intellectual property through strong enforcement of our trade rules. trump did not name china, but the u.s. is currently investigating chinese theft of american intellectual property that could spell more trade measures. last week the administration slapped tariffs on chinese solar panels. president trump s attorneys trying to keep him from testifying in front of robert mueller s team, arguing the special counsel has failed to meet the high threshold required to interview a president even though mr. trump has publicly state he is looking forward to meeting with mueller. mr. trump s lawyers asking the team to demonstrate that only the president can give them the information they require. top justice officials met monday with chief of staff john kelly about the dangers of releasing the memo from the fbi. rod rosen stein attended questioning the memo s crazy and warned kelly accuracy and
backed off a lot of those trade measures in order to get china to cooperate and do what it wants them to do to force kim jong-un to stop developing his nuclear weapons. is the trump administration getting frustrated by a lack of action on china s parts there, and is that leading to these punitive trade measures that could be put in in the future? that s what we re looking forward to see when president trump gives that speech later on today. all right. matt rivers, thank you so much for that, in beijing this morning. coming up, tairlines lookin to get back up and running in atlanta after a power outage brought travel to a standstill for thousands at the world s busiest airport. and while conservatives try to discredit the russia probe, robert mueller s team defending the way it got thousands of e-mails related to the trump transition.
world order of democracy. before i lose you, what do you think of the rumor that president trump is thinking of sending hr mcmaster to be the general in charge in afghanistan i ve heard that rumor as well and i think h. r. mcmaster would do a great job in afghanistan, he s been there for several tours. i d like to see him where he is, and i think he s one of the more brilliant officers of his generation. all right. so some support there. thank you so much, michael, have a good weekend. thank you. still ahead, president trump looking to make good on another major campaign promise. he s reportedly considering aggressive trade measures against china. ed henry is live back at the white house for what it could mean for your wallet and trying to stop north korea. plus, why the remake of a popular 1974 film has hollywood critics calling it, quote, makedly fascist. the men who did it are out there. so there s nothing we can do,
pyongyang and the tests continue has come out in several ways. one of them is we are on the verge of very tough trade measures against china on steel, and i m told perhaps also on technology companies. those would really be a shock to the chinese. would be a warning. also, we re getting statements as given to hugh by hr mcmaster, other officials, lindsey graham on television yesterday, essentially warning that war in graham s words is inevitable, unless the chinese do something to get a freeze in the north korean program. so this is basically, i think, a way of signalling the consequences of china not acting are so severe that china must step up. i laid out this morning what i think is the basic strategy here, which is to encourage china to be the convener of a negotiating process that gets all of the neighbors, japan, south korea, the u.s., as a pacific neighbor, china, maybe
you have seen using trade measures to try to punish china and using that more and more as a bargaining chip. there was a report yesterday saying that the administration is currently considering tougher new measures to crack down on beijing when it comes to property theft. this is an area they re moving in. we ll see them talking more publicly about measures they could actually try to put in place. andrea, before i let you go. you were in the room yesterday for secretary tillerson s first one-on-one press prebriefing wi the media. we know this is something he has not been a fan of this administration so far. as we look at what s happening in the west wing in the white house with john kelly coming in, seems like secretary tillerson is trying to reset a little bit, too. can you walk us through what the mood is like and what you see happening with that relationship? first of all, not announced in advance. was a surprise visit to the briefing room and this is the secretary of state in m