If it's Thursday, President Trump's sweeping new tariffs officially take effect on 90-plus

U.S. trading partners, upending the global trade system, and with more tariffs on the way.

Plus, Texas Senator John Cornyn says the FBI has now agreed to help track down House Democrats

who fled the state to block a redistricting

plan as Republicans ramp up their pressure campaign and Texas Democrats dig in.

And the expectations game.

New comments from President Trump and Vladimir Putin as they prepare for a face-to-face meeting

as early as next week, with sweeping new economic sanctions

facing the Kremlin if a deal to end the war in Ukraine isn't reached.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. As President Trump's new tariffs officially take effect,

appending the global trading system and threatening to force Americans to pay more for everything from groceries to appliances and clothing to tariffs taking effect at midnight on some 90 countries. It puts tariffs overall on

U.S. imports at the highest they've been since the Great Depression. The president touting his

tariffs just minutes before the clock struck midnight, posting on social media, quote,

billions of dollars in tariffs are now flowing into the United States of America. His Treasury Secretary this morning, claiming the new tariffs will be a boon to manufacturing

in the United States.

We are trying to rebalance trade in America's favor.

President Trump has said, and I've said, we want to bring back the high-precision manufacturing jobs.

We want to get rid of these big deficits that we have with countries that have created

these big surpluses and the gutted our manufacturing base and have been terrible for American

workers.

Now, here's a live look at the White House where we could hear from the president this hour at a

ceremony for purple heart recipients and potentially take questions from reporters.

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