Here in washington, mixed reaction to the president s latest moves on trade. In what aides call a historic event, President Trump took aim at a favorite target today, what he has repeatedly called chinas unfair trade practices announcing his intention to impose tariffs on select goods. In addition to china well do a section 301 trade action. It could be about 60 billion. John white house says its punitive, not protective. He wants to recover damages from years of inequity and trade policy. Were doing things for this country that should have been done for many, many years. Weve had this abuse by many other countries, and groups of countries that were put together in order to take advantage of the United States, and we dont want that to happen. Were not going to let that happen. John the china announcement upped the anxiety for some of the president s closest political allies, already suffering heartburn on tariffs over steel and aluminum. Im concerned about it. Im not a great fan of tar
Im ayman mohyeldin. We begin with new information about the ongoing rescue efforts to raise 12 boys and a soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in thailand. We learned a tiefr who was once a member of thailands elite Navy Seal Unit has died during a rescue operation. Rescue teams have been working around the clock for days trying to figure out how to get the group out of the cave, but clearly the conditions are too dangerous. Joining us live from chiang rai, thailand, what can you tell us about the setback, Janis Mackey Frayer . Reporter this is a reminder of the dangers that this operation involves in trying to take these 12 kids and their coach out from this cave system to safety. This young diver is a former Thai Navy Seal diver. He was here in a volunteer capacity almost from the beginning. He had been documenting the rescue effort on instagram and felt very proud of his involvement. He ran out of oxygen when they were trying to take supplies into the cave system last night in pre
Largely alone holed up in the white house tweeting out his grievances as the government remains partially shut down over funding over the border wall. Joining us from the white house, nbcs hans nichols, kevin barron, ned price, former nfc spokesperson and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast and noah rothman, for commentary magazine. Ned, lets start out with you. Are you surprised that donald trump finally made a trip to a combat zone, and can you talk a little bit about the preparations that go into this kind of trip . Yeah, elise. I cant say im surprised and primarily for one reason. Its now nearly two years into the trump presidency. This is something that the past two president s, president s george w. Bush, as you know, president barack obama, as i well know, did routinely. Several times during their presidencies, much earlier in their presidencies. And certainly well before it became a political liability for their administrations. But as you note, this is not something
And chief of naval operations, admiral john richardson. Thank you all. Thank you, admiral. Over many decades and times of war and peace, mark esper has answered the call of duty. He has never failed. He hails from uniontown pennsylvania, the hometown of his personal hero. The legendary former secretary of defense, and great one, george marshall. He attended the United States military academy at west point, graduated in 1986, receiving a commission in the infantry. Soon he earned his tab, his ranger tab, and fought with the famed 101st Airborne Division in the gulf war. He was awarded the bronze star, and the combat infantryman badge for a service. A brave guy. They all told me hes a brave guy. I knew that anyway. In total, mark served in our nations military for 21 years. He completed his final act of duty active duty assignment right here in the pentagon and army staff and returned six years later as the Deputy Assistant secretary secretary of defense for negotiations policy. Over his
Number one news show. Crisis at our southern border and it is getting worse according to the secretary of the department of Homeland Security. Ainsley Kirstjen Nielsen saying so bad were going to accelerate our plan and send more folks down to the border to help more patrol agents. She is implementing this emergency surge operation. Brian they are already talking about a czar for the border. With Kirstjen Nielsens things to do list involves everything from terror, everything involved with our security. Not just border. I think they got to do this border czar. They are talking about ken cuccinelli. Ainsley kris kobach. Steve tom homan. Brian Border Patrol agent. Ainsley commissioner. Brian he says the crisis at our border is worsening and do everything to end it we will not stand idolly by why Congress Stands by again. All hands on the table we will immediately deploy hundreds of cbp personnel to the border to respond emergency. Reinforce additional reinforcements from within dhs and th