people s republic of china is not happy with the recent overtures between the united states and taiwan. but this is an issue that has her plexed and aggravated the chinese any time we sell a weapon, military equipment to taiwan. the mainland gets upset. but bien large the relationship has continued to grow. what is more upsetting to the relationship is the tariffs that the trump administration has announced it will obviously china the main land will retaliate and your report indicated, it will affect the cost of everything that americans buy on a daily basis. so much of what we use an consume owe on a daily basis is made in china. so the tariffs that are surcharges or taxes on goods coming from china will mean americans pay higher prices for the things they already buy. but china will retaliate.
life, has begun. his new life in confinement. momentarily, we expect to speak to an attorney for at least one of the victims who testified in this trial. there were 10 alleged victims, eight of whom we heard the testimony of in this relatively short trial. also relatively short deliberations. 21 hours for some 48 counts in all. we had a jury of 7 women, 5 men. we are not going to be hearing from any of the jurors tonight. the jurors were, while all of this has been going on outside the courthouse, the jurors have been receiving instructions from the judge not to speak to any reporters tonight. do we have justine? joining me now is justine. thank you very much for being with us. first of all, have you talked to your clients tonight? and if so, what did they feel about these this conviction? absolutely. the very first calls i made were to clients who did testify in the trial. they were greatly relieved. almost in disbelief. one of them said thank god he s in jail. and the o
full fledged congressional showdown with a tax hike for millions of americans hanging in the balance. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this just coming in. our brand new poll numbers hitting pitting president obama against the republican candidate. the survey puts each toe to toe the president and even though the election is still almost 11 months away, the results still troubling for the gop. let s go inside the numbers with ron brownstein of the national journal. thanks very much for coming in. these numbers, hot, they re fresh right now. hypothetical match-ups between the president and the republican challengers out there. look at this. in a hypothetical match-up between president obama and mitt romney. right now, president obama would win 52 to 45%. margin of error, 3%, but he would still win national. those are some of the best numbers we have seen for president obama in any of the head to heads recently. seven points ahead of mitt romney, wider than