Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence
Reporting, as always. Thank you, sir. That will do it, everyone. You can catch me tomorrow on the Intelligence Report on fox business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. I will see you there. The five is next. Dana im dana perino along with jedediah bila, juan williams, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. Its 5 00 in new york city, and this is the five. A fiery moment of the white house today. Press secretary Sarah Sanders fighting back against the media. As far as i know, im the first Press Secretary in the history of the United States that has required Secret Service protection. Dana will have more on that in a moment. President trump is back on the Campaign Trail Tonight in pennsylvania, as a familiar foe emerges to counter. A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the days news. Jedidiah costs a fortune. Juan theres an argument now about singlepayer. Jedidiah thats even worse. I agree i think President Obama does a great job as a campaigner. The problem is, he has to campaign now against succes
News coverage is provided. They have 11 percent of voters at this point undecided. The ohio Lieutenant Governor told Elizabeth Prann earlier today how important the president s role here will be. I think voters will show up tonight. Republicans will show up tonight. They will be excited to see the president in ohio in the Buckeye State supporting Troy Balderson is a conservative who has worked to lower taxes. To defend life, protect the Second Amendment to cut unnecessary burdensome regulations. This will be the president s third rally this week. In support of republican candidates and he has made plenty of headlines with his remarks during the rallies often directed at Democratic Political rivals or what he calls the Fake News Media for underreporting his successes in office including the economy. Our economy, is soaring, jobs are booming, factors are
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. Because there were reports that show the Internal Doj Process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan Recusal Recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that Jeff Sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. In fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on session
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Several other top campaign officials, and with russians who had ties to the kremlin. On sunday, this tweet describing in the clearest terms yet what this meeting was about. This was a meeting, the president tweeted, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. Adding lastly, i did not know about it. Now remember, when the New York Times was first breaking news of this meeting, the president Helped Don Junior Draft a statement that claimed it was about adoption policy. After that was proven to be a lie, the president s story began evolving, to use a polite term. This is a year ago in paris. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. Ive had many people ive only been in politics for two years, but ive had many people call up, we have information on this factor or th