Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Chinese goods could be raised from 10 to 25 . They would cover things like fruits and vegetables, handbags, refrigerators, rain jackets, even baseball gloves. Chinas Foreign Ministry moments ago saying blackmailing and pressure by the u. S. Will never work and promising to take countermeasures, if needed. The u. S. Has already imposed 25 tariffs on chinese goods worth 34 billion. China quickly retaliated with tariffs on 34 billion in american goods. The president addressed the trade war at a rally in tampa last night. China and others, remember this, have targeted our farmers. Not good. Not nice. And you know what our farmers are saying . Its okay. We can take it. These are incredible people. We can take it. Now were going to open up markets. Were going to do it the way it should be. And all of this stuff, youre going to make it back and its going to be made back faster than anybody would know, but we
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The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. All things Michael Chone and hes doing quite a lot of talk ing. Jake. Jeff, thanks so much. Lets talk to our experts. Laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. I dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. Start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. Before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
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A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. He had all the information on democrats. He had all the information on everybody, he went to jail holding the hands of the Justice Department or the fbi. They sat there together. They were smiling and laughing. And he got nothing. And he stole money and he had more information on corruption of the democrats than anybody and they dont even have his computers and his servers. They just gave him nothing. You saw that it was on your show. They gave him nothing. Nothing. Ainsley double standard . Double standard . I mean, he was worse than anybody, in my opinion. He got nothing. Hes a democrat. He got nothing. The reason he got nothing is because the dems are very strong in the Justice Department. I put an Attorney General who never took control of the Justice Department. Jeff seghtsdz. Never took control of the Justice Department. Its sort of
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
You say it as if its a bad thing, hallie jack sson. Msnbc headquarters here in new york. A day after the midterms, still a number of races to decide, enough results for both parties to take a victory lap. President trump will take his this hour, the president scheduled to appear in the eastern room of the white house for a News Conference roughly 30 minutes from now. Today hes already touted himself as the magic man for last nights senate wins. Never mind losing the house, though. President trump also had a message for the Incoming Democratic majority in the house. Investigate me . We investigate you. We also heard from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell just a few moments ago. The Democrats In The House will have to decide just how much president ial harassment they think is good strategy. Today is more than about democrats and republicans, its about restoring the constitutions checks and balances to the trump
administration. One of the first orders of business that i think that d