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Overnight. asian equities trading in the green. perhaps the case of the fact we've been talking about it so long. now that it's actually happened, no one is that surprised, but also a little bit of negative news that came in yesterday. president trump warned he may impose tariffs on an extra $500 billion worth of goods. if that happens, may not be a good thing for financial markets. >> looks like it's not slowing down soon. neither side backing down. focus on the job report here in the u.s. switching gears. expecting that in the coming hours. what more can you tell us in terms of what we can e...

Vowed to shoot down any missiles leaded headed to that nation. let's go to syria to fred pleitgen in damascus. fred? >> reporter: hi, john. yeah. the syrian government has certainly gotten the message. they issued a statement calling the trump tweets reckless and they say america is endangering international stability and it's sinking in to many people here on the ground and in the government and the threat of u.s. military action is very real and could happen very soon. there are reports that the syrians are moving jets and military hardware potentially to get them out of the way of air strik...

Get that, then i don't know how you get off a shutdown. once you've shut down the government, somebody is going to have to back down and i don't see either side backing down quickly. >> sandra: we're looking at the live briefing room right now. a live shot inside. we're waiting for mick mulvaney and marc short to step up and explain what's going on and the perspective of the white house at this moment. chris, i feel like pointing out the obvious here. the american people must be frustrated watching this debate and argument back and forth, finger pointing, blame game in washington people are go...

What is interesting he is still stuck on health care and he hasn't moved past this. in going to the democrats is a fascinating turn here. >> melissa, let's explore that a bit. the rest of the party on capitol hill has moved on to tax reform and you see all of the gop affiliated super pacs are running ads tax reform bills or plans. president is talking health care. >> certainly it seems like it's going to complicate things for republicans. obviously, president trump seeming like he is still stuck on the issue of health care while republicans are out there trying to pursue their tax plan. it wou...

Ukraine's armed forces now stand at the ready in case of any further aggression by russian troops, who continue to tighten their grip on the crimean peninsula. today, a tense stand-off, demanding soldiers there turn over their weapons. there's no sign of either side backing down from the brink. nato held an emergency meeting today as the u.s. and our allies formulate a response. here's john kerry on "meet the press" this morning. >> i think there's a unified view by all of the foreign ministers i talked to yesterday that they're simply going to isolate rush, that they're not going to engage wi...