that's our broadcast for tonight. we hope to see you at 4 p.m. eastern tomorrow. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. this morning, growing concern in america's heartland over a possible trade war with china as beijing threatens more tariffs on u.s. goods. the trump administration is suggesting it may be a negotiation tactic. federal lay prevents troops from making arrests. and after saying he wanted to get out of syria, president trump has now agreed to keep u.s. troops in the war-torn country, at least for now. good morning, everyone.

it's thursday, april 5th. with signs on of uncertainty as president trump heads into a trade war with china, the white house with insisted it's just a bargaining chip. the president once again exaggerating the u.s. trade deficit with china by $163 billion, despite numerous fact checks. "the wall street journal" reports that president trump who initiated the tensions over chinese trade practices has put himself in position to face mounting pressure from lawmakers and navigating cumbersome new trade rules all of which was feeding tremendous volatility into the stock and commodities market. "the washington post" reports the president is finally expediting the policies that got

him elected and is more comfortable without a number of aides around him who are tempering his instincts. and he cites poll number necessary recent weeks as a reason he should do it his own way. >> there is concern as china's move to match america's 50 billion in tariffs goes after a key crop for u.s. farmers. china purchases 61% of total u.s. soybean exports and more than 30% of overall u.s. soybean production. the headline in the des moines register this morning reads tariffs may help to sink farmers. iowa's republican senators are respond to go that. senator jonis ernst said yesterday there is a real danger that increased tariffs on u.s. exports will harm iowa producers and undermine the rural economy. the administration's action could hurt global supply chain. and senator chuck grassley

said had this, the united states should take action to defend its interests when any foreign nation isn't playing by the rules or refuses to police itself. but farmers and ranchers should not be expected to bear the brunt of retaliation for the entire country. it is not fair. it is important to to remember the big picture. >> so what is the administration message to, for example, the farmer he, the soybean farmer or the hog farmer in the state of iowa? >> we are trying to put in place measures which will have the backs of our farmers and our ranchers and everybody else in this country. >> let's keep in mind the bigger picture here. is china trying to pit portions of america against other portions of america with its strategic avenues on these tariffs? is that the case? again, i get back to this issue. china is engaged in these

massive practices that harm this country. all we're asking them to do is stop doing it. >> so here is the thing. national economic director larry kudlow expressed caution about whether the full effects of these tariffs will actually ever be felt. is it possible that these stiff new tariffs against china are, in fact, a negotiating tactic and won't go into effect? >> yes, it's possible. it's part of the process. i mean, i would take the president seriously on this tariff issue. you know, there are carrots and sticks, but he is ultimately a free trader. he said that to me. he said it publicly. so he wants to solve this with the least amount of pain. meanwhile in beijing, it's confirmed there is no winner in a trade war. the chinese ambassador to the united states met with officials

at the state department, particularly with acting secretary of state john sullivan. after that meeting, he spoke with reporters. here is ambassador kai. >> what about the negotiations? >> of course the negotiation will still be our preference, but it takes two to tango. we'll see. >> switching gears here, president trump has reluktly agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria. but as pressuring military commanders to end american involvement in the war-torn country as soon as possible. president trump wants air regard allies to take over and pay for stabilizing and reconstructing areas liberated from isis. according to nbc news, the president met with his national security team on tuesday. a senior administration official

described trump as frustrated and exasperated with the answers he was getting. the president's team could not put a time frame on how long it would take to train local forces to maintain their gains after the u.s. leaves the region. but the president agreed to give the effort more time when advisers reminded him that he was criticized. he has criticized setting arbitrary deadlines particularly withdraw in the past. president trump has signed a declaration to send national guard troops to the southern border. it calls for the departments of defense and homeland security to fight with boarders on illegal immigration. the move is being activated under title 32 which gives governors command and control over their troops while the federal government foot's the bill. the troops will not make contact with any immigrants. yesterday, kiersten nielsen will

put this in place. the administration insists that a surge over the past month and the potential uptick this month is cause for urgency. >> we are seeing more and more advertising, very unfortunately by the traffickers and smugglers to our south specific to how to go around our boarders. today is the day we want to start this process. the threat is real. >> george w. bush sent 6,000 national guard troops to the southern border back in 2006. president trump sent 1200 back in 2010. in both cases, troops supported border patrol but did not carry out any seizures or arrests.

coming up on "morning joe," homeland security secretary will be joining us on set. >> joining us on set, daniel lippman. good to see you this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about syria this year. president trump telling military leaders he wanted them to prepare to withdraw troops from syria as soon as possible. what are you making now of president trump's most recent push to pulp troops out of syria? basically against the advice, really, of his top military leaders. >> you're seeing his isolation come out. he has long been against foreign interventions, but he's brought people like mike pompeo and jan bolton into his administration and they disagree on when to pull troops out. remember when the u.s. stopped

intervening in afghanistan after the soviets left, you had the taliban rise up. for the u.s. to ignore what happens in syria as long as isis is technically defeed, that's just not good news long-term for the u.s. >> let's talk about the decision to send national guard troops to the southern border. was trump's decision you think somewhat or at all prizing? he's been talking about immigration for a couple of days. he had mentioned the military, but followed through with decision yesterday. talk to us about how it was rolled out. was that in itself surprising? >> yeah. as you mentioned, the number of illegal immigrants coming into the u.s. is the lowest level since 1971. so it's not this huge crisis. you always see a stream of immigrants from central america

making their way through new mexico to get to the u.s. around this time of year. it's not clear that the national guard will actually do much to stem that tide. and it seems like he has lashed out after watching something on fox news and that's a regular occurrence for this administration. the prosecution and defense teams in bill cosby's sexual trial have selected their jury. the jury will consistent of seven men and 5 women. widespread impact of the "me too" movement have made the selection process pretty difficult for cosby's defense team. there were concerns of racial bias after with one of the

defense attorneys accused prosecutors of rejecting potential jurors solely on on the basis of their race and their gender. cosby is accused of drugging and molesting andrea constan back in 2004. he maintains the encounter was consensual. prosecutors plan to call as many as five additional accusers in an effort to portray cosby as a serial predator. he has denied all accusations of sexual misconduct. the new trial is set to begin april 9th. still ahead, potential ethics issues for incoming security adviser john bolton while white house lawyers are questioning him about. and a check on your weather when we come back.

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welcome back. watch this. >> okay. >> how do you see vladimir putin, is he a friend or a foe? >> mr. putin may believe that he is winning in this new form of warfare. >> we'll find out. i'll let you know. there will be a time when i'll let you know. >> russia brazenly denies its actions. >> probably nobody has been tougher to russia than donald trump. >> nobody has been tougher on russia than.i have. >> perhaps he believes that our free nations are weak and will not respond. >> i know you're nodding yes because everyone agrees when they think about it. >> we might all help mr. putin understand his grave error. >> does he agree with mcmaster

that we have failed to impose sufficient costs on russia? >> what mr. master said is that we've been very tough on russia. he echoed the president's message from yesterday that no one has been tougher on this president than this president. what he also said was other nations could do more and should do more. that's not different or in contrast to anything that we've said. >> not what he said. not what he said at all. >> incredible. >> so while mcmaster did say in his speech that the united states is act, he also said, quote, but we must recognize the need for all of us to do more to respond to and deter russian aggression. and he did not say no one has been tougher than russia on president trump. just 6 1/2 weeks ago when mcmaster spoke about the kremlin undermining the u.s. in the

presidential election, president trump tweeted this, general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians. incoming national security adviser john boltons has reportedly been meeting with white house attorneys about possible conflicts of interest. the john bolton pac and super pac are not officially shutting down when he gets his office. as long as bolton's pac wasn't raising or spending any money while he worked in the white house, it could still keep its name and would not be in violation. bolton agreed. bolton and the white house did not return repeated questions for comment on the story. bolton is slated to take over as national security adviser on

monday. with that, let's go to bill carin wes a check on your weather. >> oh, i have great news. >> i'm sure you do. >> snow. perfect cuddle weather. it's fantastic. >> keep moving. >> that windstorm was quite the thing yesterday. all the airport problems we had, still a little windy in areas from boston up to maine, but it is improving. mow the cold air is filtered all the way to the south. we have freeze warnings that cover much of tennessee, kentucky, even the raleigh area. the windchill values get your attention as you get out there this morning. right now in atlanta, southern mississippi, jackson, feels like 38. windchill in buffalo is in the teens this morning. here is the forecast for today. the southern half of the country this time of year, as long as

you get the sun, you'll warm it up. 6/6 in atlanta is your recovery. fine in florida. texas looks good. the northeast still has the chill to it with breezy conditions throughout the day. 44 in boston. 47 in new york. the high of 30 in billings. that's the next shot of really cold air coming down. with it, we're going to get some snow, too. let's fast forward. snow breaking out here through south dakota, through nebraska. as we go through friday afternoon, a little bit of snow trying to pop up through kansas city. friday evening, which this is when it blossoms through friday morning. snow are from charleston to washington. the latest trend is to be south of new york city and maybe philadelphia, d.c. southward towards richmond. richmond getting snow in daytime hours in april is almost unheard of. not a huge ordeal, but the possibility of accumulating

snow, west virginia, maybe somewhere near d.c., baltimore, maybe philadelphia. >> and then winter will be over, right, bill.? >> for bill it is. he's going on spring break next week. at some point -- >> guys, no. i am sensitive to everyone no matter where i am. >> until we see those pictures. >> enjoy your week off cuddling, bill. >> it's going to be hot where he's going. still ahead, it's show time once again out west as the angels phenom goes yard for the second time. and the masters is set to tee off at augusta. we'll explain next in sports. or is it? this farmer's morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud, and iot sensors down here, for precise monitoring of irrigation. it's a smart way to help increase yields,

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour.

let's start with the morning's top stories. embattled epa administrator scott pruitt is once again firing back at critics amid controversies involving the agency chief. pruitt discussed the questions over the $50 a day condo he rented from a lobbyist and his wife and controversial pay raises for two of his staff members about other questionable decisions saying this let him get out of it. >> i do believe as we do our work on, ed, as we're focused on these types of things. the these are transformational. this place has been a place for years that has been used by the environmental left to advance an agenda. >> why did you go around the president and the white house to give pay raises on to two staffers -- >> i did not. my staff did and i found out about that yesterday and i changed it. >> who does it? >> i don't know.

i don't know -- >> it's your agency. you don't know who did it? >> i found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. and we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting that -- >> hang on. both of these staffers who got pay raises are friends of yours. they are from oklahoma, right? >> they are from -- >> they are friends of yours. >> yes. >> why did you pay $50 a night to rent the condo for -- let's talk about that. they'd said that it's market rate. >> you're renting it from a lobbyist. >> that has no business with this agency. to take his relationship and -- >> you're not answering the situation. >> it was like an air bnb situation. when i was there, i had access

to a room -- >> so you only paid for the nights that you were this there. that's exactly right. >> that's kind of a sweetheart deal. >> no, it's not. >> pretty contentious back and forth there. so on the topic of that condo, "the washington post" is reported the that after moving out of it last summer, pruitt had no fixed address in washington, d.c. for a month. the post says that pruitt traveled extensively for work and remained at his home in tulsa, oak owing, for weeks. the paper adds the epa declined to disclose when the adminer did this. >> we take this seriously and we'll looking into it and we'll let you know when we're finished. >> earlier we told but the president's plan to sent

national guards troops to the southern border. yesterday, the secretary on of homeland security repeated two of the president's false claims that the wall is currently under construction and that the billion dollars in newly secured border promise goes towards fulfilling trump's campaign promise. >> we are started building. we're building realtime in -- >> how much do y'all have at this point? >> this is an important question. to us, it is all new wall. if there is a wall that needs replaced, it's being replaced by a new wall. this is the trump border wall -- >> replacing walls is part of building the wall in your words? >> yes, it would. some places will have taller walls, depending. >> as pol i tifact the points

out, the $1.6 billion is for fencing, not the border wall, and it can only be used for, quote, operationally effective designs. changing gears now, fears of a potential trade war with china are hitting america's heartland after beijing announced it may hit goods like soy being, corn and beef with a 25% tariff while president trump has posted defiant messages on twitter his administration is suggesting may all be a negotiation tactic. tom costello has more on this. >> in evansville, indiana, joe stein camp's soybeans and corn have got a target on them. now included in a list of products china plans to hit with tariffs. with a third of his soybeans sold to china, he could lose $120,000 this year. >> less money for church and less money to send the kids on to college and less money to

save and inreinvest in our farm. >> china has singled out 106 american products for 25% higher tariffs, including soybeans and corn, beef, whiskey, tobacco, cars, trucks, suvs and planes. the move comes just hours after the trump administration imposed another round of products on steel for intellectual property including electronics, steel, and much more potentially making product americans enjoy much more expensive. mr. trump tweeting, we are not in a trade war with china. that war was lost many years ago by the foolish or incompetent people who run the u.s. but it was suggested yesterday it could be a negotiating tact ig. >> there are carrots and sticks in life, but he is ultimately a free trader. >> a look trailers in indiana, matt arnold must now pay 25% more for steel.

