Laura Coates Live

President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday. China was already set to see tariffs increase by 34% as part of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs package. But the president tacked on another 50% after Beijing didn’t back off on its promise to impose 34% retaliatory tariffs on US goods by noon Tuesday, adding an additional 84% in duties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While many nations are scrambling to strike tariff deals with Trump, China is standing up to him, hoping to turn “crisis into opportunity.” Within 48 hours of Trump’s market-hammering announcement of tariffs on countries across the world, the world’s second-largest economy swiftly retaliated with its own punitive measures on US goods and firms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are facing blowback from all corners – a market sell-off, foreign retaliation, anger from corporate America and skepticism from the Federal Reserve chairman and some allies in Congress. So far, the president is defiant in the face of the global turbulence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump declared a US economic emergency and announced tariffs of at least 10% across all countries, with rates even higher for 60 countries or trading blocs that have a high trade deficit with the US. Auto tariffs are now in effect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump declared a national economic emergency and announced tariffs of at least 10% across all countries, with rates even higher for 60 countries. China, the second top exporter to the US behind Mexico, will now face a 54% tariff. Beijing, along with the EU, has already threatened retaliatory tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that “there are methods” to achieving this and emphasizing that he was “not joking” in recent interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving senior US officials discussing battle plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, may have done long-term damage to the US’s ability to gather intelligence on the Iran-backed group going forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge on Thursday ordered key Trump administration agencies to preserve messages sent on Signal between March 11 to March 15. Judge James Boasberg made the ruling in a preservation lawsuit brought in the wake of the revelation that Cabinet officials were discussing war plans on Signal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Atlantic published the full sequence of texts among President Trump's top national security officials discussing pending military strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen in mid-March — a chain to which The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added. The newly-published messages included texts The Atlantic had previously withheld because they included specific operational details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Several of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials, at times with assistance from a top Senate Republican, shifted responsibility to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a journalist was included in. Under sharp questioning from outraged Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard repeatedly denied that the chat contained classified information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices