If it's Tuesday, it's the Trump economy as businesses, trading partners, and consumers brace for even more tariffs, while President Trump touts his turbulent trade agenda and doubles down on baseless claims that the jobs numbers were rigged.

Plus, new fallout in the Epstein vials saga.

As the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee subpoenas, Attorney General Pam Bondi,

demanding she hand over every document she can find related to the Epstein case.

And go big or go home.

A top Texas senator asked the FBI to help track down the Texas House Democrats who are defying civil arrest warrants after leaving the state to block a Trump-back redistricting plan.

The president. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington with the U.S. economy once again front and center as the clock ticks down on sweeping new tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners, and the president warns of more trade penalties

on everything from computer chips to prescription drugs. In an interview on CNBC, the president

claimed that tariffs were boosting his poll numbers, even though his approval rating has weakened

across multiple polls, and most voters disapprove of his handling of the economy.

Still, the president doubled down on his tariff agenda while vowing sweeping new penalties on

imports of semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

We're going to be announcing on semiconductors and chips, which is a separate category, because we want them made in the United

States.

But on pharmaceuticals, we'll be putting an initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals, but in one

year, one and a half years maximum, it's going to go to 150 percent, and then it's going to

go to 250 percent because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country.

It comes as the president continues to downplay weaker than expected jobs numbers,

repeating his baseless claim that the numbers were being rigged

and that the ousted head of the agency that produced a report was part of a government conspiracy.

Here's his response to pushback from CNBC anchors when they pressed him for evidence to back up his claims.

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