Tour stop in North Carolina, a state he won. He is there tonight to introduce general mattis who we believe will be the nominee for secretary of defense. Well listen for a few minutes and then come back and monitor the rest for news. Lets listen in. And i said, what . And they said, we have a big crowd but they wont mind. Just because the weather was so terrible. I said, you got to be kidding. So weve been driving for two hours. We landed like a long ways. But there was no way that we werent showing up tonight. That i can tell you. That i can tell you. We couldnt land at your local airport. We landed a long ways away. But i said, lets put it this way, the drive was about three times longer than the flight. But we made it. Thats all that matters, right . We made it. And im here today for one main reason, to thank you, the people of North Carolina, for being so incredible. We want to thank you. You went out and pounded the pavement. You organize your fellow citizens and propel to victory
And i said, what . And they said, we have a big crowd but they wont mind. Just because the weather was so terrible. I said, you got to be kidding. So wve been driving for two hours. We landed like a long ways. But there was no way that we werent showing up tonight. That i can tell you. That i can tell you. We couldt land at your local airport. We landed a long ways away. But i said, lets put it this way, the drive was about three times longer than the flight. But we made it. Thats all that matters, right . We made it. And im here today for one main reason, to thank you, the people of North Carolina, for being so incredible. We want to thank you. You went out and pounded the pavement. You organize your fellow citizens and propel to victory a Grassroots Movement the likes of which nobody, nobody has ever seen before. And thats beyond our country. And i want to give a special thank you to the incredible military families, Service Members and veterans of North Carolina. And they were great
On capitol hill. Walk us through these fastmoving developments, if you can. Doesnt sound like a lot of support for an immunity deal for general flynn on capitol hill, safe to say. Right now is important, because we have been told by those lawmakers in the middle of these investigations on both sides of the capitol, the senate and the house, that it is fairly early in their investigations. Part of what they want to do is by reviewing a lot of documents, including raw intelligence, doing a series of different interviews where they gain information and details that would help them formulate a series of questions for someone as central as Michael Flynn pears to be. As the former National Security advise tore the president , someone who lost that job very quickly over issues of his own credibility and ties to at least meeting with the russian ambassador, if not more. So timing is important. Could they ever get to a point where immunity could be considered . They also want to be mindful of w
And we need it. We need it even for defense, if you think. I mean we need it for defense. We need great steelmakers, great aluminium makers. Connell since then some countries have threatened to retaliate and theres some concern from the president s own party that the move could have a negative effect on the economy. No trade war has ever worked. We dont want to make america 1930 again. And forgotten men and women of america dont want to be drafted into a trade war. Connell Molly Henneberg picks up the story now live from washington. Whats the latest . President trump intends to sign an executive order next week adding a 25 tax to imported steel and a 10 tax to imported aluminium. In part to counter other countries such as china overproducing steel and dumping it on to the u. S. Market. President trump says hes trying to save the American Steel industry and to fight back against an 800 billion dollars trade deficit. The president tweeted today, quote, the United States has an 800 billio
Welcome to americas news headquarters, im ebony. Leland we hope that you enjoy a little break from the weather, im leland vittert. President trump taking a little break from what current standards has been a crazy week as the white house tries to put a good spin on the chaos, hi, ellison. Hi, a pretty short trip for the president and only be here to what will amount to 24 hours, maybe a little less than. Last night he had dinner with rnc donors and schedule today leave a little later this afternoon. We believe that he was playing golf earlier this morning and heading back to dc early because hes set to and the 133rd dinner, dinner has taken place for years and the president has always invited the skits, jokes, the white house roast journalists and the journalists roast the white house, off the cord event and President Trump t attend last year and sent mike pence on his place, he has skipped the Traditional Press events. Its also ending with the staff shakeup, hope hicks will be leaving