Im jim sciutto in washington where talks are still under way, trying to avoid a trade war that is growing bigger and more costly than ever, including for you. U. S. And chinese negotiators going head to head just hours after President Trump sharply increased tariffs on some 200 billion worth of chinese exports. Those tariffs are aeffectively a tax on you. You pay those costs. By sharply, i mean tariffs that stood at 10 yesterday now 25 . Thats a really big deal. Again, this morning, the president is wrongly, falsely claiming that the tariffs are a big fat windfall for the treasury when in fact the cost is born by american importers and therefore american consumers. Now, the president has added the completely unfounded claim, jim, that, quote, tariffs, his words, tariffs will bring in far more wealth to our country than even a phenomenal dell of the traditional kind. Its just not true. Lets be clear. Its a tax, as you said, jim, paid by the american people, not the countries doing the e
Special programming tonight. We begin with the impeachment investigators getting specific. The Intel Committee has been in investigation. Its like the fbi doing interviews or gathering facts. Moments ago schiffs committee has shown how far they have come because they just released the final interview transcripts. Theres already a new revelation that well get to tonight. A Budget Office attorney resigning over the entire ukraine budget scandal which is part of the ukraine bribery plot. The Judiciary Committee will pick up this case and they are more like the prosecutor. Evaluating the facts, gathering the evidence and applying the law. You can think about it like this, a prosecutor decides whether theres evidence and law to support charges if you are suspected of committing a crime. The president , in the rare cases its the house Judiciary Committee that first decides if the constitution suggests the president committed a high crime. Be that something general like abuse of power or a sp