Shift in how we approach trade. Nonetheless the market not too concerned, off, up 14 points. I want to go to blake burman at the white house with more on all of this. Reporter trish, let me explain to you what i think, what i think i heard there. That was president taking questions from the media who were inside this event with the president announcing the new tariffs that he has imposed. Normally what happens here, they play out the questions first, and then the broader thing that the president bucks about after that. I talks about after that. I believe it is eight minutes. Well hear more down the line. A couple of difficult stories, what you heard from the president there as it relates to the Mueller Investigation, department of justice officials confirming to fox, as you just heard from President Trump, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions had met last week with muellers team as part of the investigation into russia. What we can tell you is, the interview lasted for several hours. As the president said he is not concerned about what the attorney general told Robert Muellers team. He said he has not discussed it with sessions. This is important because this is now the first member within the president s cabinet who has spoken with Robert Muellers team. Second story you just heard from the president there, asked about Christopher Christopher wray, there was report by axios, that head of fbi Christopher Wray threatened to resign because there was pressure put on the fbi director andrew mccabe. The president said he did not threaten to resign of the president reiterated that, several different times. You have an event here at the white house with the president announcing new tariffs he enacted this involves with imported residential washing machines along with imported solar cells and modules, modules, rather. The bottom line on this is, the president has taken a hard work on imported products. This is now a year into his administration, something that he said he might do the and now we are hearing that these tariffs could be anywhere from 15 to upwards of 50 . One of the Companies Involved with this, whirlpool, had first filed their claim dating all the way back to 2011. So what you have pro the president look, we are getting tough on trade. Now you have the first tariffs signed by the president that are being enacted as he stepped ahead to davos. Oh by the way, this world forum, that often talks about globalization. A lot at the white house. Maybe we hear from the president down the line on the terrorist event, as it relates to the Mueller Investigation and tariffs, two big stories from the white house, trish. Trish i think so. You heard blake saying the headline coming out of the tape playback we showed you that the president is not concerned, not concerned what Jeff Sessions may or may not have told the special counsel. What is he supposed to say, right . He is not concerned. I guess thats the good answer there but i want to explore this a little more with republican congressman from wisconsin, sean did you duffy joining us. Hey, trish. Trish what is frustrating about the whole russia story, dribs and drabs, dribs and drabs, from what we see hasnt amounted to a whole lot. The special counsel thinking they will get anything newsworthy out of Jeff Sessions . The very nature of a special counsel you do get dribs and drabs. One of the last thing we have had, we had leaks out of every corner of the white house, doj, the fbi, and mueller team. There has been no leaks in regard to any colluding or cooperation donald trump had with the campaign with the russians. That is one thing we had for certain. I hope mullally quickly goes through interviews and exonerates the president and continue governing and the left stop attacking president on russia collusion which i dont think exists. Congressman, look at other side of the russian equation, we may have gotten played, our own fbi may have gotten played by vladmir putin, is mueller looking at that at all . I dont know what mueller is being look at. We know the facts, dnc and Hillary Clinton paid a law firm that hired fusion gps that hired Christopher Steele and went to russia to pay russians and dirt, scandalous material put in the dossier. How the fbi used that dossier well hopefully learn at some point in the future. We dont quite know this yet. This doesnt look good, trish. To your point, was russian information filtered through fusion gps to the fbi then start this whole russia investigation and special counsel . I dont know, but hopefully that information comes out. Those are facts that we should have, we should analyze as a people so we can look at, what does the doj and fbi doing . Are they playing politics and partisanship, if they are clean them out, get good people in there who will enforce the law, not weaponize the law against a Political Party or president ial candidate they dont like. Trish as long as youre doing an investigation you might as well investigate the whole thing. Let me ask you about peter strzok. The fbi agent removed from the russia probe discovery of all antitrump texts he sent this one to his girlfriend, fbi lawyer, lisa page, he admitted there was probably no russia collusion, there is no big there there. Here is the text for you. You and i, i quote, both know the odds are nothing. If i thought it was