>> i think the abruptness and the nature of the way this is happening is heavy handed. downstream, we're small businesses. >> several republican senators from farm states are now criticizing the white house for initiating this trade war. meanwhile, the white house is making the point these tariffs don't go into effect for six months, giving both sides plenty of time to find a negotiated settlement. a ace yasmin. facebook is dealing with more fallout as it's revealed the number of users' information that has been shared is up to 87 million. this reflected an estimate. following the new numbers, cambridge analytica issued a statement of their own disputing the figures saying in part that it licensed data for no more

than 30 million people and that it had not received more data than had this. mark zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company would offer all of its users the same tools required under european privacy rules. those rules, which go into effect next month give people more control over how people use their digital data. ahead of the facebook ceo's announcement, the house energy and commerce committee announced that he will testify before the panel on wednesday regarding the company's data scandal. hours later, the senate judiciary committee announced it will testify in front of its members the day before the hearing. joining us now is daniel lippman. great to have you back with us once again. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about facebook for a moment. it has raised the estimates on how many people's data may have been improperly used by

cambridge analytica, with almost doubling their initial estimate from 30 to 80 million. with mark zuckerberg set to testify on the hill next week, what do we expect to hear from lawmakers about this? >> i think from zuckerberg, you're expecting to hear a lot of contrition saying we're sorry. from senators and congressmen, you're going to hear a lot of hemming and hawing about criticizing zuckerberg and saying why do these numbers just keep getting worse? and our constituents, are they protected from future election interfering from places like russia or is this social media network going to keep allowing this? >> with one is the new announcement that they're going to keep privacy standards for u.s. compared to what european policies are so that the u.s. is not going to be on par with european privacy policies. and i wonder why our own

lawmakers did not implement that earlier on on facebook and why did facebook also not do that earlier. why are they not applies it across the board. >> and we're going to talk about this later in the show, but one of the theories out there, it seems, is that they're sort of setting up these new privacy policies so that when mark zuckerberg walks in he has that defense there. >> we've also seen them promise to do things in the past. they signed this consent to create with the ftc several years ago and the ftc is looking at that right now to see if they lived up to those promises. >> let's talk quickly, daniel, about scott pruitt. he's basically saying there's a back and forth. do you think it's too little too late for him in his defense? >> i still think he has a good chance of happening on to his job. he's on the same page as trump in terms of policy.

they've deregulated from that agency a lot where businesses don't feel like they have to worry about the epa. so trump and pruitt, they have the same mind on these issues and he's been very effective in his job. he's just been lax and careless in his own life. >> daniel lippman, good to have you on, bud. >> thank you. president "the rock" in 2020. the high profile meeting by dwayne johnson that's adding more fuel to the fire that he may be eyeing a run for the white house. plus, we're more than two weeks into spring, but bill karins will be talking about snow once again when he returns with a look at the forecast. stay with us.

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welcome back, everybody. movie star dwayne "the rock" johnson confirmed yesterday on

social media, on instagram, that he was part of a group of celebrities that dined with the saudi prince at rupert murdoch's california home. the this as johnson's name has been floated as a possible contender to run for president in 2020. in fact, he recently told "rolling stone" that he has been taking under the radar meeting with experts from across the political spectrum trying to learn had as much as he can. the action star teased that a well known political figure offered to lend him a hand telling johnson to text him the words freedom patriot when he's ready to run for president. i'm going to bet that president trump is tweeting about "the rock" pretty soon with regards to how he can beat him. not out back, but in the race. >> think joe abide.en. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> i found someone who doesn't complain about the weather. >> who?

>> jeff ross coy coe in minneso. >> he's from minnesota. >> after 6 inches of snow, he said he's ready for the masters. it's a good swing for this time of year, too. >> so let's get into the snow forecast. more is on the way. it's going to start tomorrow and later on tonight. montana, wyoming, the snow goes through areas of nebraska, possibly through missouri as we go throughout the day tomorrow. friday night into saturday, the snow will accumulate right along the ohio river. definitely in the higher elevations of west virginia and southern ohio. you have a good chance of accumulating snow. there will be a narrow strip somewhere from d.c. to baltimore, possibly philadelphia. somewhere in that region you'll get enough on the grass that you don't have to shovel. then we'll have to watch out for california flooding. i don't know if you've ever heard of the term the pineapple express, but a plume of moisture from ohio ohio will into

