people who died last week during protests. israeli s defense minister is warning protests will be met with the same force. more demonstrations are planned this coming friday. tens of thousands of palestinians. we re keeping an eye on that situation there. the photographer for reuters. we d love to hear your thoughts online, on social media, and i ll see you tonight on nightly news, as we report out the latest from the white house. i m headed there now. it is a remarkably busy day. yet another one. ali velshi and stephanie ruhle. good morning to you. hallie, have a good rest of your morning. see you later today. i m ali velshi. i m stephanie ruhle. it is wednesday, april 4th. let s get started. [ bell ringing ] the dow is opening down almost 500 points. beijing struck back hard at the u.s. with tariffs on $50 billion worth of american goods. when you re $500 billion down, this isn t a war you can
we ll see if that s happening. okay. jeff mason? president trump is probably going to give a press conference on tuesday. we ll see if he gets asked some questions and finally answers about stormy daniels and other issues the last couple of weeks. alexei, how about you? i m told paul manafort s hearing for his virginia court case is happening wednesday, april 4th. and his legal team just filed a motion to dismiss those charges. we ll see that. is a big question. i think we re going to hear a lot more about roseanne barr s tweets. it s been bubbling up on social media. she has been a promoter of the peacegate conspiracy. and the one she tweeted over the weekend they call it the storm, which is even crazier and even more insane that pizzagate. i m watching too. i want to see what the ratings are week two. that was record shattering there the first time around. does that hold up? is there a drop-off there? and do we see the sort of geographic patterns that we were talking ab
police. why is that just par of the course everywhere? because that to me is simple that we saw it happen on the de dinkens administration, they re not strangers. they re not talking to strangers. they know who to talk to to deal with this situation. when are you in a situation where you feel like it s an occupied army coming in, which is your policeman that you are paying for, then you end up with these kind of situations. i think that police ought to be saying, do with need to do this, because it makes their job more difficult. i can t tell you the people in law enforcement, white and black that said i know what you are doing is right. it s the culture of policing. we bought the to change it. it will change if people are held accountable. that s what we will keep trying to do. wednesday, april 4th. it s a big day, there s a lot. it s a somber day a day to
good morning, everyone. it s wednesday, april 4th. i m gretchen carlson. hope you re going to have a great day. thanks so much for spending part of it with us. we have to start with a fox news alert. tornadoes tearing up one of the biggest cities in the country. tractor-trailers, look at that, blown around like toy cars. it s unlike anything you ve ever seen. holy moly! hopefully nobody hurt. rick reichmuth on the scene in texas for us with the latest. mitt romney sweeping his way to three primary victories last night. the dreamers can dream a little bigger. help wanted signs can get dusted off and put in the front yard and we can start again. this time, the conservatives
and this is starting point. take me to new york i d love to see l.a. that s a good way to start your morning. good morning, everybody. that on not on my play list. our panel this morning, ron brownste brownstein s with us, he s a cnn senior political analyst, editorial director at national journal, will cain is with us, he s a columnist for the blaze.com and ben jones joins us this morning former obama white house special adviser has written a new book called rebuild the dream. how is that for promoting your book? getting it out early. happy to help. happy to help. we re going to talk not only about the book but also your resignation from the obama cabinet, i want to hear all the inside scoop on that. first, though, we got to talk about the tornadoes, that was an amazing nearly four hours, absolute devastation there. yeah, my hometown and not far from my hometown. it was pretty scary to see. i had buddies calling me saying they had to evacuate buildings in