Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
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billion in chinese goods. motorcycles and plastics and chemicals and railway equipment. those particular tariffs target china s made in 2025 plan. that is beijing s plan to dominate high tech industries of the future. beijing struck back with coal and steel tariffs. beijing will file ea complaint with the w. t.o. most u.s. companies don t like trump s tariffs. it raises costs for consumers and companies. the tariffs provide a lifeline for some industries like alumin aluminum. wilbur ross in kentucky yesterday talking about a restart at the smelter company. days like this i hope would happen when i took the job going to washington because this is
tariffs on industrial goods. we ve decided to strengthen our cooperation on energy. you will import liquid final natural gas from the u.s. this is a message for others. we agreed to establish a dialogue on standards. as far as agriculture is concerned, the european union can import more soy beans from the u.s. and it will be done. we also agreed to work together on the reform of the wta. this, of course, is on the understanding that as long as we re negotiating, unless one party would stop the negotiations, we will hold off further tariffs and reassess existing tariffs on steel and alumin aluminum. this was a good constructive meeting. thank you.
steel pipe and 120 other products from the united states. tariffs will not take effect until next month after the public weighs in. china says the move is a direct response to the decision to impose tariffs on steel and alumin aluminum. it comes after the tariffs on $50 billion of chinese imports. specifically. the president warns this is the first of many. peter navarro, director of the office of trade, an architect of the strategy for the president. he was on erin burnett out front. by cracking down on china s ip theft and force transfer. the outlook of american corporations that have been stolen from by the chinese and going to china under really burdensome and unfair conditions are brighter today than they were yesterday. stock market disagrees. dow plunged 700 points in response. biggest losers have significant exposure to china. caterpillar and 3m and boeing.
we ve put the tax on. a lot of you were here. skilled trained workforce and steel is a crucial element of america s national security and must be protected. after the signing of this proclamation, essenticentury lo great company, will be investing over $100 million to restart and upgrade their idled military grade, high quality aluminum production, which is also critically important to our national security. that s 150,000 additional tons of aluminum. think of it. this is a closed plant and now they re doing 150,000 tons. additional 300 workers and ultimately many more hired in the great state of kentucky. a package of sometimes $90,000 per worker.