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>> the impact on the cost of a car will be about 1 and a half of 1% to 3 quarters of 1%, depending on the price of the car itself. the impact on a can of beer will be a fraction of 1%, the important fact is how trivial these amounts are relative to their business. thats the proper measure. >> white house officials say the policy changes could come in the next two weeks and while theres much focus on china and the eu, will cover canada, méxico, south korea and japan, heather. heather: griff jenk...

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Would be a major understatement. todays new charges, manafort is now facing potential jail time for allegations ranging from conspiracy against the u.s. to money laundering to acting as an unregistered foreign agent, to false statements. and now, obstruction of justice. not to mention, mueller has already secured a plea deal with manaforts top deputy on the trump campaign, rick gates. as mueller again turns up the heat on manafort to potentially get him to flip against the president, the preside...

Headquarters here in new york. day 413 of the trump administration. just a few hours ago we learned that north koreas leader, kim jong-un, has invited president trump to meet about its nuclear program and the president has accepted. this is a giant gamble that takes both countries and their leaders into uncharted diplomatic territory, and thats an understatement. andrea mitchell and bill richardson both standing by to talk with us a bit later on in the broadcast. but we begin with new insight in...

Aggression. >> jonathan swan, what do you know from your reporting about the presidents mood kind of behind the scenes in all of this? >> people -- his mood is variable. thats like a vast understatement. people say, you know, hes fuming and -- often hes just watching tv, like often its him in real-time tweeting from tv. last week, he was positively giddy. he had been on the rampage with the north koreans where he told john kelly to shove it with his organizational principles, it was trumps white...

Question about this part of the investigation is, is this a good faith effort by congress to determine whether there was some unfairness in the fbis investigation of the trump campaign? or, is this simply a political exercise to defend the president? thats -- those are sort of the two poles of views here. if you have the white house chief of staff and the white house lawyer in charge of defending the president at this briefing, it sure suggests that this is much more of a political effort to def...

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Presidents tweet. >> what im trying to say in a measured way, from the rest of the worlds perspective they are getting a really good deal from america running big trade surpluses with us. all we are asking for is fair and reciprocal trade. in this case, i hope our allies understand - - >>chris: to call you a trade hardliner is an understatement. in 2011 you wrote a book called, death by china that you then made into a documentary. heres a trailer for that documentary that shows a knife represent...

Quote, 100% safe. still, friends and advisers who have spoken with the president in recent days describe him as full of swagger and eager to make other big changes. depending on the day or the hour, others said to be on the bubble include the attorney general and the secretaries of housing and veterans affairs. remember, it took months for the president to actually fire rex tillerson as secretary of state. presidential rants often did not translate into immediate actions. but they did translate ...

Like, [bleep]. i guess mine just has lot more yarn on edge. yeah. it should have done more research before you got me to do this. >> laura: thats an understatement. the choice of an aspirational comedian like wolf, with one hbo special, i guess, a few writing gigs to her credit, tells us a lot about the correspondence association. to some of those who cover the white house, lets face it, we know it, are brimming with hatrd of this president and all that he represents. lets face it, he embarrasse...