Well get a live response for mexicos ambassador to the u. S. And just a minute. The immigration news comes as President Trump lashes out against democrats over daca, and issues a warning to china over a major terror increase. That tariff news sent the dow plummeting today, down more than 700points, finished off a 459. S p 500 fell 59, the nasdaq dropped 193 today. It all happened on a day that was supposed to begin with some fun. Shes White House Correspondent john roberts starts of off tonight. Good evening. Anyone familiar with the New Hampshire president ial primary process cannot knows about the famous politics of the eggs breakfast event. Today, here at the white house, it was politics and eggs. Washington style. On the white house outline today, President Trump presiding over the annual easter egg roll, and throwing eggs or democrats for what he insists is a lack of action on daca. The democrats have really let them down. They really let them down. They had this great opportunity
Were following breaking news in the russia investigation. The wall street journal reporting tonight that the special counsel, robert mueller, is looking into a claim by trump ally, roger stone, that he met in 2016 with Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks that released dnc emails hacked by russia. The journal reports that during grand jury testimony, muellers team has specifically asked about an email in which stone said he had dinner with Julian Assange. Ill get reaction from the former cia director, leon panetta. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, why would the this alleged stone assange meeting be significant . Well, wolf, it would be a big piece of information for the special counsel, simply because this lies at the center of what the special counsel, robert mueller, is supposed to be investigating, which is whether or not there was any illegal coordination between People Associated with the D
The democrats blew it. They had a great, great chance. Well have to take a look. Dana Sarah Sanders followed up on fox news earlier. The president made multiple offers on daca. He wanted to see something get done. Democrats refused to put something on the table or work with the president to get anything done. They wanted these Daca Recipients as political pawns. The president wanted to make a deal. He made two incredibly generous offers that went far and above even what the Previous Administration had done on daca. Democrats still refused to make a deal. I think its because were getting close to an election. They dont want to see the president continue to win back like he has for the last year and a half. Dana jesse, i will go to first. There is a debate on who killed daca. I think the truth is it wasnt going to go anywhere before the midterm election. Everyone is going to try to utilize it for their advantage. Jesse exactly. The president offered a very generous proposal. Crying chuck
He sure did. The big ragu they call him. Good game. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im rene marsh. Im dave briggs. Congrats to villanova fans. It is 4 00 a. M. Breaking news. A classified memo revealing special Counsel Robert Mueller is authorized to pursue collusion charges against the president s former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. The documents highlights payments to manafort from the Ukrainian Government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels them to examine russian efforts of interference in 2016. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The declassified memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. The wall street journal reporting that Robert M