hasn t directed him to necessarily make added protections. there s definitely different pulses going on. shepard: jesse burns associate editor at the hill. thank you, shep. shepard: we expect the president to speak at a news conference with the swedish prime minister, a few minutes from now. you heard all that s on john roberts plate and that from jesse burns. we ll bring that when it happens. reporters waiting to ask questions on a range of topics, including the recent developments involving north korea. but first. that is not good. shepard: no, that is definitely not good. not good at all. this is bismarck, north dakota. a garbage truck sliding sideways after a snowstorm. and in the northeast, in like a lion, march is not about to be nice. folks all up and down the eastern see board, 40 million people in the line of a crazy
trade groups, afl-cio and labor unions coming out in support of this, trying to rally their workers across the country in support of this. but of course there s executives, trump has a lot of business ties, many of the people in his administration, gary cone, former goldman-sachs executive, now at the top xikive advisor, getting into the president s ear and say, look, this is what is going to have huge ramifications if you go through with it. of course there are other voices in the administration, wilbur ross, who for the last few years has been encouraging trump to pursue this aggressive strategy. there s mixed signals even from the administration itself. shepard: interesting to hear he s almost as if he s attacking canada after the russians attacked us and he didn t mention it. the word that his own warner used was warfare on the part of the russians. has there been any condemnation fgts russians, any attempt to
to the united states. the president, there s been no indication he s backing off of that. people in the white house and around are trying to maintain that. shepard: zeke miller and john roberts now in the room. the news conference set to begin live without interruption. president trump: thank you very much. thank you. i m honored to be joined by prime minister lofven of sweden at our first meeting in the white house. sweden is one of our oldest and closest partners. among the first european nations to offer unsoliciteded feety of friendship, in 1783. that s a long time ago. my daughter, ivanka, had a wonderful time watching american and swedish athletes compete in the mean s curling final at the olympics.
attention to. the brunt of this, coming late tomorrow into the overnight hours for thursday, early thursday morning. it does begin to clear off. how much snow are we talking about, the darker areas, some of those spots getting up to 12 inches, 15 inches or more along the coast. a little bit less, the model isn t exactly coming into the line together, some a couple of inches, half a foot of snow. but that s something we will be watching. more shepard smith recording after the break.
stop the russians in future meddling? well, yeah, i think that we re seeing this russia probe escalating at the same time trump is trying to voice and flex his control over one thing, trade in this case. there s huge issues that he is unilaterally making announcements on or trying to voice support working with democrats in congress while this escalating russia probe is downgoing. we haven t seen any indication from the administration they re going to pursue those sanctions, congress passed last year. shepard: do we know why not? we don t have any real indication from the administration. full-throated reasoning why. they have worked with state officials across the country on making sure that they have provided safeguards for the upcoming elections. but we have seen some concern on capitol hill after the secretary rogers testimony last week, two weeks ago, saying trump himself