likely i would be there no question. I hesitated in part because of my gut sense and concern there is no big there there. Huh. He is admitting what a lot of people like yourself assumed there may not be any there there. I believe that text came out at the same time that the left was frothing at the mouth saying donald trump colluded with russia. Peter strzok and lisa page appeared from the texts weve seen so far were partisan hacks. These the ones they said they could smell a trump supporter in walmart. They despised donald trump. When they were confidentially speaking they recognized that donald trump there was no there there, no information to tie him to russia collusion. Then we still get this offshoot of an investigation from mueller, even when the top guy, strzok at the fbi is recognizing there is nothing there. That is how crazy this whole investigation is, and what a distraction it is. If youre donald trump in the oval office. You see all of these conversations and false stories against you got to get angry, you have to be frustrated because you know it is all bogus and political hacks manship instead after truthful, honest investigation into a potential collusion. Trump is one who knows i didnt collude with anybody, leave me alone. Stop the investigation. Let me get on to governing. Trish you might be frustrated but as an american citizen im worried. I dont like the idea that political hacks at the fbi are scheming trying to take down the person the American People sent to the white house. That seems to me the real crux of this issue. Wherein the danger lies. It is. You see people at highest level and doj and fbi involved in the Hillary Clinton investigation were prohillary and antitrump. They found their way into the russia investigation and Mueller Investigation, all incredibly troubling. Now the fbi comes out says five months of Text Messages between peter strzok and lisa page have gone missing. Trish yeah. The fbi is the best Law Enforcement agency in the world that ever existed. Do you really think they lost five months of Text Messages . Here is what i think happened, trish. We forced them, the House Intelligence Committee forced them to turn over documents per subpoena. It took them four months to turn them over. It wasnt until we threatened to hold them in contempt of congress they gave us this information. Now we have this information i think they believe they cant turn over those texts because it will so discredit and taint the fbi and doj, they would prefer to make the texts go away then let the public actually see them. That is how powerful i think those texts probably are. This is information i dont think you can hide. I think in the end ron johnson from wisconsin will be on this they will come to light. I think fbi will be embarass and collusion and cooperation from top level officials in the agency and bureau, cooperating and collusion to take down donald trump because they dont like his political views. This is same you politicize and weaponize Law Enforcement. Trish, we give them incredible power to keep us safe. We give them power to keep us safe. If they use that power against us or dulyelected president we have no know that as the American People and call for a wholesale change at leadership level of the bureau and the doj. Trish lots of questions still. Congressman duffy, thank you very. You too, trish. Trish everyone as blake reported earlier President Trump has slapped new tariffs on imports and washing machines and solar panels. 85 of our solar panels are imported by asia. The when it comes to washing machines, the top two importers are china and mexico. Some warn it will hurt consumers and drive prices up. It is all about putting america first, hiring more American Workers to make more american products. Here to debate the issue, conservative tom borelli, and jessica strategist jessica tarlov. Good to see you guys. Tom, historically a lot of conservatives are profree trade. Basically if you look at trade data going back to the 190s, americans started to see this shift and we got a shortened of the stick. The rust belt has a name for a reason. What President Trump is doing, keeping promises of american first agenda for forgotten men and women of the United States. This is not his first action. Remember he got our country out of the transpacific partnership. That was round one. That would have been another horrible huge trade deal. Now he is doing tariffs. He is putting actions behind words. That is what a real leader does. They match their word with action. Trish jessica, i think he is stealing your thunder. What are unions going to do now . If the president is saying no to tpp, he is saying no to the washers dryers coming from china or mexico. Maybe aluminum and steel next. Trish whole new way of thinking, is he going to scoop up all those voters that previously would have wanted the democrats to do this. Im not sure. I think well have to see how this plays out. I certainly believe this is the president fulfilling one of his promise. This was big talk on the campaign trail. He would get us better deals. Make sure we brought jobs home. The concerns as you pointed out when you introduced the segment about the cost to the consumer are incredibly important because we might have some more jobs but if people are paying a ton more for the products that will be a