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$1300. tom foreman, cnn, washington. let s get some perspective now on both of these trade disputes. political analyst james boyce joins us from london. good to have you with us, james. good morning, george. the white house is leaning in on the use of tariffs as a weapon aimed at motivating china, motivating mexico, certainly mexico on the issue of illegal immigration. the president s team is saying it puts the ball now in mexico s court. listen. one of the biggest things they can do is repatriation of the thousands of people coming from central america, they can return them back home, they can stop these massive caravans from coming through their country into ours. that would be a very big first step. certainly we ve made some progress on the asylum, but we need to do a lot more on that front. we re hopeful they will do that. the question of tariffs as the magic bullet, james, does it ....
Here s sarah sanders earlier today. one of the biggest things they can do, the repatriation of thousands of people coming from central america. return them back home. that would be a very big first step. we ve made some process on the asylum but we need to do more. mexico s foreign minister is in route to the u.s. traveling to washington d.c. it remains entirely unclear at this hour when he gets here to washington, who exactly he might meet with and when. for mexico s president, he made comments earlier today. he did not back down from president trump saying the america first slogan is a fallacy and he says mexico will not be provoked. shepard: lots of critics, huh? there are. that includes critics just across is the street here from the white house. the u.s. chamber of commerce, one of the big pro business groups here in washington d.c., they said today when we spoke with a couple of its representatives that they are ....
So the cross currents on this are fascinating. democrats who don t think it goes far enough and you have big divisions within the republican party. you have a libertarian wing that supports it. the koch brothers, as well. they re in favor of it. yeah. you also have the traditional tough on crime republicans, which trump has also everyone, stick around. we have some breaking news in the money lead now with huge consequences for the world s economy. british prime minister theresa may just secured a deal with her cabinet on brexit. the plan for the uk to get out of the european union. let s go to cnn s bianca knnobi in london. tell us about this step. reporter: it s a decisive ten forward today, jake, almost 900 days after the european kingdom voted to leave, they voted. this was no easy feat for the prime minister who herself is under constant speculation about whether or not she ll remain in post. she s in a very weak position as prime minister. but today she claimed victo ....
Hasn t been done in many, many years. and it s the right thing to do. it s the right thing to do. thank you all very much. thank you. very much. [ applause ] all right. that s president trump talking about a criminal justice reform bill, the first step act, which he is calling for congress to come together and pass in a bipartisan way. one of the first moments of bipartisan expression that we ve heard since president trump and the republican party did so poorly in the midterm election. let s take a brief moment to talk about what this legislation is. this is not a grand, sweeping reform of the criminal justice system, as people like van jones, for example, have been pushing for. what does this bill do? this is prison reform. so the first step act is an act that passed the house of representatives earlier this year, and has been stalled in the senate. it doesn t deal broadly with sentencing which is why 57 democrats voted against it. they said it did not go far ....
Enough. sentencing issues in this country how you get to jail is just as important as how you get out of jail. what this bill does do is mandate the attorney general to create an assessment tool to assess recidivism, the potential recidivism rate of potential prisoner going into jail and creating a program and reassessment so folks can get out of jail earlier and it can be a rehabilitative process that we are not just warehousing disproportionately, if we re being frank, black and brown people in america. the name is out there. first step act. this is a great first step. the president has to thread the needle here. the members of congress do. as simone points out, doesn t pass, the democrats think it doesn t go far enough. republicans are very suspicious. so you kind of have to run through the raindrops without getting wet on this. by all accounts, it s something that should be done. we ll see if the politicians get out of the way and get it done. and why now? well, a couple of ....