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The white house. his twitter feed has been slirnt the last few hours, he met earlier today with his trade team, trying to come up with a response to these new retaliatory tariffs from china, he's signaled that he's not backing down in fact he's trying to convince u.s. companies to pull out of china all together. saying the united states doesn't need china at all. and there's a big question this afternoon about what form will this response take. will we see president trump today, will he issue a written statement of some kind. will there be more forceful measures coming from the white house. we...

Correspondent. she's in new york. abby phillip is at the white house. i want to start with you, abby. who is the president meeting with right now? >> reporter: the president is meeting at the white house right now with his trade team as they scramble to figure out how exactly they will respond to this announcement that china will slap new tariffs on american goods. the president has been talking pretty tough on social media all morning basically saying that he wants the united states and their companies to move away from using china. he's saying he's ordered american companies to find other tr...