Would be to repeal and then replace obamacare. What if the repeal goes through and replacement doesnt . I cant guarantee what wins or loses. For all of you who thought it was going to be a quiet saturday morning, it is not. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington, im leland vittert. Elizabeth im elizabeth prann. Thanks for joining us. President Donald Trumps waking up the world with a shocking allegation on twitter, fox is working on the developing story. And we start at maralago where the president is spending the weekend. Kristin is standing by with the latest. What can you tell us . Well, liz, these are explosive allegations. If true, it could lead to the indictment of a former president and his staff. But if false, then critics of this new president , who is accusing of playing loose with the facts, just got an entire arsenal of ammunition against time. Here are the allegations from President Trump just this morning. He tweeted out, quote, terrible. Just found out tha
Week. Great to be here in this first week of the new year and even with most of Congress Still away for the holiday, it was an eventful week. To say the least. A new tellall book on President Trumps first year in office, warts and all, has everyone talking. But nothing this president does can hold back the markets, which is exactly where were going to start. The stock market hit new heights with the Dow Jones Industrial average crossing the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. Thats a gain of nearly 25 since President Trump first took office. The white house marked the occasion by posting a cnbc news clip on little official website detailing recent gains in share prices and job numbers. Nothing investors see coming out of the white house, no matter how lurid or how disturbing seems to worry them. They like the gains trump has made. Tax cuts, rolled back regulations, if you put it that way, the market has a lot to celebrate in 2018. Something i like to look at is the vix index, often kn
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think that tariffs are something that foreign countries will have to pay to the united states when every economist is trying to tell him they are simply sales taxes that the american consumer, the trump voter will have to pay. tariffs are taxes collected at the border, and when you have tariffs on, say, aluminum and steel, what you re doing is cutting the defense budget. that is, you are effectively cutting what the defense budget will buy that s made of aluminum and steel, which is almost everything the defense department buys. the g7 meeting is coming up tomorrow, and president macron of france is welcoming donald trump to it with tweets such as this. our values and interests are built through multilateralism, including american interests. let us look at history. isolationism is bad for the american people. i think president trump knows that.
that foreign countries will have to pay to the united states when every economist is trying to tell him they are simply sales taxes that the american consumer, the trump voter will have to pay. tariffs are taxes collected at the border, and when you have tariffs on, say, aluminum and steel, what you re doing is cutting the defense budget. that is, you are effectively cutting what the defense budget will buy that s made of aluminum and steel, which is almost everything the defense department buys. the g7 meeting is coming up tomorrow, and president macron of france is welcoming donald trump to it with tweets such as this. our values and interests are built through multilateralism, including american interests. let us look at history. isolationism is bad for the american people. i think president trump knows that. what s your reaction to that?