it s time for cnn business now. the first face-to-face negotiation since president trump and president xi of china declaird a 90-day truce in their trade war. chief business correspondent christine romans joins us with more. good morning alisyn. the deadline is march 1st. and the u.s. jacks up tariffs to 25% from 10%. it could slap import taxes on tens of billions more. these are deputy level trade talks but bloomberg news is reporting china s top trade negotiator made an appearance. that highlights how high the stakes are here. the chinese side has incentive to get a deal done. the chinese economy already slowing down before the u.s. tariffs. its stock market fell last year.
but we are not promising our base things that could never happen. things the rest of the international world understands well. gina mccarthy, we appreciate your expertise. thank you for being on new day. thank you, alisyn, great to be here. a new attack uncovered overnight by the russians on the u.s. election system. were they trying to get into the 2018 midterms? that plus the paul manafort trial. what s going on in the jury room? we ll get the bottom line next.
match his actions. his administration has taken action against russia, they expelled diplomats and sanctioned russia but it doesn t seem to be working since microsoft has uncovered the same kremlin-linked bad actors responsible for setting up bogus web sites and trying to now influence the midterm elections. what we re covering this morning alisyn, is an attack on american democracy from the russians. that s what happened. that s what microsoft uncovered, an attack on american democracy and we have heard nothing from the president of the united states about this. except in a riters interview yesterday when referring back to the 2016 attacks on american democracy he decided to put doubt back in his language and say if it s russia. he won t commit that it is despite the unanimous assessment that russia did attack the
end of november at all, alisyn. still good time for shopping, but cold air is on the way. this is brought to you by jared, the galleria of jewelry. get out and finish your shopping in the next 8 to 10 days. closer to home, rain today overnight in new york city. it is still is mild. we should be 49. d.c., 53. we re still going to be there for the next few days. but look at this area of purple. you never like purple whether it s on your lips or the weather map. that is where the cold air comes in. temperatures are nice the next few days. by friday and saturday of next week. we are almost 10 days away. this is when the true arctic blast comes in. i am hearing polar vortex on twitter and my eyes roll. polar vortex, let s not go there. president trump s recent behavior leading the question, why does he say these things? why does he in flame situations
why doesn t he show his birth certificate. reporter: white house aides have given up trying to stop the inflammatory remarks after the president retweeted three inflammatory videos shows muslims creating acts of violence. the leader of britain first who posted the videos, praising mr. trump, as did former kkk leader david duke. this is like the president retweeting the ku klux klan. this is not a mainstream organization. our greatest ally of the country to be retweeting, to be providing a microphone to those voices. reporter: world leaders condemning his retweets. and british prime minister theresa may saying it s wrong for the president to have done this. refusing to let that go, the president firing back that theresa may should focus on combatting radical islamic