A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. That and 300 billion after that. Basically the entire u. S. Trade relationship with china. Initially on the next tranche of 200 billion, the president was thinking about Levying Attacks of 10 . This afternoon were going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25 . The belief here among his trading Economic Team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. Listen to what Sarah Huckabee sanders. The president has made some head way the e. U. In terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the Playing Field. Does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures . Wed like to see the Playing Field levelled. The president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said
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The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Order is, territory now. And i wonder if theyve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up postenron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. They seem to be leaning on a First Amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up hes being scrutinized for the way these fit together. What Rudy Giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. The Idea Obstruction by tweet. He said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. The thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. He says, this is a witch hunt. There was no collusion. He repeats that over and over again. The thing is that does the president rea
News coverage is provided. Pretty much even is a big deal and its actually a very interesting district, you have welloff Suburbs Of Columbus and you have places where i spent some time and its a former Industrial Power house thats on hard times right now, the average income there is about half of what it is in the rest of america, so, you know, its reliably republican district with a lot of people that have different concerns and, yeah, the republicans are very worried right now and his Approval Rating in this district is 46 approved, 49 disapprove and, of course, as you know, midterms are often a referendum on the president and so its a very tight race and i think republicans are very nervous because this is the last special election before the midterms and so everybody in the country is watching this race to figure out prediction of what will happen come november. Is it risky for the president to go in there, what if the republican loses, will people be eager in washington to blame t
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States. So theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. At least one republican was willing to speak candidly about the reaction among many lawmakers in the capital. Every morning we wake up, he tweets something, and were supposed to respond to his tweet. Mueller is going to finish his investigation and the truth will come out. Our leadopen panel, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Jill colvin, White House Reporter for the associated press. John heilemann, coauthor of game change. And harry litman, former u. S. Attorney, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General under president clinton. Good evening, all. Peter, i would like to read you what sally y
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Reportedly thats not what most upset the president. Instead, manaforts python and ostrich jackets are stealing the show this week, people close to trump tell cnn thats the thing that frustrates the president , david. So what do we suppose is going through the mind of the president right now . Good morning, fred. The president is feeling that pressure and of course would be irritated by all of these descriptions of manaforts lavish lifestyle. Im in line with what laura said, the table was set by the accountant, Laying Out In Flush Times Manafort had all of this money coming from kremlin linked president and was hiding money from the irs or was alleged to have been hiding money from the irs, and then the accountant laid out that allegedly in lean times he was essentially inflating his worth and income so that he could get money from banks to further his lifestyle or further the image that he was
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