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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. that and $300 billion after that. basically the entire u.s. trade relationship with china. initially on the next tranche of $200 billion, the president was thinking about levying attacks of 10%. this afternoon we re going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25%. the belief here among his trading economic team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders. the president has made some head way the e.u. in terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the playing field. does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures? we d like to see the playing field levelled. the president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said repeatedly, we d ....
doh! spicer. all right, so, the white house used to claim that the president s tweets are not just idle opinionating, they re official statements with the power of the white house behind him. how many times have people working for the president said the president s tweet speaks for itself or words to that effect? except for today s tweet. that apparently doesn t speak for itself. that needs a spokesperson and a tv lawyer speaking for it, sweeping up after it, quietly trying to wipe it off the bottom of their shoes. when the president of the united states says that one of his subordinates should do something and do it now, how is that just one guy s opinion? it all smacks of another effort that was made recently to suggest that the president didn t really say what everyone heard him say. and a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldn t. the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t, or why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a ....
right now. it s not an order, the president s opinion. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? the president is the president of the united states, they re considered official statements by the president of the united states. wow. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. i m confused. so confused. what is that line from the office ? universe, you win. it s thursday, august 2nd. and what a way to start the day. what a way. so, is it the official policy of the president or not? i think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. he was just venting. just like a baseball game. when he s actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. or obstruction of justice. as brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. talk about fake news. you talk about deep state conspiracies. you ....
we will hopefully have updates on that soon. appreciate it. thank you. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill in for poppy on this friday. at this hour with kate bolduan starts now. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. try this on for size. this whole thing is a hoax but we re going to make it a top priority to make sure that hoax never happens again. that seems to be what the president is confusing? it s the show of force versus, well, simply the show. first, the show of force. not the space force, the force, the i national security communi. all at the white house speaking publically and taking questions about election security. the real threats from abroad. no waffling, no sugarcoating Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. that s right. i think the question is, who does vladimir putin believe. it s vladimir putin who is coordinating these attacks on our democracy. he believes the preside ....
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. so i don t this one tweet will do it, too. but i think if ever saw any movement on the rosenstein side of this in response to the president s suggestion, i would imagine you would see some republicans hurry up there. julie, the president and jeff sessions. that relationship, depending on the hour, it is on the rocks or back in good graces. i mean i have no idea. it is such a roller coaster, it is kind of bananas. but no matter what the president says, all along sessions hasn t done anything. right? i mean he just continued to do his job. could this just be is this just a new chapter in the what the heck is going on with this relationship and this is just a bunch of nothing? i would say that this relationship has been pretty toxic for a long time, ever since the president made it known publicly that he was angry at jeff sessions for having recused himself. ....