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And steel. we deal with an oversupply, a glut of supply from china through unfair trade practices and weve been working country by country working to try to address these concerns in a different way. >> jon: if china is the problem, why slap tariffs on canadian and mexican steel? >> because they depreciate prices through their glut of the worldwide supply and they are increasingly taking over the global supply in a predator manner. so the presidents actions are about protecting american steel an...

Dow futures now up about 100 points. a lot of questions on the chinese tariffs. will they happen or not? whats the white house saying this morning? >> the dow may have turned around yesterday by the new chief economic investor kudlow. the stock market has been all over the place. the white house has been getting criticism and praise for the intention to slap tariffs on $60 billion of chinese goods. china yesterday announced it would implement its own retaliatory tariffs in american goods, most o...

Gave to president obama which allows the president to do things like this, slap tariffs on things if they want to. they technically could take that away. he said republicans voting against the president, theres probably zero chance that would happen. >> this letter is the equivalent of a sad face emoji. molly ball, josh dawsey, rachel bade, thank you. a secret meeting before the inauguration between russians and people with ties to president trump, was this away to establish a back channel wit...

Great on the remasume. it is a great place. it is tough. i like conflict. i like two people with two different points of yview. i like watching it. i like seeing it. i think it is the best way to go. >> reporter: despite the fact the president saying at the conference that everybody wants to work at the white house, apparently among the people who dont want to work at the white house is gary cohn because, wolf, he was in sharp disagreement with the president over the proposal to slap tariffs on ...

Rumblings that the president may tone down these tariffs and fwoenld this pressure and not slap tariffs on steel when it comes to canada because theyre involved in the negotiations. but whatever measures the president was thinking about toning down and softening, that would not be enough. to say that theres no chaos in the white house, thats a flat-out false statement. i has been chaotic week after chaotic week. the only thing that stands out is when there is no chaos. it happens so rarely. when...

They love the fact that hes, you know, cutting regulations, cutting taxes. although to a degree thats true of business global leaders. weve gone to 21% on the corporate rate. im sure some of them are feeling the heat to go low too. when gary talks about not america alone, i mean, its america alone to pull out of the climate accords. its america alone to withdraw from the tpp, the transpacific partnership and other asian nations moving along without us. its america alone to threaten to pull out o...

Donors who are on the team, a prominent investigator who attended hillary clintons intended victory party. and who sent a letter to sally jats ba yates backing her up with her decision earlier not defend one of his orders. so whether this is really damning statement for president trump, im not so sure given the other things that he is alleged to have said particularly to comey. but it certainly does felt with the bigger picture. >> as you said, the reporting from a sitdown between mueller and tr...

>> reporter: sources tell cnn trump is considering an executive action to impose up to a 10% tariff on imports to strengthen u.s. companies. critics warn it could spark a trade war. peter navarro, the man tapped to lead the trade council warned trump will crack down on countries that engage in unfair trading practices. >> donald trump doesnt want to slap tariffs on anybody. neither did ronald reagan. but if they cheat us, he will do that. >> reporter: top republicans like house speaker paul ryan...

Democratic senators to their right. announcing legislation to designate china a currency manipulator. slap tariffs on exports and ban companies receiving contracts. lead sponsor senator chuck schumer, the new york democrat, told reporters on a conference call that the chinese monetary policy is a boot on the throat of economic recovery and aimed comments at hu. >> we are fed up with your government intransigence on currency -- instransy jens on currency manipulation. >> to drive down the trade b...

Democratic senators to their right. announcing legislation to designate china a currency manipulator. slap tariffs on exports and ban companies receiving contracts. lead sponsor senator chuck schumer, the new york democrat, told reporters on a conference call that the chinese monetary policy is a boot on the throat of economic recovery and aimed comments at hu. >> we are fed up with your government intransigence on currency -- instransy jens on currency manipulation. >> to drive down the trade b...