david brooks and jonathan capehart on robert muelleris breakingilence. much more. >> nawaz: president trump has lled himself "tariff man." he has said he "likes tariffs," and he's said he likes to use them. but even so, few knew what was coming last night when he issued a surprise threat to mexico, the u.s.'s largest trading partner. yamiche alcindor has the latest, and more on the president's plan has stirred up concern in this country, and in mexico. >> alcindor: immigration policy through trade tariffs. that's president trump's latestt idea t illegal immigration on the southern border with mexico. in a tweet late thursday, he announced that starting on june 10, the u.s. will impose a 5% tariff on all mexican imports. he said, "the tariff will gradually increase unt illegal immigration problem is remedied." today, at a news conference,ca mepresident andres manuel lopez obrador responded.ed >> ( transl ): we will not fall for any provocation. we will act prudently.wi we will ac respect for the authorities of the united states, with respect foren presdon

okay. >> stable genius, jonathan capehart. >> uh, yeah.o try to defend himself. through this whole thing there are two things that are consistent with the president. he is major projection artist. the things that he accuses other people of, you can see in him. >> don't go all freudian on me. >> sit a fridit is a friday. >> he is guilty of major projection. we're used to having bigger people in the oval office. presidents of the united states just because of the nature of the job as leader of the country, leader of the free world, they are supposed to be above petty things. what we have seen over the last two and a half years of the trump presidency is that there is nothing that is too low for him to comment on. whether it's the speaker of the house and her demeanor and her looks and everything or a private american citizen who is not involved directly in any kind of fight, he's going to go there. this is a president who has not risen or filled out what we have come to view as the presidency. this is also someone who always needs a foil as

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. -- jonathan capehart. welcome, jonathan. [applause] jonathan: i thought mark was going to introduce the other panelists. thank you for asking me to do this. it's ok. much, president for asking me to do this and thank you to the national urban league every year for focusing and putting a spotlight on the state of black america. it is particularly important this year to focus on the vote. president morial put it right when he issued a call to vladimir putin to keep his hands off our american democracy. and so, to help talk about this and what is happening, i think we know what is happening at a 40,000 foot level. to talk to people who are reporting on this in real time on the ground, i want to call up deborah berry who is a reporter based here in washington, a washington correspondent for usa today. [applause] jonathan: and, kira lerner, a reporter with the appeal. [applause] jonathan: i think you both heard, i believe it was president morial who said the vote to write is not a partisan issue. -- the right to vote is not a par

at hit the month taking press passes from "washington post" reporters like dana milbank and jonathan capeharte have been far smaller moves. and has donald trump grinded through five communications director and now derrelling he doesn't need one at all of he said he'll focus on interviews with friendly media outlets. 44 with fox news. under a dozen with all other net works combined. this isn't just about trump beefing with the press. this about the role, the very existence of a 47 press dealing with the white house. when you think about that dusty lectern, it is the latest sign of how the white house will do anything kit to dodge accountability and then see whether anyone notices. i am joined by pulitzer prize winning journalist, jonathan has figured into this story. good evening to you. >> hi. >> what does it mean that they've cut off these briefings almost entirely in 2019? >> it means that they don't want to be held accountable. look, the president's predecessors didn't have a good relationship with the press. they had a contentious relationship with the press. they respected the press and

>> i'm where nancy pelosi is, jonathan capehart is. we need to get the public to approve of what we want to do and i think what we need to do is have aggressive committee hearings and build a case. >> in the case of richard nixon, the hearings that did ultimately change the public's mind took place in the united states senate. what we call the watergate hearings. this united states senate is not going to do that. republicans are fixed in place for donald trump. nothing about the opinion moves have moved, no matter what new information comes out republicans are not changing their minds. do you understand the argument from a lot of democrats out there that democrats insisting that some magical thing is going to happen, some new piece of information is going to come out that's going to suddenly make republicans accept the idea that donald trump has committed wrongdoing is fanciful and that it doesn't make sense and it's just a way for democrats such as yourself to avoid impeaching this president. >> joy, i respect laurence tribe, i've hea