the u.s. could dial back tariffs on chinese goods during trade negotiations. we re to the sure that s true. things got dialed back after that. the white house spokesman lindsey waters said, quote, no new tariff discussions had been had. that wraps up the hour for me. it s now time for deadline: white house with nicolle wallace. i h. everyohi, everyone, it new york. donald trump s delayed response to nancy pelosi s state of the union dis is in, 24 hours after she suggested he delay his state of the union address because of a shutdown, donald trump is responding in a letter, canceling her previously unannounced trip to afghanistan, which was scheduled to leave less than an hour after trump put out his letter. trump labeling pelosi s trip, where she was likely to meet with u.s. service members, a public relations event and an exertion. from his letter, quote, in light of the 800,000 great american workers not receiving pay, i m sure you would agree that postponing this public relation
can you do for me. so to the extent that her election, her reelection of speaker of the house would be the biggest thorn in trump s side, all actors are playing out as we expected. if i have to interpret on the fly, i could not ask for anyone better. we will of the stay in quick touch with you once anything else develops. i also want to quickly look at the dow. you will notice that about half an hour ago there was a major spike in the dow on a report that the united states was considering lifting sanctions, trade barriers, and tariffs against china. we have not been able to corroborate that and when asked the treasury secretary did not have an answer that suggested he had any announcements to make so that has been cut in about half. this is the investor world.
once he was clearly testing the water to be a candidate. you do not have to be a declared presidential candidate to still have campaign finance laws to basically kick in and to be subject to the rubric of those laws. for instance, think about elizabeth warren right now. she s already subject to some campaign finance laws. i think when it comes to the earlier poll, the poll where michael cohen is trying to drum up support where the idea then mr. trump was a good businessman, i think that falls outside of campaign finance law. what we re focused on is the later poll, 2015 poll, where at that point i think it was almost cand candidate trump, he was testing the waters and then we have to look if michael cohen either as he said made the payments at the direction of president trump or in concert with the campaign, it looks like it could be a campaign expenditure, or if we don t believe there was any sort of coordination between cohen and the trump campaign or the
highlights that i know they have been working on as well. just to put it in framing here, less from the white house perspective about funding because the department of defense is funded for these military aircrafts, more about nancy pelosi physically being present in this country to be able to negotiate. again if there is no negotiating sessions on the calendar for this weekend, how do you break the impasse here. is a big question. we re also working to find out whose decision this was, who came to president trump and said speaker pelosi has this trip coming up. it is unorthodox to say the least. i m sure in the history of presidencies and conflicts with congress, but the way this went down, just give us some sense of it from the white house per s perspecti
campaign. . i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or people in the campaign, i have no idea. yes you have. i said the president and the united states. i never said i was bald. i don t even know where to go, beyond the obvious comic relief here, it signals two important things, first serious worry about trump s vulnerability. joining me now are two of my favorites, state s attorney and former congresswoman li liz holtsman. and jill winebags. both of you, this is history repeating itself to some degree because you were both involved in water gate and you both helped us spell out how these