‘Weak weenies wreck economies': Nicolle Wallace reacts to stocks tanking after Trump's comments
Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News White House Correspondent, Charlie Sykes, MSNBC Contributor and Columnist, and John Heilemann, Chief Political Columnist at Puck joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the stock markets beginning to sell off in reaction to Donald Trump's comments on tariffs and his lack of clarity and confidence in how the economy will react to his own policies.
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