Immigration. As you pointed out, he spent a threeday weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. On top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. We are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. All of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. It isnt just on the Immigration Issue as you pointed out. It is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. Amazon, nafta, mexico. Some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. Even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. At the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. It is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. Reporter absolu
President s trade war and repeated attacks on amazon. Then theres his authoritarian trifecta. Going after the quote unquote he writes Justice Department and congratulating another strongman leader after democratic election most people dont think was terribly democratic. Mika is off in a family matter. Joe will be with us in a moment. Weve got National Affairs analyst, republican strategist and political commentator, and the president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray. So markets overseas are seeing losses this morning following the latest massive selloff on wall street to kick off the new quarter. The dow fell as many as 758 points yesterday before trimming its losses to close down 458. The nasdaq was the hardest hit shedding nearly 3 . Futures looking slightly like theyre up this morning. Stocks suffered heavy losses on the combination of fears of a trade war and the Tech Industry getting hit with new regulations. China announced yesterday
This, damage the users of the commodity, in this case steel. Its a tax. So i have Richard Quest with me, our cnn money editor at large but i want to begin with alison kosik. So talk me through some of the reaction and what may be some of the factors going into the numbers this afternoon. You look at the dow down right now 626 points. Thats actually off the lows of the session so its looking pretty good right now because were seeing things stabilize. The mood here very calm. You know the way many traders see it is weve seen the market go up, up and up and its about time we see it correct. I did talk with one trader who did say for a president who claims to be pro business, that President Trump is literally killing the stock market. Especially with his tweets. Many tell me they want those tweets about amazon to stop. You look at amazon shares, that really has been a major driver for the runup in the market that weve seen. Just yeartodate, you look at those shares for amazon, up over 60 .
All the democrats fault. Mr. President , what about the daca kids . Should they worry about whats going to happen . They had this great opportunity. Democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Fact check. Undocumented immigrants who come into the country now cannot, as he said, take advantage of daca. Only those in the country before 2007 are eligible for the program. Its written down, its on the books, its all right out there. President trump was also the one who originally pulled the plug on the program. Remember when he wanted to Work Together on a deal . I feel having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital, because this should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. Truly, it should be a bill of love. Lets debrief with our team of reporters. Katherine lucy is a White House Reporter for the associated press. Ashley parker is a White House Reporter for the washington post. And an msnbc political analyst. And ken vogue
Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, april 3rd. Do you want to show us what the villanova wildcats did . Im good. You should probably go ahead. The controversial firings of two top officials and a doubling of resources to respond to House Republicans request, tt President Trump continued to attack the fbi yesterday. Those words in air quotes and the fbi are slow walking or even not giving the unredacted documents requested by congress. An embarrassment to our country. It refers to republicans complaints that doj officials have taken too long to hand over materials about the investigation of Hillary Clintons email server, spy ing on trump adviser carter a page and about former fbi Deputy Director andrew mccabe. And dr. Joe he mccabe, the the wife of the former fbi director is now responding to the president. After more than a year of speeches, though jill mccabe ran as a democrat, she writes in the washington post, a reliable republican in that she has voted for republicans and democrat