Its thursday, april 5th. With signs on of uncertainty as President Trump heads into a trade war with china, the white house with insisted its just a bargaining chip. The president once again exaggerating the u. S. Trade deficit with china by 163 billion, despite numerous fact checks. The wall street journal reports that President Trump who initiated the tensions over chinese trade practices has put himself in position to face mounting pressure from lawmakers and navigating cumbersome new trade rules all of which was feeding tremendous volatility into the stock and commodities market. The Washington Post reports the president is finally expediting the policies that got him elected and is more comfortable without a number of aides around him who are tempering his instincts. And he cites poll number necessary recent weeks as a reason he should do it his own way. There is concern as chinas move to match americas 50 billion in tariffs goes after a key crop for u. S. Farmers. China purchases
The president thinks we cannot lose in a fight like this, but now, thanks to cnbc translating this list, we have a pretty good sense of who in the u. S. Does have a lot to lose in this fight even if the president himself doesnt see it. Anybody in the u. S. Involved in the production of this very long but very specific list of americanmade things might beg to differ with the president s assertion that theres nothing to lose. The Chinese Government announced today theyre going to go after people in the United States involved in the production and exports of this whole big long list of things uncombed cotton, soy bones black or yellow, fresh and cold boneless beef, frozen beef with bones, frozen boneless beef, dried cranberries, frozen orange juice, nonfrozen orange juice. Hookah, tobacco, other tobacco for smoking. Also whiskeys, and interestingly, theres no modifier on whiskey, just which is whiskeys. If you know anyone whos involved in the production of any whiskey, if it involves expo
Closer than they apparently are. And i think thats a question that us journalists, we journalists, should be trying to pursue, because they do have, as dr. Barber was saying, so many of the same issues. This has remained the sort of great question in american political life, how that coalition can be built in a nationwide basis. Dr. Thank you all. That is all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Thank you at home for joining us this hour. Cnbc had two big scoops today. The first one is that they were the first u. S. News outlet to translate the list of americanmade products that is about to get smacked by china. This is something i said we were anticipating today. It has now happened. This is response to our own president s efforts to start as much of a trade war as he can with china. He said america has nothing to lose by picking this kind of fight with china, where we try to make it harder for them to export stuff to us, and they try to make it harder for us
Tell zelensky to do the right thing. Then he says, this is the final word from the president of the united states. I want nothing. Thank you, folks. So according to the new reporting in the New York Times when he said that, he already had known for more than a week, maybe two, that the whistleblower was about to make out point out the very thing you just heard the president take pains to deny, a quid pro quo. It might explain why the president not known as a great experts in the classic was showing off latin. Here is the times lead. President trump had already been briefed upon a whistleblower complaint about about his dealings with ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in september according to two people familiar with the matter. Cnn political analyst and New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman shares the buy line. Joining us on the phone. Its a special night whoa you ask in all sincerity what did the president know and we did he know it. John, thanks
Tell zelensky president zelensky to do the right thing. So here it my answer. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell zelensky to do the right thing. Then he says, this is the final word from the president of the united states. I want nothing. Thank you, folks. So according to the new reporting in the New York Times when he said that, he already had known for more than a week, maybe two, that the whistleblower was about to make out point out the very thing you just heard the president take pains to deny, a quid pro quo. It might explain why the president not known as a great experts in the classic was showing off latin. Here is the times lead. President trump had already been briefed upon a whistleblower complaint about about his dealings with ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in september according to two people familiar with the matter. Cnn political analyst and New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman shares the buy line. Joini