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President Donald Trump warned Mexico on Thursday he was considering leveling car tariffs if officials failed to stop the flood of migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. “We need help from Mexico, if Mexico doesn’t give the help, that’s okay, we’re going to tariff their cars coming into the United States,” Trump said. The president commented on his ongoing efforts to pressure Mexico to help stop migrants from approaching the Southern border of the United States during a meeting at the White House about economic opportunity zones. Trump backed away from the possibility of closing the border, noting that Mexico...

If the polls are right, and McCain is in such trouble...why is he campaigning in Minnesota and Wisconsin...2 states that went fore Gore and Kerry and ones he doesn't need to win? Is his campaign that stupid or do they know something we don't? I find it hard to believe he would be spending precious time in states like this is he was in such dire straights but then again his campaign seems to be really all over the place in terms of sound decision making.

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.