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President left for a speech scheduled for next hour, in New Hampshire. The subject opioids. We will have more on that later. Over the weekend and early today, a much more pug nacious president. He fired off eight tweets. In them, he attacked the Mueller Probe and for the very first time, he mentioned the special counsel by name. He also trashed two former cop fbi officials. One of woman Andrew Mccabe was fired late friday night. The most provocative were those on his team, suggesting the president may no longer be working with handoff playbook when it comes to bob mueller. We have Halle Jackson and gary haig and Pete Williams our justice correspondent. Lots to break down this hour. Halle, lets begin with you. Is thi ....
By china. There it is right now. You can see the dow other indexes all down after china retaliated over the u. S. Tariffs. The dow currently off more than 530 points right now. It started the morning down about 460. Chinas new tariffs as high as 25 on some goods,s 5 to 10 , on about 0 billi60 billion in. In large part targeting u. S. Farmers according to cnbc. Here to try to make sense of all of it, a cnbc contributor and chief economic correspondent for politico. And on duty for us from the white house, and hans, start with you. Any clue how the white house may respond to this . Reporter not yet, craig. Still waiting from white house reaction since we really saw the market open, and those initial tweets from the president this morning. That was, of course, before china decided to threaten to impose these retalia tear tariffs. You mentioned, they dont take effect until june 1. Here was the president s warning, i dont want to say taunt, earlier this morning. I say openly that china will ....
President left for a speech scheduled for next hour, in new hampshire. the subject opioids. we will have more on that later. over the weekend and early today, a much more pug nacious president. he fired off eight tweets. in them, he attacked the mueller probe and for the very first time, he mentioned the special counsel by name. he also trashed two former cop fbi officials. one of woman andrew mccabe was fired late friday night. the most provocative were those on his team, suggesting the president may no longer be working with handoff playbook when it comes to bob mueller. we have halle jackson and gary haig and pete williams our justice correspondent. lots to break down this hour. halle, let s begin with you. is this going to be a few strategy by the president? is this trump blowing off steam? what more can you tell us about why we saw this exclamation from the president? reporter: yeah, it s a new strategy. not one we seen previously. ....