"In light of China's unfair retaliation, I have instructed the [United States Trade Representative] to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate," the president said in a statement.
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti told CNN he plans to refile a motion to depose President Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday.
Avenatti wants to ask them about a $130,000 payout from Cohen to the porn star before the 2016 election.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto issued a statement today in response to President’s Trump’s order to send National Guard troops to the southern border.
He said the Mexican government will "never negotiate out of fear.”
Peña Nieto said they “will not allow negative rhetoric to define their actions."
Trump said the administration is still looking at how much the deployment might cost, but that he has a "pretty good idea."
David Schwartz, spokesperson for President Trump's private attorney Michael Cohen, just issued a statement in response to the President's remarks on Air Force One about adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
“This is an accurate assessment of the facts," Schwartz said. "This is exactly what I have been saying all along. Michael Cohen made the payment to protect reputation, family and business. It had nothing to do with the election.”
Asked why Cohen made the payment, Trump said: "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael."
President Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One today, said Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is doing "a fantastic job" and said he'd look at reports about the embattled chief.
"I think he’s done an incredible job,” he said. "He’s been very courageous. It hasn’t been easy, but I think he’s done a fantastic job."
Asked if he was bothered by reports about Pruitt, Trump said, “I have to look at them. ... I’ll make that determination. But he’s a good man, he’s done a terrific job. But I’ll take a look at it.”
Trump said the administration is still looking at how much the deployment might cost, but that he has a "pretty good idea."
And he insisted the troops would remain there until his proposed border wall is complete.
The remarks answered, at least in part, several outstanding questions about the deployment plan, which Trump first announced on Tuesday.
Asked why Cohen made the payment, Trump said: "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael."
He said he didn't know where the money came from and ignored a question about whether he set up a fund for Cohen to draw from in making the payment.
President Trump, at a roundtable on tax reform in West Virginia, talked a lot about immigration.
"And remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower when I opened. Everybody said, 'Oh, he was so tough' and I used the word rape," Trump said. "And yesterday, it came out where this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. They don’t want to mention that. So we have to change our laws."
Green continued: "The idea that they, themselves, are this marauding band of rapists trying to climb the border fence, whatever it is that Trump is trying to imply there is wrong in all sorts of ways."