If it's Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashes out at Pentagon Leakers and the media,

as NBC News reveals new details about the sensitive military information he shared with his brother and wife using his personal phone.

Plus, the White House doubles down on the administration's mass deportation plan

and defends President Trump's unprecedented use of executive authority on immigration,

as Democrats dig in on the fight over due process. And the Trump administration cracks down

on student loans, warning millions of delinquent bowers, they now have two weeks to start paying up

or else.

Hi there, and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington with a pack show ahead

on a very busy day in politics. But first, the roller coaster continued today on Wall Street.

Stocks just finished the trading day with a big rally after yesterday's big sell-off. The Dow closed

higher by more than a thousand points. Stocks were significantly higher across the board,

with investors seemingly pinning their hopes on some private comments by Treasury Secretary

Scott Besson about potential de-escalation in the administration's

trade war with China. NBC News Business and Data Correspondent, Brian Chung, joins me now with more

on the markets. So, Brian, these were closed-door comments by the secretary, and it's unclear if

they reflect the president's view, but the markets ran with it anyway? Yeah, it's an important kind of couching there.

But all of this is kind of coming as of this reporting, which we and our White House team here at NBC News did get attributable to a person in the room.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson telling a private investor summit today that he could see a near-term de-escalation in the U.S. China tariff

dispute, as you'll recall, ratcheting up those effective tariff rates to something closer to

145 percent China responding in kind. Negotiations with Beijing have not yet begun, so this is

kind of optimism coming seemingly from nowhere, but it does match up with what we've heard

from Caroline Levitt, the press secretary, who did say on the record that on a potential trade deal with China, the White House says that they are doing, quote, very well. They're trying to set the stage for a deal with China as the way that they're describing it. But either way, markets seem to have liked that news with the Dow Jones ending the day up over 2%. But I want to point out with all the volatility, it's been hard to keep track. As of the beginning of this year, if you put a dollar into the Dow Jones,

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