"Regarding the threat of tariffs, (the) President believes that the border issue, the border security, the wall, the breakdown in immigration are very important issues -- including the drug trafficking. So he is saying, if need be, he may have to take the emergency steps to deal with that. He's just issuing a warning, and if you know this President as I do, you better listen to him," Kudlow told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." The threat from Trump came last week after he walked back his threat to close the US-Mexico border in an effort to quell immigration into the US. The ratification of the deal could be undermined by the tariff threat, which Kudlow said was Trump "just making a very strong statement."

Source: CNN April 07, 2019 14:33 UTC