problem, even if they did get a few more dollars back. Trish i want to stop you there. People like low prices on their products. Trish we have really low prices. Super low prices. One of the reasons no inflation in this economy right now because the competition which againly is a good thing on amazon, for example, tom, is so stiff we have really seen consumer goods just plummet in terms of what the costs are. In some ways americans live a better standard of living. Let me ask you this. If for example, if this iphone was made in the United States of america, pick a state, i will go with kansas if they made it in kansas, and it cost 5,000, i will still need it, you are still going to need it, jessica will still need it, it will cost us a lot more money, but money americans may not have, here is the difference, that money is going to support a family in kansas where you have got parents going to work and they have the pride of work and theyre able to take care of their family. Guess what you and i dont have to foot the bill for the disability payments or the medicaid or the chip program or anything else that comes with a large percentage of people not working. With trade it is always the devil is in the details. These massive trade agreements were never really good for the American People, and this is what President Trump is doing. There is a good policy and obviously god politics behind this remember he won michigan, wisconsin, ohio. This is important for the American People. What we need to do for way too long, our country really was the punching bag of the world and President Trump said no. There is a new sheriff in town. Pay attention. This is just the first volley. I dont expect it be a huge trade war. He is sending a message to canada, to mexico, that i will have action. Trish well you know, look if there was going to be a trade war, i can tell you, jessica, the markets wouldnt really like it. Im looking at a market pretty much at the flat line. Testimonies you investors are not too worried. Do you think the trade war rhetoric is in here because he put a few tariffs on washing machines . It is signal to move in the big direction. China would be huge loser if we had a trade war with them. They are acutely aware of that. Doesnt mean like solar panels and whatever else President Trump would move on to. The market is responding to that but not just right now. He said he will roll out a lot of more proposals and executive order from this. We heard canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau with davos, they put together a new trade deal without us in the tpp well see how that pans out and if we get grade individual agreements with these countries. Your example 5,000dollars iphone out of kansas that would cost too much for americans. We would love it if we could have americanmade products for vast majority. Should work with other countries but 5,000 for an iphone. Trish im making 5,000 up. We could have inflation. Trish maybe 3,000. The point im making maybe we all scale back a little. Maybe we have a little less. Think about america in the 1950s and optimism existed and people had one car, one parent working and you had sort of this utopia version of the country that doesnt exist anymore because today, if youre lucky enough to have two parents and one household they may be both working. Kid may let themselves in at night. People have six tv snooze its a great thing to have women in the work place. Were sitting here, a fabulous time. Trish im not suggesting women not work. You know me. That is why im saying we know there have been advancing in society. Some of that is from twoparent households, twoparent working households. No one wants kids letting themselves in at night. We want to make sure we cover all the expenses. Trish sometimes we meandered off into the boonies here. The point being there was a time in this country when you could get a High School Education and get a good, darn job and take care of your family and go on a vacation once a year. Tom, those days are gone. Can they come back, and if were more protectionist, can they come back . President trump is leveling the playing field. He got the nights out of the climate paris accord which is huge. Well now be a Energy Export ir. He is unleashing development of natural resources. Those are not little retail jobs at minimum wage. These are great jobs, great wages and helps our National Security as well. Were exporting Liquified Natural Gas to poland that doesnt make the russians feel very comfortable. Trish i dont know the answers on this but i think its fascinating were talking about it in very different ways and it is important for americans we start to think about this in very proamerican ways. Tom, jessica, thank you so much. Thanks, trish. Trish the market off about 20 points. People dont seem too worried about some kind of trade war. Anyway theyre sort of hugging the flat line. See s p and nasdaq in positive territory, it is all coming on a day that jpmorgan came out with some very good news, kind of a bombshell here. Theyre saying because of tax reform the company will open up 400 new branches. They will boost wages and grow the Home Lending Division for low income consumers. We have details on Jpmorgan Chase and soon, hope to be booming economy, after this. Whoooo. 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