mr. robert lighthizer. and also the accompaniment and support we accept through jared kushner. and i also extend this recognition to the mexican teams . they are listening to you, they are close to you right now. the foreign minister and the secretary of the economy. [speaking in spanish] translator: and this supports the negotiations, it's been difficult and a very hard negotiation altogether with difficult moments of course. that truly technology now we have been able to reach an agreement which we are about to make public and this is the result of good understanding and good work. i'm quite hopeful that now canada will start accepting with the united states this sensitive bilateral issue. congratulations. grateful and i'm attentive to your comments. president trump: mr. president, thank you very much. you have been my friend has been a long time since i travel to mexico where we got to know each other quite well and we actually had a good meeting, some people weren't sure if it was a good meeting, but i was worried i have a lot of good meetings that a lot of people weren't s

mr. robert lighthizer. also, the support we have had from the white house through and i also extend this recognition to the mexican .eam they are listening to you and are close to you now. the foreign minister and the secretary of the economy minister. this has been a negotiation that has taken months. it has been a hard negotiation with difficult moments. nowledge the fact that we have been able to reach an agreement that we are about to make public and this is the result of good understanding and good work and i am hopeful that now canada will start discussing with the united states, sensitive bilateral issues. congratulations. grateful and i am attentive to your comments. pres. trump: mr. president, thank you. you have been my friend. it has been a long time since i traveled to mexico. we had a good meeting. some people were not sure but i was. time and thislong is something that is very special for our manufacturers and our farmers from both countries. it is great trade and it makes it a more fair bill

mr. robert lighthizer and also the accompaniment and the support we get through jared kushner.eam. they are listening to you. they are close to you right now. the foreign minister and secretary of the economy a negotiation that has taken months. it would be very hard negotiation altogether. i truly acknowledge now the track we've been able to reach an agreement, and we are about to make public, and this is the result of good understanding and good work. and i, of course, am quite hopeful that now canada will start discussing with the united states the bilateral issue. congratulations. i'm very grateful, and i attentive to your comments. >> well, mr. president, thank you very much. it's an honor. you've been my friend. it's been a long time since i traveled to mexico where we got to know each other quite well, and we had a good meeting. some people weren't sure if it was a good meeting, but i was. i have a lot of good meetings that people aren't sure if they're good or not. it's been a long time, and this is something that's very special for our manufacturers and for our farmers

mr. robert lighthizer. and also the accompaniment and support we get from the white house through jared kushner. and i also extend this recognition to the mexican team. we are listening to you. they are close to you now. the foreign minister and secretary of the economy. and this has of course been a negotiation that has taken months, it has been difficult, conflicts, a very hard negotiation all together but i truly acknowledge now that we have been able to reach an agreement that we are about to make public and this is the result of good understanding and good work. and i of course, i am quite hopeful that now canada will start discussing with the united states the sensitive bilateral issues congratulations. i am very grateful and i am attentive to your comments. >> mr. president, thank you very much it is an honor you have been my friend. it has been a long time since i traveled to mexico where we got to know each other quite well and actually had a good meeting, some people weren't sure it was a good mee

mr. robert lighthizer. finish.nd the support we get from the white house through jared kushner. [speaking spanish] >> translator: and i also extend this recognition to the mexican team -- [speaking spanish] >> translator: we are listening to you, they are close to you right now. [speaking spanish] >> translator: foreign minister and the secretary of the economy [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> translator: this has, of course, been a negotiation that has taken months. it's been difficult, public. it's a very hard negotiation altogether with difficult moments, of course. but i truly acknowledge now the fact that we've been able to reach an agreement that we are about to make public, and this is the result of good understanding and good work. and i, of course, i am quite hopeful that now canada will start discussing with the united states the bilateral issues. [speaking spanish] >> translator: congratulations. [speaking spanish] >> translator: i'm very grateful, and i am attentive to your comments. >> well, mr

robert lighthizer late yesterday joining us now to talk about this, robert holliman former deputy trade representative under the obama administration and president of cromwell and moring international like so many things, mrm the president and the administration about how great this deal with mexico is, and then critics say, i don't know, i've heard it likened to the north korean agreement, that it accomplishes very little or we won't know how much it accomplishes until later what does it accomplish, anything positive? >> well, it's encouraging that we've now come to a general agreement with mexico. what we've got to get now is to get canada to the table. really think of nafta as essentially elective surgery it was sort of a pacemaker, it's at the heart of our economic strength as a country. it needed to be updated. we've now gotten part of the work done. but the final work really comes in working out a deal with canada so that this truly is a north american deal. so the remaining elements have to be added. but now that we've gone down this path, it's good that we've gotten the framework of a deal on the table with mexico. >> is managed trade something that always benefits the countries involved that was