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and later, my conversation with senator kiersten gillibrand. but first we are following a wave of breaking news. rudy giuliani tells the new york times and nbc news robert mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by september 1st. so far we have not heard anything from the special counsel ourselves. robert costa from the washington post reports an important asterisk. that deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. at the same time, president trump ordering the justice department to investigate an if in fib informant who was used in the early stages of the russia probe. the president tweeting, quote, i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes. as for the president using the power of his office to intervene in an ongoing justice department investigation, maybe we shouldn t be too ....
reporter: that reassured wall street, but just hours later, president trump turned up the heat yet again, announcing $100 billion in additional tariffs against china. enter today, the treasury secretary there is the potential of a trade war. and let me just be clear, it is not a trade war. the president wants reciprocal trade. reporter: so, what now? well, just last month, the president himself said the united states had been treated so badly for so long on trade that, quote, trade wars are good and easy to win. does the president think that trade wars are easy to win? is that still his view? i think the president feels like if he is in charge of those negotiations, absolutely. and jon karl joins us from the white house tonight, and jon, the president s top economic adviser calls the tariffs just a proposed idea, but you re not hearing that kind of language from the president himself. reporter: well, tom, it is true that tariffs have not gone into effect yet. the p ....
planet. i mean physical and let s do business mother ella got out early and volatility italy s political stalemate is nearing three months it s driving financial markets mad they cheered on president said as he refused to appoint a euro skeptic the finance minister but he named an economist carlo caught early to lead the country until you were lections that could take a while there was relief among traders in milan when markets opened their leading italian share index left by one point eight percent the euro saw an upswing too after all a new government dominated by euro and germany skeptics could have seen italy step out of the euro zone but now what who will end up governing italy this uncertainty made indexes slide again over the course of the day. yeah whatever. the markets don t know who will end up governing italy or more likely there will be support from the central bank the economy has needed it for years and will continue to do so and there s the contagion risk the ri ....
footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. we have double-teamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information? and what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. there s no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the washington post, no one has figured out where michael avenatti got all this banking information about michael cohen. and we ve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. we have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what michael avenatti reported p p we have these big companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to michael cohen. now we have the treasury inspector general reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious reports from the banking sector and if that s the way he got this information. if that s the ....
many people say the victory for kim jong-un is standing on the same stage as the president of the united states. he gets that stage now after a brutal reign. the surveillance seen around the world, you re about to see it right here. who is the man about to sit across from president trump? reporter: he is the 34-year-old leader of north korea. kim jong-un. his official birth date has never been confirmed. his grandfather was north korea s founder known as the great leader. his father kim jong il power when his grandfather died. known for his dress, right down to his platform shoes, and his pursuit of nuclear weapons. when his father died of a heart attack at 70 from what the north koreans said was over work, it was his youngest son kim jong-un who would take over. kim jong-un has proven to be ruthless. he has tested more missiles than his father and grandfather combined. he s conducted four nuclear tests. just last september he tested what was believed to be a hydrogen bomb. ....