President and this administration, really the world, wants north korea to finally step down with regard to its nuclear process. John . All right, dana bash. Fascinating interview from right there in the Demilitarized Zone in north korea, between north korea and south korea. The Vice President with a message that Military Action might be on the table, but a different message coming from inside the white house. Cnns athena jones is there. And athena, we have heard from the National Security adviser maybe some different language than the Vice President. Reporter hi, john. Thats right. H. R. Mcmaster, the National Security adviser, putting the emphasis on nonmilitary options. But john, the Central Question in all of this, or a big Central Question in all of this is what china will do. Will china do more . President trump has made it clear he wants to see China Step Up Pressure on north korea to rein in its nuclear ambitions, and he believes china can do so because china is the norths main
over president trump s tariffs. the president announcing friday the u.s. will impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of chinese kboods. goods. the move, designed to punish china for stealing american technology and trade secrets, so how is the president s tariff decision playing with his base supporters? one pennsylvania manufacturer says president trump is now in danger of losing his support. cnn money s have cnn money reports. reporter: how much of your business have you lost to china? on large scale orders, we ve lost 100% of our business. 100%? all of it? yes. reporter: gary hartman has spent most of his life working at cheetah and says he s watched the company go from one of the world s biggers manufacturers to barely breaking even. there are not a lot of heavy steel manufacturers in h country. we ve been able to survive. reporter: so hartman took tens of thousands of dollars from his own company for one trip to washington, d.c.
so, the president does not like to spend the weekend in washington, d.c. he has gone to mar-a-lago seven times since his inauguration. he spent 25 days there, and now we re learning the state department posted this on its website. it s an article about president trump s private club, which he s nicknamed the winter white house. yeah, the post has since been removed, but this was made available to all embassies through a government website called share america. seems almost promotional. is that a problem? cnn money s cristina alesci has more on this and joins us now. the blowback to this blog post, which is actually down now the state department took the blog post down, but the blowback was almost immediate. you had democratic lawmakers essentially saying this is an example of a clitocracy and ethics experts who said this was
totaling about $250 million. joining us now is one of the reporters who broke this story, steve riley with usa today and cnn money s cristina alesci, on the conflicts of interest watch. thank you both for being with us. steve, first to you. these condos that the president and his family own, he s not required to report them. and in fact, he did not report them or disclose them. so, what is the possible ethics concern here? absolutely. on his financial disclosure form, president trump needed to disclose the companies he owns, but not the specific property units that he owns. so, what usa today did was look at real estate records from new york to california that catalog his properties, and we found more than 400 condo units and home lots continue to be owned by the president s companies, and they opened the door to anyone who wants to purchase them and spew millions towards trump, anyone who potentially might want to influence the white house. buyers can overpay for the units.
washington, d.c., schools, you know, the families of members of congress, to the white house lawn for this celebration. you can see him now signing some make america great again hats there as well. some of his adult children are there. barron trump, his young son from new york city who still lives and goes to school in new york city. he is down for this celebration. this was the first big public event that the trump family and mrs. trump has hosted at the white house. we re keeping our eye on that as they enjoy the celebration. all right, the stock markets, they are up to start the week. not far from investors minds, apparently, the president s approach to foreign policy. the president wrote this weekend, why would i call china a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the north korean problem? we will see what happens! he writes. cnn money s cristina alesci joins us now with our market update. and the one thing that investors had been afraid from the beginning