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tonight, and he is coming off a summit with some of the people who were his strongest detractors during the campaign. senior national correspondent john roberts is outside trump tower again tonight. good evening, john. bret, good evening to you. it was the highest profile summit yet at trump tower, which is directly behind this bus behind me, and also the highest dollars. donald trump played host to high-tech billionaires, most of whom actively campaigned against him in the election. well, i just want to thank everybody. reporter: it was a crowd that just weeks ago had been openly hostile to donald trump. amazon founder jeff bezos who during the campaign claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. apple ceo tim cook who raised millions for hillary clinton. facebook coo sheryl sandberg also backed hillary clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder, elon musk. today trump urged them all to put political differences aside and focus on growing the economy, point out tech sto ....
sean spicer, would the president be okay with a package with a time line in which the tax cuts would be enacted and people would feel it in 2018 and not 2017. a bit of ambiguity. here s spicer. there s two issues. fiscal year 17 and calendar year 17. for tax purposes, it s calendar year 2017 that they re probably most concerned with. the president as we work with congress will have those details to be able to flush out. something that they have to work can congress on. president trump dropped news on this whole conversation just moments ago telling reuters in an interview, speaking about the border adjustment tax, which is a big question in this. the president said, and i m quoting from reuters here, it could lead to a lot more jobs in the united states. as that article dropped, spicer talked up the merits of it saying it benefits workers, americans and the economy. nothing from the white house yesterday, but certainly it appears they re starting to talk it up just a bit ....
they just need tax relief and this is taking a tax burden off their backs but the stimulating nature is well designed so for example, i was at a manufacturing company not long ago and my constituents in suburban chicago. the company said this. peter, we re going to invest $30 million in our plant next year if that tax bill plans with full expensing as we proposed, we re not going to spend $30 million. we re going to spend $50 million it s that type of approach that we re trying to create here which is why there was so much enthusiasm about it among republicans in the house. you haven t seen this in a long long time. maria: well you have enthusiasm sure but not so much from those 13 republicans who voted no against the house bill. god bless them and if you re chasing everybody all the time in terms of a roll call vote you ll be waiting a long time. to get 227 house republicans to agree on something as big as this is i think incredibly significant and a good milestone but we ....
enormous turn and that brought us to 24,265. these trade tariffs are widening a lot. it started with steel and aluminum. it s affecting a variety of products, everything from televisions and cigarettes to plastics. you name it. pork-related, beef products. soy beans, an area that they didn t want to get into that they re into. all of this was a big step-back moment to say it s bad, it s coming but maybe it s not coming at all. this was crazy. you re right. boy, just as the opening bell rang this morning at 9:30, it was looking like we were going to have one of the worst days you could see on wall street. we were down 500 points like this. a couple of things happened after that. the aforementioned larry kudlow did an interview and he shade we wouldn t see a trade war. the markets started to come back after that. there were technical factors at play. people in support levels, held up meaning that at a certain level in a market, whether it s the dow jones industrial average, ma ....
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. base supports president trump. pete: absolute fact. ainsley: do you want to know why the president is so strict about immigration and wanting that wall? if you look at the murder rate in mexico, it went up dramatically in 2017 last year it went up 27%. 31,174 people were murdered. pete: that s higher than the height of the drug wars that happened in early 2011, 2012 over there mexico has 200 million less people in america. yet the number of people murdered in that country is roughly twice ours. serious crime drug problem run by cartels just on our southern border and we are wondering whether we should secure it or not? steve: no kidding. one of the agencies inside the united sta ....