Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. Judging by new reports and the president s own tweets, donald trump is seeking to end Special Counsel muellers investigation one way or another. Three sources tell the New York Times trump is flouting his lawyers advice and pushing for an interview with Robert Mueller in hopes it will clear his name. The report came hours after the president released seven tweets with misleading claims about the probes origin, writing, this is a terrible situation, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witchhunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and has 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work. Are a disgrace to usa. Well, the president ignored reporters questions after a white house meeting while his surrogates said he was merely expressing himself. It is not an order. It is the president s opinion, and it is ridiculous that all of
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tonight, a trump record that is not one he wants to celebrate. america s annual trade deficit at a ten-year high. and when it comes to goods, things we buy and sell, physical things, a record. all-time. this was something that president trump put at the core of his agenda. he said those days were over. how many nations can have a trade deficit of with one country, $505 billion. okay? nobody. you can t go on like that. china, this year, going to make $500 billion in terms of trade deficit. can t have it. we have trade deficits with mexico of $58 billion a year. japan, massive numbers. gets to it s going to end, folks. well, i don t know. maybe it ends in the next two years and there is just a dramatic, stunning plunge like we have never seen before. no, that would not happen, because that would be part of a
states. negotiations for which reportedly are at a stalemate. a senior administration official told reporters that no particular chinese action led to trump s latest trade threat. in a recent interview with cnbc, the president threatened to impose tariffs on all $505 billion worth of goods china exports to the united states per year. meanwhile, the senate yesterday passed a defense bill that tightens national security reviews of chinese corporate deals while overhauling rolls over which u.s. technologies can be ex ported. however, the restriction on chinese mega company zte were weakened before the passage. the bill passed the house last week and president trump is expected to sign it. and the white house is giving rise to a slew of both old and new conspiracy theories during a white house briefing yesterday, press secretary sarah sanders addressed the president s group. the conspiracy group claims to
now he has ordered the trade representative to draw up more tariffs, not only that, but trump says that if china reciprocates again which beijing adds that it will, the u.s. will add more tariffs. that nearly equals the total value of chinese goods exported to the u.s. last year which was just over $505 billion. last year the u.s. exported roughly $130 billion worth of goods to china and the vice president which represents several major american exporters including caterpillar and john deere says additional tariffs will effectively wipe out all the gains that our industry has seen and cost american jobs as well. you got to wonder what the economic impact is with this.
china seem as confused as anyone else, but the issue appears to be crystal clear in the mind of the u.s. president. we re putting tariffs on $50 billion worth of technology and other things because we have to. because we ve been treated very unfairly. but china has been terrific. president xi has been terrific. president moon. everybody. we re and he will working toget. reporter: china is consistent in its stance that if the u.s. side adopts any unilateral protectionist measures and damages china s interests, we will immediately reaction and take necessary measures. so here is an overview of exactly what is at stake. the u.s. imports $505 billion worth of goods from china each year. china imports far less. $130 billion from the united states. there are various other ways that beijing can strike back. first, it can impose even more tariffs. it could also restrict travel to