Welcome to Meet the Press now. I'm Ryan Nobles. After another wild day on Wall Street, with less than eight hours to go until the largest U.S. tariffs in 100-plus years take effect, with no clear exit strategy or endgame from the White House.

Now, stocks open the day with a big rally, fueled by hope that the worst of the

tariffs could be avoided with the president's openness to negotiations. But that optimism faded,

and stocks tumbled into the red with the Dow falling for the fourth straight day down roughly

300 points. After the White House confirmed that tariffs on Chinese imports

would in fact skyrocket to 104 percent starting at midnight, and with Beijing saying it

will, quote, fight to the end. At the White House today, press secretary Caroline Levin,

also confirming that every single one of those sweeping new tariffs on virtually every U.S.

trading partner will go into effect tonight and that the president's trade team was ready to

begin talks.

The president met with his trade team this morning, and he directed them to have tailor-made

trade deals with each and every country that calls up this administration

to strike a deal and listen. And each and every one of these trade deals should be tailored

and unique based on that country's markets, based on that country's exports, the imports

here in the United States of America. What makes the most sense for the American worker and for

our industry?

Now, this all comes as the president's top representative on trade, Jameson Greer, testified

before Congress today, offering little clarity about a timeline for the talks.

Our large and persistent trade deficit has been over 30 years in the making, and it will not be resolved overnight, but all of this is in the right direction.

So the president has indicated that he's willing to negotiate with parties that want to pursue reciprocal trade with the United States.

We don't have any particular timeline set on that, because as you pointed out, Senator, the outcome is more important than setting something

artificially for us. Senator, the president has been clear with me and with others that he does not

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