powerful rallies coast to coast demanding actions on guns. the surveillance video from parkland expected to be released at noon. could that change the c conversati conversation? i m dave briggs. welcome back to early start. i m romans romans. eye popping comments from president trump on trade suggesting how far he is willing to go with talks with american allies. a private fund-raiser with audio op obtained by the washington post. he retold a story he told before with a new line. the president says u.s. has a trade deficit with canada and he did not know if that was the case. for the report, the u.s. has a trade surplus with canada. accusing the country of ripping off the u.s. for decades and poaching the american work
audio revealing the president s thoughts on trade disputes. and confirmations in jeopardy? one key republican says he won t get behind them. the pentagon acknowledges a second attack on soldiers in niger last year. it came months after the deadly ambush by isis fighters and is just coming to light now. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. fascinating walkout across the country. you saw it? i did. it was student led. teachers sat back and let the students make the call. 17 minutes in the freezing cold for victims of parkland. few districts punishing students for walking out. we start with eye popping comments from president trump on trade suggesting how far he is willing to go with talks with american allies. at a private fund-raiser in st.
vladimir putin to fail to win a fourth term. you can expect russia to play a strong and tough role. here in the uk, the prime minister speaking with others today and they will go to nato to put britain s opinion there. meanwhile, several thousand troops vaccinated against anthrax. not because they fear a threat, but because they want to be ready and prepared and putting millions more dollars in chemical weapons defense here in the uk. we watch to see if russian assets are frozen in the uk. nic, thank you. a check on cnn money. global stocks higher after just stocks after u.s. stocks fell thanks to boeing. it fell 2%. now down 9% from its high. boeing is vulnerable to a trade war. it is the proxy really in the market for concerns about trade. especially with china.
bill: why is that so difficult? because the white house came back with a bunch of other things, including this chain migration provision that would ve curtail illegal immigration by 44%. on that something that democrats wouldn t accept. and not to bill got 39 votes in the senate. it got much less then the wall. bill: there are some who believe that democrats in congress are not going to go to the white house for a signing ceremony for anything prior to november. certainly not willing to pat this president on the back for an immigration reform bill. what s our view? i think that s fair. democrats believe that their ticket to success in november of 2018 is to oppose the president, post them at all times, and make the harshest arguments about him that they possibly can. bill: you would agree with that? i think there s a lot of politics being played on daca, absolutely. bill: thank you, panel. in a moment, president trump on trade and tariffs and there s a lot of that today.
i take a different view. i strongly disagree with president trump on trade. he is a restriction as i m very pro- free trade. it s difficult to come from a scottish family that decided to settle in america in seattle and have a problem with free trade. i do think one thing that is worth noting we were talking about free trade is, the deals have been that great. i m not saying that from the effect of a brain them in and restrict them the way that trump does but if you look at things like tcp, you have a situation where vietnam had an incredibly long time before it had to tear down its tariff to american goods. that s not free trade, is it? if you re talking about european union has come down to saying there will be penalties of punishment for the eu has huge numbers of restrictions on its trade with the us. and it s a protectionist view. i m not supportive of president trump but there s an element of hypocrisy here. there are people attending that they are rabid free traders when their