A look at the days news and headlines. Lot of legal experts say he wins one in the district of columbia. Keep in mind in the last election in 2016 only 4 of district of columbia voters voted for donald trump. Not good odds in the district of columbia. Bill something were watching. Kellyanne conway Senior Counsel to the president from the white house. Good morning to you. I have a long list. Another slow news day here. Bill i have a long list. Paul manafort, how closely is the president watching this trial that begins today . We havent discussed that in quite a while. I would note for your audience, bill, that the judge has very strictly instructed no mention of Paul Manaforts role in the Trump Campaign, no mention trump, russia or collusion. This trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his
brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. I believe there is on
A look at the days top news and headlines. Opinion, its ridiculous the corruption and dishonesty with the witch hunt, the president has watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times. We look forward to that happening. Dana i understand why she would want to answer it that way, last week we found out that muellers team is looking at the president s tweets to see if there was a pattern of obstruction. This is just his opinion, just fighting back, its not obstruction. Amazing when you have the white house under siege like this one, much as with the Nixon White House or the Clinton White house, the way in which the team there comes to reflect the attitude, the language, the perspective of the boss. And you can hear it there, and the loaded words and the hard language. This is a white house under siege and this is an administration that is ready to fight, fight, fight. The problem for trump is the same as it is with, you know, all of that s
Thanks to our powerful trade policies, the Trade Deficit is falling and falling. American steel mills are back open for business. We are starting to set new records, and nobody believes it could happen this quickly. Democrats want to raise your taxes. They want to destroy your jobs. They want to crush our industries with crippling regulations. And you know the stock market is up almost 40 since that great november day. And america now is winning again like they havent won before. Bill it went on like for over an hour. The headline. U. S. Workers get the biggest pay raise in 10 years. Wage growth that has been stagnant for americans. Absolutely. Gdp numbers last quarter were very good. Around expectations a little over 4 . More than sustainable growth. Something you can hang your hat on. Again, economists, moodys say if the trade policies were fully implemented you could shave up to 3 10 of a point off the gdp. Its trillions of dollars of lost economic activity. Bill scaramucci is writi
Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Influence american voters, including a Covert Campaign to spread Divisive Political messages. That has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. As the Washington Post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that Voting Systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u. S. Voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. There is not a sufficiently strong Government Strategy to combat Information Warfare against the u. S. Outside experts say. Joining me now nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house, Nbc National Security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post, phil rucker, Nation