Are constantly changing and things are at a stalemate. By dinner time, negotiators will continue to talk in bea beijing china in the coming weeks. Those tariffs went from 10 to 25 on 200 billion in chinese goods and leland mentioned there, you see some on the screen. These are some of the goods affected. A couple of hours ago, President Donald Trump took to twitter to calm the fears of americans. Easy way to avoid tariffs make your goods or products in the good old us of a. Some are watching this closely. Its possible the United States is not finished with china yet. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer who was negotiating with the chinese put out a statement, the president also ordered us to begin process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from china which are valued at approximately 300 billion, end quote. On friday after just a few short hours of talk. Leo was spotted at the Willard Hotel having touch, the chinese env envoy. He says the talks with continue and
To say the tariffs would be suspended indefinitely and just from the last couple of hours and then to immediately and large quantities of Agricultural Products and to get into the specifics of this deal from mexico deploying 6000 troops to the southern border waiting for the american asylum process instead of the United States. And also stopping Human Trafficking and smuggling organizations to take more actions although they did not specify those actions last night the foreign minister said they got the better end of the deal. I think it is a fair balance because they have more drastic measures. Will the plan work that not to expect this administration get to involve the treasury secretary says that they do not hold up to their end of the bargain expect those tariffs to be back on the table now the secretary is in japan ahead of the g 20 summit ahead of the month in china is expected to be there and the United States and before all the talk of the mexican tariffs there were the chinese
The president firing off a slew of tweets, and he seemed to be fired up over the inquiry launch. This is one of the tweets getting a lot of attention this morning. The president said, quote, can you imagine if these donothing democrat savages, people like nadler, schiff, aoc plus 3 had a Republican Party had done to obama what the donothings are doing to me. Oh, well, maybe next time. And the strong words on capitol hill after they announced theyre moving forward with the inquiry into the phone call back in july and if the president acted improperly asking the ukraine to investigate joe biden and his familys ties with ukraine. The president insisted he did nothing wrong, but hes not thrilled that the conversation with the president of ukraine leaked into the community after the whistleblower raised questions on the call. I want to know who the person that gave the whistleblower the information, thats close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right,
Afternoon to you. Welcome to news headquarters in washington. Via molly. Great to be with you today. At the mall or investigation reportedly nears its end, the House Judiciary Committee taken its first steps towards investigating obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power in the Trump Administration. Garrett tenney joins us with the latest on all this. Theres a lot of questions surrounding the mueller report. How much of it will be public. Democrats are launching their own investigation to lay the groundwork for impeaching President Trump. They are issuing document requests. 60 people from the white house, Justice Department and the Trump Organization as well as the trump family. An abc this week, jerry nadler says at this point they are a long ways from impeachment, but he made it clear they are hoping to find enough evidence to get there. Before you impeach somebody come you have to persuade the American Public about to happen. You have to persuade the Opposition Party vot
It is difficult to make a call on a possible recession was given the overall strength of the us economy, it is to see a slide in that direction. All that said we have to be honest about possible economic head wents. We consider some of the things we saw last week. And, and there will position to post the deal on china. No other president before him has demanded it. Others allow china to freely loot the us economy 500 billion a year, not million, billion with would be, we have made it clear that the best of american jobs and american wealth is over. That was certainly an applause line. The unrest in hong kong that and well and is random and continued missile testing from north korea, uncertainty over the hard brexit, all of that continues to roil global markets, the white house remains utterly convinced that right now the us is in the most incredible position from a global perspective to keep a stronger economy not just now but into the 2020 election cycle and beyond. Dont forget this w