Now @IvankaTrump on stage: "This president and this administration is fighting for each and every one of you."
"I don't know what they are but I think they're going to be terrific," says @POTUS of tomorrow's GDP number.
Another reference by @POTUS to "the fake news back there. ... They're dying to see us to make a little bit of a mistake."
"I could be one of you," @POTUS tells steelworkers. "It could be me. And I'd be happy if I was."
"We're having the best economy we've ever had in the history of our country," declares @POTUS. "This is the time to straighten out the worst trade deals ever made by any country" in history.
"This is a special industry to me. This is steel. And we're watching this one closely. It's going up," says @POTUS at Granite City Mill.
"We're sending a message to our foreign competitors: The days of plundering American jobs and wealth -- those days are over."
"We'll be able to compete and win against any country, that I know."
"Thanks to our tariffs, idle factories throughout our nation are roaring back to life."
"Now China is going after our soybean farmers in the hopes we will surrender our intellectual property," says @POTUS.
"We're not going to give China or any other country a veto on United States national security," vows @POTUS. "We will not let anybody bully our wonderful American farmers."
"Breakthrough agreement" with #EU will lead to fair and reciprocal trade, says @POTUS.
"They said I was too nasty to NATO and too nice to Russia. Figure that one out."
#NATO is a lot better than Europe than it is for US, according to @POTUS.
Press accused him of treating with disrespect the @NATO "kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers and a dictator or two," says @POTUS.
KIm Jong Un "making terrific progress," says @POTUS of the #DPRK leader.
"Who know ultimately what is going to happen," says @POTUS of the Korean peninsula. "We have established, really, a very good relationship" with the #DPRK.
"Now I have a great relationship, I think, with Chairman Kim," adds @POTUS.
"You don't get the real view from the fake news media," says @POTUS.
"The more power we have the more we're not going to have to use it," says @POTUS.
EU to purchase "a large amount of American soybeans" in response to #China trying to hurt American farmers, according to @POTUS.
Thanks to @JunckerEU for "working to extend this historic agreement," says @POTUS.
"Our country is becoming prestigious again," declares @POTUS. "America is back"
And @POTUS finishes after 52 minutes on stage in Granite City, Illinois.
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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein suggested he secretly recorded @POTUS and discussed the 25th Amendment, reports @nytimes. nyti.ms/2xxNdwl
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said in a statement. “Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
My colleague @masoodfarivar relays from source who was in room (with DAG when he made the comment): “I remember this meeting and remember the wire comment. The statement was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president.”
"Those who interfere with our liberties will pay a price," @SecPompeo tells reporters and specifically mentions past election interference actions by #Russia.
"What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented," says @SecPompeo about @JohnKerry and his efforts to save #Iran#JCPOA. "It is beyond inappropriate."
"Actively undermining U.S. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of," adds @SecPompeo.
Prosecutors file new charging document against ex-@realDonaldTrump campaign chairman @PaulManafort, signaling a possible plea deal, reports @AP.
A guilty plea to charges in his second trial (which was to be held in Washington, DC) is to be entered today by @PaulManafort, according to media reports.
According to the filing, @PaulManafort will enter a guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.