Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence
Andrea, it is great to see you, congratulations on 40 amazing years. It is great to work with you. Thank you. Good afternoon to all of you, i am kasie hunt in today for craig melvin. Stop this. The president tells is Attorney General to end the russia investigation in a string of tweets on the same day his form er campaign chairmans trail. The Press Briefing should start in about 15 minutes. Well see how they respond to questions about this. Plus, russian influence, hearing on capitol hill reveals russias push to sway American Voters went deeper than we thought. We all these talks, when do we see action to stop it . Off message, the president says you need to buy an id to buy
groceries the day after his administration floats the idea of a huge tax cut for the rich. We start with President Trumps twofold twitter attacks today demanding his Attorney General end the Special Counsel investigation. He defended the target of one of the biggest Indictment Results in that probe. Former Campaig
guys are creating alternative information universe where people can go and therefore ignore all of the damaging facts about donald trump s misdeeds and abuses of power. and it s harder than pull them out. that issue here as well is the coziness of this group apparently has with the president of the united states. want to play a quick bit of tape here. sarah huckabee sanders asked about the group in tampa. let s take a listen to what she had to say. president condemns and denounces any group that would insight violence against another individual and, certainly, doesn t support groups that would promote that type of behavior. i haven t checked this, but the statement seems to read chapterer and verse after what we heard after charlottesville a year ago. sentence about violence and groups like this one as she puts it. there s been a run on caps and tin hats as well. what about the normalization of this. look, as evan and jeff said,
admonish them, the president of the united states has encouraged them, even retweeted some of the video out to his millions of followers. and if you think anyone in the white houses that courage or conviction to criticize what the president is encouraging, you would be mistaken. here is sarah sanders generically condemning violence, something that did not happen last night, thankfully, but saying what did actually happen. the president condemns and denounces any group that would insight violence against another individual, and certainly doesn t support groups that would promote that type of behavior. so she was trying to steer the conversation towards far right conspiracy groups like qanon, which we ll talk about more. and even then as you ll see, she lumped them together with the press, suggesting there is some kind of equivalence between the two. in fact, there was another reporter in the briefing pointed out, that s not the issue. at issue, at least not for now it s not the issu
white house has the courage or conviction to criticize what the president is encouraging, you would be mistaken. here is sarah sanders generically condemning violence, something that, of course, did not happen last night, thankfully, but saying nothing about what actually did happen. the president condemns and denounces any group that would insight violence against another individual, and certainly doesn t support groups that would promote that type of behavior. so, she was trying to steer the conversation towards far-right conspirery groups like qanon, which we ll talk more about. and even then, as you ll see, she lumped them together with the press, suggesting there was some kind of equivalence between the two. in fact, there was another reporter in the briefing pointed out, that s not the issue. at issue at least for now. it s not the issue. the issue at hand is the kind of open display of rage last night that the president is encouraging in rallies and on twitter. now here is