
Comeback rating. but after she was fired from the racist tweet, the president avoid criticizing his long time supporter. and let s talk about immigration. president trump s repreet treat on family separations came from not just political but personal pressure part of it from his wife who traveled to the border yesterday to take a look herself at the conditions and living conditions of these migrant kids. she called for them to be reunited with their parents. i m here to learn about your facility and i also like to ask you how i can help to these dhoi children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible. we don t often see the first lady weighed in west wing policies publicly but he acknowledges the influence of melania and eanca trump have tried to sway her dad.
Cars shipped to the u.s. the stock market was listening. car makers, bmw, chrysler, general motors, stocks are dropping quickly now after that threat. this is donald trump getting on twitter saying something that is moving markets. this is what trade wars look like. this is what happens when you have retaliatory back and forths over products that are getting sold. this is something that republicans have been kedeeply concerned about. banging the drum about the fears they had about tariffs for months and months saying they support trump almost all the time but not on this. when we show the big board, the stock market is fine. the dow is up about 120. we re talking specifically about these car maker stocks. considering the president is threatening that tariff now on european cars coming in. absolutely. i think he has to stop and think about how this could directly impact the people who voted for him. there s an idea that only affects people in europe. there are more of those car companies actually made in the
That could get across the finish line. here s some of the folks we talked to. very constructive dialogue and suggestions and so i feel pretty optimistic about where we re headed. oreverybody s trying to come together as a team so we can get to 2018 and get this across the finish zblien everybody wants to solve this problem. i think when we get it didn t you president s going to even like the new bill better than this bill. reporter: the bottom line problem here is if you re a conservative member of congress who wanted the president s backing to support this bill, with him now saying let s wait until we get more republicans in congress, question do something strong, he it s hard to see what their motivation is to support this bill as it sort of limps into next week. but the other thing mccarthy told me is he thinks the house needs to show that it can do something. can a republican-controlled house pass literally anything on immigration? next week will be the point where we find out.
Unclear who you it wiu unclear how it will be implemented. it seems like families will still be separated. let s talk through how we got to this moment, because that affects every single one of those families. we put together kind of a timeline since the president signed that executive order what we have heard from various government agencies and officials. because on wednesday he signed this executive action. that evening, health and human services walked back comments that there would be no grandfathering of cases saying reunification is the goal. then thursday they retracted a statement saying it would dismiss criminal cases for these immigrants after initially saying it would. in that same story they said zero tolerance was still in effect. and this morning homeland security said about 500 kids have been reunited. senator kennedy has sort of called this a hot mess. at that point how does the administration, what do they need to do, liz, to help families figure this out? i think first they need to stop prosecuting asylum seekers who are crossing the border.
reminder, like capitol hill 101, republicans control congress there is obviously a problem that they have had before since they ve taken control of congress with trying to get bills across the finish line, although they ve had success on other things like the tax bill. mike kauffman has come out republican calling on the president to fire steven miller who has been a big advocate of this more hardline immigration push from donald trump since the campaign. is that gaining any traction inside gop circles or is that just mike kauffman, mike kauffmaning? ? reporter: that s an all politics local situation. he s in a competitive re-election in colorado. most house republicans here don t want to have anything to do with telling the president who should or should not be in his cabinet or inner circle. you see that on the scott pruitt kase case for example, it s not a fight most of these folks are willing to have. garrett haake, thank you very much. i appreciate if the. as all of that plays out on capitol hill, there s still a stepping up of enforcement along the border.
Into this administration is really low, and to hear so many people recently in this week chant lock her up and bring up hillary clinton s e-mails at a recent trump rally when it could be there are people in the current administration behaving similarly and not being addressed is fascinating. betsy? ? it s rich. it s interesting the e-mail stories keep coming back. the epa says pruitt mainly holds discussions in person or over the phone. that s their explanation. we also want to note something else we re following into our news room now. big changes in the stock market. that s because of a trump tweet. the president tweeted just a little bit ago based on tariffs and trade barriers long placed on the u.s. and great companies and workers by the european union. if the tariffs and barriers are not soon broken and removed we ll place a 20% tariff on all
Deterrence is also a success in our book. so, hallie, you saw how matter of fact that was. and it s scary and fascinating to me when i experienced it cat and mouse game between the border patrol and these smugglers. and at the very heart of everything are these desperate families, the children, the mothers trying to cross over and being extorted by these people. the going rate for a central american trying to cross over, they pay these smugglers hallie an average of $15,000 per person. small fortune for these mothers, no doubt. no doubt indeed. thank you. let s get back up here to washington to nb s geoff bennett over at the white house. the president support, he s tweeting this morning, he s been on a tweet storm about a bunch of things, telling congress to forget the whole thing casting doubt on what he s called some of the phony stories, seizing on this image that we ll talk about more in a second with our panel here of a little girl crying, the one on the occur of time
We still have no clarity on what, if anything, motivated the first lady to wear that army-style jacket with the words on the back you see there, i really don t care, do you? the first lady s team insisting that there was no behind message, although it s hard to see how a wardrobe choice like that could be anything other than intentional, hallie. so, as you mentioned, the president is still tweeting about immigration. we expect to hear from him at 2-30 eastern at an event for so-called angel families. those are families who lost loved ones due to sfriens viole an undocumented immigrant. let me bring in elizabeth will lace with the asylum seeker advocacy project along with eugene scott and betsy woodruff. let me stick with the white house and washington where geoff left off because in just the last little bit you ve seen tweets from both press secretary sara sanders and president trump that seem to relate to this. a border patrol agent who is out this morning talking about that
To encourage the well-being of children. she s focussed on her fight against cyber bullying which critics have noted seems to be at odds with the comments and i sults her huss husband has delivered online. but this is her husband s policy and she said according to her office 100% i m going down, it s my decision, i m telling you i m going, and you can either back me or not. right. we have this tremendous optics blunder yesterday or this message that she was sending with the jacket that she was wearing. and i think there was a lot of disconnect between the white house and the president, as there typically is. they don t meent stapame thing they did in preef administrations. people are saying it s her jacket, she had a hash tag for it. and then the president was saying it s a deliberate message about the, quote, fake news media. but the white house would rather be picking a fight with the media than addressing questions and look at the political strategy, addressing questions on where these kids