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indiceses rebounded from massive early losses to close sharply. a higher and news of u.s. tariff negotiations caused a 471-point swing over the course of the day. jomana jones us live from london. is this level of market volatility of investors the new normal, do you think or are we going to reach something that will stabilize the market? >> this is the third time this year that the dow has erased a 2% down date and positive hasn't done that for a full five years. so it did make that rebound of 741 points from the lows of the session and this as both sides in u.s. have indicated a willingness to actually start some discussions and come to the table and i think people are going to be on their toes waiting to see how those discussions, one if the discussions do happen and two, if they'll have any results.

all eyes will be on the first of may. but markets are a lot better now. asian markets were up 1%. european markets are up 1.5% and all the stocks that were done yesterday have recovered. >> let's talk about some big news that came out after saudi arabia. we mentioned earlier that the crown prince was in hollywood meeting with some a-list actors and film executives, but now saudi arabia has signed a deal. >> i appear have have lost you but they are opening up the first movie theater in 30 years and they will be showing "black panther" as their very first movie. i'm not sure if you can hear me but it's the first in 30 years and both genders will be able to answer. >> she beat me to the punch. live from london for us, thank you. >> coming up, a look at axios'

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios am, political reporter, alexi good to talk to you this morning. >> good morning. >> give us our one big thing for the morning. >> it's about the worry coming from within the white house. they consider this to be the most dangerous phase of president trump's presidency. and they're saying this because critics have largely been purged from the white house. the checks against him are either going ignored or eliminated and they're arguing that things have become so

polarized that it's not giving it the attention it deserves. >> i know you guys are reporting that some of the president's closest allies are raising concerns about what trump may do next. how is his current state any different from what we've seen over the past year or so in his time in office? >> well, it has been a crazy year, but they're saying this moment is different because president trump is spending a lot of his time watching fox news, which speaks to his world view and surrounding himself with people and friends who, you know, fuel his egoand also his conspiracy theories like don king. he just had dinner with him. and the one time i met don king, our entire five minute conversation was filled with conspiracy theories but i think the most recent example of that was on easter sunday when trump was tweeting about immigration sending tweet over tweet in which he suggested he didn't know how daca worked and he was taking this hard line stance and that is largely because he was next to and with steven miller,

one of his senior policy aides who takes a hard line stance on immigration and that's showing how his thinking is increasingly surrounded by the people he's around. >> it shows how much he's isolated in his policy decisions. let's talk about the discussion you had with bremer who spoke with axios. you guys discussed what he called trump's foreign policy wins. what does he see as accomplishments? >> three things he considered accomplishments and that was the trade deal he struck the south korea, the air strikes he sent to syria after its president used chemical weapons and the pressure he's applied on north korea and these are accomplishments because trump has this unique sort of formula that he applies, being risk

averse to challenge and also been spontaneous in these decisions. >> also focusing on scott pruitt and how he still has a job. a lot of people wondering that same question. how is pruitt in his position, you think? >> he's got a host of allies that's back channelling this communication to the president to try to convince him that scott pruitt should stick around. they're saying it's fuelled by ideology and liberals are unhappy and they're the ones fuelling this fire and don't let the left take him down and they think it would add to the general chaos, but obviously if there are more bad reporting or bad facts about scot pruitt to come out there are serious questions that donald trump will have to answer for himself about whether or not that is someone who should be in his cabinet. >> we talked about this a little bit earlier in the show. mark zuckerberg set to make his

debut before congress to discuss cambridge analytica and everything that went on with that. what are you guys seeing that facebook is doing specifically to prepare zuckerberg ahead of these hearings? >> so mark zuckerberg is media shy and not the most charismatic person that we know and yesterday he held an hour long conference call with reporters talking about ways forward and that's signaling to us that he's preparing to testify in front of congress next week. they also announced yesterday the increased number of people affected by cambridge analytica and i think that's signaling also that they are trying to allow mark zuckerberg to get ahead of these things and make sure there are no secrets when he sits down to testify, to make sure he's as prepared as possible. and the coo is going on tv, they're sort of being apologetic. they're doing a media tour before testifying to sort of put themselves out there ahead of time and say we're sorry, look, we're trying so then lawmakers

will maybe be less upset with them. >> not sure we're sorry and look we're trying is going to be enough when 90 million people. >> reporter: -- were affected by this. >> to all of our viewers out there you can sign up for the newsletter at ox i don't saxios. "morning joe" starts right now. >> welcome to "morning joe." there's no shortage of important stories this morning. facebook admits its big problem and it seems to be much larger than we even expected and u.s. troops are heading to the border, but why are they heading to the border and what exactly are they going to do there? speaking of the border, the homeland security chief was grilled on the president's proposed wall, build that wall, it sounded more like they were going to actually do renovation on