helena humphrey, closely tracking this story. much support is there for the president's plan to impose tariffs on mexico come monday? helena: we've known for a long time that the president has the backing of the republican party on the issue of stemming migration. when it comes to his medicine to treat the perceived ailment i think it's fair to say there he runs into more problems, in the democratic camp and the republican camp namely, in that he is using an economic tool to treat a societal issue. republicans are concerned this could cost u.s. jobs. a study has estimated around 400,000 u.s. jobs could be set to go from this move. not to mention the fact that, at the end of the day, tariffs are taxes paid for by u.s. businesses and consumers. we can expect price increases on fruit, vegetables, crude oil, auto parts, and that is essentially the reason we are seeing the chairman of the house means and ways committee come out and say if these levees go ahead, he would issue a resolution of disapproval saying this is abuse of power be

east expert there at the bottom by talking with us earlier i'm joined now by our correspondent helena humphrey in washington good evening to you the u.s. secretary of state just spoke about these attacks let's take a listen to what he said it is the assessment of the united states government that the islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman today. this is the estimate is based on intelligence the weapons used the level of expertise needed to execute the operation recent similar raining attacks on shipping and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. sounds very confident in putting the blame on iran let's flesh this out a little bit. what is he basing his accusations all. current we can boil this down to 2 factors essentially my pompei was pointing out the past behavior and modus operandi he was saying that this was due to televisions that he had obtained as well as the kind of weapons used it was almost a back handed compliment saying those weapons wer