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Campaign aide will serve 30 days in prison, pay a fine as well. really highlighting the risks for the people involved in this probe. meanwhile, today the president is going to have a quiet day at the white house before heading out to west virginia for a private fund-raiser in anticipation of a tough fight in 2018 and 2020. alisyn and david. >> thank you, abby, for all of your reporting from the white house. let's bring in jonathan martin and josh green. let's start with the china's retaliatory move. >> what's striking is this is an attack on the trump coalition. if you look at the states most ...

>> they're thinking that way? >> i think so. there's no way they couldn't realize that. you mentioned soy beans but more than half of iowa's top 20 exports are hit byes they newly announced tariffs. that's soy beans, corn, ethanol, pork. and the u.s. ambassador chinese companies importing iowa goods. in the trump heartland, in these particularly sensitive states where we have an ambassador from where, of course, the president ial caucus occurs.

The move coming hours after they published a list of chinese imports that will be hit with new tariffs. ivan watson has all the breaking details for us. what have you learned, ivan? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. china is willing to go to a trade war with the u.s. if the trump administration follows through on its proposal to impose this 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of chinese exports to the u.s. china has responded saying it is going to impose tariffs of the same scale and magnitude on $50 billion worth of u.s. exports to china. they have singled out soy beans, for example, a $14 billi...

>> is it possible that these stiff new tariffs against china are, in fact, a negotiating tactic and won't go into effect? >> yes. it's part of the process. i would take the president seriously on this tariff issue. there are carrots and sticks in life but he is ultimately a free trader. said that to me. said it publicly. he wants to solve this with the least amount of pain. >> can you have growth if there's a trade war? th point. ly we won'tet to >> chinese tariffs on soy beans, they went after fruit, nuts, wine and pork, putting hog farmers in america's heartland on edge. joining me from polo...

U.s. soy beans, cars, airplanes. stock market on the left side of your screen. right side, live pictures from the press briefing room at the white house where we should see sarah sanders momentarily. lot for her to discuss. we bring in senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny, standing by in that briefing room along with a couple of others here. jeff zeleny, first to you. we saw larry kudlow, top economic adviser do some of the rounds today, trying to maybe quell fears that this is the opening salvo of some sort of trade war, despite the president's tweet, which does seem contradictory to ...