In the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking tonight russia is vowing a harsh response to new u. S. Sanctions against members of Vladimir Putins inner circle. Punishment for interference in the election. The white house insisting the sanctions wont affect mr. Trumps hope for a u. S. Meeting. And stock prices plummet as the president hits china with additional tariffs and the trade secretary admits this could lead to a trade war. Ill speak with our correspondents and analysts who are all standing by. Lets go to our senior White House Correspondent pamela brown. Policies are riling up russia and china tonight. Reporter thats right, wolf. Both russia and china ratcheting up their response to the president s actions and china threatening to impose more tariffs on the Trump Administration. President trump is not backing down, announcing thursday night he is threatening an additional 100 billion in tariffs agains
First a cnn exclusive on the Mueller Investigation. In the clearest sign yet that President Trump is considering sitting down with the special counsel even though thats the last thing his advisers want, sourcing telling cnn that trump has begun to prepare for a possible interview with mueller. In another exclusive we have learned that one of the Trump Campaigns earliest Foreign Policy advisers who was not coffee boy at all, in fact he literally had a seat at the table, was part of the effort to expose damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the campaign. Joseph schmitz pushed the fbi and the House Intelligence Committee to review materials from the dark web he thought were willings missing emails from her private server. Sources say they believe the material was fake. Lets discuss it all now. I want to bring in cnns chief National Security correspondent mr. Jim sciutto, our legal analyst michael zeldin, Robert Muellers seshl special assistant. Juliette kayyem and cnn contribu
And delaying the deposition. A judge grants trumps lawyer more time to respond to Stormy Danielss lawsuit. Does the president s claim to know nothing about the hush money payment offer an opportunity . President trump are doubling down on his threats of tariffs on china sending the dow down nearly 600 points. And an announcement of sanctions on Russian Oligarcholigarchs. President trump is shrugging off damages this tariff policy may cause to investors. Lets to go our senior correspondent. In response to the president s threat, weve sustain stock market reacting. The white house paying close attention to the dow being down more than 500 points. Today press secretary Sarah Sanders when asked if the white house wants a rid the war with china, she says the white house does not want that. President trump is not backing down. Announcing thursday night he is threatening an additional 100 billion in tariffs against china. Even if those threats rock an already volatile stock market. The easies
Observations very seriously earlier today, and were looking for two other people they thought may be possibly connected to this horrific attack from what we hear from our sources within the authorities right now. They havent really called it off, but they also have credible witnesses now who say that man was alone in the van. So they are still looking into all possibilities, but from what we understand, they do not believe there were more people involved in this attack. Were also hearing about whats being called a suspicious object in the van used in the attack. How are officials treating that . Well, that was a standard procedure, only minutes after that incident happened and the van plowed into that street cafe, the Police Responded to that, and then looked into the van and saw a bag. And obviously, in these kind of situations, its very possible there may be a secondary attack, possibly through explosives. Thats why police and investigators approached that van very carefully, making
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